Re: [DML] Serious Megasquirt Question

["content22207" <brobertson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Nonsense. Outside of a few metropolitan areas, AAA farms out its roadside assistance 24 hours a day. If you place a AAA call in Laurinburg right now, you are going to get a 3rd party roll back (and all he will do is haul your vehicle -- no mechanical work on the side of the road).

Bill Robertson
#5939


--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Farrar Hudkins <fhudkins@...> wrote:
>
> AAA only farms out its tow services after 10pm. Prior to that you get a
> genuine AAA service truck or tow truck.
> 
> Farrar Hudkins
> #2613
> 
> On Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 11:27 AM, Stephen Rice <stevedmc@...> wrote:
> 
> > **
> >
> >
> > He just freaked out because it was a Delorean, got all cocky saying he
> > was tempted not to come out to give me a jump start, and then drove
> > off and told me I would need to contact AAA to get someone else to
> > give me a tow. What ticked me off is he had a flat bed truck.
> >
> > Come to think of it, it might have been roadside assistance with a
> > company other than AAA. My insurance company has roadside assistance
> > and that might have been what I was using. Regardless, I canceled
> > roadside assistance after that. You are going to have to deal with
> > the same crap with whoever they contract to do the work.
> >
> > After the guy refused to tow me home, I opened the door, pushed the
> > car about 20 feet (by myself), jumped in, and bumped the transmission
> > in 2nd gear. I drove the car home and fixed the problem myself. It
> > took me about 2 minutes to push start the car after I wasted over an
> > hour on roadside assistance. After that incident, I vowed to never
> > use roadside assistance again.
> >
> > -Steve Rice
> > #16510
> >
> >
> 
> 
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>




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