Advantages: Combines GPS navigation with Speed Camera and Traffic warnings Disadvantages: Software buggy, support slow to respond
I bought one of these new devices at Halfords for £399 a few days ago and here's my experiences to date.
1 The first device they sold me had a German operating system. The staff at Halfords said that was normal. I couldn't operate it so I insisted on a replacement and the next one had an English operating system. Ignore their blurb "friendly staff can help you set it up". They can't, they're useless, they didn't have a clue.
2 There is a helpline number in the manual, it charges £1 a minute, and when I finally got through to their switchboard they said someone would call me back. They did 24 hours later, by which time I had it working.
3 The AANavigator website says that "you can avoid the unsightly ariel wire by routing it through your FM receiver", and unsightly it is. It's a metre long trailing cable with suckers to ...
Advantages: quick response, good customer service, good communcation, fix a lot of breakdowns Disadvantages: some of the deals are quite expensive
The AA pride themselves on being the UK's "number one breakdown provider". They provide a 24 hour recovery service for their members and there are different levels of cover available. Another claim made by the AA is that they "fix more breakdowns by the roadside than anyone else".
I have never bothered with breakdown cover until I moved back home from university with the intention of commuting each day. I realised that if I were to break down on the hour drive to brighton there would probably be no one willing to come and rescue me!! On top of this my brothers car had broken down several times in the country lanes locally and I decided that it was a sign for me to start being sensible!
Being a poor student with hardly a penny to my name I did look around at all the various breakdown companies to try and find the best deal. The AA ...
ilusvm 17.11.2008
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Advantages: Extremely efficient. Amazing Cover. Very Good Value Disadvantages: In my case and circumstances - NONE!
! The salesman said that no, he didn't have the number to hand, but that he would get back to me with it as soon as he could.
Five minutes later, true to his word the phone rang and I had the AA European Breakdown Assistance number in Germany! Honda Chiswick earned themselves a LOT of loyalty bonus points that evening!
As a compete aside here, a spot of "gallows humour" you could say, the salesman had originally called to enthusiastically offer me a test drive in the newly launched Honda Civic, he had just been issued with a new diesel demonstrator. It doesn't sound as funny now, as it did to me there and then in my hospital bed, but my reply was that:
"I'd love to, only there is a small problem right now."
"Oh, what's that?"
"I am, as we speak lying in a Polish hospital bed, I will not be able to walk for three months, you see I broke ...
RICHADA 29.01.2006
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