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The AA | Breakdown Cover, Insurance, Route PlannerAA breakdown cover with 24/7 support & unlimited call-outs. With more patrols in more places. Build your perfect breakdown cover.

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Business details

Category
Warranties and breakdown cover
Years in business
37 years
Founded
1905
Owned by
Acromas Holdings
Places to visit
2 officesWaltham Cross
Kind of seller
Sells its own goods or services
Licensed trade
Insurance
Domain age
29 years
Email address
customer.services@theaa.com
Phone number
+44 344 209 0754
Website
theaa.com
Social media

Do the sources agree?

Address
Level 3, Plant, Basing View, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 4HG, England Its website agrees Companies House agrees OpenStreetMap differs Web Data Commons not found

Sources give different addresses · OpenStreetMap has EN8 9BN

Phone number
+44 344 209 0754 Its website agrees OpenStreetMap differs Web Data Commons not found

Sources give different numbers · OpenStreetMap has +44 333 004 6046

Company name
AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION INSURANCE SERVICES LIMITED Companies House agrees Its website differs

Sources give different names · Its website has The AA

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints

SiteReviewsRating
SmartCustomer· Read 12 November 2026· 2 reviews· 2.0 out of 5 stars
Reviews.io· Read 12 November 2026· 4 reviews· 5.0 out of 5 stars
App Store· Read 12 November 2026· 153,446 ratings· 4.8 out of 5 stars
Total153,4524.8 out of 5 stars

Trustpilot reviews are not included in this assessment. This business also has a Trustpilot page, which may contain additional customer reviews. We recommend checking these alongside the reviews shown here.

Customer satisfactionInsufficient evidence· From 6 reviews on 2 independent review sites
App experienceMostly satisfied· High confidence· From 153,446 ratings on the App Store

Summary

Is theaa.com legit and trustworthy? Truth score 93 out of 100, high truth signals: 8 public checks clear, 1 to be cautious about, 2 for information. Legitimacy confidence: high. App experience: mostly satisfied, high confidence. Customer satisfaction: insufficient evidence.

theaa.com is run by Automobile Association Insurance Services Limited, part of Acromas Holdings, an active UK company registered at Companies House 37 years ago, and was founded in 1905. Its website address was registered 29 years ago, and is locked against transfer to someone else. It has a review page on Trustpilot. Customers have left 4 reviews on Reviews.io, averaging 5.0 stars out of 5. The postcode on its website matches its registered office. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website. Be cautious: its 2 reviews on SmartCustomer average only 2.0 stars out of 5.

Positives

  1. An active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 37 years ago.
  2. Its website address was registered 29 years ago.
  3. It has a review page on Trustpilot.
  4. A not fully established independent reputation · 4 reviews on Reviews.io, rated 5.0 stars out of 5.
  5. The postcode on its website matches its registered office at Companies House.
  6. No malware or phishing warnings found for its website.

Be cautious

  1. A low number of independent reviews (2 on SmartCustomer), but it falls short with only 2.0 stars out of 5.

Important context: Truth Signal weighs public evidence about this business. A high score means strong evidence that the business is established and legitimate, not a promise that it is safe to buy from or that every purchase will go well. A low score means the evidence is thin or raises concerns, not that the business is unsafe or a scam.

What they offer

EdinburghGlasgowBelfastManchesterBirminghamLondon
AA breakdown cover with 24/7 support & unlimited call-outs. With more patrols in more places. Build your perfect breakdown cover.
— The AA, in their own words
Where to find them
Places
2 offices · 1 town · 1 with no town given
  • Waltham Cross1
About them
Customer stories
Car reviews
What they sell
Promises
Car warranty

Latest YouTube video

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How to check if theaa.com is legit

To check if theaa.com is legit yourself, look at the same public records we did: the company register, who owns the web address and since when, customer reviews (where buyers leave praise and complaints), visitor numbers, how long the site has existed, social profiles, malware lists, data breaches and email security. Each row below shows what that record says about theaa.com; open a row to see the facts and the source to check them yourself. Step by step: how to know if a shopping site is legit.

