RAC Reviews

Name: RAC
Rating: 1.43

1.4 Rating 3,075 Reviews

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1.4

Based on 3,075 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Own Driver, Courier
Average Delivery Time	Next Day
On-time Delivery	Greater than 11%
Accurate And Undamaged Orders	Greater than 75%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Over A Week
Customer Service	1.3 out of 5
Returns & Refunds
Refunds Process	Difficult

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“I had a flat battery on Sunday morning in Bishopston, Bristol and contacted the RAC for help. An serviceman was with me within 10 minutes and was really helpful. He performed a number of tests on the battery having charged it, and gave me excellent advice to restore it to full charge. Thank you very much Gary, for your friendly and professional help, and full marks to the RAC!”

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Posted 3 years ago

“What went wrong??? Left for almost 7 hours, constant text messages saying they were "working hard" to get to me but were busy. I had enough battery to eventually phone a friend who kindly towed my car home. At 11'30pm a mechanic messaged to say he had arrived but I'd gone. He knew I'd managed to get home but didnt want to wake neighbours up which is understandable. The following day I phoned the office but was told basically it was my fault for leaving the location without telling them. They wouldn't help as I dont have home recovery. The staff member spoke to a team leader who blatantly wasn"t interested. 5 minutes after the call ended I suddenly start to receive text messages again saying they were trying to send a patrol to me! I felt as if I was being made fun of. A mechanic then phoned me, arrived 10 minutes later, was able to fix my car in half an hour. He was very professional and efficient. I have no complaints at all regarding the mechanics but I do feel sorry for them having to work for such an appalling company. The rac is happy enough to take peoples money but dont provide the service they claim to. As for supposed "customer care" its non existent. They really need to employ people who can actually communicate with customers. Shame on you rac. Disgusting.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Very poor service everytime I've needed the service took hours the last time it took 3 days for my car to be recovered back to the garage where it needed to go 100 miles away”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I had to pay £85 to have a breakdown attended to after paying over £300 for a joint membership with my mother. A single policy allows 6 call outs but this is halved to 3 each person in a joint membership. So between us and 3 vehicles we had 6 call outs for different reasons. Even although its unlimited call outs. The time taken to respond in one incident was over 12 hours, after 12 hours wait I cancelled as I had to consider child care and safety at night. The following day I was told I was priority so a full day was wasted in real terms. Today after I was charged £85 I waited over 5 hours for assistance. I thought I had paid for it to be towed, but I was left at the repair garage miles from the house as I watched the RAC turn and drive in the direction I was walking.(covid is over according to London gov). If I had not had money on me to get a taxi at the nearest tesco I would still be walking home.The workers that attend call outs are always polite and helpful to date but the associate company that RAC use on the island of Lewis was exceptionally helpful when Hughsons sent their worker Robert to tow my LGV into a garage when the gearbox failed. The automated system is diabolical as its not able to understand regional dialects, which are very common on mainland Scotland as well as the rest of the UK. The constant referral to an online system when there is negligible coverage in the North of Scotland, northern and western isles is excruciating and worrying that help can't be found in so much of the country.