Roadside assistance

The breakdown service is a mobile auto repair shop that comes to the aid of motorists when they come to a halt due to a breakdown. The breakdown service provides roadside assistance.

The margins drivers are specially trained car mechanic, as they are very universal need to know a vehicle and are used in all types of vehicles. You must be able to improvise well. Due to the increasing number of used electronics in the car, however, it becomes increasingly difficult to help with conventional methods outside of a specialist workshop. Therefore, the breakdown vehicles today are already mainly equipped with a computer that can connect with a variety of on-board computers of vehicle manufacturers and discover the easier errors and possibly fix it.

However, the most common cases of roadside assistance are little things like

• Empty tank,
• Jump start with an empty car battery
• Keys locked in the car
• Difficulties with the electrics

The vehicles of the breakdown services are almost completely equipped for a long time with the radio in order to route them quickly to their work places may. The radios are increasingly being replaced by mobile phones.

In some countries there is a special emergency number for roadside assistance.

• Germany ADAC: 0180 2 22 22 22, via mobile phone: 22 22 22
• AVD: 0800 990 990 9
• ACE: 0180 2 34 35 36
• ARCD: 09841 40949
• ACV: 0221 757575
• Emergency Motor Insurers Notfon 0800 D: 0800 668 366 3
• VCD: 01805 290 390

• Austria ÖAMTC: 120
• ARBÖ: 123
• EUAC: 0800 2141880

• Switzerland ACS: 41 44 628 88 99
• TCS: 0800 140 140
• VCS: 0800 845 945

The ADAC in Austria and the ÖAMTC call their personnel in self-promotion than Yellow Angel (after the color of the vehicles). The ARBÖ breakdown helpers have the Saint Bernard as an emblem. The breakdown services of the German insurance industry, the Assistance partners are called the Silver Angel.

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