AA Rip-Off

[GreenLabel]

Why has this one been dragged back up? So we can all laugh again at the loathsome kandr?

[aussielong]

I take it you actually broke down?
Cars often say you have X miles left, but in fact you often get a lot more out of it.

True that. After my dash tells me i'm empty I often run for 20-30 klicks more. I've never run out of juice.

[BrilloPad]

beemer

You lost all my sympathy at that point. It is well known that beemers are only driven by pimps and drug dealers. Which are you?

[russell]

You lost all my sympathy at that point. It is well known that beemers are only driven by pimps and drug dealers. Which are you?

I spoke to kandr recently and he sold his Beemer for a people carrier for practical reasons.

[PAH]

True that. After my dash tells me i'm empty I often run for 20-30 klicks more. I've never run out of juice.

'Tis true. Not recommended unless forced into trying it but cars are not that accurate to tell you when the last mile or two is.

I found this out after a similar lack of foresight and found myself x miles from a petrol station with the dash flashing ----- (i.e. empty but not yet empty enough to stop working ).

I think some still believe that running out of fuel knackers the injection system due to sludge in the bottom of the tank. Maybe in the early days of injectors (I seem to remember a mate of my dad's having problems after running out in his old Ford Granada) and when petrol may have had more contaminants.

Not sure where the sludge would come from these days, as it would still get sucked into the system while getting through a tank of fuel half way through a journey, due to cars with decent petrol engines still only averaging ~30mpg at best.

[doomage]

Sounds like some of you are not really cut out for car ownership, perhaps consider taking the bus instead.

[psychocandy]

If you guys think £140 for driving a few miles to give someone a can or two of petrol is not a rip off then, WTF next you'll be saying getting paid £400 a day for sitting posting on CUK is not a rip off......oh wait.

FFS. Dont run out or petrol then?

Or at least have the sense to join the AA in advance. About 10 people on here have already tried to explain the principal of insurance to you i.e. you pay upfront in case something happens not when it happens.

Failure to understand how this works seems astounding to me. What do you expect?

[psychocandy]

Ill be getting my £80 back by calling them out every week of the next year. I now have my own mobile petrol station!!!

Havent read the t+cs? Theres a max no of callouts per year.

[psychocandy]

I forgot to mention, the AA guy was overtly homosexual, I don't know how he gets any though, being 5 foot bald and missing some teeth, says he also works in some IT calll centre.

Deffo deserve a refund if the patrolman was gay then. how dare they send a fudge packer out? I'd write to your MP if I were you !!!

[PAH]

Havent read the t+cs? Theres a max no of callouts per year.

Yep. 3 IIRC.

They also don't like being called out for the same problem twice (found that out with the TVR ) as they expect you to fix it after the first time.

AA membership (or any other similar reliable/reputable alternative) is one of the few insurance policies I'm glad to pay for.

You find that out when stranded hundreds of miles from home, with hardly any cash on you, in the dead of night, and with a mobile phone on low battery so have only one or two calls possible before it goes dead.