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Originally Posted by bcgreen
The dispatcher. He asked me when I last started the car and I told him, he asked me to hold on. Apparently had ask someone. Came back and said they wouldn't pick the car up.
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In SoCal the rules for AAA are crystal clear. NO optional towing. If it will run, then they don't tow. Sounds to me like the supervisor asked the dispatcher if you were calling in for a disabled car. He asked when you last started it and that told him it ran. You could have said you
tried to start it and it wouldn't and then they are obligated to tow.
Transporting a car that you bought not running is not "towable." Transporting cars from one private location to another similar location will not get you a free tow.
The gist of their rules is if you can't drive your car because of a dead battery, locked keys inside, or it just won't drive (including flat tire, no spare), they will be there to get you back on the road or to a repair place. No more than that. Hard if not impossible to get them to tow you to your home, or any other non-commercial location, so
you can fix it.