Cheap car hire - want to leave a car on drive whilst away

[giger]

We're going away soon in the family car leaving no vehicles sat on our drive for a week whilst we are away. As there have been a few burglaries around us recently I'm keen for the house not to look blatantly empty as we have a fairly large drive. We used to have another car that would be parked on the drive whilst we are away, but we no longer have it. I don't want to leave my modified beemer out front for obvious reasons.

I know this sounds a bit mad, but I'm wondering if it is worth hiring a cheap car and leaving it on the drive for a week. I'm thinking if I can get something for around £100 it's money well spent for piece of mind.

Anyone think of any other suggestions or recommend anywhere for cheap car hire? We're in Solihull, West Mids (near B'ham). If I can find a smaller company than the big names, I'm sure I can probably get what I want within budget.

Edited by giger on Wednesday 26th April 14:44

[giger]

We're going away soon in the family car leaving no vehicles sat on our drive for a week whilst we are away. As there have been a few burglaries around us recently I'm keen for the house not to look blatantly empty as we have a fairly large drive. We used to have another car that would be parked on the drive whilst we are away, but we no longer have it. I don't want to leave my beemer out front as a few have gone missing recently.

I know this sounds a bit mad, but I'm wondering if it is worth hiring a cheap car and leaving it on the drive for a week. I'm thinking if I can get something for around £100 it's money well spent for piece of mind.

Anyone think of any other suggestions or recommend anywhere for cheap car hire? We're in Solihull, West Mids (near B'ham). If I can find a smaller company than the big names, I'm sure I can probably get what I want within budget.

What do other people do?

Edited by giger on Wednesday 26th April 14:44

Edited by giger on Wednesday 26th April 17:49

[giger]

I had thought of the neighbour thing - problem is our immediate neighbour outs one of there cars in the garage, leaving them only one on the driveway. Our other neighbour is around the corner so not convenient. No houses opposite!

[giger]

Riley Blue said:

some stuff - at least that's not as as bad a friend of mine who posted on FB this morning that he and his wife are on holiday abroad.

Thanks for that mate, but Solihull is a big place, with lots of houses with big drives and I could be going away at any point in the next few weeks or months.

But as we are all friends lets remove the quote or blank out the details

Edited by giger on Wednesday 26th April 14:46

[giger]

we have timers etc, it's more that there will be no car on my drive for a week. Probably over thinking it. If I could find car hire for £60 then that's a no brainer.

Like the Home Alone reference

[giger]

Taking a step back it does seem quite tragic, but as a number of houses have been burgled in my immediate area and also a number of cars stolen you need to think about these things.

I don't want things to get out of hand, we usually have a spare car that is on the drive but we no longer have that so it'll be the first time that we'll be away and have an empty drive.

Just thinking out loud really.

As mentioned, neighbours cars are not an option. I'll follow up on a couple of the cheap hire car places, but was also interested in what others do.

Thanks!

[giger]

Condi said:

You're worried about cars being stolen.

Your car is not going to be there for a week.

So to prevent the car that isnt there being stolen, you're going to hire a car and leave it outside the house instead.

No, I'm worried about my house looking empty when several homes around us have been burgled.

[giger]

Think I might just hammer frozen sausagess in my own lawn and hope for the best