AAA DON’T count on it!, Ha ha, being left by the side of the road 18 hours! Options

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Got stuck today on a ride from San Fernando to Venture.
Blowing fuses for the fuel pump.
Called AAA at 12:30 pm from Main Street in Ventura. You have to have a flatbed truck to tow, ok, you have to wait till 4pm. What the F***.
Send a regular truck, sorry it will damage the car. It hasn’t happened in the past when I’ve had it towed.

5pm on the phone with a supervisor, we don’t have the equipment, tow company said nobody wants to drive 50 miles to LA from Ventura.

They found a driver but doesn’t take passengers! That’s ok with you right? FU!

We can have someone there at 8am Sunday morning!

WTF never had an issue like this after 13 years a member, will not be a member for 14.

I counted on them being there, crawled under there car, found the problem, fixed in 10 minutes, Saturday night insurance jobs are to important to miss out on.

[Cairo94507]

Another funny AAA story.... back in 2010, after I bought my Six, I wanted to get the entire undercarriage steam cleaned as it was heavy coated in oil and crud- like 1/4" thick. I called AAA to use my 200 mile tow to take it from Alamo to San Jose to a truck steam cleaner that had lifts outside for this purpose.

The AAA truck shows up and I swear to God, the driver gets out and he appears to be in his 70's and has a black (pirate) patch over 1 eye....

My driveway was a very large circular exposed aggregate driveway with a flower bed in the center. My driveway also had an incline as you enter and probably rose about 8' above street level.

I had my Six in the driveway, nose facing the street for an easy pick up. I asked the driver if he would prefer I roll it out into the street for a very easy pick up. He looked at me with his 1 good eye, and said, "I am an expert tow truck operator, been doing this for over 40 years. I can grab that car right were it sits." OK....

He then backs his tow truck into the driveway and promptly right into the flower bed and sinks the whole back of the truck to the axles.... no joke.

It took 2 other tow rigs almost 2 hours to pull him out. I did not say a word to this guy. When the 2 other truck arrived, they laughed the butts off and took a ton of pictures to use at some future date, I am sure.

I felt so bad for the old driver I never said a word to AAA. I was afraid they would just fire the guy. I repaired the destroyed sprinkler lines and replaced the damaged plants on my dime.

Yeah, I have had great luck with AAA..... Still what else can you do?