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Article #405: A Guide to Car Breakdown Cover

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In the world of insurance, car breakdown 4 lane motorway. Not the nicest
cover is not ranked perhaps as highly as experience let me tell you.
it should be. Most of us are aware that Among the most common causes of breakdown
we should have some level of travel are; battery failure, running out of
insurance and obviously you can't escape fuel, flat or blown out tyre and various
car insurance unless you fancy a nice other engine faults more often than not
fine and perhaps the loss of your cause by a lack of maintenance.
licence. The question is; "just how This is where car breakdown cover comes
important is breakdown cover?" in; depending on the level of cover you
I will endeavour to change the way you choose you could have your car
think about this cover and perhaps transported to a garage and be safely
persuade you that it is in fact a taken home avoiding hours of unnecessary
valuable cover to have. stress and worry. It is important to
Most of you will be familiar with seeing think carefully about the level of cover
at least one broken down car on every you wish to purchase. You can expect the
motorway journey you take. You could be basic level of cover offered by most
forgiven for thinking this means it isn't companies to afford you a roadside fix
a common problem, you'd also be mistaken. and if this is not possible recovery to
One large roadside assistance company the nearest garage. Next up from this is
reported 2.5 million call-out's in just usually the option of being taken to any
one year and those are not the most UK destination, most probably the safety
recent figures and only account for a of your home and further additions see
portion of all breakdowns. With the features such as fixing of your car at
amount of older cars on the road rapidly home and the provision of onward travel
increasing you can be sure that the or accommodation should you need it.
situations only getting worse. You can help minimise the risk of a
In many cases the cause of the breakdown breakdown by having your vehicle serviced
could have been avoided if the owner had regularly, checking bulbs and wipers are
maintained their vehicle correctly. It working, checking oil level, tyre
is easy to forget simple things such as pressure, water/coolant levels and
checking the pressure and wear and tear battery status. It is certainly
of your tyres. Keeping your tyres at the worthwhile considering breakdown cover as
incorrect level of inflation could cause you never know when you may need it and
a blow-out whilst driving, resulting in it could prove invaluable.
you being stranded on the side of a busy






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