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snezza69:
What companies do you use for recovery (if any), what are they like?

I am with a German company ADAC who cost €80 a year.

My recent trip ended up in a breakdown (you may have seen the thread) in France.

Recovered 3 times in 2 days (twice for the proplem in the earlier thread) and the other to replace a drive belt that went without warning.

When on the third recovery (Sat night), there were no mechanics available until Mon, they put my wife, Son and I in a good hotel 2 mins walk from the beach in Biaritz for 2 nights.

When I told them I needed to get home to work, they forked out and flew us home. :D

Then as the mechanic cannot find a problem, they have now said they will get the car back home (900 miles)

All from outside the country.

I understand I will be able to keep them even with a UK address!

If I find out for certain, I will let you know as the closest in the UK I could find was RAC who for £250 a year are only willing to cover me for 7 days at a time in Europe!

God don't you just love rip off Britain!

smo:
I have both rAC cover, and because the defender is under warranty i'm also covered by Landrover assistance too :)

andycwb:
I've got cover from GEM Motoring Assist.  It's a pay and reclaim service - you call them out as normal, pay for the recovery on your credit card, and claim back.  But it was £60-odd a year instead of £140 for RAC cover, and they were pretty efficient when SWMBO called them out.

Litch:
After nearly 20-years with the RAC (including a few years with ARC affiliation which meant recovery from ARC events!) I moved across to Brittania Rescue a few years ago and haven't regretted it.

For £80.50 my wife and I have her car covered for any driver, we both have personal cover (any vehicle we are in is covered which is handy as we own several vehicles between us) and that includes home recovery & homestart with no age restrictions on the vehicles
When the 90 had to be recovered one Sunday evening last year I had it taken home but the next day when I spoke to my local dealer they said to take it over as the work was probably covered by warranty (it wasn't) but Brittania came out and loaded the LR onto another transporter and deposited it at the dealers for me, two trips for one breakdown which sounds good to me.

the loon:
I'm with britania recovery had to call them out twice in two days over last fortnight (altinator wentt) and cant fault them.
The only slight niggle I had was second time they send a standard tow truck for a disco - to be fair at least they sent someone.

Been in the AA before and that got canceled as they left SWMBO in the snow with out 3 kids for 5 HOURS without sending a truck - when we complained they offered us .... 1 months free membership
They where told where to stick it  :evil:

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