Green Flag Renewal - Having A Laugh!

Vern1961

Vern1961

Vern1961

Soldato
Joined
29 Mar 2007
Posts
4,668
Location
Swindon UK
Just had my annual renewal for Green Flag and they are wanting ~£173 (up £19 from last year) to cover a 10 year old Corsa which has had no call-outs in the last 5 years.

I know GF work on age of the car but comparable cover rejoining the AA is £129. Pretty much a no brainer but has anyone encountered this with GF and had any success bargaining down. I don't particularly like the AA having sat by the roadside years ago over 2 hours waiting for them to appear and that's probably a first year premium, but £44 is £44.
 
Give them a call. Most of the time you can get a better deal, especially when you quote competitors offering better deals.

Had my RAC up for renewal, they added £45 to the previous years cost. Rang them up and got it back down to the original price, along with unlimited call outs and homestart added on for free.
 
Always call them, they try and scam you with renewals hoping people just leave it to auto renew. Got £180 off my renewal(which just made it the same as other price comparisons)
 
I always use QuidCo/TCB to get breakdown cover each year. After cashback the full tier package always comes to around £60.

It's a no brainer really.
 
Get mine through my bank, £60 (my share, joint account so £120 total) for:

Unlimited all cars/motorbikes breakdown recovery inc. home (not sure if abroad too) regardless of vehicle age
Phone insurance
Travel insurance

Nationwide flexplus :)
 
Last time i rang to cancel they gave me a year free with it set to auto-renew after 12 months. I told them i wasn't using the car in any way to need break down cover and they obviously just wanted to keep me on the books.
 
I tend to switch insurers every year after checking price comparison sites, otherwise I always end up getting quoted more. Best way to do it imo.
 
Vern1961 said:
Just had my annual renewal for Green Flag and they are wanting ~£173 (up £19 from last year) to cover a 10 year old Corsa which has had no call-outs in the last 5 years.

I know GF work on age of the car but comparable cover rejoining the AA is £129. Pretty much a no brainer but has anyone encountered this with GF and had any success bargaining down. I don't particularly like the AA having sat by the roadside years ago over 2 hours waiting for them to appear and that's probably a first year premium, but £44 is £44.
Click to expand...

£19? It costs more than that in time to bother phoning them up!

Oops! Misread the OP!
 
Last edited:
pioneer2000 said:
£19? It costs more than that in time to bother phoning them up!

My insurance has gone up past two years despite wasting so much time shopping around. Admiral is always the cheapest by hundreds, so not got much wiggle room!
Click to expand...
I don't think he's talking about insurance..

But use quidco. I get rac for 60ish a year after 60 cash back.
 
I paid £68 for cover from Greenflag in my first year, had one call out in which they left me stranded in the middle of the countryside for 4 hours at night a few days after Christmas.

As a biker I apparently should have been flagged as a priority call as I have no cover from the elements but when the guy finally turned up he explained it was only because he'd be idly browsing the job list looking for something other than a homestart call and spotted I was on a bike because he rode himself that he seen I'd basically been forgotten about even after numerous calls back to their call center.
Anyway by that point both me and the bike were iced over and if it had been much longer I'd have been chucked onto the low loader with the bike.

My renewal came back at over double the price so even with the offer of 50% off my next renewal after their balls up it still wasn't worth it, needless to say I wouldn't go back if you paid me.
 
If you aren't expecting your car to break down, don't even bother. If it does happen you can just sign up there and then and they will still send someone out. It will cost a bit more, but save £100s over the years.
 
Kiethton said:
Get mine through my bank, £60 (my share, joint account so £120 total) for:

Unlimited all cars/motorbikes breakdown recovery inc. home (not sure if abroad too) regardless of vehicle age
Phone insurance
Travel insurance

Nationwide flexplus :)
Click to expand...

This! Plus you get 3% interest on £2500 so you get some of that money back.
 
Vanquish-Storm said:
How is it so much? Isn't Green Flag half the price of RAC and AA?

https://www.greenflag.com/breakdown-cover#compare-table
Click to expand...
Green Flag charge an annual premium based on the life of the car. So at two years old (when the dealer 12 month RAC cover expired) it was much cheaper than the AA. I quite understand the reasoning as a 10 year old car is more likely to break down, but it shouldn't be more than the majors are charging for comparable cover (IMHO). There's also a no claims discount similar to actual car insurance, but given I've made one call out in ten years and that was several years ago it doesn't amount to much.

I could go without breakdown cover but I don't want to potentially strand myself and wife in rural Wiltshire on a Sunday afternoon relying on an indie coming out to tow the car away. Guess it's like cover on your gas boiler, it's the time you need it and haven't got it, you'll wish you had. That doesn't mean paying through the nose either.
 
I just got mine thru at 225 (last year it was 109) but don't worry I don't have to do anything :rolleyes:. That will be getting canceled this week, lol don't know why anyone would bend over and take it.
 
Success! I didn't even have to haggle that hard. I mentioned the AA and almost immediately she came back with a price match. In fact when I asked why quote so high in the first place, the answer was - keeps us in a job as 90% of the calls we deal with are disgruntled renewal offers (or words to that effect!).
 
Too late now but if you have some Tesco clubcard vouchers saved up you can buy rac cover through them.

Think £40ish of vouchers got recovery and journey home cover.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom