Do people still use AAA?

[Anonymous]

They also have a lot of really good guidance for parenting a new driver.

[Anonymous]

I found AAA's towing services to be better and cheaper than the service from my car insurance company. Really handy over the past 2 years when my Honda Odyssey transmission blew up (separate thread) and when my Prius catalytic converter was stolen (separate thread).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I use them. Gave a copy of card to DD when she went on road trip with another family. Great for battery service and flat tires

NP. Question for you - we have AAA too and I was just about to add my DD to our account. However, if our AAA covers her, couldn't I just do the same thing and give her a copy of our card, rather than pay for a new member?

[Anonymous]

If you have a newer car that is known for reliability like, say, a 2019 Camry, and are diligent on routine maintenance including replacing tires before they are run to the bone and proactively replacing your battery on a time interval, I don't see the need for AAA. In the rare event you need a tow (for me this is a once every ~6 years event), just pay for it.

If you have an older car and/or a less reliable car and tend to encounter at least one roadside breakdown per year, or don't keep up with the maintenance schedule (more than half of Americans are awful about this) AAA makes more sense.

One thing that's a pain about AAA is if you join, they send you a literal mountain of spam direct mail and they sell your info to a bunch of 3rd parties who also heave piles of mail in your general direction. I'm sure they do it because that's what it takes to get their older members to constantly renew, but I go out of my way to avoid companies that stuff my mailbox with non-essential communications.

[Anonymous]

There is no insurance product that I have used more than AAA flat tires. Dead batteries, roadside tows. I’ve used it to tow my car from the gas station to the dealer.

[Anonymous]

Funny this thread was resurrected - I'm thinking about signing up for AAA after Geico roadside and BMW left my daughter stranded with a blown tire on a turnpike this past weekend.

[Anonymous]

We do, I end up needing them for something every year it seems and I have always had a good experience.

[Anonymous]

her battery died ... AAA came and jumped her car, even though she doesn't have it - I had my card and that did the trick

As long as a passenger is a AAA member, they help. True?