Archive for February, 2009
Avoiding a summer holiday breakdown
If you are organising a summer holiday this year and are planning on using your car heavily during it here are a few things to think about before you hit the road.
One thing that can often lead to a car breakdown is over loading your vehicle. Luggage plus 4 or 5 people can put extra [...]
Winter car emergency kit
A car breakdown or accident can be made far worse in the colder winter months, however a few relatively inexpensive items packed in your car will make any kind of breakdown situation far easier.
The following information has been broken down into 3 sections - get help, stating safe & keeping warm.
Get help
It goes without saying [...]
AA Membership Extras
If you are a member of the AA car breakdown cover service there are quite a number of additional extra benefits that you receive once you are a member.%
This includes 15% off avis car hire, 33% off MOT’s at Nationwide Autocentre & 20$ off parking booked through Holiday Extras. Additional benefits are being added all [...]
Winter car essentials
In the winter it is especially to make sure they you are prepared for all eventualities each time you are out driving, in the colder months there are more accidents and car breakdowns.
Here is a checklist of things to make sure you have in your car.
Scraper & de-icer - if the temperature drops your windows [...]
Staying safe if your car breaks down
If your suffer a car breakdown it can be a stressful experience but also a dangerous one too. Each year it is estimated that hundreds of people lose their life or suffer an injury while stopped at the roadside or motorway hard shoulder.
If your car breaks down on the roadside then it is advised you [...]
Assistance When You Need It
It`s always a great comfort as you drive and see a friendly RAC or AA breakdown vehicle either parked at the side of the road or in some other prominent position. You know that it`s driver is waiting for an instruction to proceed to a destination either far away or close at hand, to [...]
The need for breakdown cover
Particularly at this time when everyone needs to be sure that they are spending money on essential items, sometimes taking out car breakdown cover is not always considered as being very high on that list, however such reasoning can be a wrong and costly decision.
If for example, you do not have such cover [...]
Car Cover Explained
My first hand experience has convinced me long ago that it is a false economy NOT to have car breakdown cover.
There of course always seems to be something more urgent to spend your money on, which may be a reasonable approach until your car breaks down and you are far from home and the car [...]
Breakdown Cover
Although there is not a “best” or a “worst” time of the year to take out Car Breakdown Cover, it is probable that the largest percentage of car breakdowns take place during the winter period when snow covered roads and very low temperatures can result in you not reaching your destination— without assistance. It [...]