4 week car hire including Xmas period

gazzer

My car was written off in an accident last week. My insurance company is paying for a hire car until Tues 22nd Dec I want to wait until Jan to get a good deal on a car so need something for a 4 week period for 2 drivers with full excess insurance (22nd Dec to 16th Jan) Prob be crazy money due to the Xmas period lol. Anybody any suggestions? Cheapest I could find with an additional driver and full excess cover was a grand. Thanks

ARGINITE

A grand sounds cheap for a car for a month over the Christmas period.
You could look at buying a cheap car and running that for a month there's always a few good deals in the bangernomics thread.

bazz26

Are you buying a brand new car in January or used? If used then they may not be much cheaper in January than they are right now. Contrary to popular belief used car prices don't suddenly drop at midnight on New Year's eve. When you take the cost of rental into account it might not be worth waiting.

Dirty Nails

gazzer wrote: »

My car was written off in an accident last week. My insurance company is paying for a hire car until Tues 22nd Dec I want to wait until Jan to get a good deal on a car so need something for a 4 week period for 2 drivers with full excess insurance (22nd Dec to 16th Jan) Prob be crazy money due to the Xmas period lol. Anybody any suggestions? Cheapest I could find with an additional driver and full excess cover was a grand. Thanks

If you have an idea of what you're going to buy,there's nothing to stop you doing a deal for a 211 now.Do the deal,hire a car off the garage & put your own insurance on it. It's not as if you have a trade in as part of the deal.

gazzer

Dirty Nails wrote: »

If you have an idea of what you're going to buy,there's nothing to stop you doing a deal for a 211 now.Do the deal,hire a car off the garage & put your own insurance on it. It's not as if you have a trade in as part of the deal.

That's not a bad idea. I am due back 15k from the insurance company. 5k of that will be mine. Just not sure I will have it before Xmas

bazz26

Check your insurance policy, most have that you cannot transfer your policy to a hire car as an exclusion.

colm_mcm

Buy a Yaris for €700. Sell for €500

Dirty Nails

gazzer wrote: »

That's not a bad idea. I am due back 15k from the insurance company. 5k of that will be mine. Just not sure I will have it before Xmas

I might have jumped the gun here,I assumed you were buying new.

Dirty Nails

bazz26 wrote: »

Check your insurance policy, most have that you cannot transfer your policy to a hire car as an exclusion.

Think that applies to driving a hired car without doing a temp insurance transfer?

Savage_Henry

Another option is to not to take full coverage and take external excess insurance. Its 50 eur per year.
Ok - if anything happens, they will deduct it from you and you claim from your insurance.
I had an accident once and the insurance refunded me the full excess of 2k eur.


But yeah - why dont you buy just anything cheap with NCT and tax and just resell it

User1998

colm_mcm wrote: »

Buy a Yaris for €700. Sell for €500

Or better yet, buy it for €500 and sell it for €700

colm_mcm

User1998 wrote: »

Or better yet, buy it for €500 and sell it for €700

My way is easier.

Charles Babbage

Dirty Nails wrote: »

If you have an idea of what you're going to buy,there's nothing to stop you doing a deal for a 211 now.Do the deal,hire a car off the garage & put your own insurance on it. It's not as if you have a trade in as part of the deal.

Also if you want a 2 to 4 year old car rather than a new one, garages will already have done deals on trade ins and will know what is coming in after the New Year. If you proposed buying one one these the garage would give you hire deal in the meantime.

listermint

Obviously buy on condition. Offer 500 job done.

https://www.donedeal.ie/cars-for-sale/1-2-ford-fiesta/26762024

Cheap motoring sell for same or slightly less quickly.