Breakdown cover is a service provided by insurers which you can buy so that you can call for assistance should your vehicle break down.
The most basic of policies, which should at least provide you with assistance at the roadside to try to fix your vehicle, start from around £25 and will cover you for a period of 12 months.
The results from our recent poll on breakdown cover are in and have shown that 1 in 6 people have used their breakdown cover at least once over the course of the last 12 months.
Just over 500 people responded to the poll, which we started on June 19, and a lucky 70% didn’t have to use their breakdown cover at all over the past year.
Last week we published the second instalment of our Breakdown Cover special: “PART 2: What to do if you breakdown on the motorway”.
This week’s instalment, Part 3, will guide you through the procedure to follow if you break down on other roads, as advised by the AA.
If you break down on other roads, the procedure to follow is quite different to that you would use on the motorway.
Part 2 of our Breakdown Cover special will guide you through what to do if you break down on the motorway.
The procedures for what to do if you break down on the motorway are quite different to those you need to follow if you break down on any other type of road (we will talk you through these next week in Part 3).
If you find you are in a situation where you need to stop your vehicle, it can be both dangerous and hard, especially on a motorway. The first thing that you must remember is that motorway hard shoulders are only for emergency use and you should only stop on one if you find you really have no other choice. If you can, it is best to try and find a place off the motorway to pull over.
The hard shoulder is not to be used to go to the toilet, have a quick nap, use your mobile phone or for reading maps/checking routes.
If you do need to stop in an emergency on the motorway, here’s what the AA advises you to do. Why not print off a copy and keep it in your glove box in case you ever need it. Don’t forget to keep your breakdown cover details with your vehicle too.
Any vehicle can break down, regardless of how old or new it is. You could buy a brand new car and be driving it home from the garage on the motorway and accidently puncture a tyre, or you could be driving your 14-year-old 1.4 litre Peugeot down the road when the exhaust decides it’s time to fall off, suddenly making your small car sound like a tank.
In this five-part special, which will be released over the course of eight weeks, we are going to talk you through different aspects of car breakdowns. Part 1 ‘What are the ten most common causes of breakdowns and what can I do to prevent them?’ will be released tomorrow and will provide handy hints and tips which will hopefully reduce your chances of breaking down in the first place.
Later parts will guide you through such things as what you should do if you break down on motorways and standard roads, how to use jump leads and the importance of a good breakdown cover policy.
Sainsbury’s Car Insurance recently conducted research and found that 17% of UK drivers are planning on taking their cars abroad this year.
We thought we would bring you some top tips to help if you decide to take a road trip abroad in 2008.
We have today launched a new poll on the site asking you, our readers, about how much you use your breakdown cover.
Breakdown cover is a service you can buy which would mean you could call for roadside help should your vehicle unexpectedly stop working. A mechanic will come and either try and temporarily fix your vehicle or, if that is not feasible, will arrange a recovery service back to your home or to the nearest garage so it can be repaired.
We would like to know how many times you have had to use your breakdown assistance in the last 12 months, if you have breakdown cover. If you don’t have breakdown cover we would like to know if it’s because you don’t have a car or just because.
The poll is dotted around on most pages of the site and just involves a simple click on the relevant answer and then a quick click on the submit button. You will also get to see how others have voted once you have submitted your response.
You can click on the link to find out more about the breakdown cover poll.
You can now compare breakdown cover at compareandsave.com.
Breakdown cover will cover you in the event of your vehicle unexpectedly breaking down when you are on your travels.
The breakdown assistance policies you can buy vary but most basic ones will enable you to call out a mechanic to temporarily fix your vehicle to get you to your destination, or back to your home, or recover you to the nearest garage for your vehicle to be repaired.
The brilliant thing about breakdown cover is that you can still get cover even if you don’t have your own vehicle by buying a personal-based membership. With this type of cover, you can call for breakdown assistance no matter what vehicle you are in, even if you don’t own it, because it is you that is covered not the vehicle.
We are currently offering breakdown cover from a number of providers including several of the UK’s largest breakdown services including the RAC and Green Flag.
Click the link to find out more about Breakdown Cover.
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