"Steve" > wrote in message
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> Logan Shaw > wrote:
>>Call me crazy, but I don't quite get why it's worthwhile to buy
>>insurance for this in the first place.
>>At the worst, I can imagine needing a tow perhaps twice a year
>
> Yikes, maybe twice a lifetime would be a more reasonable worst-case.
> How many people here have ever had to be towed?
>

Once in my lifetime. Situation was, I was stopped in traffic (as in, not
moving at all). I had cars beside me and a guard rail on the other side. A
ford taurus came up fast behind me and didn't stop until it was parked in my
back seat. In several decades and millions of miles (literally), I've never
had to be towed due to mechanical failure, though. -Dave