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Winter car maintenance helps you prepare for the unexpected. Essential winter car maintenance includes inspecting and replacing tires, checking your battery, fluid and antifreeze levels, oil and filter changes, and having a stocked a emergency kit.

As winter approaches, preparing your RV for storage is a critical seasonal maintenance step. Preparing your RV for winter includes prepping your interior and exterior, plumbing, electric, engine, slide-outs, HVAC, awnings and choosing your storage location.

Whether you can use your roadside assistance plan for others depends your plan's structure. The majority of plans are either person-based or vehicle-based. Person-based covers you, even if you're a passenger. Vehicle-based plans only cover the enrolled vehicle.

Roadside assistance is worth it for most drivers, especially for those who drive long distances on a regular basis such as RVers. It also provides peace of mind when unexpected breakdowns occur.

Car roadside assistance is a service that helps when you run into car trouble. Whether your car won’t start, you run out of gas, or you’ve locked yourself out, roadside assistance sends help so you can get back on the road quickly and safely.

Cold weather doesn’t just make it harder to start your RV; it also messes with your battery’s chemistry. RV batteries, especially traditional lead-acid ones, are vulnerable to freezing, reduced efficiency, and even permanent damage if not properly maintained in low temperatures.

All Good Sam Roadside Assistance plans are designed to best serve the customers’ needs–and those needs differ, both in cost and the extent of the coverage needed.

The cost of a flat quickly adds up–whether replacing yourself, calling a tow truck, or servicing a flat on the side of the road with the help of a technician.

A transparent roadside assistance plan helps you identify the existing risks of travel emergencies and how your plan will cover them. The best roadside assistance plan is one that fits your needs without any unknowns.

When you consider the number of variables involved with diagnosing and fixing a battery issue, there’s good reason to rely on a roadside assistance plan to provide quality and free help.

Roadside assistance providers work with local service shops and towing services to provide national coverage for members. But not all providers offer the exact extent of coverage in all parts of the country.

What if you could have the peace of mind of connecting with a vetted towing service near you without needing to evaluate every option around?

Roughly 220 million flat tires occur each year. Given that there are only 230 million drivers, the odds of you experiencing a flat tire are high.

Flat tires are an inconvenience at best and a serious safety hazard at worst. Replacing them or repairing them is usually a dip into your wallet, too.

All members of Good Sam Roadside Assistance may receive towing to the nearest service center when needed, regardless of the distance.

Just how providers define roadside assistance can vary, and you need to know exactly what to expect when it comes to your safety and coverage in a breakdown.

Roadside assistance covers issues like dead batteries, lost or locked keys, and any other reason you can’t continue with your trip.

A mechanical breakdown in the middle of a trip is a major problem for even the most engine-savvy traveler.

Tried and true question of not only if but how much to tip when under the circumstance of needing help.