Post Accident - Credit Hire Agreements

[demolition man]

I recently had the front ripped off my car by a lane straying HGV.

As soon as I reported it to the Broker and Insurance company, I was deluged with phone calls from accident management companies and hire car firms. They were offering a like for like car hire as it was a 'non fault' accident...and I wouldn't have to pay a penny!. Wow...really? That sounds too good to be true

Just a word of warning - these companies have a win/win.... as if they can't get the money back off the other side for some reason, then YOU are responsible for the cost....and it's usually about double or 3 times the cost of hiring from Hertz/Enterprise etc.....

[mobile01]

thats right and the like for like is bull as well, they gave me a 1.9 diesel alfa saying it was the same as the Ro lol. charging 260 a day, had it over 3 months. think they were 24k new on the road so mine was paid for in one hiring

[ARAF]

And people wonder why insurance premiums go up so much.

I never take their cars as we all have to pay for it in the end.

[CatherineJ]

I had understood that you paid some sort of insurance premium e.g around £10 so that in the event of them being unable to get their costs back then you were exempt and it was claimed from their insurance.

I have used these sort of people on 3 occassions (Helphire x 2 and Presitge). Helphire were very good the first time round, we got an immaculate E220D when our A Class was side swiped. Second time round the Audi A4 they sent me was a bit of a disgrace, that was when our 3 series got shunted. Prestige were pretty good giving us a Cayenne S when our X5 was shunted.