If you have purchased it at least 7 days before then YES, you will be covered for car hire. Here is the detail:
www.theaa.com/european-breakdown-cover/ page 17 S.2
Section 2 - Pre-departure hire car in the Territory
This service is only available when cover has been
purchased at least 7 days before your planned trip
departure date.
Up to £120 per day (or £150 per day for Single
Trip Group Cover) towards the cost of hiring an
alternative vehicle (including the minimum legally
required motor insurance cover).
If Your Vehicle has:
- broken down in the Territory within 72 hours prior
to your planned trip departure time; and
- the AA have attended the Breakdown under
Section 1; and
- are unable to repair Your Vehicle in accordance
with Section 1: and
- the repairer estimates that the repairs to Your
Vehicle will take more than 24 hours.
It is not possible to arrange hire of a motorcycle,
if a replacement vehicle is required, a hire car or
alternative transport will be arranged.
(The above costs are part of Your overall alternative
travel limit for sections 2,4,8 and 11 of £1,500
per Party per Trip or £1,800 for Single Trip Group
Cover).
- Any additional charges arising from Your use of
the hire car such as fuel costs, any insurance
excess charges, or additional hire costs if You
keep the vehicle longer than the period agreed
with Us. You must pay these direct to the hirer.
- Any contribution towards the cost of motor
insurance cover for an alternative hire car, which
is over and above the relevant minimum legally
required cover for the country in which You are
travelling*
.
- Any costs incurred if You leave the hire car at a
different location to the one agreed with Us or
the hirer.
- Any additional costs incurred for transporting
Your pet(s) / animal(s).
- Anything shown as not covered under section
3 – Roadside Assistance and Emergency Repair
in the Territory.
- Any matter excluded from cover as stated under
the General exclusions on page 23.
*It is recommended that You consider purchasing,
at your own expense, additional insurance such as
collision damage waiver, if offered by the hirer.
Section 3 – Roadside assistance and emerg