As for the 16th car being missing, that was cos one of our group broke his knee on the day we arrived, so his mate had to drive him home Sat morning.
That raises a good point - we always try to have a second driver for each car that we take with us so that if someone is unwell or injured there is always someone else to bring the car home. It's perhaps not always possible but worth thinking about (although not strictly on topic! Sorry FS!)
Due to my Dad's van being 7.5 tonne, it makes it difficult to get one of us younger guys to legally drive it. Insurance is the other problem too! If Dad was to have a problem driving it home then I would drive it albeit without a license or insurance! If we were to be stopped then there would just be a explanation that infact Dad was driving. The Van only has one main door, (halfway down the length of the van.)
Our experience of Euro breakdown cover was bad.
English speaking call center by AA was RUDE!!
Cover did not include vehicles over 3.5 tonne (We declared this before we took the cover out!)
Cover did not include vehicles over 10 Meters (We declared this before we took the cover out!)
Recovery truck took 4 hours to arrive
Recovery truck driver spoke NOT A WORD of English
Recovery truck had NO TOOLS not even a spare FUSE!!!
Recovery truck was WAY TOO SMALL TO TAKE US. We dwarved it!!
Once recovery truck left we were told the recovery to the UK was going to cost us £2000. Another £2000 if we wanted to continue the journey.
We had onward journey cover with them!!!
Useless. I now have no breakdown cover especially as I managed to fix it on the carriageway.