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Name: Car Insurance
Rating: 1.82 (180 reviews)

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1.67

Based on 180 reviews, last reviewed 23rd Jan 2025

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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:

Customer service

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

They cancelled on wrong grounds

RAC cancelled my car insurance on the grounds that the black box was not fitted before 31/08. But it was fitted on 29/08! Even worse: they forgot to communicate it to me. Now they refuse to acknowledge their mistake and take responsability! Insane. They can't be trusted. Reviewed on: 4th December 2020

Worst insurance co. to deal with. Avoid

Good competitive quote last year, about £200. Early this year my catalytic converter was stolen. I enquired about a claim and was told if I do the car (23 year old BMW) would be written off. So, no claim. Renewal this year was for over £600. What? I changed company! I have been sent a Proof of No Claims Discount document. It included Accidental Damage and it was at fault. I had not made a claim. Customer services agreed. Acromas, RACs insurer, assured me “Theft” was on their records. Customer services then agreed theft is on theirs too. But, I cannot get the RAC to send me an updated correct Proof of No Claims. I am presently stuck with Proof of No Claims Discount with the wrong info, and successive emails to customer services yields no reply. AVOID! Reviewed on: 27th November 2020

Ebola would be more preferable

This telematics system is pathetically inept. Punished for breaking... I shit you not. Speaking in private car parks... Reviewed on: 18th November 2020

Avoid at all costs - take money without permission then take ages paying it back

My daughter had black box insurance through them. She rang to inform them that she didn't want to renew (as even though she had scored roughly 95% all year she received no discount for safe driving as promised). They still renewed the policy, and charged over £700 from the credit card used the prior year. Although they confirm that they have a record of her declining the renewal they are taking over a week to refund the money. Customer services staff are clueless and rude. The policy itself was ridiculous, she was penalised for driving after 6pm and also for driving in 30 zones. Nobody is coming to remove the black box which they installed in the engine so I can only assume it will continue using her battery. Utter joke. We will be cancelling our roadside assistance too as don't want to have any further dealings with this company Reviewed on: 17th July 2020

Not interested in lockdown customers

Admiral insurance just gave my wife (and all their customers) a £25 refund due to their claims being lower than usual in lockdown. When I asked RAC to cancel my insurance I was charged £40. I was told this was completely unavoidable. I know where I will be going next time. Reviewed on: 1st May 2020

Insurance issue

Disgusted at the way my mother has been treated with her RAC car insurance. Took out a few months ago then had a letter so say there was a problem with her policy and need to ring to sort it. Rang RAC car insurance to be told dont worry theres nothing on the system and no problem with the insurance. She was told to "ignore the letters" then has a letter to say her insurance will be cancelled in the next couple of days. Again, another phone call which they say she put in a claim in 2016 but they couldn't tell her what it was for so said she will have to ring her insurance for the year 2016 bearing in mind shes had no problem in the years after 2016. Rang her old insurance which they have no record of a claim because it never happened. They have said they will over ride the insurance cancellation but will have to pay £300 to keep the policy which will be refunded if she can prove there was no claim. So meanwhile I am sorting the paper work out from her old insurance to send to RAC to prove this! Shocking customer service and really don't care about the customer. Reviewed on: 21st April 2020

The worst car insurance ever!

The worst car insurance ever! Don't use them. They will cancel your insurance suddenly in a rude way no matter whether it's your fault, and deduct hundreds pounds cancellation fee! The black box is a nightmare, don't go with it, it's faulty no matter how good your drive is you never get good score! Avoid them and use others! Reviewed on: 7th March 2020

Disaster!!!

Please avoid this company, courtesy car was included in the rac breakdown and car insurance policies. When our car breakdown I called them to book mechanic, we was waiting all day, without updates, you need to call them to check. They transfer the calls to someone else, which wasn’t helpful. Booked courtesy car, and the booking was confirmed twice. Went to pick up the courtesy car, and and I was told the booking wasn’t confirmed in their system. I call rac to check what is going on, they was telling me the booking was confirmed, and after few phone calls with different people, courtesy car wasn’t provided. Very bad experience with this company, and they charge you £110 p/m for that and can not help at all when you need them! Reviewed on: 15th October 2019

Appalling service - dishonest and disinterested. Avoid.

My daughter took out a car insurance policy with RAC. A couple of weeks after setting this up they contacted her to say that it was cancelled with immediate effect because of an undeclared and unresolved claim against her. In fact this was entirely incorrect and was due to an error by her previous insurer (Admiral) who had said they would remove it from their records and then failed to do so. She contacted Admiral who contacted the RAC to confirm this fact. She the asked RAC to restart her policy as this had clearly been an error. They said they could not restart a cancelled policy but would have to quote on a new one - which they did for a cost 3 or 4 times more expensive than the one just cancelled. When she asked why they said it was because she had a cancelled policy - which she did: cancelled by themselves because of provenly incorrect data sent by another insurer! The computer said no and that was that. They agreed to refund her money but did so minus £250 which they said they could charge because of this - totally unnecessary- cancellation. When she complained a few days later the person she spoke to agreed that in the circumstances they would refund the amount. This never materialised and when she enquired was told that this person should not, in fact, have authorised it and it had been cancelled. After issuing a further complaint she was told they would look at it again and get back to her in 6-8 weeks - which, of course, they have not done. I wrote to them on her behalf as well but have not even had the courtesy of a reply. Basically, they have misappropriated £250 of her money due to an error in the information sent by her previous insurer which that insurer very promptly confirmed. Disgraceful service and I would urge anyone to think very carefully before giving their business to such a company Reviewed on: 13th September 2019

Complete farce of a back office

Totally screwed up dealing with a simple change of car details with a short gap in between selling the old car and taking delivery of the new. This was corrected by a very competent team leader and agent in Peterborough in late March (a genuine ‘well done’ to them as they were superb). But the Basingstoke back office finance department have been chasing me daily 24 and 25 April for a non-existent debt and telling me the policy has lapsed ... I have twice responded to them with a call following their urgent text to me, and twice the agent has been incapable of talking sense, Twice I have asked them to log a formal complaint and have a manager call me back urgently ... and twice now, NOTHING has happened. No call, nobody to take responsibility and no apology for the massive distress these texts, calls and apparent policy cancellation have caused me. What is wrong with these people ?? Reviewed on: 25th April 2019

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