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“There is no place to give no stars for this company. I have been let down dreadfully by them. We are members of this company via Barclays Bank. Left on an empty sixth level multi-story car park in the dark with a flat battery and very sick friend after being promised on numerous occasions that an RAC van was on the way. My husband who was in York even phoned them and told them my friend was very sick and I needed to get her to A and E and could they get there soon. Early that morning she did end up in hospital poorly. After numerous phone calls/attempts to the RAC I was promised someone would come and I would be contacted prior to the arrival. I was phoned at 3 am to say nobody was available until the morning and therefore nobody would be coming before then. the RAC did offer to pay for a taxi home and back to the car park the next day. I tried to explain that my friend had now become so ill that we were now waiting for an ambulance as they have taken so long to get here so I couldn’t book a taxi home as that would mean leaving my friend by herself, and I wasn’t going to do that. I managed though to book one for the next day for a slot between 10.00 and 1200 from York to Leeds. They did pay for this taxi and promised someone would be there that day at about 12.00h to sort my car out. No one came. I Phoned them again at 12.40 and got a reply that there were no guarantees that anyone could come. He would give my case to the mechanics and they would ring me when they could come. I explained that I would be left as a lonesome lady on the sixth floor of a multi-storey car park again. Did this mean I was going to be left here overnight if no one was available. He said he would put my request in again and I would have to wait for a phone call. In the end at 2pm I had lost all confidence that anyone was going to turn up. No updates as promised since 11.30 pm the night before. I rang the Green Flag Company and explained my situation and asked if they could possibly help me. I paid the lovely green flag 150 pound to charge my battery up. It took 4 minutes. They came from 15 minutes from the first phone call I made to them. Later that day at about 4pm ,16 hours approximately after my first call to the RAC somebody phoned me from the RAC. I told them I was at home thanks to the lovely green flag people. He apologised for how I was treated. I told him I felt it wasn’t his fault he had just picked up the call. I would be very cautious in joining the RAC and look at other reviews before deciding whether or not to join this company.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Firstly, I called them 8 :42 am and told them that I have 4 daughters have to go to school. They did not turn up and I called them again at 11:00 am. They told me they are busy and it will be at 3:00 pm. I was very angry and talked hard to them, then asupervisor called Picky called and said at 5:00 pm now. I called .you insurance company as I bought my breakdown cover from them. They said they gave nothing to do. I called again and was losing my oatience and telling them I will sue them, then suddenly they said it us fir sure 5:45 pm. The Patrolman arrived and he started to convince me to buy a battery from him for £184. I was shocked and he told me that I need to sign if I don't buy it from them that next attendance will cost me £85. My cover is covering me as many times from home start. They let me wait 9 hours. My four daughters missed school and caused me a lot of stress and ruining my day. They are really horrible. I will cancel my insurance and the break down cover. The problem is that courts are only supporting the SHARKS and not looking after vulnerable and innocent people. We are living in a crazy world. I am calling to boycott RAC.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I called the RAC at 1700 ,I waited 3.5 hour's they said the driver called me and left a voicemail, which is a lies ,someone else answered my call and he didn't show any sympathy or sounded apologetic, all he said that the driver said,I wasn't at th4 location when i used Google map on my phone to be sure ,iwill never go with RAc again .zero customer service.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Car broke down Saturday, waited 6 hours for a guy who when he arrived literally said "that could be anything, ring a garage". So booked car in to a garage first thing Monday, rang RAC before 9am requesting a tow. Received a text every 30minutes telling me somebody would be there shortly but seven hours later still no recovery. A day off work wasted as now it's too late to get to the garage anyway. Worst breakdown company in Britain avoid at all costs.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Wasted time joining and won’t ever bother again after being left in a dangerous position on the motorway with no barriers to stand behind for many hours. Now have to pay highways to remove the vehicle”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Avoid with policies with RAC recovery service, ridiculous customer service, 5 hours waiting and no updates”

