RAC Membership

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TitanTim

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Received my RAC Membership renewal today and it appears to have jumped up from £99 12 months ago to £150 for the renewal, normally the renewal has dropped over the years. Cheeky beggars have even issued me with a super dupa long membership card for my many years of loyalty since 2002. So if I let my membership lapse or cancel it and join again its 99 quid for the same cover :lol: I had to use them for the first time ever last November as the battery died on the Z3 but surely thats not the reason the renewal has gone up?

Tim.
 
That's more expensive than BMW Emergancy Service Cover! I'd get a few quotes and see if they come down or move to someone else.
 
Angie4m said:
That's more expensive than BMW Emergancy Service Cover! I'd get a few quotes and see if they come down or move to someone else.
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Thanks Angie, theres no way I'm paying £150, so they they can either match the 99 quid or I'll go elsewhere. 99 isn't unreasonable premium.

Tim.
 
Yes they seem to run a no claims discount system, if you don't call them out the price stays low but as soon as you use the service BOOM up goes next years payment.

I can recommend the AA for a good first year price and you don't get slapped if you use the service.

PM me if anyone wants to join up and for all that do through the link I send back I will donate the commission to the forum :D
 
Stuartt said:
Yes they seem to run a no claims discount system, if you don't call them out the price stays low but as soon as you use the service BOOM up goes next years payment.

I can recommend the AA for a good first year price and you don't get slapped if you use the service.

PM me if anyone wants to join up and for all that do through the link I send back I will donate the commission to the forum :D
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Thanks Stuart, I haven't read the RACs terms and conditions but to me thats ridiculous, I thought you paid the premium to cover any call out cost, so basically your penalised when you use their service. Smacks of ripp off to me :x

Tim.
 
TitanTim said:
Stuartt said:
Yes they seem to run a no claims discount system, if you don't call them out the price stays low but as soon as you use the service BOOM up goes next years payment.

I can recommend the AA for a good first year price and you don't get slapped if you use the service.

PM me if anyone wants to join up and for all that do through the link I send back I will donate the commission to the forum :D
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Thanks Stuart, I haven't read the RACs terms and conditions but to me thats ridiculous, I thought you paid the premium to cover any call out cost, so basically your penalised when you use their service. Smacks of ripp off to me :x

Tim.
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My mother in law had RAC for years and never used it (as always called me) so was paying a ridiculously low amount for the level of cover she had, until I was on holiday last year and her battery packed up all was fine until renewal time when as she did every year payed by DD then when her statement came in it had had tripled.
Thing is she is now scared to use it because of this.
Still won't come over to AA though, something to do with club card points ???? Needless to say I have now given up trying to convert her :cry:
 
Thanks guys, well RAC seems great until you use them, I'm guessing its the same whether you have it through Barclays or Tesco, use the service and get penalised. I feel my membership is going to be terminated :)

Tim.
 
TitanTim said:
Thanks guys, well RAC seems great until you use them, I'm guessing its the same whether you have it through Barclays or Tesco, use the service and get penalised. I feel my membership is going to be terminated :)

Tim.
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YELLOW is the way forward, happy to help.
 
Green Flag here - used them for years and called them out several times but they've never loaded the next years premium. We get the comprehensive cover which covers the two cars and the bike plus any car either of us are passengers in, or have borrowed. We've just paid our renewal last week, £90. They also don't leave you at the roadside for hours waiting, on the 3 or 4 occasions we've used them we've had a truck with us wthin 1/2 hour

Ironically enough we started using Green Flag many years ago after being left stranded by the RAC in Cornwall. They took us to a garage who they said would repair a fractured fuel line on our band wagon but they fobbed us off after hours of waiting around and then closed the place up leaving us outside in the middle of nowhere laughing as they drove off. We rang back to the RAC from a phone box miles away and they basically told us hard luck, they'd done their bit. We ended up walking to a village - it was dark by now and and we nicked the fuel line from a Vauxhall Cavalier we found parked near a house and by good fortune it fit the van so we were on our way by midnight. Not proud of that, but needs must when the Devil drives as they say. Besides we're Scousers so we're good at nicking stuff :roll: I won't tell you what we did to the garage - but lets just say we found a tin of paint in the Cavalier! One of our roadies had filled a few beer cans with fuel when we took the fuel line off and he wanted to torch the place but we wouldn't let him :D

Never had a good thing to say about the RAC ever since then. The AA are as bad, they wouldn't recover a mate after an accident - well they would but he had to pay. They told him they don't cover for recovery after an accident as he could claim on his insurance. He could indeed - but at the expense of his no claims bonus so he ended up well out of pocket.

RAC and AA - read the small print!
 
Thanks Dewi. I've been looking at Green Flag but also GEM Motoring Assist who have consistently come out top over the past few years. RAC seemed the worse followed by the AA in comparison. GEM seem to cover everything for around 80 quid so may give them a go. I find it incredible with the RAC that your penalised in paying half as much again on the renewal for one call out :thumbsdown:

Tim.
 
We use Tesco points to pay for family cover but we've been let down by them 3 times!

I complained about their service and received compensation but that's little use on the day you need them - once on Christmas Eve when my son was hit by floods and heavy rain ending up stranding his car through deep water. Didn't want to know and wouldn't help get him home - said it was deliberate!!! (He was driving home from College in the dark on an unfamiliar road having dropped a fellow student off at their home). Led to a 130 mile round trip completed at 2 in the morning having waited hours for RAC and then being fobbed off!!

If it wasn't for the Tesco points we'd use Green Flag who we've found excellent in the past. Recommended.

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paulgs1000 said:
We use Tesco points to pay for family cover but we've been let down by them 3 times!

I complained about their service and received compensation but that's little use on the day you need them - once on Christmas Eve when my son was hit by floods and heavy rain ending up stranding his car through deep water. Didn't want to know and wouldn't help get him home - said it was deliberate!!! (He was driving home from College in the dark on an unfamiliar road having dropped a fellow student off at their home). Led to a 130 mile round trip completed at 2 in the morning having waited hours for RAC and then being fobbed off!!

If it wasn't for the Tesco points we'd use Green Flag who we've found excellent in the past. Recommended.

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Thanks Paul, I definitely won't be renewing with the RAC now. Basically when I called them out last November with battery probs on the Z3 in reality it cost me £122 for the battery and in effect an additional £52 extra on my renewal because of that call out, so I question why did I bother renewinmg my membership for the past 12 months which was £99? What was I getting for the £99? :cry: nothing as far as I can see :x

I will need to read the terms and conditions for whoever I go with next, seems a complete con. You may as well join only when you actually need them.

Tim.
 
Green flag here as well, free with my mastercard and includes full European cover as well.

Never used them, but good to have it on the phone just in case of a flat tyre as I have no spare and the gunk you get with the car would not help if the tyre is shredded.
 
Bank with the Halifax, they use the AA, basic cover only though and we pay <100 a year to upgrade to comprehensive cover.

Had to use them last year to rescue our Mazda 2 after the brakes jammed on...
 
Thanks guys, I would be interested to know if after you used your breakdown cover whether your renewal increased.

Tim.
 
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