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rac recovery a joke
kizz81:
--- Quote ---No, I drive a Toyota.
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doesnt go anywhere in the first place then :lol: ( just kidding )
my timing belt snapped just after christmas, told the RAC that theres no cance of fixing it at the road side, and the sent a big flat bed about an 1 and a half after calling, quite impressed, but to be fair i was going to change the belt the week after so i knew i had to pay for my mistake in some way :lol:
cheers kieran
diggerdog36:
One trick the AA manager told me was, when you phone up tell them a little white lie, in your case Eugene you'd say
"Hi there, my rear diff has broke, and my brakes have failed when I tried to stop".
As soon as you mention brakes they cant repair at the road side, so they HAVE to send recovery, worked everytime for me!!!
Lumbering Jack:
We're with the AA, fortunately only needed them once so far - they took quite a while to get to us - over an hour but don't think it was two (was a good while back now). We were in SWMBOs rover 200 and it snapped a halfshaft - I explained to them what had happened, they questioned it, I told them I could see it had snapped and that we needed flatbed and to be fair they did send one. All in all fairly happy so far.
crazymac:
We have joint AA cover through our Lloyds account and its been excellent!
Called them twice to the car (not my Disco) once with the gearbox failed and once with the head gasket failed. with the gearbox they sent a flat bed straight off, with the head gasket we were on the Mway, so they sent a flat bed to get us off the Mway as they had one passing on its way to another job, he dropped us at the services and said it could be an hour before another arrives, so go get lunch. We had barely sat down and it was there! Took us straight home.
Great service!
laser_jock99:
--- Quote from: kizz81 on February 20, 2009, 20:46:51 ---
--- Quote ---No, I drive a Toyota.
--- End quote ---
doesnt go anywhere in the first place then :lol: ( just kidding )
--- End quote ---
I have to admit I've called out Green Flag once so far in 110,000 miles when the starter motor packed in. Stripped it down and fixed at home afterwards- back on the road again in under 3 hours (me have never touched a starter motor before!!). The starter motor was packed with mud after a day at Avon Dasset.
So I've been paying 50 quid a year for 6 years to be recovered once. My Rover 216 on the other hand got value for money........
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