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Any members of AAA?
I received an offer to join for $52.00 for both my wife and myself for a year. I have never been a member but am getting of an age where I really don't want to change a tire on a 3/4 ton pick up on the side of the road. My car is a piece of cake but the truck is a pain in the ****.
Is a membership worth it and what has been your experience of response time in the event to call? I'm thinking more in a city environment rather than rural. I hate the thought of changing a tire on a crowded highway.
Thanks
Is a membership worth it and what has been your experience of response time in the event to call? I'm thinking more in a city environment rather than rural. I hate the thought of changing a tire on a crowded highway.
Thanks
Deo Vindice
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Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield
Original member number 3640 - September 2001.
NRA Endowment Member
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield
Have not only occasionally used on my vehicles but those owned by lady friends who had a problem.
They never questioned and always had quick competent service.
A southeast Florida laid back beach bum and volunteer bikini assessor who lives on island time.
Maybe just the peace of mind if you don't ever have to use it.....What's that worth?
I have some of the older family members piggybacked on my account
Makes great gifts for the old folks.
I'm covered by St Farm for 6 miles and 200 with aaa.
Came in handy this year when the ignition on my truck croaked 25 miles from home.
Docskiff
Response time can really vary. From 30 minutes(rarely) to 90 minutes.
I think I get it free from Allstate.
The bill for breakfast was $50.00 each day.....That was a $150.00 saving alone.
It seems like we us it at least once a year.
It's nice to just pull out your phone and know one call and your done.
What the Motor Club?? Maybe you have a different policy?
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield
I lead a sheltered life, I have never seen a $25.00 breakfast.
You obviously haven't gotten out much to finer establishments recently.
For $72 a year I get, free towing of the disabled vehicle and anything it is towing up to 135 miles, up to 2x a year. Free lockout, free tire change and emergency gas, not just for me, but any vehicle I am driving OR riding in.
AAA discounts at thousands of eating and lodging places, trip planning, maps and guide books.
Maps that you buy can be $6, the guide books list camping areas that people will ask how you found them, they are so far out there, lots of stats on cities, lots of dining options listed.
When I drive across the country, which is about every year at about noon I decide how much farther I'm going to go that day, look up lodging with the ammenities I want, (tub for my muscles, pool to tire out the kids, place to eat), check the price, call from the mobile phone and make my res. E Z peazy.
Most response is within 1/2 hour. I've only had problems once on 40 years as a member. 1/2 way between nowhere and nowhere else in Wyoming, took them 2 hours to get to me, in there defence they had to drive 100 miles to where I was, towed me and my pop-up camper125 miles in the direction I was going (oppisite the way they had come from) to the next town that had a Dodge dealer. tipped the driver well, but all I paid for the tow was signing my name.
I hate paying big money for something that is guaranteed to turn to **** within 24 hours.
But do they give a AAA discount for brunch?
They use to have really good maps, but once they got so small to read, we dumped them. Have they gotten any better?
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield
And I probably never will. I have better eggs and sausage anyway. :grin
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield
Not sure, it's been a while since I've gotten any from them.
Makes sense though, with google maps available on smart phones they are not as critical as before.
Really only needed if your going to put one up on the wall.
It says Allstate Motor Club on the card.
Anyone else insure vehicles with AAA? If so, what has your experience been With them?
I had one of those also, but it only did Towing, that was part of policy. No one would have come out and unlocked my wife's van though.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield
This was long before smart phones. Really were cheap maps. Not like the old trip tiks.
Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. --- Lord Chesterfield
As a side note, Auto Club South (which covers Florida, Georgia, Puerto Rico and part of Tennessee) just merged with Auto Club Group out of the north, which is headquartered in Dearborn, MI. They are much more of an insurance company so they will probably start offering even more insurance products. We actually have our flood through AAA on our house, had to go with Citizens on our regular home line unfortunately but that is a whole other conversation. I didn't even know there was different AAA groups until my wife started there, just thought it was one big company. All the different groups have to go by certain national standards and are a part of "corporate" (happens to be headquartered in Heathrow just outside of Orlando), but they are all in fact separate companies.