Very easy to book. Great communication. Excellent garage. But just a shame that an incorrect part was ordered ahead of the work starting
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About The AA Smart Care
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MOTs, services and repairs brought to you through the convenience of our local AA approved garage network.
AA approved local garages
- Every one of the garages in our network is audited to ensure it meets our highest quality, service and training standards
- The garage technicians are expertly trained in petrol, diesel and electric vehicles
Fixed & transparent pricing
- You’ll know exactly what you’re going to pay, with no hidden extras
- We’ll chat to the garage to make sure that any additional work needed is accurate, and give you a quote to approve before it’s carried out.
Guaranteed quality of work and repairs
- We’re so confident in the work, we guarantee all parts and labour for 12 months
- The garages in our network always fit quality parts, made to the same standard as the original manufacturer equipment
- All prices, including labour, are checked to make sure they’re accurate
Easy online booking
- You can book online at a garage local to you, on a date of your choice
- Book up to 90 days in advance
- You have access to a UK wide network of local garages.
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- theaa.com/car-care/book/start
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Brilliant service at my door
Brilliant service at my door. Technician was extremely helpful and excellent .
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Disappointed, customer service let down
Arranged for full service at my home. Got text confirmation would be with me between 10am and 12pm.
At 1pm got a phone call to let me know the guy was going to be late!?
He arrived 420pm. I had no problem with him, he was very polite and courteous.
My annoyance was the lateness of the call and service. I specifically booked for the morning but ended up changing my plans to accommodate the AA, rather than them fulfilling the agreement. Won’t be using them again.

Reply from The AA Smart Care
Don't bother - the process is shockingly slow
Don't bother. The car went into the MoT bay at 9:45am. I went back to the garage mid afternoon to find out the result, only for the garage to ak if I had had an email from AA Smart Care. When I said "No", the garage said ring AA Smart Care since the garage wasn't authorised to tell me directly the outcome. Over the phone, I managed to drag out of AASC that the car had failed for one major defect and there were three advisories. Before the garage could release the car back to me, I would have to respond to an email AASC would send to either approve the garage to complete all the work, just the major defect rectification or none at all. The issue was that AASC's serve was down and AASC were unable to send the email. The email didn't arrive until 10 minutes before the garage closed for the day. The major defect work was duly authorised and the advisory work declined. The garage then received an email providing them with my authorisation (kind of bizarre since I was in the garage talking to the owner about the situation). The garage duly set in motion the process for completing the major defect (one of those dead easy to repair defects), which they completed the next working day. However, yet again, the communication from AASC to me was appalling. It took AASC a further three days, yes, three days, to inform me that the work had been completed after the work had actually been done. If I could give the AA Smart Care administration team ZERO stars I would. In complete contrast, the garage doing the work did a great job of testing and fixing the car and explaining how the AASC process works, or more accurately, doesn't work.

Reply from The AA Smart Care
Excellent service from start to finish
Excellent service from start to finish, seamless process and very very reasonable on cost
This is the first time I have used…
This is the first time I have used their services, will definitely return
Great service but difficult to book time
Easy to book a date for my MOT at a local garage (4 miles away, none available in my town). I did this one week before the selected date.
Received several emails which said the appointment time would be sent nearer the date of the MOT. On the day before I received an email which said I should take my car to the garage at 8.30am and be prepared to wait for the Test to happen any time during the day. Not at all happy with this, so I phoned the garage myself on the day of the Test and confirmed a specific time.
The garage was excellent.
Can’t argue with the price.

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Brake discs and pads…
Booked to have brake discs and pads changed,after an initial delay on parts.when mechanic arrived all done and dusted in less than an hour.very impressed.
AA massively let me down the Custer…
AA massively let me down the Custer service was so bad no one would talk to me a hug called Rob on WhatsApp was rude showed bad customer service was unprofessional and showered no empathy the call needs to be listened to and he need retraining.
Yiu have no back up emergency back up system as your system crashed and no one updated me on the issues with my car and also you didn’t rehire what the garage had stated what was needed.
This hasn’t be the most stressful and now very costly service and MOT AA YOU FAILED THIS Custoner AND IW ILL NAKEBAURE ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY BE WARNED NOT TO USE YOU.

Reply from The AA Smart Care
Pathetic customer service
I am writing to express my frustration with the service I've received regarding my vehicle.
On two separate occasions now, my requests for assistance have simply been turned down. Frankly, this is not the level of service I expect, and the lack of availability and consistency has caused me real inconvenience — inconvenience that could easily have been avoided.
I want to be clear: this isn't a minor gripe. Being let down twice in a short space of time raises serious questions about the reliability of your service, and I think it's only fair that other customers are made aware of these issues too.

Reply from The AA Smart Care
MOT and Major Service
Competitive pricing.
Easy to book.
Good communications.
Local garage collected my car.
Work was completed quickly.
Mechanic was Very informative of what…
Mechanic was Very informative of what he was doing and clean and tidy very professional thanks very much 😁👍
Stress-free!
Easy booking service, reasonable price with collection, friendly staff collected car with no issues. Stress-free process for MOT and Service without needing to sit around all day waiting at the garage. Was collected during my working day and ready back home by 5pm. Brilliant.

Reply from The AA Smart Care
Was very late.
Was supposed to call me first thing in the morning and never did. Booked time slot for am and before 12 midday. Didn't come till 2 o'clock. I had to ring the company around 11 o'clock as I heard nothing so communication isnt the best. The bloke who came though was spot on and couldn't fault him at all so credit to him. But when your expecting a call as per email states with a time slot and not receiving one is pretty poor in my eyes.

Reply from The AA Smart Care
Smart Care.... Not so smart
Using smart care supposed to be stress free and deal with any problems through them. But first problem with car, contacted smart care and was told to deal direct with the garage, because there computers were down.
Smart Care, not so smart. Wont be using them again.

Reply from The AA Smart Care
Job well done
Great service and communication before…
Great service and communication before during and after the service. Kept me informed of any issues with the car. And also gave a summary at the end of the service. Great value for money
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