How much do you pay for roadside asssitance?

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I'm with AA and I'm now paying £176 annually. I'm sure it used to be £50!

It does cover my kids and partner too if they are in someone else's car

But no homestart so pretty basic

I get European wide cover free if I have an annual Volvo service, though nothing is free these days.

I used to do this too!
I'm now with GEM, who have been great.

Another vote for Nationwide, particularly good value if you have a joint account and both people drive because it covers you both, as well as annual travel insurance for the whole family.

I'm with Autonational. I had a bad breakdown experience with AA and their premiums were climbing, so I switched to AutoNational as they had good reviews and were far cheaper. Now pay about £75 for full UK cover and in the one instance I needed help, I found the service very good.

Covered in my nationwide account £13 a month. Also get travel and insurance and phone cover with that.

Asda. They use green flag I think. £70 a year for homestsrt and take you to a destination of your choice.

Many policies nowadays take you to the nearest garage if you break down.

That's no use if you're away for the day or something! You want it taken to your own garage that you trust.

So check the small print now! You'll think surely I pay so much that their roadside recovery must take me to wherever. But many don't. That's an additional cost called something else.

I've just bought a years policy last week for £23 from money supermarket comparison site. It doesn't include home start but does include taking you to a destination of your choice

I've paid about £20 this year, depending on the age of your car (Mine is a 72 plate RR) you can find cheap ones on comparison sites that are still a decent alternative to AA/RAC.

£74 for one car from Green Flag, including home cover and full Recovery. I've had to use them twice this year and they've been great. But I'm a Nationwide customer so at renewal I think I'll finally switch my 37 year old Flexaccount to Flex Plus for all its amazing benefits.

My AA cover auto renewed and it was over £300! I was shocked and immediately cancelled the auto renew for the next year. However I have called them out twice this year already and the service has been excellent so I’m tempted to renew next year still.

Nothing. No breakdown cover.
Have only broken down once in 12 years. Which was last year . Called a local firm paid £50 to pick car up and bring home. And only waited 15 min

We pay £76 for both dh and I, whatever we are driving, including homestart.
It is higher than it was because they now add a premium on for the fact one of our cars is over 15 years old.
That's with AutoAid.
Have been excellent with their call outs over the years when we've needed them.

I have the Nationwide one, it’s a no brainer in terms of value.

It’s the only packaged current account we have as a family but we get a lot of benefit for that £13 a month.

I paid £150 for the AA last year for breakdown, homestart and nationwide recovery.

I just got my renewal letter and they want £250 this year for the same cover.

I went online to get a quote and it was £160.

I've always found the AA excellent but I might switch now since others here have had good experiences with other companies.

Most banks, it seems, offer similar packaged accounts including breakdown cover.

Before the summer holidays we changed our Co-Op Bank current account to the packaged Extras version - £15 per month including travel insurance, breakdown and other benefits, but 3 months free so £135 in total for the first year.

It was worth it as the bank account's RAC cover includes Europe travel which used to cost us loads. The travel insurance is also worth it - previously we were paying £80+ for annual cover for a family of four.

If however you only want breakdown cover its worth using the site moneysupermarket which has better deals than going directly to the providers.

I have Green Flag cover bolted onto my insurance policy.

Broke down at home at the weekend and they had an engineer out to me in 45 minutes. Considering I wasn't I priority as I was safe at home I was impressed with their speed and efficiency.

Nationwide Flexplus use AA to do their breakdown cover. Travel insurance is only for kids over 18 (up to 23) if they remain in full time education, otherwise you have to pay to add them as a guest on the policy.

We got roadside, at home, National recovery, and onward travel from the AA for just over £100 recently. I was surprised it was so cheap. Car only.

I do find the AA a PITA at renewal though, they just bump it up massively and tell you how good your Gold membership benefits are that you don't even want / use. We had a break this time, and went back as new customers. Think you could just do this every year though.

Around £160 a year but that's the full family package as two of our dc drive aswell so we have four cars on it.

We've only had it since March and we've used it for three of our vehicles (blow out,dead battery and another pot hole blow out) and it's been a godsend every time

My rac cover annoyingly auto renewed today. £336!!!

AA Included in my Lloyds account. About £20 a month including travel and mobile insurance.

I think you can cancel and get your £back within 14 days, is that right though?

£108 a year - (£9 a month.) Was yours ever only £50 a year @F0XCUB ???That sounds very cheap! Only £4 a month?

@HeySummerWhereAreYou mine was £48 to cover 2 of us (incl homestart) not so long ago.
Not with AA, obviously.