With tough spending budgets expected to dominate the budget today, the motorist sits and wonders how it will affect him or her. This is probably the most awaited (or not ) budget for some time as it is expected that the chandelier will want to claw back some of the moneys spent on keeping or attempting to keep the economy going.

There may be rewards for motorists intending to buy a new car, providing they scrap their old car over 10 years old and maybe some other measures thrown in to get the new car market going again. Of course new car sales also benefit the breakdown cover market also, as most new cars come with free breakdown cove for the first year. It is true that older cars are more likely to breakdown, but with new cars it was a guaranteed membership per car.

Fuel has just gone up a few p per litre so we hope this stay static. The truth is we don’t seem to know what it coming unlike previous years. So let’s keep our fingers crossed.

We have no idea if this is a new documentary series of something new on the box, but we discovered Breakdown Buddies last weekend on Men and Motors. It follows the day to day callouts of local breakdown recovery guys from what we can tell a couple of smaller companies.

The programme is presented on Men and Motors on Sunday afternoon, and you can be sure that we will be watching to write notes about the programmes and the tips that are presented through the series.

On saying that we cannot find out any information on the web about the series, so it could as old as a Mark 1 Escort and there does not seem to an official Men and Motors website that used to transmit some dodgy TV programmes a few years ago, but now seems to have settled down with more family orientated stuff.

In fact we don’t even know how many programmes have been made and if there is much longer to go with the series. Anyway, breakdown buddies is on our radar and you are sure to see a few more posts on the subject here on our breakdown cover blog.