Van hire - best excess insurance provider ?

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I have an annual policy for hiring cars but I need to hire a van for a day next week and I want a policy to reduce the £750 excess that Enterprise want to charge me.

Enterprise charge £15 or so per day but this only reduces it to £250 excess.

I see a few around the £7.99 for zero excess and £6.99 for a £100 excess but I wonder if anyone has any recommendations.

Kilty_2

Hertz do Super Cover (£0 excess) for vans - it was £15 a day when I hired a Vauxhall Combo from them.

If it's only one day I'd just find a hire company that will reduce your excess to zero, the saving using an external provider is greatly outweighed by the hassle of making a claim rather than just handing the flaming van back and walking away :rotfl:

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Kilty wrote: »

Hertz do Super Cover (£0 excess) for vans - it was £15 a day when I hired a Vauxhall Combo from them.

If it's only one day I'd just find a hire company that will reduce your excess to zero, the saving using an external provider is greatly outweighed by the hassle of making a claim rather than just handing the flaming van back and walking away :rotfl:

Completely agree and it isn't for the sake of penny pinching but rather that I don't have another national van hire place that near to me, Enterprise will pick me up if I want and the local van hire places have so oppressive contracts that no-one in the right mind would use them. If Enterprise did £0 excess then fine but it appears as though they do not.

Kilty_2

How far would you need to travel to another hire co?

I left my car at Hertz 40 miles away overnight because they were the only company that would hire to me at the time (I was 19)

Bit of a pain mind.

rs65

property.advert wrote: »

I see a few around the £7.99 for zero excess and £6.99 for a £100 excess but I wonder if anyone has any recommendations.

That could be the one I use for annual car hire cover. Remember it also includes cover for tyres and windscreen

If its a 24hr hire (returning the following day) that counts as 2 days cover therefore £15.98.

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Kilty wrote: »

How far would you need to travel to another hire co?

I left my car at Hertz 40 miles away overnight because they were the only company that would hire to me at the time (I was 19)

Bit of a pain mind.

20 odd miles, which means two of us going there, driving car and van back and then on return, two driving there and so forth. Just too impractical given the alternative.

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rs65 wrote: »

That could be the one I use for annual car hire cover. Remember it also includes cover for tyres and windscreen

If its a 24hr hire (returning the following day) that counts as 2 days cover therefore £15.98.

Yeah, I say that ruse to rob you for 2 days as well. However, as we'll be finished in 1 day, it will cost only 1 day's insurance.

A point to note is that the hire company is per hire day so you only pay them one day as well.

Good point about the tyres, windscreen and other stuff.