The AA Reviews

Name: The AA
Rating: 2.82

2.8 Rating 1,991 Reviews

45 %

of reviewers recommend The AA

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2.8

Based on 1,991 reviews

Shipping & Delivery
Delivery Methods	Own Driver
Average Delivery Time	Over A Month
Documents Delivered On-time	Greater than 36%
Customer Service
Communication Channels	Telephone, Email, Live Chat
Queries Resolved In	Under An Hour
Customer Service	1.7 out of 5
Avg Email Response Time	-1 hours
Cancellations & Refunds
Cancellation Process	Difficult

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Anonymous // 01/01/2019

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“Do NOT GO WITH AA FIND ANOTHER COMPANY. THEY DO NOT HONOUR THEIR AGREEMENTS BUT QUICK TO TAKE YOUR MONEY. HONESTLY DO NOT GO WITH AA.”

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Posted 6 years ago

“I WOULD NOT RECÒMEND AA TO ANYBODY THEY TAKE YOUR MONEY AND DONT HONOUR AGREEMENT ANDVTRY AND PUT BLAME BACK ON YOU...”

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Posted 6 years ago

“AA sold me a battery that was not holding charge and kept going flat after 2 days They would not accept it was the battery which had 3 years warranty Had to buy another from Halfords Battery working perfect now AA selling batteries not fit for purpose and denying liability”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Five hour wait in London for 300 a year membership. Spoke to their call centre and said it is common to have five hour wait. Better off going elsewhere for much better price RAC are much better and will never use AA again”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Thay sell these different covers etc but trust me it will cost you a lot more than you think,green flag I would highly recommend no bs ,honest and reliable ,all the aa cover options are a big scam if you don't believe me wait and find out”

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Posted 6 years ago

“Hi eveyone i got new aa breakdown memebership over the phone on 19.09.201,so i decided to go for following options,home start,breakdown repair cover, national reacovery and roadside.while i was on phone first i was given quote of £22.25p per month and after some discussion they sale lady offered me discount price of £17 yet we where still discussing she said the i have spoken to my manager and we can give you the breakdown cover for £14, this is our best offer, so i said yea thats fine i am happy with this price after giving my bank details and processing the payment,the sales lady said lets jus recap what breakdown cover you have on your policy.when she started repeating the cover she said you do not have break down repair cover,you only have road side and home start.so i asked the sale lady why did you not mension this to me before we made a payment and she replied sayi , (I HAVE TO REMOVE THE BREAK DOWN REPAIR COVER TO GET THE CHEAP PRICE)i i said why did you not mension this to me before i made a payment so i knew what i was paying,the sale lady said I AM SORRY NOTHING I CAN DO THE PAYMENT GONE THROUGH NOW.,so i decided and said to the lady that i would like to cancel this membership becuause you have given me wrong information and given me wrong product and chraged me with out giving me right product information. So the lady put me through to cancellation departement and when i managed to speak to them and explain to them they advised me to make a complaint but we can not give you the refund.i was like why not your sales lady given me wrong information and charged me for the product with out telling me.so im still waiting to hear from them AA IS GIVING WRONG PRODUCT OVER THE PHONE AND CHARGING YOU FOR THE PRODUCT WHICH YOU ARE NOT AWARE OF,COMPLETE A LIE AND WASTE OF TIME WULDNT RECOMEND TO ANYONE NEVER AVOID IF YOU CAN”

