Thread: NRMA Premium Care

Originally Posted by rick130

If you are NSW or ACT based, don't leave home without it !

Fantastic back up and support from the Premium Care team.
If you're a long way from home and something goes wrong with the car, it's very cheap insurance IMO.
They organise a response/tilt tray/whatever you need, plus accommodation if needed, plus a hire car, etc.
Thankfully I don't need the hire car.

Highly recommended.

Totally. We used some of our 5+ years of ultimate RACT cover premiums last week too☺

+1 from me too.

Turbo hose split at Kings Creek Station. Tilt tray took me and my Disco the 265km to Yulara where I was put up for 3 nights and given a hire car. All part of the Premium Care Package. I think my last few years of NRMA membership all paid for themselves on this one occasion.

Meanwhile, also at Kings Creek Station, the water pump had fallen off some guys's brand new Land Cruiser and he'd only got basic roadside assist so was looking at a fortune to get his LC and camper trailer towed. Strangely he still managed to have a dig a Land Rover 'unreliability' because the hose had split in my 11 year old Disco. Apparently water pumps falling off engines of brand new Land Cruisers must be normal.

Originally Posted by sam_d

Tilt tray took me and my Disco the 265km to Yulara where I was put up for 3 nights and given a hire car. All part of the Premium Care Package.

Their web-site only shows up to 100 km remote towing.

Originally Posted by Graeme

Their web-site only shows up to 100 km remote towing.

That's right. I think the way it works is that the first 100km is free but then the charge for the rest of the trip comes out of the $3000 breakdown assistance allowance so you still don't have to pay for anything out of your own pocket.

Originally Posted by sam_d

+1 from me too.

Turbo hose split at Kings Creek Station. Tilt tray took me and my Disco the 265km to Yulara where I was put up for 3 nights and given a hire car. All part of the Premium Care Package. I think my last few years of NRMA membership all paid for themselves on this one occasion.

Meanwhile, also at Kings Creek Station, the water pump had fallen off some guys's brand new Land Cruiser and he'd only got basic roadside assist so was looking at a fortune to get his LC and camper trailer towed. Strangely he still managed to have a dig a Land Rover 'unreliability' because the hose had split in my 11 year old Disco. Apparently water pumps falling off engines of brand new Land Cruisers must be normal.

Typical LC brainwashing. Apparently facts are inferior to opinions, no matter how unfactual.

RACWA do a similar service for those of us in WA.Very handy when my Defender broke its axle housing.

Originally Posted by sam_d

That's right. I think the way it works is that the first 100km is free but then the charge for the rest of the trip comes out of the $3000 breakdown assistance allowance so you still don't have to pay for anything out of your own pocket.

Yep, exactly how it works, and the operators are bloody brilliant, they take the stress levels down about ten notches.

Originally Posted by justinc

Totally. We used some of our 5+ years of ultimate RACT cover premiums last week too☺

Shame you didn't know a good mechanic eh?