‘Be open’ with your car hire company
June 12, 2008 by admin
Filed under News, News-Insurance
Tourists travelling abroad this summer and planning on renting a car should be honest with the hire 
company, particularly if they are thinking of doing anything “slightly out of the ordinary” such as driving across the border to another country.
Neil Greig, the director of the IAM motoring trust, has said that drivers taking their hire car into another country risk invalidating their car insurance.
However, he noted that this is not always the case and holidaymakers can safely drive from Spain to Gibraltar without negating their insurance.
“It is always worth checking the fine print because if you do end up having an accident you may not have breakdown cover [or] you may not have insurance cover if you actually damage the vehicle,” Mr Greig warned.
According to Which? people are often unaware that there is often a large excess, sometimes more than £1,000, when hiring a car abroad.
