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Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7519

I am looking at hiring a car for 3 months, any suggestions ?

The Colonel · **Joined:** Mon Aug 21, 2006 8:49 am **Posts:** 4891

Depends on what you want, but I looked into this, as I was waiting for my new car.

The best i could get for 3 months was from Europcar, at Tones Renault garage Brenda road, opposite halfords.

In the end I didnt need the three months, but hired an astra for 4 days and then 3 days. Got the 3 day one for £125.00 all in.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7519

The Colonel wrote:

Depends on what you want, but I looked into this, as I was waiting for my new car.

The best i could get for 3 months was from Europcar, at Tones Renault garage Brenda road, opposite halfords.

In the end I didnt need the three months, but hired an astra for 4 days and then 3 days. Got the 3 day one for £125.00 all in.

I made a booking for Europcar with the pick up from Tones, I got a phone call a few days later informing me Europcar were no longer operationing out of Tones, nearest place Middlesbrough.

sam collin's ugly brother · **Joined:** Wed May 09, 2012 3:57 pm **Posts:** 734

Phone them and haggle with the online price. Europcar is def cheaper than enterprise and whatever you do. Do not buy that excess reducing insurance. Charge you about £5 to £10 a day. Really not worth it. You can buy a policy online for a year for about £35. I have this policy and was so much cheaper.

https://www.icarhireinsurance.com/?gcli ... od6ggPNQ#0

monkeybutt · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2017 10:06 am

Try Sixt carhire, new kid on the block and reckon to be cheapest.

born toulouse · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2017 10:26 am

Depends what you're using it for. If you don't have to look shiny it might be worth buying a cheap run around and then selling it once your three months are up.

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7519

sam collin's ugly brother wrote:

Phone them and haggle with the online price. Europcar is def cheaper than enterprise and whatever you do. Do not buy that excess reducing insurance. Charge you about £5 to £10 a day. Really not worth it. You can buy a policy online for a year for about £35. I have this policy and was so much cheaper.

https://www.icarhireinsurance.com/?gcli ... od6ggPNQ#0

I always buy an online policy, Enterprise fella said they were no good obviously he was after the extra £10 a day

Jamie1952 · **Joined:** Fri Jul 15, 2011 3:56 pm **Posts:** 7519

born toulouse wrote:

Depends what you're using it for. If you don't have to look shiny it might be worth buying a cheap run around and then selling it once your three months are up.

Thanks for the suggestion but I will be doing a bit of long distance travelling.

The Bishop · **Posted:** Wed May 17, 2017 4:17 pm

Jamie1952 wrote:

I am looking at hiring a car for 3 months, any suggestions ?

Green cars statistically have less accidents.

pooliecrab · **Joined:** Tue Dec 16, 2014 9:31 pm **Posts:** 6028

So do polkadot ones.

JamboPoolie · **Joined:** Sun Mar 08, 2015 4:25 pm **Posts:** 12

Jamie1952 wrote:

sam collin's ugly brother wrote:

Phone them and haggle with the online price. Europcar is def cheaper than enterprise and whatever you do. Do not buy that excess reducing insurance. Charge you about £5 to £10 a day. Really not worth it. You can buy a policy online for a year for about £35. I have this policy and was so much cheaper.

https://www.icarhireinsurance.com/?gcli ... od6ggPNQ#0

I always buy an online policy, Enterprise fella said they were no good obviously he was after the extra £10 a day

Definitely after the extra money. I've got one of these for hire cars and had to use mine on one occasion. Paid the excess up front to the hire company & claimed it back without any hassle from the insurer I held my policy with.

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shilts · **Joined:** Tue Sep 03, 2013 9:32 pm **Posts:** 1573

It's been a long time since I hired a car but remember them asking for a big wedge of cash to reduce the 1,000 pounds excess.......if you still need to do this, rather than pay them and rather than run the risk of shelling out a grand, you can take out an excess protection policy.

They are cheap as chips and don't just apply to the hire car, they can be used on your main vehicle. With that in mind, if your current insurer would shave a chunk off your annual premium for a higher excess then take out excess protection for that too as it may work out cheaper to have a higher excess with a separate excess protection policy.

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