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We are all allowed our opinions and I have one from experience regarding cheap breakdown cover or annual protection as a whole. There are times when this can be valuable and I can tell you that my call out fee is more than the cheapest roadside assistance policies available from certain breakdown cover organisations. But what I believe really happens is that most people never need to call out an engineer and that most people do not need breakdown cover at all and therefore they are not buying cheap breakdown cover at all.

When speak to clients they normally tell me this is the first time in years that they have needed and emergency service and even though they know they are going to get quiet a high bill, when they take into account the years they have not bought an annual breakdown cover policy, they believe they are ahead on the deal.

Just because I am an engineer does not mean my cars cannot breakdown either. In fact I would say I put far more attention into my customers’ cars than my own. The last thing I want to do on my day off is to work on my cars also. What I can say is that in the last 7 years I have never broke down in any vehicle i have owned. I am sure this is common throughout most drivers, the fact is many people buy so called cheap breakdown cover every year for decades and never need to call someone out, so is this a cheap option or not.

I believe, so as long as you know who to ring when something happens and you make sure your car is serviced correctly, you will still be ahead in the money stakes should you need to make an emergency call. As I said at the beginning, this is an opinion only.