"The forth emergency service"

A bit OT but never mind.

Planning a couple of trips to France this year, one offroading and one
family trip.

I phoned the AA to ask about cover for 4 days in France (this level of
cover used to be free with membership).

They will cover the trip but give me a £ 37.00 charge for the age of
the vehicle (over 11 years) that's OK I can cope with that.

It was when the girl read the terms and conditions, they will recover
your vehicle back to the UK, but only up to its value !!!!!

Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will spend
on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will have to
pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.

For the same cover I could take for example an eleven + year old Bentley
and be assured that they would bring the car ALL the way home.

I don't think the AA will be getting anymore business.

The Caravan club quoted slightly less and have no total restriction on
recovery cost.

So if you are in the AA don't even consider takings a SIII any further
than Calais !!!
--
Marc Draper

Hi Marc,

I see the point you are making, But !

>Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will spend
> on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will have to
> pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.

Why will it take 2500 to get it back to just Paris ?

Steve


"marc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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>
>
>
>
> A bit OT but never mind.
>
> Planning a couple of trips to France this year, one offroading and one
> family trip.
>
> I phoned the AA to ask about cover for 4 days in France (this level of
> cover used to be free with membership).
>
> They will cover the trip but give me a £ 37.00 charge for the age of
> the vehicle (over 11 years) that's OK I can cope with that.
>
> It was when the girl read the terms and conditions, they will recover
> your vehicle back to the UK, but only up to its value !!!!!
>
> Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will spend
> on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will have to
> pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.
>
> For the same cover I could take for example an eleven + year old Bentley
> and be assured that they would bring the car ALL the way home.
>
> I don't think the AA will be getting anymore business.
>
> The Caravan club quoted slightly less and have no total restriction on
> recovery cost.
>
> So if you are in the AA don't even consider takings a SIII any further
> than Calais !!!
> --
> Marc Draper
>
>

marc composed the following;:

> Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will
> spend on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will
> have to pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.

It doesn't take £2500 to recover a car from South of France to Paris.
Something sounds implausible there, is that what she actually said ?

--
Paul ...
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(8(!) Homer Rules ...
"A tosser is a tosser, no matter what mode of transport they're using."

In message <[email protected]>
marc <[email protected]> wrote:

>
>
>
>
> A bit OT but never mind.
>
> Planning a couple of trips to France this year, one offroading and one
> family trip.
>
> I phoned the AA to ask about cover for 4 days in France (this level of
> cover used to be free with membership).
>
> They will cover the trip but give me a £ 37.00 charge for the age of
> the vehicle (over 11 years) that's OK I can cope with that.
>
> It was when the girl read the terms and conditions, they will recover
> your vehicle back to the UK, but only up to its value !!!!!
>
> Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will spend
> on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will have to
> pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.
>
> For the same cover I could take for example an eleven + year old Bentley
> and be assured that they would bring the car ALL the way home.
>
> I don't think the AA will be getting anymore business.
>
> The Caravan club quoted slightly less and have no total restriction on
> recovery cost.
>
> So if you are in the AA don't even consider takings a SIII any further
> than Calais !!!

Well, don't bother with Green Flag either - no cover on a 110
because it's got more than 8 seats.

Oh how I long for the days when AA/RAC were clubs without
shareholders.........they can waffle on about fixing 8 out
of 10 cars on the roadside, but fail to mention all the
get-outs. As for AA insurance.....

Richard
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In article <[email protected]>, Paul - xxx
<[email protected]> writes
>marc composed the following;:
>It doesn't take £2500 to recover a car from South of France to Paris.
>Something sounds implausible there, is that what she actually said ?
>


No you are absolutely right I just used it to illustrate their
ridiculous rule.

But if your vehicle was of a lesser value it would leave you in an
interesting situation.

Try LR assistance, £ 137 for year, recovery from LR type places , Euro cover
included with translation etc, free car if yours is immobile.
Not trying to gain fee from em but the times I have needed them, brilliant
service by a LR technition not some spotty yuf



"marc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
>
>
> A bit OT but never mind.
>
> Planning a couple of trips to France this year, one offroading and one
> family trip.
>
> I phoned the AA to ask about cover for 4 days in France (this level of
> cover used to be free with membership).
>
> They will cover the trip but give me a £ 37.00 charge for the age of
> the vehicle (over 11 years) that's OK I can cope with that.
>
> It was when the girl read the terms and conditions, they will recover
> your vehicle back to the UK, but only up to its value !!!!!
>
> Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will spend
> on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will have to
> pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.
>
> For the same cover I could take for example an eleven + year old Bentley
> and be assured that they would bring the car ALL the way home.
>
> I don't think the AA will be getting anymore business.
>
> The Caravan club quoted slightly less and have no total restriction on
> recovery cost.
>
> So if you are in the AA don't even consider takings a SIII any further
> than Calais !!!
> --
> Marc Draper
>
>

I think the AAs overseas cover is very expensive. I compared it to the Dutch
and German automobile clubs, and there it is included in the extended
membership, and covers up to (I think it was) 6 weeks holiday cover, inc.
repatriation.

When I emailed the AA about this I got a useless reply about not being able
to comment on unknown services. I would have thought sister-organisations
are not unknown, and anyway, if I can look on their websites surely the AA
must be able to.

