Abused Rental Cars

[rationull]

Originally Posted By: PandaBear
full throttle on the freeway entrance that has a traffic light from 0-75mph (3 seconds)



I want to drive what you're driving

 

[Bill in Utah]

Originally Posted By: rationull
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
full throttle on the freeway entrance that has a traffic light from 0-75mph (3 seconds)



I want to drive what you're driving


Yes since there is very few (if any) cars that could do it.

And asking if hitting a rock @ 75MPH? Please... If you hit anything @ 75 you are going to have issues.

Interesting how people try to justify beating on something..

 

[XS650]

Originally Posted By: rationull
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
full throttle on the freeway entrance that has a traffic light from 0-75mph (3 seconds)



I want to drive what you're driving


Would you settle for smoking what he's smoking?

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Originally Posted By: Falcon_LS
To date, I've always treated rental cars as my own. My philosophy is it's someone else's property, even if I have paid to use it. I just don't see the "fun" in it.

+1
Back in 97 A bunch of us rented a new 97 C.V. from Hertz and went cross country in it...We treated it like it was our own..We even checked the oil regularly and added some when ever it neeeded it as we put over 7k miles on it..We even watched where we parked it so it wouldn't get dinged.

 

[01rangerxl]

Rental cars are no more of a risk than any trade in, lease return, company car, etc. Many people abuse cars they own, and anytime a car changes hands there's a new opportunity for someone to tear it up.

Earlier this week I saw a used car dealer "inspect" an F-150 that was about to be auctioned. Part of the inspection was revving the engine up to the limiter in park over and over again.

 

[The_Jeff]

Rented a neon in Vegas. GPS gave me shortest route to Utah... thru the mountains!

Was a very scenic drive. Took good care of the car, even when ruts and clods of dried mud were smacking the undercarriage.

 

[rpn453]

Originally Posted By: XS650
Would you settle for smoking what he's smoking?

I've got a buddy who is into abusing rental cars. I don't understand the appeal. I occasionally light up the tires on a rental car (where possible), but no differently than I do with my own car. Orphans have feelings too!

 

[moribundman]

I've rented cars, usually a Suzuki SJ4, in North Africa and in the Canaries. The rental agreements for the ones in the Canaries came with a "no off-road driving" clause. Right. I would never go off-road with an off-road vehicle. Never. Not Me.


I believe I am still blacklisted by Europcar.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: eljefino
Rented a neon in Vegas. GPS gave me shortest route to Utah... thru the mountains!

Was a very scenic drive. Took good care of the car, even when ruts and clods of dried mud were smacking the undercarriage.

Remind me to never purchase a used car from you...oh wait, you probably only do that with other folks cars, certainly not your own.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: CROWNVIC4LIFE
Originally Posted By: Falcon_LS
To date, I've always treated rental cars as my own. My philosophy is it's someone else's property, even if I have paid to use it. I just don't see the "fun" in it.

+1
Back in 97 A bunch of us rented a new 97 C.V. from Hertz and went cross country in it...We treated it like it was our own..We even checked the oil regularly and added some when ever it neeeded it as we put over 7k miles on it..We even watched where we parked it so it wouldn't get dinged.

Yep...now here is a guy with class and good old fashioned decency! There IS hope for America after all.

 

[PandaBear]

Originally Posted By: rationull
Originally Posted By: PandaBear
full throttle on the freeway entrance that has a traffic light from 0-75mph (3 seconds)



I want to drive what you're driving


Full throttle for 3 seconds, but not yet to 75mph =)

 

[mstrjon32]

Originally Posted By: 01rangerxl
Rental cars are no more of a risk than any trade in, lease return, company car, etc. Many people abuse cars they own, and anytime a car changes hands there's a new opportunity for someone to tear it up.


I'd feel better about a rental than I would about a lease return, to tell you the truth. Most people I know with leased cars beat the total [censored] out of them, change the oil at the maximum interval possible, and don't care at all about damage they do to the interior.

 

[Cutehumor]

Originally Posted By: rpn453

I've got a buddy who is into abusing rental cars. I don't understand the appeal. I occasionally light up the tires on a rental car (where possible), but no differently than I do with my own car. Orphans have feelings too!


I can understand it. Your like a kid in a candy store. Especially if you rent a nice rental cars like a corvette or V-8 equipped engines. check out youtube vids of people abusing rental cars.

 

[andrewg]

Originally Posted By: Cutehumor
Originally Posted By: rpn453

I've got a buddy who is into abusing rental cars. I don't understand the appeal. I occasionally light up the tires on a rental car (where possible), but no differently than I do with my own car. Orphans have feelings too!


I can understand it. Your like a kid in a candy store. Especially if you rent a nice rental cars like a corvette or V-8 equipped engines. check out youtube vids of people abusing rental cars.

Perhaps....but the act is indicative of not knowing the difference between right and wrong. As adults WE ARE NOT KIDS nor should we behave like ones with property not our own.
Makes me sick and points to a society that does not understand value, responsibilty, and good citizenship.

 

[Bill in Utah]

And the IDIOTS take video of the abuse (oh sorry... "use") of the rental.

And post it on youtube.

Class acts.

Someday that is going to be someones car. Someones car that they worked hard for and bought.

Someones wife and kids going down the road some day and it dies.

That's REAL "cool".

 

[andrewg]

I couldn't agree more Bill. You, and a few others here, easily grasp that trashing/abusing a rental car is an act of vandalism. I'm saddened that some here have an attitude that it's funny, cool, or somehow accepted that you do this with a rental. Another even suggests that they are built to take abuse like this and no real harm is done. It's really a pity. I know that after seeing what I see next door to my work that I'll NEVER buy a rental car (even though I realize that some have had no issues with them) for the simple fact that it's highly possible it was abused by either low-life employees....or destructive psuedo-criminals.

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Quote:

Perhaps....but the act is indicative of not knowing the difference between right and wrong. As adults WE ARE NOT KIDS nor should we behave like ones with property not our own.
Makes me sick and points to a society that does not understand value, responsibilty, and good citizenship.

+1

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

Originally Posted By: andrewg
I couldn't agree more Bill. You, and a few others here, easily grasp that trashing/abusing a rental car is an act of vandalism. I'm saddened that some here have an attitude that it's funny, cool, or somehow accepted that you do this with a rental. Another even suggests that they are built to take abuse like this and no real harm is done. It's really a pity. I know that after seeing what I see next door to my work that I'll NEVER buy a rental car (even though I realize that some have had no issues with them) for the simple fact that it's highly possible it was abused by either low-life employees....or destructive psuedo-criminals.

+1

 

[CROWNVIC4LIFE]

This post has my heart racing because all 3 panthers in my fleet were former rentals.

 

[Bill in Utah]

Originally Posted By: CROWNVIC4LIFE
This post has my heart racing because all 3 panthers in my fleet were former rentals.


My first and only rental was a 99 Ford Taurus with the Iron block / Iron heads 3.0l V6 Vulcan motor.

It had 21k on it and was a Hertz rental. They showed the oil changed @ 4k, 10k, 15k and 21k.

At 61k it sprung a headgasket leak. Not a common thing. Fixed it and then again @ 108k it did it again. Fixed it and sold it to a friend who has it and just passed 160k with it and no problems. (He did know about its history)

Funny thing is the transmission is still going great! (and they are KNOWN for being problematic )

Would I buy another? Prob not. Why? Seeing how people treat things that they don't own. Thinking that its right to abuse it because "it's just a rental" and they are screwing the "company".

Bill