I've just taken out (my first policy) for breakdown cover-because I'm going to be doing a few long distance trips.

Both the AA and RAC were £70 for national recovery. I would want the car towed home in the event of a long distance breakdown-and sort it out from there. The price seems reasonable to me. The £20 policies are little more than tow-you-to-the-nearest-garage. You could walk to the nearest pub and sit down with a yellow pages yourself!

I have had experiance of Green Flag and the A A during the past year. The A A package we get via my bank ( Black Horse) They relayed our Shogun plus caravan from Edinburgh back home to Cumbria over a period of 6 hours including change of flatbed truck plus hitching up the caravan. They relayed the car back to garage of choice and dropped caravan back home. Apart from the fact it seemed to take a long time I could not complain.

More recently daughters V W broke yet again and she is with Green Flag who picked her up from a fairly remote location and again dropped useless car off at garage to be repaired she has had to use them a few times over the past year and they have been very good so of the two I would say Green Flag wins this time. Thank fully daughter seen the light and got rid of Golf and bought another car instead

The latest Which? report on car breakdown services gave the following results based on feedback from Which? members:

Edited by Auristocrat on 01/02/2012 at 23:41