Recovery firms, AA renewal

[Cheeseybeaner]

Just had a renewal letter from the AA saying they'll increase my monthly direct debit payments from £9 to nearly £20 a month as of January which sounds just a little bit arrogant to me so I'm looking elsewhere.
I've been with both AA and RAC before (changing year on year due to exceeding call outs) neither of which have been brilliant though some times good the service has been lacking on many occasions (like 3 hours waiting for assistance in the rain on a dual carriageway.)
I've heard green flag are a good alternative but they've just given me a quote for £200 which doesn't help.
RAC seem to offer basic cover for £58 a year internet price so looks as if I'll be returning to them unless someone can offer an alternative?

[Marmalade]

I phoned them asking why they were increasing my £10 a month to £14 a month when i could just cancel and rejoin online and continue for £10pm, they said something about extra cover bull but reduced payments to what i was already paying

Give em a bell and moan
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[Polarbear]

All I ask for is recovery. There is no point in anything else IMO. Other than a puncture (and I carry a kit) all my roadside deaths in the last 10 years have been electric/electronic with both car and bike, and never have any of AA RAC greenflag been able to fix them at the roadside.
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[Polarbear]

Oh, and the wife likes the RAC cause of the adverts - Knights of the road barf
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[Cheeseybeaner]

[Livefast123]

Give GEM a shot, apparently won 2010 award for best recovery etc

https://www.motoringassist.com/home.aspx?gclid=COnU0aeCg6YCFVBO4QodryllpQ

Costs me £84 a year and has my partner covered as well for eveything in any vehicle we drive. My whole fleet of 3 cars and 2 bikes are covered for that.

Parents are with them too and have had excellent service when they have broken down twice in the Alfa. Have been there quickly and text when they have an ETA.
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[Rogerborg]

Yup, try an "any vehicle" policy from Green Flag - it might work out cheaper than whatever insane quotation you got. It explicitly does cover motorcycles, although the phone monger that you talk to might not know that.

That said... if you ride shitheaps and exceed your call outs year after year, why are you expecting the rest of us to subsidise your costs? Pay your own way, you sponging hippy.

[TanacoiusD]

https://breakdown.insurancechoice.co.uk/comparison/gaw950?gclid=CLKT5YuXg6YCFVAf4QodbzXjng

The sacrifice i made with these, is for the price and what i want, if i were to breakdown before late afternoon, i would have to wait before calling to enable me to qualify for a lift home.

But you can pay more and qualify anyway.

I'm on the one that cost 30 quid last year .. no excess ..

[calyx]

[TanacoiusD]

IC was recomended on here, and the price for some is the difference between having cover and no cover attall ....

[Cheeseybeaner]

[TanacoiusD]

Are you a bike courier, that must be a seroiusly dangerous job !!! ... esp if your sickpup .. who crashes nearly as much as Dug ...

[0ddball]

4-5 callouts in 1 year is a lot imo. Even 4000 miles a month isn't a lot for a well maintained reliable bike and i'd be getting shut of a bike that stranded me that many times. The need to call them out that many times suggests maintenance negligence, especially if it's for little things as you say.

[The Shaggy D.A.]

I flip between AA and RAC annually, they offer new members better deals than existing customers. Like insurance companies, I enjoy telling them they missed their chance when suddenly they can drop the price of renewal.
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[neil.]

Autoaid - you pay for recovery at the time and claim it back from them for something like £40 a year. You can use them to choose someone to recover you or arrange your own recovery and send them a copy of the invoice. Only reason I'm not with them is that they are ambiguous about covering small cc bikes (below 150), but they have paid back recovery costs to me without any problems whilst I was with them (my chain snapped and the bike and I had to be taken 30 miles home - the guy also fixed the chain with a new link when we got to my house! That was SOS Motorcycle Recovery, fantastic), before they started mentioning this.

I am with Green Flag now but can't say how good they are. Would have prefered Autoaid though.

[Peirre oBollox]

It's been posted before
What about also using cash back sites (such as quidco) to knock even more off the online prices of ALL the recovery firms. Take a look at what deals they're offering ATM then take a look at the linky to the recovery firm on the cash back site, and see what discount/cash back is possible.
I've had AA recovery & relay for £19 for any vehicle I'm driving in the past
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[Pernig]

Where I live we are very lucky that the AA and RAC often are 'too busy' to deal with you when you break down, sourcing out their work to the only other recovery company that covers the whole county, Wakefield Autos (not based in Wakefield, never could work that one out ).

They are all competent mechanics, they will fix your vehicle if they can, and, most of all, their trucks have a boom on the back that will take most cars and all motorbikes so you don't have to wait for a mechanic to come and look at your completely seized engine to check that you are not a numpty before deciding to call a low loader and making you wait even longer.

As it happens, I actually have AA, RAC and IC breakdown cover due to getting stuff free with the bank and insurance etc.

Never used the IC breakdown but I've heard nothing but good things about it. And it's at the right price.

Off-topic: One thing that concerns me a bit is the fact they've started charging more for older vehicles and are not covering ones more than 16 years old. Mine was registered 19 years ago but my renewals still come back at £29. Should I be worried about this?
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