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The Importance of Breakdown Cover Abroad
The road trip is becoming an increasingly popular holiday choice for an increasing number of people thanks to television programmes such as Top Gear and Ewan McGregor’s ‘Long Way Round’ which have romanticised the concept of taking to the open road in a vehicle.
While this type of holiday does [...]
Breakdown Car cover
Although many car owners take out car breakdown cover late in the year in preparation for the winter months ahead,– do not forget that — cars also breakdown during summer months. There really is not a “best time” to join. It would be worthwhile examing “now” what the main firms are offering in their standard [...]
Levels of Cover
Joining one of the major car breakdown groups, including the AA and RAC is certainly money well spent, as they will be available and ready to help when you most need them. There are probably times when you feel that your annual membership payment could be spent on other needs, but that would be a [...]
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 [...]