A car hire rental experience from 2000

I was going through some archive filing, I found copy correspondence with a car hire company that used to hire out great value Mercedes A Class cars.

Like many other users of this service in 2000, I was taken for a ride with charges for alleged damage to the vehicle upon it's return.

It was most frustrating with BBC TV's Watchdog consumer programme becoming involved, MPs and other media outlets.

The £150 debitted to my credit account was eventually refunded and the full account of this episode has been posted up on the insurance4carrental.com site entitled An early experience of hiring a car

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What does all the car hire jargon mean?

This is something I tried to find out today and spent ten minutes going from one car hire company's web site to another.

There are numerous terms like Standard Damage Excess Waiver (SDEW) - Weekly Accident Indemnity (WAI) - Emergency Medical Evacuation (EVE) - Accidental Death and Dismemberment (AD&D) - Repatriation of Remains (ROR) -Personal Effects Coverage (PEC) and we have added a special page at the insurance4carrental.com website

It seems like each individual company comes up with names and abreviations to confuse the general public. Not every company I visited does it, however fortunately most are not on the introduction page.

It is rather confusing for those renting cars. HolidayAutos only had three of these pieces of jargon.

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