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By older I mean 21 years old - taking the van across to France as frankly I trust it more than the S MAX now. With the RAC and will call them but last time their add on to the policy came out twice as much as travel insurance and breakdown cover from Eurotunnel before I even mention the old T4.
Any options out there?
I use AutoAid normally (recommended) and the add-on cost for a couple of weeks Euro cover for my 10-year-old van was very reasonable, £20-£30 IIRC.
Though my insurance was the only affordable way to get suitable cover for my 1987 registered kit car, RAC wanted over £130. Think it was about £35 on top for me!
Which reminds me I need to sort travel insurance!
We're with the camping and caravan club arrival scheme, it's expensive £240 a year for two is for full European coverage, but it covers us in any vehicle we're in.
It's been the best and easiest cover to cope with having older and larger vehicles...
I've just taken a 32 year old Porsche to Europe and the only cost effective way to cover it was getting breakdown cover through my insurance. That was with Adrian Flux, the cover was £39.50.
You may be able to take their policy out separately-
https://www.adrianflux.co.uk/breakdown/?utm_source=adwords&utm_campaign=breakdown&utm_medium=ppc
The AA and RAC were £100ish each for just the length of the trip, Autoaid's European cover wouldn't touch it, nor would many other firms.
I'm going to revisit that Adrian Flux thing when I renew, used to have my Lotus through them and they were very good, and that's a bargain price. I'm not sure CC&C will apply to the Caravelle as its sort of a minibus in disguise (or for me a 70mph people carrier with car prices across the Severn Bridge)
Have ended up with the RAC (my normal cover people) as they dropped the price on the phone a fair bit - still over a hundred for 2 weeks, but at the 'middle' cover level and no problem with the vehicle type, age or 5 passengers, one element of which was causing issues on all the sites I was trying.
I used to use Auto aid but a couple of years ago I realised that I was probably better off getting breakdown (inc home start and European) & travel insurance (inc winter sports) as a package with a bank account.
Nationwide [url= http://www.nationwide.co.uk/products/current-accounts/flexplus/insurances-and-benefits#xtab:breakdown-existing-cover ]Flex-Plus[/url] is £10 per month and covers both of us just by making it nominally into a joint account.
Cheaper than a breakdown policy and a travel policy. Other benefits like extended warranties and all family mobile phones covered too.
I'm with eckythump. Use flexplus for Europe for a 14 year old van. With its new MOT now. Hurrah!
We've got similar with NatWest but the European cover is only valid for vehicles less than 15 years old.
When my 1975 T2 broke down last year in St Malo we were towed to a VW dealership and abounded there. Obviously a modern VW garage had no idea how to replace points even though I had a spare set with me. After realising that was the extent of the breakdown service we paid the recovery company direct to take us to a local campsite where we stayed until we found a mechanic who came out and fixed us. We got a call the day before we were due to leave from our recovery insurance saying a breakdown truck would recover us to the ferry although there was no guarantee the ferry would take the broken down van but a hire car would be waiting in Portsmouth so we could get home.
In other words the cover that came extra with our insurance was useless. Not sure if there is any specific classic car breakdown cover out there.
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We've got similar with NatWest but the European cover is only valid for vehicles less than 15 years old.
Have you got a Black Account?
It's UK only for the platinum account now, cheeky little downgrade recently.