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Tesco Bank: Car insurance reviews

2.49
Based on 527 reviews, last reviewed 23rd Nov 2025
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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
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Liv W

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:

I would like to complain about the customer service...

1
I would like to complain about the customer service I have had whilst trying to cancel my insurance with you. On the 22nd January 2024 I spoke with their live chat team. I wanted to know how I can cancel my insurance with you and what outstanding fines there would be. The reason I requested this information was due to the fact I currently pay £257 per month for my insurance with you, with the addition of £170 a month for top up miles. This equates to £427 per month on insurance which was not feasible and far too expensive. I was told the total cost of cancellation would be £68.83. With this information I looked for an alternate insurance provider where I was quoted and accepted a price of £232 per month. I had to act quickly as my next monthly payment of essentially £427 was due on the 6th of February. Yesterday, I spent a total of 50 minutes on the phone to your team and was told they could not give me a cancellation price for that current day as the automated calculations were not working. Therefore, they had to contact the cancellation team to calculate a quote manually. Today I was contacted and was told it would cost me £80 to cancel + £550 for my PCL. Although you have told me I can pay this using a payment plan, I am totally shocked and stressed due to the fact I was originally quoted £68 on the 22nd January by your team. I stressed this fact to your customer service team and they said "well they shouldn't have told you that". Reviewed on: 31st January 2024

Attempt to tow away my car., why was I at fault.

1
There was an unsuccessful attempt to tow away my car which resulted in damage to the front end. I believe the keys were cloned and the alarms turned off. I paid an excess of £1,000 to a total garage bill of under £3,000. The car Audi S8 V10 had a £2K service and then 2 months later I traded it in for an Audi S8 D4. insurance was due on the D4 based non claims bonus based on 50 years no claims was reduced because I was "At Fault" for the attempted theft. HOW? This is just unfair, inequitable. I have pulled our house insurance and today Aug 27th 2024 my wife's car insurance. It was on repeat renewal and Tesco had not advised me this was due except to say the could not take the money. HSBC had sent me a new card. When I asked to cancel the insurance which had expired 3 days before Tesco said "We hope you are aware that it is illegal to drive a car without insurance". I told them, the truth, that I had parked the car on our land (so off-road) and SORNED it before the insurance expired. They charged me £4.10 to cancel the policy in the cooling off period. You can tell I have not cooled off yet. This is not Tesco people this is Tesco Policy from accountants; don't support them. Reviewed on: 27th August 2024

Well managed and competitive.

5
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

4
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...

3
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

5
Great prices, helpful company highly recommend Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Stressless cover and cost.

5
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.

5
Tesco online process to insure was fast and simple. Great product value Reviewed on: 23rd August 2024

Easily changed over our car reg.

5
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

5
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

4
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

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