Do I need AAA roadside assistance with my Rivian R1S

[crashmtb]

I'm keeping AAA. Reasons:

1. My wife previously had an experience with roadside assistance through a manufacturer where it took multiple hours for roadside assistance to arrive. The tow truck driver apparently would have been there in 20 minutes if it had been a AAA call. Apparently, AAA calls get a higher priority from tow services. Although this was over a decade ago, so maybe things have changed.

2. It isn't much more expensive than getting roadside assistance through my regular insurance. I don't need it twice, but I'd like it once. AAA is now also providing emergency EV charges in some cities. I expect this service will become more widely available in the coming years.

3. I might have misunderstood what service Rivian provides. Is it full roadside assistance like AAA, or is it them dispaching a mobile service vehicle from their service center? I had assumed it was the latter, which means I'm frequently multiple hours from a service vehicle. I may re-assess if it's the former.

Pretty sure the post preceding yours was written with chatGPT.

anyway. I’ve had the same situation happen, where I needed a tow, and had a longer quoted wait time than CAA(AAA) via roadside assistance. Manufacturer roadside assistance will also only tow you to a dealer/authorized service centre. AAA will tow wherever.

AAA also works on any vehicle you might be driving, or in. It’s been handy for me when in a borrowed car ?

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[moosetags]

We have been AAA members for over 40 years, and have really needed them on a number of occasions. It has been several years since we have called them for roadside assistance. I don't like hearing some of the stories in this thread, especially since we live near DeFuniak Springs, Florida.

We have AAA Plus RV. A number of years ago, we were traveling in rural Alabama towing our Airstream when the computer system in our Chevrolet Silverado went out and stranded us in a WalMart parking lot on a Sunday evening. AAA got us a flatbed wrecker to take the Silverado to the nearest Chevrolet Dealer in Mobile. They also arranged to get a tow for our Airstream and and bought it to a nearby campground and helped set it up. They also arranged for us to get a rental car the next morning.

I think that we will keep AAA just in case.

Brian

 

[webfootdawg]

Have never had AAA, I insure with USAA, have always had their roadside assistance option. I think I've only used it twice in . Once to get into a rental I had locked the keys inside, the other, pull my old civic out of a snow berm. Can't complain, YMMV.

 

[mkg3]

They are trying to create a differentiations for EV owners from just tow/flatbed roadside assistance.

https://electrek.co/2023/07/06/blink-charging-aaa-ev-drivers/

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