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I swapped to mayday following daylight robbery renewal price with rac, saved around 130 quid, had a good look at it all and mayday seem best by far, not had to use their services as yet and hopefully will not need to but good safety cushion and piece of mind.

We are with mayday, having been with another rescue service which we discovered the hard way didn't cover recovering our caravan as it was too long, we were on our way to a rally and car clutch went 5 miles from the rally without any warning. When we rang around Mayday were the only ones that would have rescued our caravan and we also liked the piece of mind of being towed to out site and then recovered home after our holiday (not that we have had to use it yet).

We have had to use Mayday once since being a member and that was due to a flat on the towing car (on route home and still 80 miles away on a Sunday!) and we didn't know if it was safe to put the steel spare on (rest are alloy) and tow, so they sent someone out with tow truck who sorted us out changing the wheel and advising us how far we could travel.

Quote: Originally posted by LegsDownKettleOn on 10/5/2010

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Has anyone here ever had a Mayday / Green Flag operative fix their car at the side of the road?

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Yes!

Also I have had a Citroen Recovered by the AA because they didn't attempt to fix citroens,  It could have been fixed at the roadside.  As stated before Mayday is basically thr CC's branding for Green flag but we have been happy with the service after calling them out both while towing and solo

The rescue service we were with before May Day were very good at fixing most problems at the side of the road if they could, I think they same garages that Green Flag use through possibly the same call centre as May Day do, they sorted many problems (blown fuses, not starting, DS locking us out of tow car at service station to name a few!) just the same as our previous experience of the AA (though that was last about 18 yrs ago!). Though things like clutch and a broken wishbone they towed us in to our garage, but I can't see the AA sorting them at the roadside either! The only reason we moved from our previous rescue service was because they didn’t cover our caravan length if we needed rescuing.

Thank you for your help and advise, it's difficult decision, even if Green Flag take you to a garage your car can be out of action for a few days, whereas if it's just brake pads got locked on for instance, AA will change them at the roadside, (if they have the correct ones of course) and you can continue on your journey, because even if they tow you to site, you will still be without a car until a garage repairs it.