Worldwide Car Hire Excess Insurance
Our worldwide car hire excess insurance policy protects you against high excess fees incurred if you were to damage your rented vehicle. Our policy will protect for damage including theft and scratches and also covers excess costs for towing and lost keys.
Our policies include all drivers listed on the car rental policy, so there’s no additional cost for additional drivers! Get a quote now.
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What is Worldwide Car Hire Excess Insurance?
Travel and drive without borders with our worldwide car hire excess insurance policy. With our worldwide excess waiver insurance you can hire a car almost anywhere and be protected against hefty excess charges should something happen to your hire car.
It works by reimbursing you the cost of the excess charge should you need to make a claim on your car rental insurance policy. This insurance is usually included in the cost of the rental and will typically cover you for an accident, damage, fire and theft. In addition, there should be insurance that covers you for damage or injury to third parties, if you hit someone for instance. However, to make a claim against the insurance you will need to pay an excess charge, which can be as high as £2000. Our worldwide excess waiver insurance covers you for this excess charge, meaning you can relax and enjoy your hire car.
Our worldwide policies cover almost anywhere in the world including the USA, Canada, Europe and Australia. Most car rentals should include all necessary insurance if you’re booking from the UK. However, the level of cover on the car hire insurance can change considerably if you’re traveling to the USA or Canada. Read our guide on car hire excess insurance in the USA.
Frequently Asked Questions: Worldwide
Is it cheaper to take out a single or annual policy?
While you can purchase an annual excess waiver insurance policy when you go to pick up your rental, you will always benefit from taking out an annual policy in advance. Doing your research means that you can understand exactly what the policy will cover, and can compare prices and companies while you are relaxed and have time to make the best decision for yourself – and your wallet. It’s always better to take a policy out in advance when you are not being pressurised by pushy sales tactics.
Why do I need hire car excess insurance?
When you turn up at the car hire rental company and expect to pick up your keys and hit the road, you’ll often be hit by a barrage of offers for products you’ve never heard of before. These products come at an additional cost, above and beyond the price of your hire car – and can include everything from personal injury cover to breakdown cover.
It’s important you do your research in advance, so that you can be protected while also saving yourself a great deal of money. The prices at the desk are always higher than if you had purchased in advance with carhireexcess.insure.
Even with these additional products sold at the car hire desk, it’s important to note that the customer is still liable for damage or theft of the hire car to a certain degree. The majority of insurance policies will expect the customer to meet an excess fee, which can fall anywhere from £500 to £2000 from one car hire desk to another.
carhireexcess.insure removes this excess charge without the need to pay excessive daily fees to the car hire company when you get to the desk. Buying an annual excess policy with us means you’ll be covered for an unlimited number of trips, so long as each car hire rental doesn’t last more than 30 days.
How does excess insurance work?
Let’s assume that in the terms and conditions of your insurance policy, your insurance provider states there is an excess fee of £500 before any claims are settled. Now let us assume all of the windows of your hired vehicle are broken. You make a claim and the total cost of repairs amounts to 1,200 pounds. Before the claim is settled by the insurance company you will need to pay the excess fee.
You make a claim and the total cost of repairs amounts to 1,200 pounds. Before the claim is settled by the insurance company you will need to pay the excess fee. In theory, you have paid £500 towards the damages (the excess fee) and your insurance company has covered the remaining £700.
There are many factors that will determine how large your excess fee is including type of vehicle, the age of the driver, how many years experience the driver has and whether they have any past insurance claims.
To make sure you don’t get stuck with that £500 bill, a car hire excess insurance policy will cover that excess fee in return for a daily payment of around £5 a day for as long as you are renting the vehicle.
This small daily payment will ensure that if you do have an accident or are the victim of a crime, and need to make a claim, you will have to pay nothing, giving you peace of mind on your travels.
Policy Documents
The world offers so many opportunities for great driving holidays. Whether driving along the Great Ocean Road in Victoria, Australia or skirting along the Garden Route in South Africa there is no shortage of asphalt to pound.
Our policies offer coverage for accidental damage, fire, vandalism and theft as well as covering you for damage to the windows and tyres. However, before buying and travelling you should familiarise yourself with all the details and exclusions our worldwide policy offers by carefully reading our policy and key fact documents.
Single Trip Policy Wording
Annual Policy Wording
Key Facts - Policy Wording
Car Hire Excess Around the World
Our UK and European insurance policy is perfect for family driving holidays or weekends away in the countryside in a hire car. If you are planning on making multiple trips to Europe this year or are planning on hiring a car for more than 17 days then our annual policy will work out cheaper for you.
If you are traveling to Australia, South Africa or somewhere else far flung then you’ll need our Worldwide excess insurance policy. If you are planning on hiring a car for three weeks or more then you should get our annual policy as it will work out cheaper than our 21 day daily policy.
Traveling to USA, Canada, Mexico or South America? Car hire insurance is slightly different in these places as it does not include Collision Damage Waiver (CDW) in the policy, commonly included in the UK and Europe. Our policy has you covered with CDW included in our USA & Canada policies.
All prices include IPT
