The AA Breakdown Cover

I decided to get myself some roadside cover after my Astra broke down for the third time that month (dodgy battery). I went about the task of comparing The AA and RAC, not easy I'm afraid, I asked work colleagues, looked on ciao and dooyoo and eventually choose The AA as it saved me £1.90 a month in comparison to the RAC, a discount I received due to being with The AA for my car insurance. It seems that both companies have people who rave about them and equal amounts of people who aren't satisfied with either or believe roadside cover is overpriced. Usual format here, I will go through a few basic details and then give you my personal experiences ...  Read the complete review

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 ...  Read the complete review

I have been with the AA Breakdown Assistance for many years now and have had a real mixed-bag experience with them. I drive a (quite old) Nissan Micra which is boringly reliable, - so over the last few years, I have had little need to call the AA out - but have still been paying my yearly direct debit payment of £45 (basic roadside). I have contacted them recently and attempted to cancel but ended up altering my contract to a vehicle only contract (£28) and staying with them. In retrospect it would have been good customer service for them to call me and check that they were meeting my needs - as when I first joined, a vehicle only contract was not ...  Read the complete review

So I am driving along quite happily with the missus, two kids (two and four years old), two dogs (one fat beagle and one loopy collie) and my Focus starts to make a strange rattling noise. Being the practicle modern man that I am, I stop the car, get out, walk around the car aimlessly, kick the tyres, look underneath and proclaim myself bamboozled. So we set off again, and this time, every so often, the back left tyre pulls me across the road, making the car drag. As we are eighteen miles from home, I am understandably concerned, find a safe place to pull over and check it all over again. Once again, my highly technical check over fails to find any ...  Read the complete review

I am going to review the ordering process of this product. I will review how easy it was, the value of the product, and the communication. Ok, so after my original Volkswagen breakdown cover ran out i had to look to see where i could get the best deals from. My dad recommended i only really look for the most reputable dealers (not sure if that was the best advice, but it can't be bad), so i did. The AA and RAC were the 2 frontrunners. Both offering a very similar range of packages. But as i use Quidco cashback site, the AA cashback was higher, and so i went to look into them at greater detail. I did this all online as i am a bit of WWW addict and ...  Read the complete review