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I have arranged car hire with Enterprise at Georgetown South Carolina from April 4th until May 18th. I have used them in Phoenix, Arizona and several other times in South Carolina.

I have only just realised that it may be cheaper to take out Collision Damage Waiver insurance in the UK to cover me (the only driver) rather than buy from them.

Asked on 18 March 2011 by Ian Cockram

Answered by Honest John
I've had warnings about this from other readers. If you take out the rental company's expensive CDW they will probably find nothing wrong with the car on its return. But if you use www.insurance4carhere.co.uk , they may 'find' a lot of damage to the car, charge you for it directly, then leave you to try to recover it from insurance4carhire.

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