Car Hire Excess Insurance

We are renting a car for a couple of months and are purchasing an Annual Excess Insurance Policy. Do we advise the hire company that we have this policy or do we keep quiet about it ?
I may be a bit suspicious, but have a thought if they know about this Policy that suddenly they may find a problem when we return the car to the airport car park.  We have been told to leave it there and they will collect it later

Any advice ?

You don't need to tell them you have an annual policy, its for your peace of mind not theirs. If they try to sell you their own just politely decline and say you don't need it. We've had an annual policy for a couple of years now, never had a problem, never had to claim, but certainly feel loads better having it.

I'm certainly glad that we have annual car hire excess insurance as our car apparently had a puncture when the hire car company checked it in at Reus airport in May. Solmar did not have a rep on site as they no longer use Reus so we had to drop the keys into Auriga crown. The first I knew of a problem was when I checked my credit card statement and saw a charge of €200. Apparently they take €200 then get the car fixed and refund you the difference. As it was my word against theirs there was not much we could do. Certainly did not notice a problem as we drove to the airport. After chasing them for approx a month we finally got the invoice from them for a new tire of €146 and then a bit more chasing to get the refund of the difference, as well as the refund for the fuel as it was a full/full. Insurance paid up no problem - definitely worth the piece of mind.

Lesson learnt photos of car before and after

 The car hire excess insurance usually covers the bits that your hire company doesn't ie tyres, windscreen, lost keys etc! Check out the policies that are available. Google "car hire excess insurance" and you will find lots of sites to choose from.

Hi

We are looking to take out this type of insurance before we go to Spain next Saturday.

Can anyone recommend a company to go with as doing a google search brings up lots of companies, but that does not mean they are any good.

We always like to go with one that is recommended by someone

Many thanks

 We used WorldWide Travel Insurance and even though we made a claim last year, they gave us 10% discount for renewal. To be honest I think that although there are different websites they mostly use the same companies. When I phoned up for the claim form it turned out to be AXA!

Just make sure you read the small print and keep all documents with you. I unfortunately left the original hire document in Spain and had the ask the hire company for a copy which the insurance company accepted. Biggest tip take lots of photos of the car before and after and when you get home keep checking your credit card statement for charges!

Just bought a Policy with icarhireinsurance through quidco and got £13 cash back.

I use www.protectyourbubble.com