Has anyone used Quickfit Breakdown?

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Just found out my policy with Asda (Britannia) had lapsed, on a compare site it bought up Quickfit at £40 the year with everything except Euro and homestart. 

£30 less than Asda but Quickfit aren't exactly known for being an honest decent company.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Apparently it's provided by Intana.

[sierraman]

You have to pay the guy that comes out then you claim it back off Kwikfit. Good luck there then. A lot of the goons they send out haven't a clue.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Another option is Axa at £48

[Jimmycrackcorn]

You have to pay the guy that comes out then you claim it back off Kwikfit. Good luck there then. A lot of the goons they send out haven't a clue.

Really? It doesn't make any mention of that in the Policy Doc?

http://www.kwik-fitinsurance.co.uk/sites/files/roadsideplus1214.pdf

[steveo3002]

have you looked at autoaid ?

 

im a member but never claimed , others seem happy with what you get  

[Jimmycrackcorn]

I have but at the moment the issue would be being able to pay in advance for any work/recovery. It really was the wrong time of year to buy, tax and insure two new vehicles.

[stripped fred]

Another vote here for autoaid. Had no problems at all and claiming back has been straightforward.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Like I say it's not the claiming back I have an issue with it's the fact I'll be skint until Payday and couldn't cover any costs til then. Which is a twat as I get paid two days after the trip.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

I'm tempted to stick with Asda (Britannia) they've always been good even recovering my Luton. Never had an issue with them and they actually seem to listen to you when you tell them they need a flatbed. 

It's twice the price (£7.50 month, KwikFit £3.99) but it seems daft to risk the unknown for a couple of quid.

Seemed to have answered my own question there.

[lisbon_road]

Just found out my policy with Asda (Britannia) had lapsed, on a compare site it bought up Quickfit at £40 the year with everything except Euro and homestart. 

£30 less than Asda but Quickfit aren't exactly known for being an honest decent company.

That last bit.  Quikfit are indeed not known as being an honest company.  Friends car had a fortune spent on it, and I can find little done.  Not connected with the service you're looking for I admit but I would avoid avoid avoid.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

I know what you mean and I've known friends relatives and neighbours to be screwed by them, I put them in the same category as the Halfords Autocentre places. 

[Cavcraft]

If they're like their mobile tyre fitting company, you're knackered.

Had a flat on a pick- up on a Thursday morning, they said 'we should be there Tues or Weds'

[steveo3002]

do you/mrs have a credit card to cover the autoaid cost if you broke down?

 

guess it kinda depends if you plan on calling them out alot or not  

[Jimmycrackcorn]

Nothing like a quick response lol.

That's the other thing I've never been left waiting long and I even had one lad find me a fan belt for my van (LDV with Pug ET70 2.5td) at 8am on a Sunday Morning to save our trip to Disneyland Paris.

Fuck it I'll stick with them, after what they've done for me they deserve my loyalty.

[Jimmycrackcorn]

do you/mrs have a credit card to cover the autoaid cost if you broke down?

 

guess it kinda depends if you plan on calling them out alot or not  

Don't have/use credit cards. 

[steveo3002]

Don't have/use credit cards. 

cant say i blame you - right attitude to have too

 

but sometimes they can be handy for a time like that - i have a ccard but its only for emergencys not wankering holidays and stuff on it lol

[Tamworthbay]

May well be the exception that proves the rule but my local kwikfit are superb, but I still use a small independent as they are cheaper.

[sierraman]

Try your bank. Sometimes they chuck in the AA for a tenner or so.

[CHRIS1980]

I would avoid anything that has anything to do with kwikfit. I had 2 mates who worked a separate branches and they both said that they wouldn't trust their cars there on the fact that they are instructed to "find " jobs.. I once got told by one of their tyre fitters that I had a broken coil Spring .....on a mini 1000. I asked him to show me,and he did. To his horror he couldn't find one.

[DSdriver]

When I filled in the google insurance quote comparison for Thunderbird 2 (the XM), Quickfit were cheapest and immediately got ignored because a) they were the cheapest and because they were Quickfit. I could imagine them insisting the car was repaired at one of their units if it was damaged in an incident.

 

The smiley is what you get if you put a close parenthesis after a b. 

[Bren]

After the stunt they pulled with my bike insurance, never again.

[CHRIS1980]

After the stunt they pulled with my bike insurance, never again.

What was that?

[Vince70]

I'm with kwikshit for my breakdown cover and didn't realise you had to pay out first and claim back later but then I didn't read the policy and I've not had to use them as yet.

You don't get any paperwork with Kwikshit as its all done online but your basically just given a phone number which I just stored in my mobile

[DodgyBastard]

Have you actually broken down?

[Jimmycrackcorn]

No but I'm sure that's about to change when I start using the Jag tomorrow. In fact I think this is the first year I haven't had to call them out.

Usually 3-4 times a year and always after leaving or just arriving at the Mother in laws, they recovered my LDV Luton, and both my Mercs from the South Coast to Sunderland so well worth the monies.

The one time I went without I had to get recovered from Sheffield home and it wasn't cheap.