Has anyone ever had to utilise their breakdown cover in EU - if so how good were they?

[Sidders]

Hello fellow funsters,
It’s that insurance renewal time of year again and I was happily going to renew with Caravan Guard again despite it having gone up a few ££.
I picked them last year as we were thinking of going A class at the time and they had no limit on windscreen cover, and also unlike Comfort - if memory serves me right they weren’t a broker and had a more favourable charges structure in event of policy movement/change/cancellation etc.
I’ve just read some abysmal reviews of their breakdown cover on the Burnster Forum
Does anyone here have experience or can point me in the direction of another I’m perhaps missing.
Many thanks

 

[Davecrawf]

Hello fellow funsters,
It’s that insurance renewal time of year again and I was happily going to renew with Caravan Guard again despite it having gone up a few ££.
I picked them last year as we were thinking of going A class at the time and they had no limit on windscreen cover, and also unlike Comfort - if memory serves me right they weren’t a broker and had a more favourable charges structure in event of policy movement/change/cancellation etc.
I’ve just read some abysmal reviews of their breakdown cover on the Burnster Forum
Does anyone here have experience or can point me in the direction of another I’m perhaps missing.
Many thanks

I have used the AA via the Nationwide flexplus twice in the UK and once in Spain. Excellent service each time. However, we did have one misunderstanding regarding size of vehicle, and they compensated me £50.
So no issues with Nationwide.

 

[ontheroadagain]

The most alarming thing about this thread is how many people have broken down abroad!

 

[meanders]

I have only broken down once abroad since having a motorhome and that was a puncture. I have had to call breakdown I think four times to the three motorhomes here (terrible noise from front suspension, it was a stone trapped between pads and disk, headlight went out whenever engine started - ECU failure, a puncture and failure to start) but only twice to cars in the same timescale (blown head gasket on a new Rover 75, and failed battery on a Yeti) and I do significantly more miles in the car.

 

[Landy Andy]

The most alarming thing about this thread is how many people have broken down abroad!

Why. It must be where the most miles are done. It is for me.

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[ontheroadagain]

Why. It must be where the most miles are done. It is for me.

Up until a few years ago I was driving 20 to 25k miles per year in my company car. The last time any car left me stranded was over 30 years ago. But then again I wouldn’t have chosen a Fiat or Ford as a company car lol.

 

[meanders]

Well we are constantly told these vehicles are designed as delivery vehicles being hammered for 500,000 miles. I have rarely observed a broken down white van.... in fact I cannot remember ever seeing one. A good few that have been pranged though!

 

[Landy Andy]

Up until a few years ago I was driving 20 to 25k miles per year in my company car. The last time any car left me stranded was over 30 years ago. But then again I wouldn’t have chosen a Fiat or Ford as a company car lol.

Yes. I bet you never left your company car sat around for a few months doing nothing, then start it a drive several thousand miles.

 

[meanders]

Up until a few years ago I was driving 20 to 25k miles per year in my company car. The last time any car left me stranded was over 30 years ago. But then again I wouldn’t have chosen a Fiat or Ford as a company car lol.

I only had two of thirteen company cars let me down on the road. A Toyota Camry starting emitting lots of smoke from under the bonnet on the A329M within a couple of miles from just being serviced at a main dealer. They had managed to reroute one of the nylon high pressure oil lines so it was laying across the exhaust manifold! Then a brand new Ford Cougar 2.5 S that went into limp mode on the M1 just south of Sheffield. I don't remember what the problem was but it was fixed by Ford Roadside Assist and never recurred in the 70K+ miles that followed. I had a hire Previa that I had to ring for support when taking it to a filling station to refuel as I could not find the fuel cap release despite me, the forecourt staff and another Toyota driver crawling all over it. It was a tiny lever hidden under the drivers seat! Funny how we remember those painful things!