Pieter

"marc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
>
>
> A bit OT but never mind.
>
> Planning a couple of trips to France this year, one offroading and one
> family trip.
>
> I phoned the AA to ask about cover for 4 days in France (this level of
> cover used to be free with membership).
>
> They will cover the trip but give me a £ 37.00 charge for the age of the
> vehicle (over 11 years) that's OK I can cope with that.
>
> It was when the girl read the terms and conditions, they will recover your
> vehicle back to the UK, but only up to its value !!!!!
>
> Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will spend on
> recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will have to pay
> for the recovery from Paris back !!!.
>
> For the same cover I could take for example an eleven + year old Bentley
> and be assured that they would bring the car ALL the way home.
>
> I don't think the AA will be getting anymore business.
>
> The Caravan club quoted slightly less and have no total restriction on
> recovery cost.
>
> So if you are in the AA don't even consider takings a SIII any further
> than Calais !!!
> --
> Marc Draper
>
>

"marc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> In article <[email protected]>, Paul - xxx
> <[email protected]> writes
>>marc composed the following;:
>>It doesn't take £2500 to recover a car from South of France to Paris.
>>Something sounds implausible there, is that what she actually said ?
>
> No you are absolutely right I just used it to illustrate their ridiculous
> rule.
>
> But if your vehicle was of a lesser value it would leave you in an
> interesting situation.

Could happen in different circumstances though...

With RAC commercial cover (never again!) you can get EU-wide pay-as-you-use
cover on vehicles too heavy for the normal cover. (i.e. >3.5 tonnes) Great.
Except that they offer you a £90 roadside repair OR a £200 per hour tow-away
service. And that's just in the UK! If the guy comes to fix at the roadside
and can't - you still pay for him, and then for the tow.

They're absolutely uncharitable about going five minutes over the hour too,
and in my two experiences the mechanics were so dumb they wasted most of the
time they eventually charged for. For example, I was charged an extra hour
because they didn't bring a low-loader at first even though I'd advised them
on the phone that the rear wheels of the truck couldn't be disconnected from
the gearbox no matter how hard they tried, and the overhangs meant lifting
the back was no-go... so they couldn't tow it. Eventuall bill £480 BEFORE
any repairs were done.

Anyway, the point was that in this unlikely situation (needing to get the
vehicle home, not to a local garage) I can imagine easily racking up more
than £2500 to get across France!

Yikes.
K

we used direct line when we broke down in ireland, they sent a brilliant
breakdown guy from the local landrover garage , made sure the caravan was
put into a site of our choice and got the landy back in a few days ( it was
ove rthe weekend)
"Hirsty's" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> Try LR assistance, £ 137 for year, recovery from LR type places , Euro
> cover
> included with translation etc, free car if yours is immobile.
> Not trying to gain fee from em but the times I have needed them, brilliant
> service by a LR technition not some spotty yuf
>
>
>
> "marc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> A bit OT but never mind.
>>
>> Planning a couple of trips to France this year, one offroading and one
>> family trip.
>>
>> I phoned the AA to ask about cover for 4 days in France (this level of
>> cover used to be free with membership).
>>
>> They will cover the trip but give me a £ 37.00 charge for the age of
>> the vehicle (over 11 years) that's OK I can cope with that.
>>
>> It was when the girl read the terms and conditions, they will recover
>> your vehicle back to the UK, but only up to its value !!!!!
>>
>> Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they will spend
>> on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of France I will have to
>> pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.
>>
>> For the same cover I could take for example an eleven + year old Bentley
>> and be assured that they would bring the car ALL the way home.
>>
>> I don't think the AA will be getting anymore business.
>>
>> The Caravan club quoted slightly less and have no total restriction on
>> recovery cost.
>>
>> So if you are in the AA don't even consider takings a SIII any further
>> than Calais !!!
>> --
>> Marc Draper
>>
>>
>
>

I would check the max gross weight in the small print too -
introduced by the AA a year or so ago but also featured in the
small print of most of the others. Direct Line was the only one I
could find that didn't rule out my 110 on this basis - used them
once and were ok but only took the truck home, didn't attempt a
roadside repair (don't know about Europe cover, wouldn't trust the
truck to get me that far anyway!)

"marc" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
>
>
>
>
> A bit OT but never mind.
>
> Planning a couple of trips to France this year, one offroading
> and one family trip.
>
> I phoned the AA to ask about cover for 4 days in France (this
> level of cover used to be free with membership).
>
> They will cover the trip but give me a £ 37.00 charge for the
> age of the vehicle (over 11 years) that's OK I can cope with
> that.
>
> It was when the girl read the terms and conditions, they will
> recover your vehicle back to the UK, but only up to its value
> !!!!!
>
> Say for example my 200 disco is worth 2,500 that is all they
> will spend on recovering my car. So if I go to the south of
> France I will have to pay for the recovery from Paris back !!!.
>
> For the same cover I could take for example an eleven + year old
> Bentley and be assured that they would bring the car ALL the way
> home.
>
> I don't think the AA will be getting anymore business.
>
> The Caravan club quoted slightly less and have no total
> restriction on recovery cost.
>
> So if you are in the AA don't even consider takings a SIII any
> further than Calais !!!
> --
> Marc Draper
>
>