Green Flag vs RAC Arrival
Hi, I am with RAC at the moment and have just got the renewal, and they have put up it up by £30.85. It will be a phone call to RAC to see if they will being the price down, if not then it will be Green Flag. Has anybody had any experience with either Green Flag or RAC. Thanks
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GreenFlag Recovery Plus for UK cost me £60 per year. To include overseas cover it was £80 a year using their Europlus cover for UK and Europe combined. Bargain!
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Experience in what way?
We had Arrival for many years and it did what it said on the tin. They carried us home from Scotland on one occasion without a hitch. Our smaller van now means ordinary RAC cover, rather than Arrival, suffices. Yes, it has got more expensive and they're no longer amenable to haggling.
I understand that RAC use their own team of call out responders whereas Green Flag/Mayday contract it out to garages.
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Depends whereabouts in the country you are TW. Around e (Wales and Chester area) and many other areas there has been a move over the last 6 years or thereabouts to use franchised liveried mechanics rather than local garages. About that time I had left the caravan on site at Southport and gone home for the day. On the way back to site there was a problem with brake judder on the eve of boxing day. I phoned Mayday as it was difficult for me to inspect. Liveried van turned up and found a chip out of the brake disk. It turned out that he had previously worked for a local garage before starting as a Greenflag franchisee. He told me that a lot of garages were unhappy that they were no longer being used directly and there was a move afoot i many areas for the same.
Good news for me that he phoned the garage where he had worked and got me in for 1st thing on the day after Boxing day.
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Only had occasion to use Green Flag once... van was stuck in a tight position parked at home after immobiliser failed. First guy turned up and diagnosed probable fault, then turned up with the correct recovery vehicle about an hour later and winched the van out and away. No problem.
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No idea what RAC charge but just paid £137 to renew our Mayday. (£3 more than last year) That's for Premium UK cover, for any vehicle, so covers our MH and two cars for both myself and OH, all at the same level of cover. Plus of course any other vehicle we happen to be traveling in. I'm happy enough with that. For abroad I like the level of cover afforded by red Pennant and use that for vehicle / medical.
I have used them a couple of times for car only problems and they have always come quickly and sorted the issue.
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We have Green flag/Mayday, we've only had to call them out a few times so far touch wood for our daughter's (rather aged passed down) car that was on the policy while she lived with us.
They were there within an hour and sorted things out.
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We have RAC Arrival via the Camping Club. Its due soon but last years price was £125.. We have been members for 10 years but not used them in anger... yet.. The bit I like about arrival is the double recovery part so if you are off site and need recovering they take you to the site to collect your things from the pitch before they take you home.
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Hi
We were with the AA until they wanted nearly £300 just for the car. So I rang Green Flag which brought it down to well under £100. Mind you, we have a brand new Merc and that comes with free breakdown service etc.
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Yes it does, however when we moved to it, it was only £10 and you got interest on the account.
There are other benefits, such as free holiday insurance, free mobile phone insurance. So if you use all of them you more than cover the monthly payment.
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I have my renewal in November for RAC arrival at £124 up from £109 last year.I do not bother with any of the additional cover you can have such as home start and battery cover.
I have quickly done a Mayday comparison and their’s is coming out around £100.00 as a second car is £25.00 to add.
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Have Green Flag with my bank account.
Cannot speak highly enough of them when the car (one from Germany with a star on the bonnet) hit a motorway pothole in France and punctured the rear air suspension pipe.
GF European picked up the cost to tow us off the motorway to a local garage (cost over €450 as two vehicles - car and caravan) and then again two trucks the following day to take the car to dealer in Dijon and caravan to a local site which they had booked for us.
They then provided hire car for five days during the repair time, and even sent a taxi to collect me from campsite to the local enterprise hire office to collect the rental car. Kept in touch with us all the time ensuring repair was proceeding without problems.
No there was no cover for the repair bill but reckon GF charges must have exceed £1200.
Hope this helps with your thought processes.
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We have Mayday cover (which uses the Green Flag network) and have been really pleased with the service. We have Personal Cover which mean both the wife and myself are covered in any car as a driver or passenger. Not only do we get things like 'double journey' to reunite you with your caravan before recovery, and caravan recovery to storeage/ car to garage or home, but, though it is not guaranteed, we have always been able to take our small dog in the recovery vehicle. Other providers don't allow this (they have to stay I the car) - with Mayday it is at the descretion of the driver.
David
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If you have breakdown cover with a bank or as part of a car manufacturer's roadside assistance programme check if it covers recovery of a caravan or if there is a caravan length restriction.
At least with Mayday you know what you are paying for and it offers cover specially tailored for members.
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May I confirm that the Green Flag cover with your bank account covers car and caravan - the latter up to 7m excluding the A Frame.
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