chip fireball wrote:
enterprise are shiit too. avoid them like the plague.
i work for help-hire. id like to say we are brilliant but.... it depends which of our branches you use. we can get you an ice cream van or a hearse if you want one. theres nothing we dont have. however you would normally have to wreck your own car before you would get one off us.
small local firms are your best bet altough they may not have the exact vehicle you want.
one thing i would say though is do not take out the collision damage waiver they will try and flog you. its a rip-off and its how they make their coin.
Aha Mr Fireball, having been the MD of a vehicle rental company (A Northgate subsidiary) this is something I know a little about and on the CDW, it depends on what we are talking about. Traditional CDW is fair enough £8 - £10 a day to insure a car is fine but the car rental companies introduced and additional waiver at exorbitant prices. This is what I think you're referring to.
From the perspective of the business; all self drive hire cars are insured by law for any driver on the rental agreement however they can't charge extra for insurance otherwise parts of the T&C's would contradict. If you didn't take any CDW you would be driving a car third party only so if it got damaged or stolen then youd better be getting your credit card out.
Anyway its academic, I don't know a single hire company that will rent a car on private hire without standard CDW being taken.
As for the bit about "it depends on which of our branches you use' its the same story industry wide mate. Doesn't matter which company - same old shit just a different name over the door.
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