It seem like an American term but breakdown coverage seems to be taking over from the term motoring club, or have I been watching too many Columbos? (more…)

After haveing ablog for a while you notice that at certain times of the year you write the same things. Fow example i have noticed the cold night are creeping in now quiet quick and the traffic on the internet is picking up and so are breakdown cover requests.
But this is nothing new, in fact I remember talking about the same thing last year and maybe the year before, although not in this blog.

They say repetition is the mother aof all skills but maybe this is just a little to much. Breakdown cover is important this time of year as many cars don’t take too lightly the fact of colder nights, we are in our warm homes, very often our vehicles are left outside to defend themselves, and we compain if they don’t handle themselves very well. (more…)

I have talked about breakdown cover tv adverts quiet a bit in this blog so I have decided to bring Mohamad to the mountain. on the home page we now have alink to a menu page showing the latest breakdown cover televison adverts from the RAC and the AA.

If I could find the recent one from Green Flag, I would show that one too, but all I can find is an older add with no date attached. There is also an ad from the 80 and 70’s not to mention a few roadside assistance commercials from the USA and Australia.

As I find more ads and information, hopefully I can make quiet a considerable catalouge of old new and borrow tv commercials, for you to play live on your PC.

There are currenly 8 to choose from, but soon there will be more I am sure.

Every morning whether it is hot and sunny of -10 degrees below I see drivers with their windows down, elbows out of the window and a cigarette in hand. Well it seems it has now been added to the highway code as something you should not do whilst driving. (more…)

I was in my local Asda superstore a few days ago and was inetersted to find a leaflet offering breakdown cover. Of course on closer inspection theis Asda breakdown cover was actually provided by the RAC.
This got me thinking into why would someone buy breakdown cover branded as Asda, rather than RAC. To be honest I have not compared the prices against the normal RAC premiums, but I can’t see the RAC shooting themselves in the foot by allowing Asda to sell their service cheaper than they sell it themselves. (more…)

The whole principle of inusrance and what includes breakdown cover is that things just happen when we don’t expect them, to people you would not expect and in a way you would not expect.

An example of this, is the sad dissapearance of Steve Fosset the man famous for breaking many world records including flying, hot air balloonng and many more. (more…)

It has been quite a challnge recently regarding this breakdown cover blog. Ever since I introduced the catorgaries on the right hand side of here, my indexing of the pages have disapeared. I asumed I needed more links and worked harder but with no new results. Eventually tonight i found what might be the issue and that is duplicate content something Google does not like. (more…)

As we now know, most breakdown cover is provided by insurance companies, take RAC breakdown cover, this is owned by Aviva that own Norwich Union Insurance.

So if you buy a Norwich Union breakdown cover policy, who do you think comes to your rescue? You have got it, the RAC do. Equally they are not going to compete with each other on price either as effectivly they are the same company. (more…)

Some of you may have recently received your Green Flag breakdown cover renewal, but before you put in the bin or just accept it, it may be worth checking out what the renewal is.

Last year at this time Green Flag had an offer where if you bought the basic rescue package, you got the home start package included. what you also may not be aware of, if the automatic renewal box you probably left ticked, whist filling in the online form.

This year as the renewal quotes are going out, they are inclusive of the home start.

So if last year you only wanted the basic rescue package, but accpeted the home start because it was free, this year you renewal is a good twenty pounds more expensive, because this year you are paying for it. (more…)

Well it’s a quiet time on the website again and fewer people are considering breakdown cover. this may be true, but more than likely, most people are now out enjoying the small amount of good weather we are having at the moment after the huge amount of rainfall during July.

Of course some people are buying breakdown cover from the vans that stand in motorway service stations and events.

Buying Breakdown Cover From Vans

These guys tend to work on a commission basis and clearly the summer months are best for them as the service stations on the motorways pack put to the brim. Just because it is summer does not mean that cars stop breaking down though. In fact some of us do more mile in the summer as it is holiday or visting time. I know many of us start using our bikes and walking, but others now do the long journeys they would not normally do.
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