It's okay, my credit card has coverage: a foray into credit card rental car insurance
Rental cars are often an integral part of travel, and the ol' insurance waiver salesmanship is one that rental car agencies seem to stress pretty hard. We (almost) never get the rental car insurance because we believe that our credit card will cover any damages. But will they? What follows is my recent experience with a rental car insurance claim and some notes on what I learned. Spoiler alert: that wasn't so bad, after all! If you've been following this blog, you know we took the Nissan Armageddon on some crazy back roads. Well, while we were driving down one of the National Forest roads (not even one of the wild ones), a limb from a fallen tree scraped the side of the car. The car was so filthy that we didn't even notice it until we washed the car just before returning it. I thought it would buff out and crossed my fingers that I wouldn't hear anything about it. The most obvious scratch in the picture was on the front door, just behind the w