This section of Part 1 of our Breakdown Cover Special will talk you through how to minimise the chance of the top-ten causes of car breakdowns happening to your vehicle.
According to the AA many of the most common problems dealt with at the roadside can “be avoided with the correct preventative care”.
Breaking down is not only inconvenient; it can also be very dangerous.
This section of the first part of our Breakdown Cover special will guide you through the ten most common causes of breakdowns
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 1.1 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.
More Than is offering a new and improved no claims discount offer to its car insurance customers as of today.
When you buy a More Than Car Insurance policy you will get a 10% discount. You will then get a 20% no-claims discount in the 2nd year, and every year after that, providing you stay claim free.
Also, if you have accumulated 4 years or more no claims discount More Than will protect it for the life of your motor insurance policy.
What’s more, you will also receive a 50% discount off More Than Breakdown Cover.
Plus, you will be given a free courtesy car to use while your car is being repaired by a More Than recommended repairer following an accident (if you have Comprehensive cover).
Click the link for additional information about More Than Car Insurance
This offer is current as of 21st JULY 2008. Terms and Conditions apply. For more offers please refer to the Offers section of compareandsave.com’s ‘Your money matters blog’.
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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