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AA-like road insurance breakdown cover for Europe?

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  • 11-04-2012 5:38pm
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    Tedious Bore
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    hi, anyone know any good companies that cover campervans for this kind of thing?

    travelling around Europe this summer in a fairly old camper and would like to get cover for breakdown & repairs if it's not too expensive.

    i think someone might have recommended a German crowd here somewhere before but I can't remember the name now

    thanks


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    T650
    Registered Users Posts: 198 ✭✭T650


    Tedious Bore wrote: »
    hi, anyone know any good companies that cover campervans for this kind of thing?

    travelling around Europe this summer in a fairly old camper and would like to get cover for breakdown & repairs if it's not too expensive.

    i think someone might have recommended a German crowd here somewhere before but I can't remember the name now

    thanks

    http://www.adac.de/mitgliedschaft/adac_membership/


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    Tedious Bore
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Tedious Bore


    T650 wrote: »
    http://www.adac.de/mitgliedschaft/adac_membership/

    yeah that's defo the one I saw recommended here a while back. thanks for the link. much appreciated.
    .......couldn't find the original thread I'd seen it on, but were people talking about it because it's the best cover for campers? ...or one of the best? ...are there other similar packages out there?


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    bluethunder
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    Tedious Bore wrote: »
    yeah that's defo the one I saw recommended here a while back. thanks for the link. much appreciated.
    .......couldn't find the original thread I'd seen it on, but were people talking about it because it's the best cover for campers? ...or one of the best? ...are there other similar packages out there?

    Does your insurance not give you breakdown cover across Europe?


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    killalanerr
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    bluethunder wrote: »
    Does your insurance not give you breakdown cover across Europe?
    Thats what i thought but i was caught out badly over the weekend on a motorbike trip the end result is the bike is still in Kerry when i need it to be in Dublin the insurance only covered it to be taken up to 15miles where it could be repaired
    Has anyone used this German outfit, deafo going to get some breakdown cover for the motorhome
    p.s anyone got a bike trailer i could borrow for a day :mad:


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    bugsntinas
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    wouldn't the aa be of any use?we have them for the car for recovery homestart and european cover.we have a '96 fiesta but they had no problem coming out to us on many occassion in the '78 cortina and i thought they recovered upto 3.5 ton on standard policy.open to correction.


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    killalanerr
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    As you said the AA dont cover anything over 3.5tons that rules out a lot of motorhomes


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    Tedious Bore
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    bluethunder wrote: »
    Does your insurance not give you breakdown cover across Europe?

    yeah I think it's limited though. haven't skimmed through all the t&cs yet but i remembered that this german company were being recommended here before and a lot of people saying there good value


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    Tedious Bore
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Tedious Bore


    anyone know if ADAC have the terms&conditions of their policy on the website in english anywhere?


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    AutostratusEB
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    The AA aren't worth a sh*te if your MH breaks down in Europe. Dolmen insurance appears to cover breakdown in France but not on the motorway. Go figure. ADAC are the business, give them a call they all speak English and will get you through the signing up process. Includes full repatriation of your vehicle if worst comes to worst plus health cover etc also. For under €80 p/a. Terms and conditions come in English.

    The AA are too busy giving out about tolls and fuel costs to be a real motoring cover company.


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    Tedious Bore
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Tedious Bore


    Tedious Bore wrote: »
    anyone know if ADAC have the terms&conditions of their policy on the website in english anywhere?

    ....or anyone even know for sure if they defo don't have this info in english on the website?


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    bo.jangles
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    This is the english page on there site. http://www.adac.de/mitgliedschaft/adac_membership/


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    Tedious Bore
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Tedious Bore


    bo.jangles wrote: »
    This is the english page on there site. http://www.adac.de/mitgliedschaft/adac_membership/

    thanks. I'd seen that but just wondered if the T&Cs were translated anywhere. don't think they are but can phone them i guess


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    Tedious Bore
    Registered Users Posts: 507 ✭✭✭Tedious Bore


    and quick question, I know zilch about this stuff and am wondering if it covers just one named person or is it like an open drive policy...?

    We'll have a general insurance open drive policy with a few different people driving the van. Our policy does come with breakdown cover but it's basic enough so we are looking at this ADAC one now as it seems good value.
    anyone know offhand if it's open of just one named driver?


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