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Posted 6 years ago

“ont waste your money! Life Draining service to say the least first and foremost i urge anyone who is considering AA home insurance to pay a little extra and use a more reliable honest and understanding firm. Have home and contents insurance with AA who have supposedly brokered it to another company which is fine however do you not do due diligence on any of these rogue firms, trident claims is an absoloute shack of a company and from the onset it has become the most difficult endevour of my life. I am a pensioner and you are making my life utterly miserable. We had a leak in our home and firstly tried to call them but the offices were closed circa 10 days ago, since then i have been messed around firstly we had a long list of questions and i was asked five times if i wanted to make a claim like it was some sort of crime to claim on your home insurance, every reply i gave was replied with an element of doubt. Then i was told i had died some years ago which is alarming when i am on the phone he was adamant that his checks showed i passed away twenty years ago, then he said i had a CCJ against my name, i have immaculate credit and was startled pre bank holiday so he fobbed me off sayign someone would call me back How can i have a CCJ 18 years after i had supposedly passed away its almost like they were making it up as they go along, all we wanted is for someone to come fix our ceiling! Having done several credit checks etc it transpires there is no CCJ or any record of one being open or closed in the last 35 years against me so that was a complete lie, they keep telling me that its with some team doing validation checks! What checks are you doing exactly, they just bluffing and buying time so they dont have to send an engineer out or pay out against the claim, shame on the AA board members i would name them but is easy to find online, your running the biggest sham company in the UK, take your money provide no service dont pay out. Dont buy any form of insurance from AA because you will never get any recompense. Further to my last contact 2 months on and 2 investigators later we are still interviewing family members regarding a little leak in our bathroom, how absurd and shameful can a company be how can this organisation even be allowed to trade? You have been warned AA is more like DD Diabolical and disgraceful”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Either they are intent on extorting money from customers in emergency situations or they are just merely incompetent. I signed up for their membership when my car had broken down and because it could not be repaired, I was then told to upgrade in order to be towed home, which I happily did. However, I was surprised about 5 months after when I was told to upgrade again in order to be towed home which would have required paying an additional £50 after paying an earlier charge of £50 to upgrade. Their service was appalling on my third occasion and after an initial wait of 3 hours, I was to wait another 4 to 5 hours to be towed home. A very poor rating does not go far enough and such, I am cancelling immediately. I believe that their size and dominance in the market is what makes them treat customers in such ghastly way. It might help reducing their size, getting other competitors into their industry and imposing fines on them when their services do not meet a decent standard. I am blacklisting them, meaning that I would pay more to ensure that, I never take up their membership again.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“i tried to cancel my policy they were absolutely useless”

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(Car Insurance) - Posted 7 years ago

“Absolutely shocking service from the AA! I would not recommend them to anyone and if I could leave 0 stars which they deserve i would have. I pay extra for AA garage cover and have never made a claim and they have messed me about from start to finishe Trying everything the could to not pay for the repairs it’s now two weeks without a car two weeks I’ve lost money and I’m now having to pay to cover the cost absolute waste of time I will be joining the RAC again I wouldn’t touch this company with a barge pole they are crooks plain and simple.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I'm still stuck by the roadside. I've been here 4 hours now and been told it will take another hour and a half. Appalling service. Over 5 hours isn't good enough. Any other breakdown service would be better than this.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Appalling service if that's what anyone would even call it. Car broke down so got a £99 charge for a call out. They had the wrong location 3 times even though I confirmed the location several times as I had 3 young kids in the car. When I downloaded the app to track how long they would take it said I had moved from the location they were coming to recover the vehicle. I then phoned back to which the incompetent call handler stated sometime the app just says that don't worry. The aa then drive down the other side of the road and I got a call saying he was on his way to a different job but the main office have the wrong location from where we were. I phoned back to change the location again only to be told the vehicle they had sent out was not only going to the wrong location but wasnt a suitable vehicle for the job as I needed towed. Eventually a different vehicle recovery came out sent by the AA. The driver was foreign and extremely ignorant. He towed the car 4 minutes around the corner to the nearest car garage and went to drive off when the mechanic came running out of the garage asking him what he was doing and he couldn't just drop of a vehicle with a family and not even let them know what the issue was never mind no previous communication with him to see of he had time to look at the car- which he didn't. He then continued to have a heated argument with the garage owner in front of my 3 young kids. I am absolutely appalled by their so called service, incompetent call handlers and arrogant useless drivers they sub in. A minus 5 star rating would be more suited to this company”

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Posted 7 years ago

“More than doubled my subscription to £28.00 two years running. I can join the RAC for £14.00 and same cover. The AA are not interested in loyal customers and are quite happy for you to leave if they can't rip you off after the 1st year. They are obsessed with new business to the exclusion of everything. Now I have issues with leaving, because they don't read emails for 5 working days or 6 in my case, which makes any dialogue impossible and trying to get through to Customer Services by phone is like trying to call Theresa May on a Sunday! I have stopped my direct debit and informed them but they are still trying to pull money from my account. Altogether, they are not the professional AA I knew. I won't be going back ever!”

