Totally agree. Unless you're buying from someone you know, any used car purchase is a risk. All you can go buy is condition and some records info. That's all you got.
Hertz to sell 182,000 cars by year end
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Totally agree. Unless you're buying from someone you know, any used car purchase is a risk. All you can go buy is condition and some records info. That's all you got.
A car I rented in Atlantic Canada had the "oil change due" warning light on. I had rented it for only a couple of days so I just kept turning off the warning. When I took it back I told the clerk. She said it wasn't a problem because she had "checked the oil level herself and it was fine".
So maybe they're not all serviced regularly.
I just rented a car for my niece and her 2 sets of twin girls. The service light came on; they asked her to bring it in and gave her a Ford Escape.
But I am sure you are right; some owners perform service better than others.
I rented one a few years ago. The service light was on. The oil had just been changed...but they go by time/miles, not the warning light.
Having bought many ex-rentals, I have yet to have one that had record of more than 2 oil changes in ~36K miles. They could have had more that were not reported to carfax, but I doubt it. Everything else will be as it came from the factory at that point as well, unless it needed a matching used tire or cheapo new set.
Two kinds of people. Those who treat rentals with respect and would buy one and those who don't and wouldn't. My family and I have had good luck, besides most one year old cars on a used car lot are rentals and most three year old ones are lease returns who might have had less maintenance.Then you haven't seen me drive a rental!
I bought a high mileage 2015 Altima from Hertz a couple of years back for a friend. Serviced the CVT twice. Other services as needed. Has almost 140K on it now. No issues.
Ecotourist: our work bought 80,000 ex Hertz cars and most of them didn’t have much done in way of service. All were Kia Souls and Kia Forte’s. Most had maybe 150-2,000 miles on them and were from Florida. I had to change over 200 batteries in them since they all sat in Florida since December/January.
The Hertz yellow Z-06's brought top dollar when Hertz sold them.
