Insurance on hire vehicles
Submitted: Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 at 11:37
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wato35
Planning on hiring a 4x4 from
Darwin in a few month. The price is ok, but if you don't want a $5000 excess you pay a heap for insurance.
Too dear to have, but you cannot afford not to get it.
Just wanted to vent my frustration.
Reply By: Rangiephil - Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 at 17:32
Wednesday, Apr 24, 2013 at 17:32
And then there was the story that had everyone talking when I was on the GRR.
Apparently a European couple rolled their rented Hilux camper on the
Mitchell Falls track and the woman was frantic to hitch a ride back to the nearest phone at Drysdale to cancel her credit card before the hire company found out about the rollover.
The story as told was that there was a clause in the insurance that excluded a one vehicle rollover. I don't know whether the hilux camper was supposed to be on that very DIRT road .
Although the incident was supposed to have happened on the same day we were there and is not eligible for a Snopes entry , I wonder if any companies exclude rollovers or whether the couple were concerned about the Excess.
Maybe the lady from Drysdale can confirm or deny , as they would have probably had to recover the Hilux. This was 3 years ago August.
Regards Philip A
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