Sometmes the word cheap can mean low quality, but in this instance it relates to how cheap beakdown cover has become over the decades using economies of scale and the transformation of breakdown cover organsiations into insurance companies.  as this is writen towards the end of 2009, you can buy roadside assistance from all 3 major players in the breakdown cover market for under £30 a year, in many cases cheaper than you could have bought the same policy 15 years ago.

In fact 15 years ago, these breakdown cover organisation were all going through major change, to keep prices down, intruduce new technology to improve the service. the result is you can now buy roadside assistance (the cheapest form of breakdown cover), for less than tank of fuel, or for large cars, less than half the price. The attendence times are also doen, with mosts stating they can be at any car in the uk with he 35 minutes mark on average, comapred with the hour promised 15 years ago. In reality cars are more erlaiable now, so it tends to be smaller issues that dominates a roadside assistance engineers life, such as a flat battery, flat tyre or being locked out of the car. This blog is to talk about how cheap things are now in this arena without any bias towards any breakdown cover company, using video footage and whatever we can to show the point.