"Reduce your chances of breakdowns by following all of the vehicle maintenance recommendations in your owner’s manual." ...Automotive Research Center 11/29/2011 What Repairs Are Needed When Cars Break Down And How Much Do They Cost? Emergency Road Service (ERS) is the number one reason members join AAA. The peace-of-mind that comes from knowing that if they have any car-related difficulties on the road AAA will come to their rescue with quality service is quite valuable. Even with this, when your car breaks down, it is still a stressful occasion. The Automobile Club of Southern California’s AUTOMOTIVE RESEARCH CENTER (ARC) is striving to identify preventative maintenance and proactive repair steps motorists can take to prevent break downs from happening in the first place. One of the steps in this process is to learn what actually goes wrong with cars that break down. AAA has a program called Approved Auto Repair (AAR) that allows high ... read more