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Posted 3 years ago

“3rd day in a row where I have given up waiting for RAC - today it was 8 hrs - absolutely dreadful - an expensive and over priced service with a zero service ethos.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Avoid cant cancel policy online and they will automatically renew”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Appalling service , they use third party contractors unbelievably unprofessional service waiting for over 6 hours for breakdown to arrive still no luck”

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Posted 3 years ago

“My car broke down yesterday in Amersham, as I was returning from a visit . It was a very hot day, and Rac people arrived within 20 minutes and towed the car to a nearby garage. Many thanks.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I have paid a private platform to take my car back to the dealer, called RAC and paid 299£ and they never came to collect the car as they took my money and then said they dont have drivers. Now im trying to get my full refund back and nobody is answering emails or phone calls. Never again i will request their services.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Waited for 6 hours and I was told I still have to wait for another 3 hours in order to get my car recovered. Complete waste of money.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“I broke down in a very dangerous location, Rac charged me £100 and took over 5 hours to send a pickup truck to take me back home. I was told that due to the tube strike there mar more cars breaking down on the roads 21-06-2022.”

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Posted 3 years ago

“STILL waiting for a recovery to our garage.... DAY 3.... Told leave key on wheel and someone would pick up vehicle when possible... or my wife could stay with it till a poss collection after midnight..... REALLY !!!???? Over 20years as a member and you treat my wife like that. Utter DISGRACE....”

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Posted 3 years ago

“7pm on Sunday registered a request for roadside help. Quoted 60-90 minutes for arrival. After 2 hours of no contact called and was told that they had me down for call out but couldn't estimate how long I would need to wait further. As I type this its 8am on Monday morning, no contact and no roadside person turned up. What the hell have I paid you clowns for ?”

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Posted 3 years ago

“Never in my life have I ever had a… Never in my life have I ever had a worse experience with customer service than I have today with the RAC. Their office is full of liars and deceivers who say anything to get you off the phone and if you don’t hang up, or if you ask too many questions, they will happily hang up on you while your stranded on the side of a motorway on the hottest day of the year. Let me explain what happened, the van broke down at 9am on the 17th of June 2022 so immediately the rac was called. The company I work for pays extra to get service quicker during emergencies and I was told a 2 hour wait time at 9am. Not an issue I’m happy with that and if I got that I would be giving them a 5 star review. However as you can probably guess that didn’t happen, 11am rolls around and I call for an update on the recovery and am told they are running behind. Another hour goes by and I’m fed more lies that they are running late but will be there soon. Eventually I call again at 12:30 and am told they are struggling for a recovery truck so they will order us a taxi. Of course I was happy with this but again this was a lie and no taxi was ever ordered so I’m there wondering again how and when I’ll be recovered while baking in the heat. More phone calls later and I am physically pleading with an operator on the phone to put me onto a manger or anyone higher up so that we can sort out how I am going to get home, I’m disgusted to say that the operator hung up on me and I can honestly say that I lost my cool at that point. The time was now 3pm and I was no closer to knowing how I was going to get home. More phone calls and more lies pursued until I was eventually told they have sorted a driver to take me from Warwick to Sheffield and he would be there for 4pm, 7 hours after the break down was first reported. The driver did come at 4pm and I was happy the nightmare was finally over but oh wait, no it was far from over, the driver was only willing to take me to Tamworth service station just 20 miles down the road. I receive a text saying a new driver will take me the rest of the way and he will be at the services at 5:30 at the latest. Get to the services at 5 and wait around and again no driver at all. Call customer service again and am told there has been a mistake and it’s going to be a 3 hour wait. So I’m abandoned at a services with a dying phone, sunburn from the hottest day of the year and paying £3 for a bottle of water to stop myself from dying, more customer service calls and again when begging to speak to a manager being told it’s not possible and pleading to speak to anyone higher up than the people who answer the phone, I get hung up on twice more. Not once did I swear at the customer service people, I was begging and being distressed from being stuck in the sun since 9am. They are the most unsympathetic and horrible people I have ever had to deal with in my life. Not once have I ever left another review with a company but this is the most appalling experience I have ever had. I wish the story had a happy ending but I am currently writing this review at 7:15pm at the Tamworth service station. I’ve looked at my call log and have made over 20 calls to the rac today. Every-time I called they said a manager would speak to me and guess how many return calls I have had from a manager, if you guessed 5 you would be wrong because the answer is 0. Not a single person cared enough to call me back. Over 10 hours since my first call was made the only progress I have made is being dumped at a service station 20 miles down the road. They say a taxi is coming but who knows if that’s just another lie to get me off the phone. Hang your head in shame rac because this is appalling and I would encourage anyone who’s thinking of taking a policy with them to reconsider.”

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Posted 3 years ago

RAC is rated 1.4 based on 3,075 reviews