mellonman Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Me it was gearbox failure pretty good service with AA but I kept on bugging them getting my car all sorted now Car broke down 1pm Friday lunchtime got back home 6.30 Saturday morning 4 towtrucks 1 ferry looked after us very well had to pay for ferry but only £35 which claimed back only left it late as ferry was very cheap after midnight but all timings were great with the AA wow that is a good service considering your was not in the uk, on a side note thats the only problem with these 500+ single turbo's the box will let go at some point its just when hope you get it fix soon boxes come up cheap often enough Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kilps Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 I cancelled my AA membership a few years back because I get free RAC cover through work. Reading all this, it might be worth paying out for the AA again! It's a bit of a gamble though. If I only ever need to use it once or twice, I could probably put up with it and save the money. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellonman Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 Not a house, then, Rosie...? So why is RAC so bad and so money hungry? Well - RAC was flogged off to Aviva ages ago. I had the misfortune of working on the account looking after their decrepit IT infrastructure (all single point of failures, mostly NT4 for gods sake). This was in the server room that had the aircon fail to the point a Cable&Wireless engineer burned his hand on cabling (see The Register article below for the corporate lies lol). It then had a fire which set off the sprinkler system. Yes, it was a water based sprinkler system in a server room. Aviva, as ever, made everyone who knew anything about RAC redundant and replaced them with offshore indians, which went as well as you'd expect. Then when it mysteriously went down the pan, flogged the lot off again to some other asset stripping company. I cancelled my insurances with them within a couple of weeks of being on the account, but I couldn't say anything publicly while working on it Here's the article: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/03/23/rac_data_centre_outage_bristol/ "the cause of the cock-up is unknown" - lies, we knew full well what it was, a culmination of neglect and lack of spending for maintenance = blown aircon and no monitoring or alarms "RAC spokesperson denied suggestions that staff had been hurt by overheating servers" - lies, I spoke to the C&W guy on the phone who burned his hand Aviva are the under writers of my supra insurance ! should I be worried ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dnk Posted May 22, 2014 Share Posted May 22, 2014 (edited) The AA take the pi55 when its renewal time if you have the UK breakdown cover, new members get a good deal but old members who have been there years just get shafted. It works pretty much the same as car insurance, stay loyal and pay more and by a considerable amount. £99 for a new member now and my renewal was i think over £170, that was over 3 years ago. I called and said they were taking the pee politely and said i will go to Greenflag or someone else, i got put on hold for a bit then got the cover reduced to the new member price, they wouldn't do it the next year so i left. Edited May 22, 2014 by Dnk (see edit history) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 Well folks, I had an amazing time on this Dragonball. Everything worked out pretty much as planned, even the road closures added to the fun of the event (although I had a few choice words when I found that road closed on Friday). Our inability to read the signs in Nieuwpoort really paid dividends, the seafront would have been packed otherwise, we just rolled up, parked up and the crowds appeared. I was standing near the cars (not in club uniform I should state) and 2 policemen walked up and said 'Toyota?', I shook my head and said no...so they may have tried to move us on. The 4 policemen Bob approached didnt seem to mind though. The roads from Spa were the best I have been on, apart from the pushbikes they were mostly clear, the little villages all came out to see the cars and the crowds in the town with the bridge were amazing. This has been the best Dragonball for me so far, it was a little jaded after last year but this event has restored all of our faith in the DB franchise!! I would like to thank Wile e Coyote for covering the Saturday afternoon and Sunday morning legs at the front. I would also liek to thank the Brussels town for putting on a Gay Pride evening especially for Burna, and putting on the Brussels Marathon on the Sunday so we had to go direct to teh beach. It all worked out perfectly. Planning for next year already. Got a few ideas saved up, but Rotterdam got the most surprising response I could imagine so the decision may have been made for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burna Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 I've gone off Gay Pride, there were sooo many fit girls wearing next to nothing in town on Saturday night, but they only liked kissing each other, pure torture lol And.... ROTTERDAAAAAAAAAM!!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Havard Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 I've gone off Gay Pride, there were sooo many fit girls wearing next to nothing in town on Saturday night, but they only liked kissing each other, pure torture lol And.... ROTTERDAAAAAAAAAM!!!!! Doesn't matter where we go. You are being clingfilmed to a lamppost with your nuts out...!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Benjy Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 Doesn't matter where we go. You are being clingfilmed to a lamppost with your nuts out...!! HAHAHAHAHA... I'm up for helping with this! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Branners Posted May 24, 2014 Author Share Posted May 24, 2014 Hi evereybody! Just wanted to say i really enjoyed driving along with all your lovely Supra's (+1 GTR) yesterday! Hope guys you didn't mind me joining the pack with my Yamaha, i just got seduced by all the beautiffull asses i guess . Could someone please give me a link to the facebook page so i can enjoy some pics/clips of your trip? CHaps, we have popped this gentleman on a years membership as a thank you for the work he did in keeping the small bit of the convoy together. Hope to see them on Db15 next year. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Massey Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 CHaps, we have popped this gentleman on a years membership as a thank you for the work he did in keeping the small bit of the convoy together. Hope to see them on Db15 next year. I never got to see the guy, but he's a legend for what he did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyson Posted May 24, 2014 Share Posted May 24, 2014 I never got to see the guy, but he's a legend for what he did That kind of thing just wouldn't happen here, really great guy !! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abz Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 CHaps, we have popped this gentleman on a years membership as a thank you for the work he did in keeping the small bit of the convoy together. Hope to see them on Db15 next year. That is a lovely gesture JB! That kind of thing just wouldn't happen here, really great guy !! Didn't have my police car this year or it would Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slam Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 CHaps, we have popped this gentleman on a years membership as a thank you for the work he did in keeping the small bit of the convoy together. Hope to see them on Db15 next year. That guy on the bike was brilliant,we got to a junction and he was there blocking traffic for us. The waited for him to come up through to do the same thing at the next junction big thanks from us. Hope he can offer his services again . We were wondering how we could get hold of him to give him a medal . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slam Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 There was also a couple of guys in a red gt86 who was filming us,and had a bit of a good run with us on the Saturday . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al Massey Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 There was also a couple of guys in a red gt86 who was filming us,and had a bit of a good run with us on the Saturday . Well they tried to have a good run with us lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supragal Posted May 25, 2014 Share Posted May 25, 2014 Not a house, then, Rosie...? I've already saved for that, it's just become a combined house/supra account now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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