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Do all breakdown recovery firms, such as RAC, AA, have a 10 year car-age limit?

Is there any way of getting breakdown recovery/roadside assistance on a car older than 10 years.

Mine is 5 years old but I'm thinking to the future... as it's a classy golf which is reliable... and it's £12,000 new cost is like only £1,000 a year when spread over 12 years (not a whack of depreciation if you keep with a car in your ownership for a while)... with probably something back when I sell it.

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  • Ellie
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago
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    Well i don't know where you got that information from. We are we the RAC and they don't have a limit- my daughter has a car over 25years old and she is in that- same with my sons van. You have been seriously misinformed somewhere along the line.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    keep it twenty more years then sell it a t five fold the new( 12,000) recovery firm will rush on you!

    It make me think of my old Wolsey 15/50 I bought for 3,500 some forty years ago. then left it under a tree ( for hens to lay eggs) I got an offer at 75.000 some days age. i thought the chap was mad. i told him politely -not for sale. he returned again and offered 150, 000 there as a notary public this time with him.

    I thought he must be serious ,i said " last price is 300, 000 take it or let it.

    he took it !

  • 1 decade ago

    No age limit that i've ever been aware of. My cars new but the other car is ....12 years old and it's got breakdown cover with the RAC

  • jamand
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    Well, I use AutoNational Rescue and my car is over 10 years old - I have two cars covered and FULL recovery etc is only £98 for both.

    AA RAC - Rubbish - too expensive and let you down to often.

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  • 1 decade ago

    I'm not sure exactly what their policy is, but before my current car (7 yeears old) I had a golf which was 12 years old, a before that a 14 year old Fiesta! (with the RAC)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    The AA has twice been out to fix the wifes battered old 1990 Ford Escort, So I'd say theres no age limit.

  • 1 decade ago

    i have a 1981 delorean, the aa have been out a few times for it. theres no age limit, unless youre under a special policy

  • 1 decade ago

    I bloody hope not. I don't have a car under fifteen years of age. Try Brittania Rescue.

    Source(s): Been with them for fifteen years, and had nothing but excellent service
  • 1 decade ago

    no they dont the aa cover the person not the car and so do lots of the other firms

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    My 20yr old Peugeot 205 is still covered by Britannia Rescue, but they do insist that it is serviced regularly (enforced by asking you when they come and get you).

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