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Old May 19, 2008 | 07:50 PM
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Originally Posted by AlexF
I find the AA useless in the UK!
I used the RAC last year and I never will again ! we took a rather hot nova with fucking expensive xe engine in it and it dropped a valve in Brussels, they gave me a rental and said they would just deliver the nova home, however the following day they called me and said it was fixed and running we went down and explained the knocking noise wasn't normal and sensibly removed the ecu and other parts to stop it from running. 5 days later they called me saying they were unhappy that I had taken bits from the car and wouldn't bring the car home so I was left to tow it home

The worst bit was after 5 days we came back to find the car sitting on a forecourt (the same one where it was the day after it was originally recovered) still unlocked !

It was a shocking experience and I was grateful that nothing had gone missing, it would of taken someone 5 mins to have the buckets, harnesses and Stack dash out and I possibly wouldn't of had a leg to stand on.

Strangely as soon as we arrived back in the uk I called the RAC again for recovery and they picked us up instantly, took the car to a secure compound, noted all parts on the car and gave me a hire car to return home with

Foreign recovery is a worrying thing for me, I was extremely concerned for Mike considering the engine had no cambelt on it
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