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Hire Car - Windowscreen Crack

  • 25-08-2015 7:47pm
    #1
    Smcgie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭


    Hi folks,

    some advice please. :o

    Hired a car that has to be returned to Dublin Airport tomorrow. travelling down the road today a massive stone flew up and left a crack in the window screen (about the size of a fist)

    I'm not sure what the best approach is - fix it before hand and say nothing to the hire company or ring them and inform them and let them screw me over with a €1000 windowscreen.

    Or as this was an accident do they maybe accept?

    Any ideas.


Comments

  • #2
    Triangla
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 818 ✭✭✭Triangla


    Let them know, windscreens usually covered under comprehensive insurance to get fixed for free.


  • #3
    Gavman84
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭Gavman84


    Losing keys tyres or mis fuel are covered never. If you have an excess you will be charged for windscreen so be better fix yourself if have no excess should be covered. Think was this way when I worked in hertz anyway.


  • #4
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    What insurance was included in the hire?

    If it was a basic insurance I'd be keen to fix it myself.

    Sometimes resin can fix light cracks for only 40 euro


  • #5
    Smcgie
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,379 ✭✭✭Smcgie


    No insurance selected with the hire car company. I have however booked under a corporate discount code - that I believe provides insurance.

    I want to fix it myself but I have to be at the airport early tomorrow!

    Not much hope of getting it fixed before 12am tomorrow is there? Its a brand new car too :(


  • #6
    Dia1988
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,252 ✭✭✭Dia1988


    Smcgie wrote: »
    No insurance selected with the hire car company. I have however booked under a corporate discount code - that I believe provides insurance.

    I want to fix it myself but I have to be at the airport early tomorrow!

    Not much hope of getting it fixed before 12am tomorrow is there? Its a brand new car too :(

    Google windscreen repair depots in your area.

    I'd go with the resin if possible.

    Because if the complete windscreen is repaired the new seals around the windscreen might be noticed by the. Hire company.

    Or you could just say nothing and pray to God they're distracted or half blind


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  • #7
    tk123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,062 ✭✭✭✭tk123


    The Autoglass across the road from Santry park opens at 8:30am! 1 min from the M1 at the port tunnel ;)

    http://www.autoglass.ie/locations/dublin/santry/


  • #8
    L1011
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,186 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    Do NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES go dicking around with unauthorised repairs to a hire car! Jesus christ....

    The lack of stickers and the hire car company disc holder would be noticed immediately on a new screen, and even "invisible" resin repairs aren't actually invisible. "Size of a fist" isn't resin repairable either. But in either case, you would have totally violated your rental agreement, they would find out and they would come after you.

    Check the documents they gave you. Usually screens are either covered with an excess or covered under any form of super cover. However, corporate discount codes are just that - discount codes. They usually do not have any insurance provided FOC.


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