{"id":5279,"date":"2013-01-25T09:00:07","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T09:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/?p=5279"},"modified":"2013-01-24T16:23:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-24T16:23:00","slug":"breakdown-cover-is-a-must-in-winter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/2013\/01\/breakdown-cover-is-a-must-in-winter\/","title":{"rendered":"Breakdown cover is a must in winter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/week9-post1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5280\" title=\"Breakdown cover is a must in winter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/week9-post1-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0If you don&#8217;t have breakdown cover, now is a good time to get it! Statistically you&#8217;re far more likely to break down in the winter months. With the weather being so cold and the roads being covered in snow and ice it&#8217;s easy to skid off the road and engines can really struggle when the temperature falls. Because of the low temperatures, it&#8217;s very important to get assistance quickly if your car breaks down, especially if the electrics stop working and you&#8217;ve no heating in the car. This is especially important if you regularly travel with young children or anyone elderly as the cold can have a big impact on their health.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s also worth bearing in mind that most standard breakdown policies have a limit on how close to home you can be for your policy to be valid. Most policies won&#8217;t help you if the breakdown happens at your home, or close to your home. In this weather it can be a nightmare if your car won&#8217;t start, and it happens a lot when the temperatures plummet. To ensure that you will get the help you need you must check your policy. If it doesn&#8217;t cover help at home you can often pay extra for a &#8216;home assist&#8217; add-on to your policy which will enable you to call out your providers if your car doesn&#8217;t start\u00a0 at your own property. This can be incredibly useful and is often worth the extra expense.<\/p>\n<p>Photo credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/wikidave\/6935452622\/\">DaveCrosby<\/a>\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/foter.com\/\">Foter.com<\/a>\/ <a href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/2.0\/\">CC BY-SA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0If you don&#8217;t have breakdown cover, now is a good time to get it! Statistically you&#8217;re far more likely to break down in the winter months. With the weather being so cold and the roads being covered in snow and ice it&#8217;s easy to skid off the road and engines can really struggle when the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123457,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[136],"tags":[317],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123457"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5279"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5282,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5279\/revisions\/5282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.speedyreg.co.uk\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}