Who they are

Company detailsAn active UK company registered at Companies House, set up 37 years ago
  • Its registered office at Companies House is Level 3, Plant, Basing View, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 4HG, England
  • Its latest accounts at Companies House run to 31 January 2026
  • It has filed at Companies House regularly for the last five years, with no gap longer than 15 months
  • Registered with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) to handle personal data
Country
Where the company is based
UK
Why we believe that
it is registered at Companies House, which is a registration for UK businesses, the site's structured data states its country, its legal pages give an address in England, its terms are governed by the laws of England and Wales, its phone number starts +44, its postcode is a UK postcode
Which countries the company serves
UK
Why we believe that
£ prices on its homepage, its delivery page says it ships to the UK
Registration
Companies House registration
Registered as AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION INSURANCE SERVICES LIMITED
Data protection registration (ICO)
Registered, number Z707928X
VAT number
GB188031110
Companies House register
Company found in official company register
Yes
Registered company name
AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION INSURANCE SERVICES LIMITED
Company status
active
Company age
37 years
Registered address
Level 3, Plant, Basing View, Basingstoke, Hampshire, RG21 4HG, England
Accounts overdue
No
Confirmation statement overdue
No
Insolvency history
No
Registered office in dispute
No
Filing history consistent
Yes
ICO data-protection fee payer
Yes
Registered to do
66220 Activities of insurance agents and brokers
Previous names
PRECIS (931) LIMITED (17 Aug 1989 to 1 Jan 1990)
Company type
Private limited company
Size and borrowing
Accounts filed
Full accountsThe most detailed kind a company files.
Secured loans (charges)
0No secured loans outstanding at Companies House.
From Wikipedia
Type (Wikipedia)
private company limited by shares
Industry
insurance industry
Parent company
Acromas Holdings
Founded
1905
Domain registrationIts website address was registered 29 years ago
  • Its website address is locked against being transferred to someone else
Domain age
29 years
Domain transfer lock enabled
Yes
Website detailsWe read 6 of its pages: contact, about, delivery, cancellation, terms and privacy
  • Company contact email is available
HTTPS enabled
Yes
Contact phone number found
+44 344 209 0754
Contact page found
Yes
Sources agreeing on postcode
2
Hosting company
Cloudflare, Inc.
What its pages say
In their own words
“The Automobile Association was created by people like you – keen drivers who just wanted fair treatment. Not much has changed on that front since June 1905, when four driving enthusiasts banded together in London to form the AA. From day one our goal has been exactly the same: to protect you, the motorist, and put your interests first.”
Who you're buying from
“Registered office: The AA, Level 3, Plant, Basing View, Basingstoke, Hampshire, England, RG21 4HG.”
Search engines and AILets in every search engine and AI tool

Which search engines and AI tools its robots.txt file lets read the website. Search engines list it in results; AI training tools learn from it; AI answer tools read it to answer someone’s question.

Search engines

All allowed

Google Search
Allowed by defaultGooglebot
Bing
Allowed by defaultBingbot
AI training

All allowed

OpenAI
Allowed by defaultGPTBot
Anthropic
Allowed by defaultClaudeBot
Google AI
Allowed by defaultGoogle-Extended
Apple AI
Allowed by defaultApplebot-Extended
Common Crawl
Allowed by defaultCCBot
Meta
Allowed by defaultmeta-externalagent
ByteDance (TikTok)
Allowed by defaultBytespider
AI answers

All allowed

ChatGPT search
Allowed by defaultOAI-SearchBot
ChatGPT
Allowed by defaultChatGPT-User
Claude search
Allowed by defaultClaude-SearchBot
Claude
Allowed by defaultClaude-User
Perplexity
Allowed by defaultPerplexityBot
Sourcesrobots.txt

Reputation and track record

Customer reviews, accreditations and complaints153,452 reviews across 3 platforms, rated 2.0 to 5.0 out of 5
PlatformRatingReviews
TrustpilotUnknownUnknown
SmartCustomer2.0 out of 5 stars2
Reviews.io5.0 out of 5 stars4
Total4.8 out of 5 stars153,452
App StoreIts app, The AA, is on Apple's App Store, rated 4.8 out of 5 from 153,446 ratings, counted in the reviews total.
App
The AA
App Store rating
4.8 out of 5
App Store ratings
153,446
Visitor trafficReal people visited its website in 24 of the last 24 months
  • Real people have visited its website since February 2021 or earlier
  • It is among the 100,000 most-visited sites on the internet (Cloudflare Radar)
Monthly visitor data
Popularity among Chrome users
top 50,000 sites
First known user traffic
Feb 2021 or earlier
Months with real traffic, of the last 24
24
Traffic pattern
sustained
Rank jump in the last 12 months
none
Rank drop in the last 12 months
none
Cloudflare Radar
Popularity across the internet
top 100,000 sites
Where its visitors are

Share of people looking up theaa.com, by country, over the last 2 days.

Austria 1.6%Bangladesh 0.8%Belgium 0.8%Brazil 1.6%Canada 1.6%Costa Rica 0.8%Germany 1.6%Egypt 0.8%Spain 0.8%Finland 1.6%France 7.4%United Kingdom 50.0%Croatia 0.8%Ireland 2.5%Latvia 0.8%Mexico 1.6%Netherlands 1.6%Sweden 0.8%United States 16.4%Uzbekistan 0.8%Singapore 3.3%Hong Kong 1.6%
  • Over 50%
  • 5 to 50%
  • 1 to 5%
  • 0.2 to 1%
  • Under 0.2%
  • None seen
  1. 1United Kingdom50.0%
  2. 2United States16.4%
  3. 3France7.4%
  4. 4Singapore3.3%
  5. 5Ireland2.5%
  6. 6Austria1.6%
  7. 7Brazil1.6%
  8. 8Canada1.6%
  9. 9Germany1.6%
  10. 10Finland1.6%

Top 10 of 22 countries.

