Roadside Assistance

Allianz is just basic roadside assistance (I have it free with my car insurance) - nothing extra - fine if you run around town and in my view a little better than say NRMA basic roadside assistance (3500kgs vs 2500kgs vehicle weight) but if you are out travelling across the country I would be looking at the Premium coverage from one of the major auto associations.

Garry

Hi there,
Motoring 24-7 don't cover vehicles more than 20 years old
I have just joined them and read their prospectus

Gary, I would not have settled for that, why couldn't they send a tow from Kununurra? It just doesn't make sense that they would send a tow from 4 times the distance.

I certainly would not have accepted their excuse as it being a gentleman's agreement.

I would have asked for their terms and conditions, at least then you would know exactly what you are and are not entitled to.

Motoring 24/7 doesn't seem to be very good from what I have read.

You are only allowed free towing to a max of 50k Radius in the country, is this a round trip or each way. You are charged the operators fee for anything over 50k. This could work out to be quite expensive in deed. They state they will transport the driver and make no mention at all in regards to all passengers.

this could be awkward if you are in the middle of nowhere.

They offer up to $400 dollars for accommodation, travelling etc you can only use one option at a time and cannot combine them, but you are only allowed a max of $500 per year.

But you are not entitled to the above until 48 hours after the breakdown.

Just comparing RAC's highest cover which admittedly may seem expensive it may work out to be cheaper because you are allowed more K's before you are required to pay the operator.

Ultimate Plus is $275 a year.

Guaranteed Service Areas - Metropolitan Regional Centres towing is 200 k from point of breakdown.

You are also entitled to 2 tow incidents.

Non-guaranteed Service Areas - Country areas towing is 300k round trip, so 150 each way.

Accommodation and car hire when more than 100 k from home $1250 per year.

Plus they transport driver and upto 4 passengers.

Extended benefits are available 24 hours after breakdown.

I am with RAC and have asked them to send me their Terms and Conditions/PDS for Roadside Assist, it will be interesting to see exactly what is and what is not covered.

Yes they can be a little funny with there terms I live in Broken Hill so we have the middle level cover with RAA and thought that would cover us well we got 2 flat tires in a matter of 20 ks and we were just on my limit of 100 ks from town , so we rang up sorry we do not tow for flat tires any more .

This is Sunday morning we are of to Adelaide any way we asked to speak to the duty manager explaining to him we had just bought 4 new tires and it seems they did not replace the tubless valves

He approved the tow in the end but I was not happy at the thought of paying a lot of money for a tow

The other problem I have since found out is there is only two RAA serivice agents on the Barrier hwy between Adelaide these daysPeterborough and Broken hill