RAC Breakdown

McKneff

dawnie1972 wrote: »

I had my RAC breakdown renewal yesterday - on the Roadside, Recovery, At Home package my renewal cost is £170.50!!! I looked on the website and online for new customers this is currently £145.50 or £105.75 after online discount - what happened to rewarding continued custom!!!!! I've looked at the AA website and for the same it would cost me £114.75 plus quidco are doing £50 cashback! Thanks RAC but no thanks!!

make sure youre not on automatic renewal,
so many people fall for this one without realising it and they are stuck with it for a year.

BYALPHAINDIA

Lol - Things don't seem to be so Automatic in this Country anymore!!

You have to tell people 5 x if you want anything doing right!!

Then they sometimes do it wrong!!

McKneff

Bit like trying to cancel Setanta sports then, lol
They paid the price though.

Inactive

BYALPHAINDIA wrote: »

Green Flag are very quick off the mark, As oppose to RAC who seem to take well over an hour or more.

But the RAC ring you constantly and update you as to when the recovery operator will arrive.

I was always told years ago when I was a GF member that if they looked under the bonnet and had a lookaround then I would be charged 72.00 + any other 'Hands on' jobs the contractor undertakes.

All the GF would do is recover you home and anything extra would deem a charge.

Utter rubbish, my Daughter had a front wheel puncture, called Green Flag, the local contractor was with her within 20 minutes, changed the wheel for her, no additional charges.

Care to provide a link to substantiate your false claim that GF charge extra for any road side repairs/help.

Keith

For what it's worth...

The AA now provide support to Aston & Bentley and will put calls to their owners infront of their members. If a member breaks down on one side of the motorway and an Aston on the opposite, the van will be rerouted to the Aston.

shelly

If you have Tesco clubcard vouchers you can use them for RAC cover.

Ibelieveanything

BYALPHAINDIA wrote: »

Never had any problems with the RAC (Yet Anyway)

It is usally far cheaper to take the cover in with your Insurance.

I pay 57.00 per month for my Volvo, That includes the 1 million cover? and the RAC FULL cover for 12 months.

Not bad really.

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I have had my first and last problem with RAC Motoring as they are only brokers now ? I recently wanted to add a Romahome to my Ins. but they said they dont do
motorhomes. Fair enough I said as I had only just renewed a month ago could I cancel
and move away from them. I had only just Paid them over £370 pounds for Ins and
Full Breakdown cover ( Full NO Claims Dis.) They had the Cheek to offer me
£190.00 .So I asked to change my breakdown cover to a car not insured with them.
They said my Breakdown was in with my Insurance and not with RAC BREAKDOWN and had a different Breakdown Tel No.

So I would check very carefully if anyone deals with them in the future ?

karlsp

They are all as bad as each other.

Ive been withh Green Flag 2 1/2 years for my motorhome. Had to call them out twice, once just for a blowout on the motorwayy, the other a bit more serious.

The first time, took about an hour, the second time , weell , lets just say i was very please i had a motorhome ! I had made myself supper, a cuppa, and had a couple of hours kip before the guy turned up 3 hours later !

Butt that isnt the purpose of my post.

I want to stop people getting caught out by Green Flag the way i have just been !

Having sold my motorhome i rang up to cancel my breakdown cover. having paid 6 months of the premium i expected to pay a little more for admin, and that would be that....but no !

Somwhere in thhe small print in the last 18 months, they have changed form a 25% cancelllation feee to a whopping 50% fee !

So basically despite having paid off more than half my premium this year, they have now sent me a biill for the rest of the premium, ie 50% cancellation charge. So i cancel, get a bill for half the premium ot pay all in one go, and no cover, as against i dont cancel, and get charged the same amount spread over 6 months !

All i can say is they are going to whistle for the payment, i have deleted their DD !, but what great customer relations. There is no way on this earth i will use Green Flag when i get a new motorhome next year, and i think the point is here, if there is any chance you will have a vehicle, and not be replacing it immediatley should you plan to selll it.....dont use Green Flag !

Mark_Hewitt

I already get basic roadside assistance with my Lloyds bank account, £12 a month, which also gets you travel insurance and mobile insurance.

I rang up to ask how much for Home start and Relay and they said £105, but if I upgrade the account to Platinum I get those for £60 a year, so I reckon that's what I'll do. It's a joint account so covers both of us and for any car.