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!
with directions on how to find us and a return motorway route across Europe. We sat down and discussed the route through Poland, me warning him that there are no fuel, or service, stations on the Polish motorway once past Katowice.
The AA policy is not to deliver a car back to an empty home "keys through the letterbox", they need someone to sign for and inspect the car upon its return. The most obvious thing on my part was to have it returned to the company, my father would be there on hand to sign for the car and run Steve to the train station - 1158 miles away from where we were now sitting discussing this.
One of the AA operators had also requested that I write a "letter of authorisation" - effectively giving Steve permission to cross the borders in my car and confirming that the car had not been stolen, and contained "Nothing to Declare ...
RICHADA 29.01.2006
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Advantages: you decide Disadvantages: again , draw your own conclusions ...
Almost exactly a year ago we had occasion to use , for the first time in our five years of membership , the services of the AA .
We had been on our way to Portsmouth Passenger Ferry Terminal for our pre booked trip across the Channel to Caen on one of our regular visits to our house in Western Brittany .
We were trundling along the A34 in our Ford van , making good time , and looking forward to our trip , when there was a sudden loud bang .
The passenger side of the vehicle dropped and my husband lost all control of the vehicle as it slewed sideways out of the centre lane , then across the inside lane and a joining slip road with upcoming traffic . How the lorry coming up to our left managed to miss us , or we him , I will never know , but eventually we came to rest suddenly and jarringly on the soft verge about two thirds ...
Janej47 30.01.2006
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