AA Rip-Off

[kandr]

To sum up this thread, the AA screwed me, it was my own fault. I think that covers the popular opinion.

[shaunbhoy]

Early VW Beetles didn't have a fuel gauge. There was a switch on the floor that you flicked with your foot.

My first car was just such a VW Beetle. Could never reach it with my foot though so used to have to swoop down and do it by hand. Woke the passengers in the back up, I can tell you!!
It also had an arrangement whereby there were some wires and levers situated between the front seats designed to open some flaps behind the legs of the rear-seat passengers and allow heat in from the engine.
I am sure that on most beetles these soon rusted to a standstill, either open or closed depending on their last positioning before the rust took hold.
In mine they were permanently on, meaning that on any long trip, anyone sitting in the back would slowly get their calfs chargrilled. Ouch!!
Made the mistake of putting a case full of Vinyl LPs behind the seat on a long trip. All would have been well had my friend not taken one out to inspect it, and found that it keeled over in his hand. No more "Queen Greatest Hits" on vinyl!!
Made a wacky wobbly frisbee though!
Ah........happy days!!

[thunderlizard]

At the weekend, took the family to a halloween party in a remote part of the country, I realised I was running low on petrol, but the party was near a town with a petrol station (the only one for miles though).

To my horror the station was closed, and with my beemer reporting that it could only manage another 4-5 miles I was in trouble.

I called the AA which I am not a member and had to join for a year, which I though was OK, might come in useful and I go the most basic which was £69.

By the time the guy got to the end they had added another £80, which applies if you use the AA within the first 3 days!!!

The AA guy was out within the hour, but he also charged me for the 2 gallon of petrol (£14).

Feckers!

That was shaping up to be a bloody good ghost story up until paragraph 3.

[Spacecadet]

Now there's a good reason for running out of petrol in the middle of the country side

[Mich the Tester]

To sum up this thread, the AA screwed me, it was my own fault.

No, a uniformed patrolman with a long list of physical afflictions shafted you up the arse; it was your own choice, and you paid 80 quid for it.

[kandr]

No, a uniformed patrolman with a long list of physical afflictions shafted you up the arse; it was your own choice, and you paid 80 quid for it.

The bit where I described the patrolman, was because Clippy said he was the patrolman, in case anyone missed that.

See
http://forums.contractoruk.com/gener...ml#post1220921

[Mich the Tester]

The bit where I described the patrolman, was because Clippy said he was the patrolman, in case anyone missed that.

Have you been for a tulip yet? Those paperclips will hurt like hell on the way out.

[kandr]

Have you been for a tulip yet? Those paperclips will hurt like hell on the way out.

Least my tulip will be organised

[GreenLabel]

To sum up this thread, the AA screwed me, it was my own fault. I think that covers the popular opinion.

You think wrong.

You were charged extra because you weren't a member prior to needing their assistance. If they'd helped you for the same price as helping a regular, paid-up member, no one would ever bother joining until they needed the service.

What part of this don't you understand?

[d000hg]

Also most intelligent people haven't run out of petrol, seems like a sweeping statement.

Yes, the clue was in the word "most".

To sum up this thread, the AA screwed me, it was my own fault. I think that covers the popular opinion.

Almost

21 pages in one day, my thread is a success. Look at sasguru, he starts a thread, he gets insulted a few times then it dies pathetically, mirroring its owner.

It's only 8 pages for me, sorry about that.