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Posted 7 years ago

“My parked vehicle was involved in an accident at around 10.30pm. The AA arrived at around 5am to tow me home. Appalling service and they expected me to accept £20 by way of apology. I tore up the cheque”

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(Car Insurance) - Posted 7 years ago

“AVOID THIS COMPANY”

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Posted 7 years ago

“As I write it is near midnight. I'm waiting for an urgent recovery phoned in at 6.20pm. I explained clearly that my motorbike was unsafe to ride and I needed recovery. 2 hours later someone who knew nothing about bikes turned up, without a recovery van. I used my own tools and had to show him where the battery was. He couldn't even get it off its stand. Recovery was initially estimated another 2 hours later, and this was then moved to 5am the following day!! Despite calls to the AA letting them know I was a woman on my own, in the dark and did not feel safe. Several phone calls later this estimate was moved to 11pm. Eventually I abandoned the bike, leaving keys to be collected. Some other idiot has just turned up at the breakdown site and says he can't load the bike onto the trailer. I've just been told the new estimate is 48 hours, because I'm not with the bike now, despite being advised to leave it for my own safety and being assured it would be recovered by 11pm. So, after hours of shifting estimates which meant I had to stay with the vehicle, without water, a toilet and a dwindling phone battery, my bike is now left, keys under the tank on a dangerous and busy road and it may or may not turn up sometime over the next two days. Incompetence does not even begin to describe this bunch of clowns. None of them care or communicate with each other, so each person you deal with is worse than useless and disdainful in their indifference. I was not told when requesting recovery that they would not send a recovery van. I was lied to about estimates. I was not told that leaving would mean possibly waiting a further 48 hours. I was told they had prioritised and outsourced the job as I was in a vulnerable position. That too was a lie. To pay for something called a service, which does you the disservice of causing undue stress, wasting your time and complicating the situation at every turn, is an insult and a theft. Things only got worse. Following a call for urgent recovery at 18.20 my motorbike was eventually dumped on the pavement outside my house, with no phone call, at 5am the next day! The top box was left not just unlocked but open, with a £200 helmet inside and the keys left with the bike without my permission. I had to push the bike to the nearest bay and start all over agin to get it recovered to a garage. I had to push it myself to a bike bay. I am still waiting for recovery. Surprise surprise, the estimates keep shifting...here we go again.”

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Posted 7 years ago

“All same,, lies after lies tried all recovery Rac/green flags/ AA never been on time AA is the biggest company in uk but been in situations recommended a friend about aa but the results aa rubbish service first they tell you 2 hour then another 2 hour esy then phone they'll say not far way another 1hour or2 don't matter if you paying over extra every year simply rubbish can't forget waited nearly 8 hours some cold freezing winter with my 2 little kids which is they polley next day couldn't go school for 3 day's but what can I do still with them. .”

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Posted 7 years ago

“I don’t understand why we are paying money to this company with hope to get help when we need. Reported break down at 8.30am and patrol arrived after 8 hours. Every 2 hours AA been moving patrol arriving time by saying you are not in danger so you are don’t have no priority. During waiting time I have tried to find garage where to take my vehicle at the end they took me to my home because garage was shut. Only one plus AA promised to take my vehicle in the morning to my preferred garage. Next morning booked AA at 6.30am and again patrol arrived around 1.30pm. I had a RAC before and never had any problems with them. I think RAC gone have a loyal customer back”

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Posted 7 years ago

“Unbelievable the AA lie 4x recovery staff told me a recovery truck will be with me in an hour then the 5th honest one said don’t know when we can get one then the ‘manager’ after 5hrs said can’t get one today could try to get you one tomorrow. They are not capable of providing a recovery service!! Luckily my disabled wife and dog were recovered by my daughter, but my own poor health has suffered badly with 5 hrs on the side of the road in the heat of today and with the stress of being lied to. If you’ve got a contract change it quickly as they can’t deliver what we’re all paying them to do. YOU JUST CANT RELY ON THE AA ANYMORE”

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Posted 7 years ago

“had all levels of cover including breakdown repair cover which should pay £500 towards repair auto gearbox failed and they wanted me to pay £350 to have the gearbox removed and inspected by an independent engineer despite the car being at a Land Rover specialist if they declined the claim then I would be out of pocket by £350 also the recovery driver declined to drop my wife off on the way to the repairer despite the fact that it would have been on his way, so left her to walk home alone, the vehicle was dropped at the repairer out of hours the recovery driver left the drivers window open and hazards on, this killed the battery and as it also rained the interior was drenched! Complaint dept offered me £50 previously they had cancelled a recovery driver for no apparent reason in total it was 8 hours before they attended my wife and again gave us £50!! completely useless and uncaring... I have cancelled my membership, I had been with them for over 9 years”

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Posted 7 years ago

The AA is rated 2.8 based on 1,991 reviews