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If you need car breakdown cover, should you use a price comparison system to get it, or is it best to go direct?

People vary in their views about this. Their position has as much to do with subjective considerations - especially how cautious or risk-averse they are by nature - as it has to do with objective considerations.

Those that are not particularly risk-averse will probably prioritise saving money in the process. The more cautious individuals - who may or may not have previously needed to use car breakdown cover services - will be more interested in getting the right policy that 'covers all the bases'.

Those in, or closer to, the latter group will have their needs best met by going direct to a top car breakdown cover specialist. More on this in a moment. The former group will perceive their needs as best met by using a car breakdown cover comparison system.

Yet, when you buy any form of insurance plan - and car breakdown cover is no different - the point of the exercise is to obtain cover that will adequately meet your needs, regardless of the specific circumstances of your breakdown.

Thus, playing the 'low price trumps all' card, in this context is self-defeating. You need to know what's included in your car breakdown cover. Simply getting the cheapest is an unsound approach.

When you aim to play the 'quality' card, going direct to a leading car breakdown cover provider and tailoring your cover via the plans available through, for example, Green Flag (link above), is a sound choice. This is why we tend to advise people to use them rather than allowing price to become all-importnat at the expense of the associated cover. The latter can easily occur when you use a price comparison system to find car breakdown cover. In addition, it can be hard to work out exactly what your getting when you buy indirectly via an automated quote comparison system.

The key point here is that when you buy car breakdown cover, you need to take the risk-averse position to identify the optimal choice, the policy that is the best balance between the cost of cover and what you get for it. Don't be afraid to discard the cheapest policies if they do not meet your minumum requirements.

You can, of course, check both. The quote forms for car breakdown cover are quick and easy to complete and it keeps options open to then make a fully informed choice on the basis of the respective prices and cover.

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