Padaung
Established Member
Hi folks,
My wife and I have a paid for joint bank account that offers breakdown recovery, phone insurance and travel insurance that covers us and our two children. For our family, these accounts are worth the £13-15/mth (£156-180/yr) fee to cover all four of us, but I appreciate they may not fit the needs of others (particularly an individual).
Anyway, this isn't intended as a discussion about banking fees!
We currently have cover with Green Flag, who tend to use local garages to cover call outs. This felt fine with our petrol car, but with it being recommended to not tow an EV, and the issue of arriving at a charge point with a low battery only to find the charger is not working, I'm reconsidering our options.
I've read that the RAC offer on-site trickle charging to get you an extra 10 miles (so hopefully to an alternative charger) and their vehicles have fold out trailers so you can be towed to a garage if required without having to wait additional time for a flat bed truck to arrive. These both sound great to me.
Does anyone know, or even better, have experience of how the AA compare with the RAC offering? I've read the AA website and to me it's not entirely clear how they resolve these two problems (towing and charging).
Our current bank account is going to switch from Greenflag to the AA in the new year, so if the AA is recommended then I'd just sit tight and wait for that to occur. We would need to switch banks to get RAC cover (which I don't mind doing if the concensus is that the RAC is the better option).
Thanks in advance for all insights and thoughts.
My wife and I have a paid for joint bank account that offers breakdown recovery, phone insurance and travel insurance that covers us and our two children. For our family, these accounts are worth the £13-15/mth (£156-180/yr) fee to cover all four of us, but I appreciate they may not fit the needs of others (particularly an individual).
Anyway, this isn't intended as a discussion about banking fees!
We currently have cover with Green Flag, who tend to use local garages to cover call outs. This felt fine with our petrol car, but with it being recommended to not tow an EV, and the issue of arriving at a charge point with a low battery only to find the charger is not working, I'm reconsidering our options.
I've read that the RAC offer on-site trickle charging to get you an extra 10 miles (so hopefully to an alternative charger) and their vehicles have fold out trailers so you can be towed to a garage if required without having to wait additional time for a flat bed truck to arrive. These both sound great to me.
Does anyone know, or even better, have experience of how the AA compare with the RAC offering? I've read the AA website and to me it's not entirely clear how they resolve these two problems (towing and charging).
Our current bank account is going to switch from Greenflag to the AA in the new year, so if the AA is recommended then I'd just sit tight and wait for that to occur. We would need to switch banks to get RAC cover (which I don't mind doing if the concensus is that the RAC is the better option).
Thanks in advance for all insights and thoughts.
