Originally Posted by Centurion

The reason your going to have problems without a credit card with a reasonable limit on it is that a hire company will pre authorise a certain amount of your card limit as a bond.

This money is not physically debited from the card but is "held" and not available for use from the card issuer and also ensures that you actually have that amount too.

So - debit cards wont work this way and a prepaid credit card will also have issues since you would have to ensure that you got one with a prepaid amount of the bond which is likely to be quite high.