Select Car Rental hires vehicles in South Africa.
Check whether the rate includes a waiver and what the excess is, because on a budget rental the excess is frequently many times the weekly rate. Your own credit card or short-term insurer may already cover it.
Cross-border travel needs written authorisation from the rental company, plus a cross-border letter and often a separate fee. Taking a hire car over a border without it invalidates the cover entirely.
This page covers how to contact Select Car Rental in South Africa. The details below were taken from the official Select Car Rental contact page rather than from any third-party directory.
ContactDetails.co.za is an independent directory. We are not Select Car Rental and cannot act on your behalf. Everything on this page is a routing aid so you reach the right official channel quickly.
Select Car Rental contact numbers
We could not verify a contact number for Select Car Rental. Its website at selectcarrental.co.za blocks automated access, so we could not read its contact page when we checked on 23 August 2026. The site works normally in a browser.
We have deliberately not published a number here. An unverified number is worse than none: it sends people to whoever happens to answer it, which is exactly the mechanism behind contact-detail scams.
Self-service options before you call
- Check the official site at selectcarrental.co.za, which carries the current contact details and any online enquiry form.
- Calling outside peak times. Monday mornings and the hour after 17:00 are usually the worst for South African contact centres.
What to have ready before you call
- A clear one line summary of what you need resolved.
- Your account, order or reference number if you already have one.
- The identity document or account holder details, since most South African providers verify who you are before discussing an account.
- Dates, amounts and any error message exactly as it appeared.
- A pen and paper for the reference number. Ask for one every time, because without it a follow up call starts from nothing.
Money, goods and phone contact with an offender
- Deposits go through the centre’s own channels only. Handing money to anyone else, inside or outside, is not a deposit and there is no record of it.
- Taking items in outside the process is an offence for the visitor, not only for the offender, and it is the commonest way a family member ends up charged.
- Cellphones are contraband. Possession inside is an offence, and calls from a smuggled phone asking a family for money are a known scam.
- Nobody can buy a transfer, a visit or a release. Those are administrative and judicial decisions, and anyone offering to arrange one for a fee is defrauding you.
- Keep receipts for every deposit. Disputes about an offender’s account are resolved on the centre’s records and yours.
If someone phones claiming to be an official and asking for money to help a detained relative, end the call and phone the correctional centre on its published route. That call is one of the most common frauds run against families.
Complaints and escalation
If a first call does not resolve the matter, escalate through the business’s own management first, in writing. Unresolved motor complaints go to the Motor Industry Ombudsman of South Africa on 010 590 8378, free of charge.
Keep a short written log of each contact: the date, the channel you used, the name of the agent and the reference number. Most motor industry complaint processes ask for exactly that history, and having it ready is usually the difference between a fast resolution and starting over.
Avoiding fake Select Car Rental contact numbers
Contact details for well known South African brands are a common target for impersonation. Numbers that look official appear in search ads, social media replies and cloned websites, and the person answering is not Select Car Rental.
- Reach Select Car Rental through the official site at selectcarrental.co.za rather than through a number in a search advert or a social media reply.
- Select Car Rental will never ask you for your full card number, PIN, CVV, online banking password or a one time PIN. Nobody legitimate needs those to help you.
- Treat any caller who creates urgency, asks you to install remote access software, or asks you to move money to a safe account as fraudulent, and end the call.
- If you are unsure whether a call was genuine, hang up and dial the official number yourself rather than calling back a number the caller gave you.
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Frequently asked questions
What is the Select Car Rental contact number?
We do not publish one, because we could not confirm a number on an official source. Numbers do circulate on directory sites, and we do not republish those.
How do I know a Select Car Rental number is genuine?
Check it against the official site at selectcarrental.co.za. A number that only appears in a search advert, a social media reply or a third-party directory should not be trusted for anything involving your account, your money or your identity document.
What should I do if nobody resolves my query?
Ask for the complaint reference and the escalation path on your first call, then follow the escalation route described above. Keep the dates, agent names and reference numbers, because every formal complaint process will ask for them.
Can ContactDetails.co.za resolve this for me?
No. We are an independent directory, not Select Car Rental, and we have no access to your account. Everything here is a routing aid so that you reach the correct official channel with the right information in hand.
Is there a cost to calling these numbers?
South African 0860 and 0861 numbers are charged at a share-call or standard rate depending on your provider, and 0800 numbers are toll free from a landline. Calls from a mobile are billed at your own operator’s rate, so check your plan if cost matters.
Contact routes on this page were checked against official sources on 23 August 2026. If you find a detail that has changed, the official source is always the authority.