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Name: Car Insurance
Rating: 1.82 (180 reviews)

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1.71

Based on 180 reviews, last reviewed 23rd Jan 2025

100% decrease in 5 star reviews

in the past 90 days

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14%

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Latest highest rating:

5

Customer service Excellent customer service and attention to detail Reviewed on: 4th September 2024

Latest lowest rating:

1

I STRONGLY advise people not to insure a car with Ra... I STRONGLY advise people not to insure a car with Rac I joined solely on the quote of £411 I Paid for the year Then was charged a extra £128 I wish I ... Read more Reviewed on: 23rd January 2025

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At Smart Money People, we collect RAC car insurance reviews from genuine RAC customers to help you make an informed decision when choosing your next insurer.

RAC was founded in 1897, best known for its breakdown cover. The company offers a range of car insurance policies, including pay-by-mile, temporary, learner driver, young and new drivers, and classic car insurance. Check out our RAC car insurance reviews to see how genuine customers rate these policies.

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RAC Car Insurance reviews (180)

Review of the RAC, Car Insurance:

RAC will rip you off. Don’t trust, (TrustPilot)

Sucks you in for a good price!. Once renewal is up, they charge you triple!! Also TrustPilot will remove your negative reviews against RAC! Reviewed on: 9th January 2025

Insurance - Appalling Customer Service

If you go with this company and have problems be aware that their system is designed to make it as difficult as possible to contact them. You have to go through their call service who usually take 15 minutes to answer, they are the only people who can contact customer care to make a complaint. Customer care do not have an email address or a telephone number, and it can be a couple of weeks before they get back to you, only to acknowledge they are looking into the problem and say they need another month to look into it. Links to contact them do not work. Do not expect them to resolve any problem you may have, avoid at all costs if you value your sanity! Reviewed on: 9th February 2022

False promises

Had a black box which was sold to me as this would lower my insurance on Renewal if I kept over 30s. I average around 70 Called them as my renewal was more than last year last year 700. This year 1000 they haven’t taken the box into consideration one bit. Which is a shame and a complete con DO NOT BOTHER getting the black box. It WONT reduce ur insurance Reviewed on: 5th February 2022

Complete rip-off!!

RAC deserves minor star. We took up an insurance policy with them on the 14th of January 2022. Despite we have got 5 year unprotected no claim discount, they enforced extra document check on us. We cancelled the policy on the 30th, effective on 1st of February. I have received their refund of £191.62 today out of the £648.11 I have paid for one year’s premium. £456.49 has been deducted for 16 days of cover, what a COMPLETE RIP-OFF!! I have decided to submit my official complaints to the Financial Conduct Authority and the Ombudsman for justice. This company has been blacklisted by me from now on. Xinquan Ou/Freda Ou Reviewed on: 2nd February 2022

Complete rip-off!

Cancelled Policy

Rac is a disgrace. Young girl 18 agreed to her policy took initial payment , fitted back box, sent email to tell us a problem spoke to RAC said they would look into it, heard nothing Black box fitted to car, direct debit took and an email after 3 weeks cancelling policy no reason why. Daughter now can not obtain insurance due to age and cancellation ok previous policy and done nothing wrong. RAC refused to refund money and charge 125 cancellation fee and we never cancelled. DO NOT TAKE INSURANVE WITH THIS COMPANY. Reviewed on: 25th January 2022

Not understanding customer needs, terrible attitude.

I worked in the hospitality sector and was laid off owing to the Covid pandemic. Every other company I've had to deal with regarding this issue were sympathetic and usually had strategies in place, not the RAC. We had to sell one car and tried to explain but the RAC didn't want to know and within days had threatened us with a collection agency. Stay away from this company if you want good customer service, It's worth paying the extra. Reviewed on: 5th January 2022

Disgusted

This is breakdown rather than insurance: Disgusted Absolutely fuming. RAC auto renewed my breakdown on a car I no longer own with no warning. I got a text 3 days later telling me it had autorenewed. No pre warning. I had to register and logon to see the renewal cost was £145 which was double last years price of £75!!! They assume you won’t bother checking . I have 14 days to cancel but have to pay a £25 cancellation fee and can’t cancel for the next 4 days as it’s Christmas and they are shut. Disgusted. Update 01.01.2022 - received an email from the compaints department. They will not refund my £25 as it clearly states in the small print it automatically renews. Not surprised but feel feel cheated. I will never use RAC again. Reviewed on: 1st January 2022

Poor communication

When trying to chase up a claim neither they or their brokers responded to my request of claim details and claim cost despite making a complaint and being told it would be responded to in the statutory 5 days. Totally disinterested in trying to resolve my issue Reviewed on: 1st November 2021

Renewed despite direction not to

Renewed despite direction not to in an email and call, renewal was massivlly high got for 59% cheaper, still ignored me and renewed, hung up on me no no claims sent despite having it and wanted to charge me for less than a days cover, no call back from manager as requested, twitter team also ignored me. so terrible service. Reviewed on: 1st November 2021

They are not interested in helping

I’ve driven my car 300 miles in the last year due to COVID. I know this because I just had my MOT. So when my daughter’s partner had his car written off it made sense to let him use mine. He was not at fault. Sat at home when a delivery driver ploughed in to his parked car. He’s in his 30s, employed as a professional driver. Lots of no claims, no accidents, no convictions. You’d think it’d be a simple admin fee and small increase. Not with RAC. New 12 month policy at double the cost plus an admin fee of £25. Avoid at all cost! Reviewed on: 22nd October 2021

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