Insurance brokerage services from Fabien

james · 5 December 2017 12:03

Read this before you suffer a breakdown (in your car!) Cars / Motoring / Insurance

[breakdown-984812_640] There are numerous differences between France and the UK and one of them is the way that breakdown cover works. Having recently hit a wild boar (ouch for both the boar and my wallet), I thought it might be useful to highlight the way breakdown cover works. Unlike the UK where you can shop around, here in France breakdown cover is usually included in your car insurance policy. Depending on your policy the cover may be good, adequate or not really worth the paper it is written on. One of our worst experiences to date was breaking down up a mountain (during the day and not in the winter) and being told by the breakdown company that no one would be prepared to get us until the next day as there was a car rally going on and the road up was jam packed. We did eventually get two bottles of wine and an apology from the insurers but quite what we were meant to do for 24 hours with a five year old in tow beats me. Had a friend not given us a lift home we would probably s…