Our State Farm insurance offers, for about $7 per year per car, roadside
tow/fuel/flat insurance. I've used it numerous times, in fact I used it
yesterday to bring the 79 B home from the paint shop where it sat for 5
months. When I took it to town (8 miles) on Febuary 10th, it died in route
and had to be towed the rest of the way. The same person picked me up
yesterday as towed me into town on Feb. 10th-he probably thinks MG's are
only a pretty shell with no working innards.
Monte
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dean T. Lake" <dtlake@erols.com>
To: "MG List Postings" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2003 8:04 PM
Subject: Re: AAA's "Secret Agenda?"
> I tried to send this earlier today when the conversation was still hot -
it
> didn't go through but I'll send it again now:
>
> I have resisted AAA's frequent junk mail overtures to re-subscribe because
> several years ago when I needed them they were not there. My friends and
I
> were stranded in a fairly rural area on a Sunday after a camping trip. We
> hiked several miles to a phone, called them with my AAA card in hand, and
> explained our situation. AAA did nothing, sent no one, and gave no
> explanation for why they were not helping. I had to call them back
several
> times, and actually got grief from the dispatcher for doing so. AAA will
> only help you when you are in an area where you won't have much trouble
> getting help anyway. Don't expect them to help you when you most need it.
> The image of AAA coming to the rescue, as far as I'm concerned, is a myth.
> AAA at best is a convenient dispatch service for tows, flat repair, and
> roadside gas - which is a service offered by many others these days. AAA
> surely was once a good deal. Today, however, cars are far more reliable,
it
> is easy enough to get maps and travel information online, you can easily
> call for quick assistance from the police (#77 here in Virginia). Add to
> that the dubious political efforts David mentions! The result in my
> estimation is that annual dues are very unlikely to be a good wager
anymore.
> In fact, despite driving a bunch of allegedly unreliable cars over the
last
> ten years, I did better by not paying AAA. I expect to do better by not
> paying them anything now.
>
> Of course that's even easier to say now that I have my own car trailer!
;-)
>
> Dean
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Breneman" <idcb@airborne.com>
>
> > I know this may seem tangential to this conversation, but I decided
> > way back in the late 70s to steer clear of AAA when they became
> > politicised. They came out firmly in favor of the 55 MPH "national"
> > speed limit and lobbied for it. How a *driver's* organization could
> > be in favor of such an anti-driver law always puzzled me, and I figured
> > there must be some back-room wheeling and dealing going on between
> > them and the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety (an organization
> > that lobbies for new and more effective ways to raise the premiums of
> > *safe* drivers) regarding AAA's insurance program.
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