About 3 months ago there was a collision in our town between 2 taxis. One of them was written of straight away. The other one although it seemed that it should be written off, the insurance decided to fix it. I was talking to the driver today, still in the replacement car. He told me that the bill up to now for the hire car was over £32,000 and he still doesn't know when he will be getting his vehicle back. The damaged vehicle was worth no more than £10,000. Where is the logic?

If hes got a replacement vehicle then the other party has accepted responsibility (clear cut case?), thats when the sky is the limit sadly

About 3 months ago there was a collision in our town between 2 taxis. One of them was written of straight away. The other one although it seemed that it should be written off, the insurance decided to fix it. I was talking to the driver today, still in the replacement car. He told me that the bill up to now for the hire car was over £32,000 and he still doesn't know when he will be getting his vehicle back. The damaged vehicle was worth no more than £10,000. Where is the logic?

We've got a Skoda Superb on hire from a car replacement company after one of our cars was in a non fault accident a month ago, the price is an eye watering £230+VAT "a Day."

The vehicle we had a few weeks ago was £300 per day plus VAT and the vehicle in this case is £275 plus VAT per day. We are in the wrong business.

So why don't they give the owner/driver £200 a day to compensate? Crazy innit.

the "ambulance chasers" are either insurance company backed or have access to the accident database cos without telling them myself or ringing any i got inundated with offers of how much id get when i had a scrape, even my insures solicitors said id win when i knew i wouldnt, how bright were they?

a truck hit me but there were no witnesses and the driver (probably under company rules) wasnt gonna admit liability

I was involved in a non fault accident back a few years ago, the rear back passenger side of my vehicle was trashed. There was quite a bit of damage which I felt was repairable.......but they decided to write it off As mentioned by others on here I had a replacement vehicle costing in excess of £260 per day, the same vehicle in our City from the same operator that I got it from would normally be £284 per week.....the insurance company paid. My supposedly written off vehicle was back on the road before I could find a suitable/similar vehicle to the one that I had

In many cases the Ins company will tell you which car hire company to go to they are probably shifting monies around within companies.....there is/has got to be an angle in it for them.

Theres nothing stopping you hiring one yourself and claiming the (invoiced) costs back though is there