fooking car hire companies

A lot of them will tack a db.

Trap junior wrote: Anyone book using Car hire excess.com? What are they like?  Instead of paying hefty insurance for excess at the desk?  Any hidden things they wont pay up on if I plump for this?

Read the T&C.
If the claim is genuine, and you follow their T&C’s, they have to pay.
I have paid for it regularly (€3 per day approx for Europe) but never had to make a claim.
The car hire company will take anywhere from €1,000 to €2,500 approx from your credit card if you do proper damage.
You then submit a claim with Carhireexcess when you get home to try and get your money back.
Make sure you have all the details of the “incident” when you send in your claim.
Take a lot of photos of the car (wheels, locks, bumpers) when you get it in the car hire car park.
Take a photo of the dash when the engine is turned on to record the mileage, and to see if any warning lights were on when you got the car.
If the incident involves another vehicle, call the police, you’ll more than likely need a police report.
Have the excess company phone number on your mobile.
Ring them straight away and tell them what has happened, don’t wait until you get home to ring them, get a claim reference number, take loads of photos of the car at the scene of the damage, ask them exactly what you need to do.
Keep all the email confirmations of your original booking of the car hire, accommodation booking, flights booking etc.
Keep all receipts.
If you’re under the influence, or were driving recklessly, you’re fooked.

We had a claim years ago that came to about €5,000 while abroad.
It wasn’t to do with a car, but the travel insurance company’s list of requirements was very long.
We posted in all the forms/receipts, when I phoned for a progress report, they said they never received anything, luckily I had photocopied everything and hand delivered the next envelope to their office.
Got every penny back.

Trap junior wrote: Anyone book using Car hire excess.com? What are they like?  Instead of paying hefty insurance for excess at the desk?  Any hidden things they wont pay up on if I plump for this?

I always use them and get a discount too - I can give you the code if you want it.

If you are to use a debit card - you have pay the full insurance.

How exactly does the car hire excess crowd work? Do you still have to pay the excess at the desk when you collect the car or do they cover it for you??

Edited by ShamtheRam - 28 Jun 2018 at 9:54am

horsebox wrote: Trap junior wrote: Anyone book using Car hire excess.com? What are they like?  Instead of paying hefty insurance for excess at the desk?  Any hidden things they wont pay up on if I plump for this? I always use them and get a discount too - I can give you the code if you want it. If you are to use a debit card - you have pay the full insurance.

bhob wrote: I normally just pay the full excess so there's no worries.   We in NZ last year and rented a car for about 6days, drove all around the North Island and some f**ker marked up the whole left side of it reversing their truck out one morning and did a legger. When I dropped it back they didn't care because I was fully insured.

Patman Scoop wrote: TJ Do you know what would be the perfect card to use in this situation if your worried about getting screwed ?

Revolut Cards. Is there anything thry cant do?