Should I buy European car breakdown cover?

Posted by admin on July 17, 2008 under Europe Accommodation |

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If you’re taking your own car to mainland Europe this Summer you may be asking yourself if you should purchase European car breakdown cover. It’s hard to decide if you should buy breakdown cover but you have to weigh up the reliability of the your car, against the cost of the cover and what it might cost if you did break down on holiday.

In order to evaluate whether I’d buy European breakdown cover I though that I’d get prices from the two best known breakdown companies, the AA and the RAC.

Firstly I got a quote for cover for a two week period from 16 - 30 July 2008 based on my car a 2004 Skoda Fabia.

AA ВЈ62.73

RAC ВЈ59.30

Then I got a quote for the 12 month cover where you’d be covered for trips of up to 90 days duration, If you plan to take a trip of more than 3 weeks or motor to Europe on more than one occasion during a twelve month period then an annual policy would be a good buy.

AA ВЈ103.90

RAC ВЈ103.50

So there’s not a lot of difference in the price between the two. Both offer an additional 10% discount to existing members.

Would I buy cover? I’m not sure, if I was only going to make one trip for a couple of weeks as my car has been totally reliable over the last four years I would be tempted to risk going without breakdown cover. However if I was going to make a long trip of more than 4 weeks or multiple trips to Europe during the twelve month period then I’d consider it good value.

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