Courtesy Car Entitlement

Being involved in a car accident isn’t fun, and sometimes it’s downright dreadful. What can make it worse is if you’re car is damaged in the accident and needs repairing or replacing, leaving you without a vehicle for a sometimes extended period of time. This is especially frustrating when you’re not the person who caused…

Crashing A Courtesy Car

What if you are involved in a car accident while you’re driving one of our courtesy cars? It’s a reasonable question to ask and there have been many instances where our customers have had an accident while driving one of our courtesy vehicles. This is understandable given that a Crash Index report released by AAMI…

Courtesy Car Fuel

In this article we will take you through our courtesy car policy as it relates to fuel. However, before we delve into that, we thought we would explore the different petrol grades that are currently available on the market and explain why you might use one grade over another. We’ve all rolled up to the…

Driving A Courtesy Car

We have talked at length about the courtesy vehicles we offer at Acorn Rentals and the simple process you can go through to drive away in a like-for-like courtesy vehicle today (for free if the accident you were involved in was not your fault) In this article we will talk about you driving a courtesy…

Getting A Courtesy Car

If you’re involved in a car accident, whether it was your fault or not, and you’re in need of a courtesy vehicle to drive while your own vehicle is being repaired, Acorn should be your first port of call. Our replacement vehicle service is dedicated to getting you back on the road as quickly as…

Courtesy Car Excess Waiver

If you’ve been following the Acorn blog you know that we offer like-for-like courtesy cars in a range of circumstances, but particularly when you are in an accident that isn’t your fault. But what if you are in an accident while you’re driving one of our courtesy cars? It’s a reasonable question to ask in…

Courtesy Car After Write Off

The phrase “written off” is used to legally define those vehicles that are so badly damaged in a car-accident or otherwise that to repair them is impossible, or simply too expensive. Vehicles are categorised as “written off” in circumstances where, because of that irreparable damage, they are considered too dangerous to keep registered and on…

Like For Like Courtesy Car

Being involved in a car accident is a stressful, often traumatising experience for all parties involved. But despite the injuries that can be caused to the drivers and the passengers involved, they also ordinarily result in physical damage being done to the vehicles themselves. If you’re in a car accident, whether you caused it or…