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Car Rental

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  • 31-05-2005 5:47am
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    Overflow
    Registered Users Posts: 1,266 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    I was looking at renting a car from Europcar when i go on holiday next year. There requirement say i need a license for a year before i can rent. I will only have my license 5 months by the time i go on holiday.

    Does anyone know from previous experience if they will let me rent considering ive had my provisional for 2 years before my full license? are rental companies lenient in anyway.

    It doesnt even say that i need a full license on there website.

    http://www.europcar.co.uk/tools/faq_rental.html#06

    Id appreciate any help.

    Cheers

    JC


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    ciarsd
    Registered Users Posts: 2,326 ✭✭✭ciarsd


    email them and print off their reply as proof (if needs be) when it comes to picking up the car.
    i cannot answer from personal experience as anytime I've done it I've had my licence over the 1 year minimum requirement, but i do know that its full licence or nothing.

    i dont think they'd have the 1year min. rule if they were just going to let everyone away with it though...


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    whippet
    Registered Users Posts: 7,686 ✭✭✭whippet


    there shouldn't be a problem ... I did it a few years ago with a license that was only 4 months old. If the refuse, just go to the next desk at the airport and more than likely they will rent you a car.


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    Alun
    Registered Users Posts: 21,464 ✭✭✭✭Alun


    Overflow wrote:
    It doesnt even say that i need a full license on there website.

    http://www.europcar.co.uk/tools/faq_rental.html#06
    Contrary to the unenforced laws here, in the UK a provisional licence is exactly that, i.e. something you have purely in order to learn to drive, and therefore doesn't count for anything in terms of driving experience. The UK Europcar site doesn't mention that you need a full licence because nobody in their right mind in the UK would consider, even for a microsecond, renting a car to a learner driver, so they probably thought it wasn't necessary to even mention it.


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    bazz26
    Registered Users Posts: 51,239 ✭✭✭✭bazz26


    I rented an Audi A4 cabrio last summer over in the Canaries and did a bit of enquiring prior to going there. I found that most rental companies there had rules that you had to have a full licence for 2 years and had to be 21 years of age or over in order to be covered by their insurance.

    Don't know if this applies to your suituation or not. Also found that the rental companies at the airport were more expensive than the local companies.


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