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Name: Breakdown Cover
Rating: 1 (24 reviews)

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Based on 24 reviews, last reviewed 19th May 2025

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The worst service provider. The worst service provider. Their only interest is to take money and they don't care anymore. If you have a problem, they will refer you to the garage... Read more Reviewed on: 19th May 2025

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Emergency Assist Breakdown Cover reviews (24)

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£94.80 cancelled call out fee. Yes I know it's in the terms and conditions but when you phone back after 5 minutes to cancel callout you would think common sense would prevail? Reviewed on: 28th December 2023

No star no option

~Used to be competent and good customer service, but recent attitude of staff i.e. rude, incompetent, unwilling to help and all about getting more money from your pocket are so disgusting and frustrating, have they been trained to rip people off too? they have excess and directing you to pay extra money if not they can not send someone to help you, all be done upfront if you can't, 'sorry' is their last word before putting the phone down leaving you alone and anxious. They need to prioritize their customers' welfare and not all about getting more profits/thinking ways of getting other income from their customers' pocket. Not trustworthy anymore. No star! Reviewed on: 15th August 2023

Abominable service

My car would not start so I called for someone to come out. I was not aware that my tax had run out due to moving house and I was charged £161 instead of the £30 excess. Even though I could pay the tax immediately, they wouldn't budge. The mechanic arrives, takes 2 minutes to look at the engine and decides the battery is at fault. Jump-start the car but doesn't look at anything else. The car doesn't want to start up again without the jump leads but he says the alternator is fine, it just needs a new battery and I can drive to a garage to buy one. So I take the car and on the way the car completely breaks down. No power, nothing. I phone them again, obviously the mechanic has made a mistake and now I'm stranded, in a dangerous place. To my surprise and astonishment they didn't want to know and wanted another few hundred pounds to come out again as they said they wouldn't come out for the same problem twice. But if the mechanic had checked properly he would have advised me that the car needed towing to a garage to be fixed, not driven. I was so disgusted with them, I called another company to tow the car, costing me another £150! They say they provide such fantastic service but this is beyond abominable. Reviewed on: 4th December 2022

Avoid!

Sadly my last encounter was appalling. They are helpful with a one off incident, but I happened to have two completely separate occurrences, one the battery (on Christmas Eve), the other the distributor cap. They refused to come out on the second call as I had not taken my car to a garage on Christmas Eve - despite no garage being open for several days by that point! I had the same garage attend both call outs (as soon as they were open after the Christmas break), and they also confirmed the incidences were completely unrelated, but Emergency Assist refuse to refund the £150 for recovery that I should not have been charged. I'd recommend spending a little more on a reputable company Reviewed on: 19th April 2022

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