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Tesco Bank: Car insurance reviews

Name: Car insurance
Rating: 2.64 (527 reviews)

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2.49

Based on 527 reviews, last reviewed 23rd Nov 2025

100% decrease in 5 star reviews

in the past 90 days

300% increase in 1 star reviews

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11%

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Latest highest rating:

4

Very straight forward and good value for money Very straight forward and good value for money Reviewed on: 5th September 2025

Latest lowest rating:

1

Complete and utter joke - do not insure your car wit... Complete and utter joke - do not insure your car with them. Had a brick through the back windscreen last night. I tell them and they say my car is a c... Read more Reviewed on: 23rd November 2025

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About this product

Tesco car insurance has three levels of cover: Bronze, Silver and Gold.

If you buy a Tesco car insurance policy, you’ll have access to the accident helpline, seven days a week. If you’re a Clubcard holder, you’ll be able to get a discount on your premiums. If you have any queries about your policy, you can call the UK-based team.

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

Tesco Bank Car insurance reviews (527)

Review of the Tesco Bank, Car insurance:

Don't do it!

Don't do it! I chose them as best value for money when looking at different providers in August 2024. Then a tree came down in Storm Darrah yesterday, it fell on the car in my driveway. No-one was in the car. Luckily it didn't have full weight of the tree on the car as a wall was in the way, but there are dents in the roof and on the bonnet. Purely cosmetic - I can drive it to the garage, all the doors open fine. I filled in the claim form online, and took over an hour, and on the last page received instant notice that it's my fault, a total loss and I don't get a courtesy car. The car is perfectly fine. But a form tells me that it's a total loss? No ones come to assess it? This is criminal -You can't provide a service and assess something as written off if it's in your best interest and are financially motivated to do so. I assume you've done this because prices to fix cosmetic damage with the garage have gone up because of inflation. Its outrageous! The car cost me 10,000 last year second hand, this year it will be the same to re-buy, but I'll be lucky to get 3,000 from Tesco, just because it costs around that to get it fixed. I've now been on hold for 22 minutes trying to get an explanation... Just spoken to a woman who said will take 2 weeks to get an engineer out and not entitled to courtesy car while we wait for Tesco to assess the damage only if its in repair. Apparently that was an optional extra to pick when I signed up but I'm the stupid woman who didn't pick it. In summary: When a storm hits the UK, and a tree falls on your car while its parked on your driveway, it's your fault, and if your so lucky that it only scratches and dents the roof, it's a total loss, and good luck buying a car with the scraps they want to pay you. Reviewed on: 9th December 2024

Well managed and competitive.

Tesco Boxins insurance is a really well managed and competitive product that has not let me down. Their black box is not intrusive or annoying and I can actually see the reduction in my quote. They remain unbeaten on price for me and I look forward to continuing with them. Reviewed on: 25th August 2024

Happy with them

The prices seem fair and customer support staff have always been helpful. I decided to stay with them when I renewed my car insurance. Reviewed on: 24th August 2024

Took almost 2 years to resolve a car accident which...

Took almost 2 years to resolve a car accident which was frustrating. I would have liked more regular updates too. Submission of the car accident though was easy and customer service was excellent. Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Great prices, helpful company highly recommend

Great prices, helpful company highly recommend Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Stressless cover and cost.

Both the level of cover and the cost were really good. Customer service and choice was also excellent. Renewal time is always quite stressful but Tesco bank were great. Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Tesco online process to insure was fast and simple.

Tesco online process to insure was fast and simple. Great product value Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Easily changed over our car reg.

Easily changed over our car reg. very polite staff and phone manner. They are also very good at keeping you up to date with renewal which you don’t always get with insurance. Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Breakdown

I recently broke down. As annoying as it was, the assistance I got was great and I was recovered relatively quickly. Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Good to have an actual person to speak to if needed

Had issue with first car and finance company but Tesco were great and helped me sort out new policy. Only gripe would be they don’t have multi car option. Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Dreadful useless portal used to check progress of re...

Dreadful useless portal used to check progress of repair. Incomprehensible drivel with appalling use of the English language and often just wrong. lead time for repair indicated 8 weeks so tried to go elsewhere but then you don’t get courtesy car. Paint shop customer service sucked although quality if job satisfactory. system riddled with fault demand answered phone 1 time in 4. Under staffed office working with crap systems. Courtesy car was so slow I was scared to cross a dual carriageway never again Reviewed on: 8th August 2024

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