Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 12:49:15 -0800
Reply-To: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Roger Whittaker <rogerwhitt1@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: [WetWesties] Towing, AAA, and big rigs
In-Reply-To: <CE306828-2BA5-403E-87EA-DA30EDAF181C@colortechnology.com>
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greetings all ...
the registration of your vehicle does not matter
what your vehicle is does matter a great deal
most motor homes are wider longer and taller than a westie
hence the difficulty when dispatching a tow vehicle ...
ie dont send a boy to do a womans job ...;o0
i hail from canada anf have BCAA Premium...
have had it for years and would not leave home with out it
had my self towed numerous miles ...
been retowed when the service dropped at proved inadequate
and had a unknown stranded vehicle towed out of danger/harm(s) way to aid an
unknown person
i would suggest that trying to force our concept of what we drive onto state
regulators is a fools game
they will not understand ...
i have been to two different big VW dealers in USA ... the sales people and
mechanics all crowd around to look
they have no idea what a vanagon is so if the VW Dealer (with circa 1960's
postersof busses & vanagons)
does not know what a Vanagon is ...
how can we expect state regulators who are dealing with cookie cutter ideas
about everything ...
to know ...
it is an apples to oranges non sequitur ....
GET PREMIUM AAA or CAA and get thee towed correctly ... save the my westie
is talk for camp fire chatter
yours
On Jan 8, 2008 12:20 PM, Bruce Warner <bwarner@colortechnology.com> wrote:
> I use AARP premium towing--up to 4 tows (5 for couples) of 100 miles
> per year. Their service has been pretty good and is less expensive
> than the similar AAA service.
>
> Bruce 80 ASI Riviera
>
>
> On Jan 8, 2008, at 12:16 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam wrote:
>
> > You also get four 100 mile tows a year with that service.
> >
> > ( otherwise they only cover like 5 miles I think on the basic
> > service ) ,
> >
> > and chances are if you do need to be towed it'll be a few
> > miles...........and the most fantastic thing about AAA is it
> > doesn't even
> > have to be your car. You could be in anyone's car, and as long as
> > you have
> > your card on you...........you're covered for a can of gas, a flat
> > tire
> > change, a lock out situation, a jump start, or a tow. Such a deal.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: wetwesties@yahoogroups.com <wetwesties%40yahoogroups.com>
> > [mailto:wetwesties@yahoogroups.com <wetwesties%40yahoogroups.com>] On
> > Behalf Of badams6456@aol.com <badams6456%40aol.com>
> > Sent: Tuesday, January 08, 2008 9:33 AM
> > To: jon@kenneke.com <jon%40kenneke.com>; wetwesties@yahoogroups.com<wetwesties%40yahoogroups.com>
> > Subject: Re: [WetWesties] Towing, AAA, and big rigs
> >
> > The answer is pretty simple - get AAA Plus. It's not that much more
> > and it's
> >
> > going to cover all of your towing needs at least as far as VW
> > campers are
> > concerned. I'm not sure about the big rigs. Anyway, I used it two
> > weeks ago
> > to
> > get my '76 Riviera towed. When the AAA guy asked me what kind of
> > vehicle I
> > needed to have towed and I told him it was a VW bus camper
> > conversion, That
> > was
> > it. No further questions. And, the tow truck was at our house in
> > less than
> > an
> > hour - better than promised. So, don't even think about it. Just
> > buy the AAA
> >
> > Plus.
> >
> > Bill
> > '76 ASI Riviera 'Sonnenblume'
> >
> > In a message dated 1/8/2008 10:17:27 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
> > jon@kenneke. <mailto:jon%40kenneke.com> com writes:
> >
> > I was just told by a fellow Vanagon Westy owner that AAA refused them
> > service. Why? Because most (but not all*) Westys in Oregon are
> > registered
> > as "Motorhomes" (HC Plates). And, for AAA to provide services for "HC"
> > plates, you need to have AAA Plus.
> >
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