Auto Warranty

Across the two sides of the pond there seems to be differences in what is deemed a car warranty or what is really just roadside assistance. For a start within the UK, it appears that different organisation deal with the relevant parts of any warranty and in fact are sometimes offered with say a new car by two different suppliers. In better words they get a warranty and a roadside assistance or breakdown cover option thrown in to.

They often run for different periods of time. There are cars in the UK that have a 7 year warranty, but breakdown cover is only provided for 12 months only. I the USA the warranty options and roadside assistance seem to run closer together with companies including roadside assistance as part of their warranty contract. Although there are national breakdown cover providers such as tripe A, these still tend to be different companies or at least divisions run from each state. The national breakdown cover operators in the UK truly are national, even though some still use a network of garages and recovery truck owners to deliver the service.

We hope to bring news on the warranty and breakdown cover scene from this blog in future posts and any more differences we come across in the future. See you later.