Does this damage quote look accurate?

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The short story:

Hired a car 3 months ago, didn't get £0 excess, backed it into a post, was honest about it on check-in.

Got a bill yesterday for £1015 and a breakdown of the costs. Of course I understand that these kind of parts car be expensive but if anyone has had similar work done for a lot cheaper let me know! Edit: quote to me is slightly different because apparently they don't charge me VAT but do charge an admin fee.

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I figured as much. Thanks for the input.

Lesson learned!

 

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Indeed, it's an expensive lesson to learn.

I often opt for the £0 excess extra but decided not to this time as it was a longer rent period. Hindsight can be a wicked thing (£125 extra spent to prevent a £1k bill).

Thanks again for advice.

 

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Isn't there normally an excess with these things anyway. When I've hired cars the excess is normally £400-500 with the option to pay extra to have it reduced?

Standard excess is £1500 for this company.

Pay a bit more per day to reduce, a bit more for £0.


I've just settled the damage after managing to get the end cost down to £800.

 

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That's not so bad in the end although for next time you can get excess insurance from a third party for basically pennies rather than paying the hire companies 0 excess fees.

You can, do you have an example company? Is it like travel insurance cover?

With all this, I have thought many times I could just buy my own cheapish secondhand car and worry less about it but over the time period, and living in central London, the cost would be a lot higher for something I don't need.