millimole wrote: ↑14 Jun 2021, 4:41pm
mjr wrote:pete75 wrote: ↑13 Jun 2021, 11:04pm
Then they're fools. Why have a vehicle with expensive costs like tax, insurance and depreciation if you don't use it much? Might be more sensible to hire a vehicle when needed..
Car hire companies are far away and pretty awful to deal with
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There is a circle of hell which involves car hire companies.
You order an estate - you get a massive SUV, you order a city car and you get an estate. The prices are opaque and there's always hidden extras. Is fuel included, or not? Was that stone chip really not there in the wheel arch when I collected the thing?
If the costs of hiring were marginally cheaper, I'd still keep a car waiting on the drive so I didn't have to deal with these criminals.
Take plenty of photos and email them to the car hire firm before you drive off and plenty as you leave the car back again emailing to the company to get a date stamp on.
Credit hire companies have a special evil all to themselves. They manage a no fault claim on behalf of your insurance company -- it cost about £3k to fix our car but £6k for the car they hired to us while they fixed ours. All I can say is it's one hell of a money racket.
You're advised to take out a legal cover insurance for about £20 before all this goes on. Then they try to bill the at fault parties insurance £9k which is rightly contested.
Then the credit hire company employs a solicitor who contacts you to warn you if you do not give the go ahead to pursue the £9k bill then you could become liable for the car hire cost.
So you say yes pursue the claim -- what happens after that is the firms all come to some agreement that suits them and it's sorted but it's all a big chicken dance as far as I can see to wangle as much money around the lads as possible.
I'd guess if you didn't take the £20 insurance cover none of that would happen but would I want to test that theory ? -- NO!
I am here. Where are you?