aa not the rescue service

[omega]

my mrs clutch has gone on her corsa so she phoned the aa up to bring her home at 1930 hrs its now nearly 2200 and shes not back yet and shes only 5 miles away!
shes by herself first off all they were going to be 40 mins,then it turned into a hour,then they were sending a independent,thats now turned into the aa again,think iam going to fetch her.

[steve_earwig]

2 1/2 hours and counting, that's a bit crap Fetching her sounds like the best plan.

[omega]

just getting into car and shes phoned saying they have turned up

[lozz]

AA is a waste of space,
they sent another company out to recover a car for me once, and then left the passengers by the roadside,
igot a cheque for 50quid compensation, it cost more than that to get a taxi,

[Bailes1992]

I'm with the AA and they've been okay.
Not long after I passed my text I had an inner CV joint fail on Bernard (some of you may remember it). I was just past the half way mark on my way up to Yorkshire, not far from Nottingham on the A42.
They sent a third party recovery truck out to move me 1/2 a mile into the services, then made me wait 3 hours before another AA truck turned up.

[lozz]

Having to wait 3hours is a joke,
You shouid of stuck a complaint in,

[Welly]

You can complain, I would.

Last Thursday I tried breaking down so as to avoid driving my car with the crankcase breathing issue I had.......it was 06:35am so I pulled into a Sainsbury car park and made the call to the AA.......................20 minutes later I was still on hold as in I hadn't actually got to speak to a human being at this point

In the end I had to hang up as the traffic was building up and my driving style was too slow to get mixed up in it.

In the AA's defense it might have been because it was -5deg C and they would have been inundated with flat batteries etc but even so.....

[DaiRees]

They're all the same these days, I left the AA because they were shyte and joined the RAC, who were very good and very fast when the 406 broke down back in the summer, but speaking to others I get the impression that I was lucky there!

I can't remember which service it was but the wife's car broke down one December, she was on her own, 8 and a half months pregnant, car not running so no heaters etc. She rang the breakdown service and they said they'd be at least 2 hours. She called me (rather unhappy), I called them for a rant and they said there's nothing they could do about it and wasn't there anywhere she could go for a cup of coffee and a warm?? I told them to shove it and left work to get her myself.

[Doggy]

I called the RAC to deal with a leaky top hose on my last Omega, 3pm on an August Saturday on the A34 near Oxford......

Even with 'priority service', (my wife's disabled), I was told a minimum of 4 hours, so I improvised, limped it home and told them to stuff it first thing Monday.

Been with the AA ever since, (a so-called freebie), but have never used them.

[scotty73]

Been with the AA ever since, (a so-called freebie), but have never used them.

I'm guessing that's through your bank account? you'll probably have mobile phone insurance too with £100 excess i had both... With the AA i had to upgrade every year for the tow home service which was roughly £50 more and I've never paid more than £50 for a phone so what's the point in that excess?

They charged £8.95 per month for the privilage too.

I'm insured with Admiral now with full breakdown I've called them out twice and they were pretty quick but they do only cover you once for the same problem.