Late Nights and Early Mornings
It will be no surprise to you all if I was to say our car breakdown cover service has got extremely busy is a short period of time. The call outs are a mixture of cars breaking down at night with the extra battery power needed for the cold weather and the mornings where the normal most reliable car suddenly does not want to start on the way to work.
The night time call outs have been the easiest to sort. Normally a good battery booster can give the extra power to get the most stubborn of car started again, if not the jump leads get attatched to the recovery vehicles batteries. We makes ure they have enough juice tio get home under their own steam, checking the alternator.
The morning breakdown cover call outs have been a different story. In nearly all cases the lack of starting has been becuase of cylider head issues in that the owner did not check antifreeze levels and now the car wont start becuase of water in the cylinder. What is ironic about this, is that is most cases you can still get away with a few days driving before the car will not start. Yet these owners, still did not get the car seen to when clearly they knew they had an issue.
Anyway, this is money for us, this is what we do and to be honest, if everyone maintained their cars the way they ought to, we probably would not be in business, with the exception if servicing.