The bags are packed. The padkos is prepared. The playlist has been debated at length.

Everyone's ready to start the road trip.

Except, perhaps, your car.

A few simple checks in the days leading up to you leaving can help you avoid potential trouble when you're hundreds of kilometres from home...

Picture the scene: you're driving along as normal, everything is fine, when suddenly a warning light appears on your dashboard.

What do you do? Ignore it and hope it disappears? Panic? Or try to figure out what your car is trying to tell you?

Dashboard symbols can vary between brands and models, so your owner’s manual should always be your first reference. International standards do, however, ensure that many warning symbols are recognizable across different makes. 

For more than three decades, The Unlimited has been building a business around a simple belief: that business should do better.

Along the way, they’ve protected customers, grown people into leaders, created opportunities and shifted the lives of millions of children through The Unlimited Child.

Yet, for all that’s happened behind the scenes, many South Africans still don’t know the story of The Unlimited.

Now, it’s time to change that.
And The Unlimited has called up a Wingman to help.

You're walking through the parking lot when you spot it: a fresh scratch along the side of your car.

There's no note. There's no one around. And frustration starts to build...

At The Unlimited, we’re always looking for ways to give our customers more value. As part of our annual pricing reviews, wherever possible, we look for opportunities to add benefits and additional value too.

As part of our 2026 price increase process, an error resulted in a small number of customers having additional benefits added at an additional cost when they shouldn’t have been.

We’re sorry this happened, and we’ve taken action to make it right...

Most people assume that if their medical aid approves a hospital stay, they're fully covered. Unfortunately, that's not always the case.

Even when treatment is approved, there can still be a difference between what healthcare providers charge and what your medical aid pays. That difference, known as a shortfall, can leave you with an unexpected bill at a time when your focus should be on getting better...