insurance 4 tyres/windows 4 car-hire?

smallblueplanet

Does anyone have any other insurance links for covering car-hire xs and tyres/windows etc??? Have used the annual insurance4carhire b4 but at fifty-odd quid for the year when all I want is a weeks cover.....

trets77

don,t think there is anthor way other than insurance for car hire

this link may give you some advice on your choices

http://travel.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,18409-2166250_1,00.html

smallblueplanet

Thanks I've used insurance4carhire - they're good I was just trying to save money really.

I wouldn't hire a car again without having the xs/exclusions covered after driving a hire car in France and having the windscreen broken by a lorry throwing up a stone. The bill would have been considerably more than the cost of insurance4carhire's policy cost!

richardw

Why do insurance4carhire say

'Not valid to (rent a vehicle) within 150km of usual residence'?

LesD

smallblueplanet wrote:

Does anyone have any other insurance links for covering car-hire xs and tyres/windows etc??? Have used the annual insurance4carhire b4 but at fifty-odd quid for the year when all I want is a weeks cover.....

Where do you want to hire? In Spain, most suppliers do cover for €10-15 per hire for wheels, tyres and glass. And there's not usually any basic excess.

smallblueplanet

Not 100% sure where we're going yet - probably mallorca or cyprus or crete. Trouble is I don't want to get to the hire window and find they don't offer cover - or I can't understand whats being offered!

trets77

thing to do would be take your insurance4car hire policy out as close to to the date you go ( you take out a policy 3 months before start date) then try to next your next holiday within the 12 months thus getting two holidays on the policy.

smallblueplanet

I'd thought of that but I'm not sure it makes economic sense to say i have to go on holiday abroad next year to use my car-hire cover!