I have Autoaid for a number of years now and the price with the recent take over is quite reasonable. However, I thought I would shop around and was surpised to see prices as low as £18~£25. Admittedly there is an excess to pay with these but seems good for basic cover.

My question would relate to how good they ar when needed? Autoaid was used once when I had a water pump failure and were very good

I've never claimed on the travel insurance part thus far - but had the opposite experience when declaring pre-existing conditions. Many companies clearly didn't want to know when the big C was mentioned but Nationwide only wanted to know about the last year. Going forward we'll see.

When younger and still at home my son tested the phone insurance part - twice. Worked well.

He later tested the car breakdown after leaving the lights on when borrowing our old Octavia Christmas Eve a few years ago - they had him on his way within 30 minutes

A friend rather tested his Flexplus European breakdown in France a couple of years ago when his alternator failed on his TD5 defender - again all good.

Edited by Big John on 16/04/2021 at 21:52

I emailed Autoaid to say that I wasn't renewing, and in their reply said that as a renewing customer I shouldn't have been charged the extra £15 for cars over 15 years. To late now though.

I think I might have said in a different breakdown thread that when I rang Autoaid for some admin query or other I came away feeling decidedly underwhelmed with their customer service, however I've stuck with them despite the new £15 charge for breakdowns involving cars over the age of 10. The other company that was mentioned (Eversure) didn't do it for me so it's the Devil you know rather than .......

EDIT, just remembered it's not £15, it's £25.

Edited by KB. on 01/06/2023 at 23:41

I've gone with Britannia Rescue (as part of my car insurance policy). It covers me for European travel. I would have taken out insurance with NFU Mutual, but they wouldn't cover my (well maintained and reliable) 20 year old BMW 320d Touring for overseas excursions.