Web history and authorityThe Internet Archive first saved a copy of its website 27 years ago
Website archive history
27 years
Social presenceIt is on 6 social media platforms (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, TikTok, X.com and YouTube); the largest audience is 90,266 followers on Facebook
FoundPlatformAudience
Facebook90,266 followers
Instagram31,000 followers
X.comUnknown
LinkedInUnknown
YouTube14,000 subscribers
TikTok325 followers
135,591 followers total
YouTube channel
275 videos, 14,000 subscribers, last upload 9 Nov 2026
YouTube Data110,466 views a video, 4,247 views a day and a new video every 26.0 days
The AA@theaa
Views per video30,378,133 views ÷ 275 videos
110,466
Views a day30,378,133 views ÷ 7,153 days
4,247
Views per subscriber30,378,133 views ÷ 14,000 subscribers
2,170
New subscribers a day14,000 subscribers ÷ 7,153 days
2
Subscribers per 1,000 views14,000 subscribers ÷ 30,378,133 views × 1,000
0.5
Subscribers per video14,000 subscribers ÷ 275 videos
51
Days between videos7,153 days ÷ 275 videos
26.0
Channel age13 April 2007 to 12 November 2026
19 years 6 months
Subscribers
14,000
Views
30,378,133
Videos
275
Started
13 April 2007
Country
United Kingdom
Language
Not stated
Topics
Lifestyle, Vehicle
Made for children
Not stated
Website in its description
Not stated
Trailer
Yes

What data this site collects about you

What its privacy policy saysWe found this business stores and uses your data
May send your data to other countries.
“Your personal information may be transferred outside the UK or European Economic Area, for example to service providers.”
May check your details with credit or fraud-prevention agencies.
“If you apply for credit or take a product on the basis of us offering credit, to process your application we will perform credit, risk and identity checks on you with one or more Credit Reference Agencies ( CRAs ) and Fraud Prevention Agencies ( FPAs ).”
May make automated decisions or build a profile about you.
“To make automated decisions, including profiling, on whether to offer you a product or service, or the price, payment method, risk or terms of it.”
Has a data protection officer you can contact.
“We have a Data Protection Officer whom you can contact by using the contact details at the bottom of this notice.”dataprotection@theaa.com
Tracking tools on its homepageNone named in its code

Named in its homepage's code when we read it. Others may load later, so this list may not be complete.

Uses OneTrust to ask which cookies you allow.

Safety

Malware and phishingNo malware or phishing warnings found for its websiteThis check is not perfect: it can miss a harmful site, and it can wrongly warn about a safe one.
Malware or phishing threat status
None found
Data breach historyNo known data breach involving the company
Known data breaches found
0
Domain and email securityIts email is protected: mail forged in its name is blocked
Email
MX records
Yes
SPF record
Yes
DKIM key
Yes
DMARC record
Yes
DMARC policy
reject
Certificate
Security certificate browsers warn about
No
Certificate issuer
Google Trust Services
Certificate type
DV
Certificate expires
2 Feb 2027
Hosting
Nameservers
ns0.demysdns.net
ns1.demysdns.net
ns2.demysdns.net
ns3.demysdns.net
ns4.demysdns.co.uk
ns5.demysdns.co.uk
ns6.demysdns.co.uk
Address
104.17.218.184
104.17.219.184

Proof of ownership

What the business has done to prove it runs this website. Each proof adds points to its truth score, up to 5. A proof it has not added is never counted against it.

DNS recordNot added yet+3 possible
What we check
A record the business adds in its domain's settings. Only someone who runs the website can add one.
When we check
On every check. The points stay only while the record is there.
Points
0 of 3 added
Sourcetheaa.com's DNS records
Run theaa.com? Add the record and 3 points are added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Email at its own domainNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That someone at the business has confirmed an email address at its own website's domain.
When we check
When the address is confirmed. It counts from then on.
Points
0 of 1 added
SourceTruth Signal's own records
Run theaa.com? Confirm an email address at the domain and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Lets our checker read itNot added yet+1 possible
What we check
That its robots.txt file names our checker, TruthSignal, and lets it read the whole website.
When we check
On every check. The point stays only while the file allows it.
Points
0 of 1 added
Sourcetheaa.com/robots.txt
Run theaa.com? Let our checker read the whole website and 1 point is added to its truth score.Prove you run this website
Points added to its truth score0 of 5
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