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Based on 181 reviews, last reviewed 28th May 2025
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Latest highest rating:

5

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

1

Pathetic customer service Chose RAC due to great reviews, trustworthy, great response times. First time using them to report a car that wouldn't start. Unable to speak to an ac... Read more Reviewed on: 28th May 2025
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About this product

RAC car insurance is award winning and provided by a panel of selected insurers.

With RAC Online cover you can choose to manage everything yourself digitally and benefit from lower fees. All RAC car insurance policies include a 24/7 claims helpline and 60-day EU cover.

RAC car insurance reviews help you find out what it’s really like to be a customer. If you’ve used RAC before, you can also leave a review and share your experience.

RAC Car insurance reviews (181)

Review of the RAC, Car insurance:

International Postgraduate Student Experience

1
International Student Experience after only 2 weeks with RAC. Signed up for black box insurance for Citroen C4. When installed, all the electrics went wonky setting it to km and French. When told about it, RAC said it wasn’t their fault and I had to simply deal with it. Proceeded to go back on their contractual agreement and demanded more money or they would cancel my insurance. So many numbers and long waits on hold just to be told there was nothing that can be done. Would not recommend and cancelled after 2 weeks despite all the ridiculous cancellations fees. Reviewed on: 5th August 2021

Avoid at all costs

1
Just cancelled policy after 3 months cover as they tried to rip us off for 2 x £25.00 admin fees to amend the policy. The original premium was £246. and we’re getting a refund of £48. Their cancellation fee is £56 (another rip-0ff?) which means we’ve paid a premium of £142 for 3 months cover (when a full year was only £246). AVOID THIS COMPANY AT ALL COSTS. Reviewed on: 16th July 2023

One of the best around

4
Hassle free car insurance with a established company Reviewed on: 14th July 2023

Bad car insurance company

1
If could I would give them 0 starts I have arranged to do the cancellation over the phone with the customer service. Everything agreed they would take the money out from the direct debit account within 7 days from my partner account. which was really appreciated by me and my partner as we had a joint car insurance for that car. After 2 weeks I received an increase of £25 on my cancellation fee plus the amount owed After talking to then on the phone still wanted me to pay the increase. GREEDY and conning company never use them again I would not recommend to anyone regardless of what the situation Find a new quote get another insurance company to provide you cover Reviewed on: 12th July 2023

Horse SHit

1
4,985 numbers for a claim. GET F##### Reviewed on: 5th June 2023

Stellar customer service

5
I explained to RAC that I was struggling with the cost of living and thinking about cancelling my membership. The customer service team were so helpful by offering to help spread my payments, adding deals to my package, and even giving me three months free. 10/10 Reviewed on: 1st June 2023

Appalling service watch for this con.

1
I made a mistake when applying for insurance. I entered the wrong date of an accident in that I dated the accident July 2020 when in actual fact the accident was September 2020. I also put that I was not at fault as it was a named driver who had the accident. Apparently as it was my policy I am at fault. The premium JUMPED by £358.64 to a total cost of £684.85. I cancelled the insurance. Went back onto an insurance comparison site with the now amended details and who should come up at a price of just under £400. Yes you,ve got it the RAC. So they wanted to charge over £200.00 for an error. I had also paid for my no claims to be protected. Reviewed on: 20th May 2023

Brilliant

5
Easiest company to use, helpful and friendly. Made it so simple and helped me with every question I had. Made me feel so at ease. Reviewed on: 18th May 2023

Rubbish customer service

1
Spoke to customer service. Stay well away from this company Reviewed on: 16th May 2023

Avoid the RAC Car Insurance

1
Truly awful to deal with and after we received our certificate we received a letter stating they would cancel our motor policy unless we paid extra administrative fees which they had added at a later stage. This company needs investigating by some sort of Insurance Authority. Avoid them at all costs. They are very difficult to contact once they get your money. Reviewed on: 13th May 2023

Terrible data management shocking systems to rip people off

1
If this company was based abroad, I would have thought this was a scan. They charged me £20 as they took the payment form card details from 12 months ago without checking with me the customer. Their responses via email are at best rude and dismissive. Do not use this service, they are shocking Reviewed on: 12th May 2023

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