Anyone knows a good deal on replacement car hire during car repaire? My car needs to be fixed and will be out of action for at least a week.
Need a cheap place to hire another car during this period (work and sending kids to school etc). I checked a few websites and the prices are too expensive for a whole week car hire. Hoping to find a good promo code for car hire companies.
Unfortunately my insurance policy does not offer replacement car.
Any advices would be helpful.
Replacement Car during Car Repair (Sydney)
arctan on 28/03/2022 - 12:46
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Insurers started providing cars on not-at-fault claims to cut out places like Right2Drive, as they charge rates that are borderline extortion - $150/day for a Corolla
yep, if not at fault, call the 'at fault' insurer and request to either organise a hire car for the required period, or expect to receive an invoice from someone like right2drive against the at fault insurer/party.
99.9 times out of 100 the insurer will organise you the vehicle.(if you're at fault…well… thats the risk you took)
Yep agreed with calling the other party's insurer. I've called RACQ before, and they arranged it then and there once I quoted the claim number.
(Obviously not for the OP in this case as they are at-fault)
The whole family rely heavily on car and you chose not to include "car replacement" in your policy. Wait, I am just assuming this is accident/incident related why you don't have car for a week.
This is actually a valid comment. For future reference, if your insurance doesn't provide that , that policy isn't for you.
Only problem at the moment is that most insurers only give 14 days of coverage, and repairs are taking a lot longer than that because parts are getting affected by COVID supply chain issues.
You can ask them to extend it so it goes longer than 14 days
@kerfuffle: When you're at-fault, they usually only cover 14 days per most PDS' I've seen.
Only one I've seen so far that gives unlimited in Suncorp Comprehensive Advantages, but thats around $200 more than their normal comprenhensive product
Yeah its us at-fault therefore we can't get a car from the insurance company.
No Birds car rentals?
Thanks man let me check their price
Try Car next door.
last time I heard rent-a-bomb can be quite cheap, not shiny 1 year old car but does the job.
They dont offer service in Sydney
Buy a $2k corolla/Mazda. Sell for $2k when done.
I hired a car from this place in Windsor when I got a spray in liner for my ute. It was an old Corolla with -200k kms but it was just $30 for 24hrs. Did the job for me. They have a range of cars.
I assume this is accident repairs, rather than servicing/mechanical failure because you mention insurance.
Were you at-fault? Some insurers include free rental cars if you're not-at-fault, otherwise places like Right2Drive will provide a car charged to the at-fault's insurer if your insurer doesn't provide this (I know some of the budget places don't, whereas QBE, NRMA, Allianz do).
Insurers started providing cars on not-at-fault claims to cut out places like Right2Drive, as they charge rates that are borderline extortion - $150/day for a Corolla or i30 isn't uncommon, whereas insurers pay ~$40/days on their negotiated rates.