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I would never buy a rental, just based on how i've driven my rentals the
past two months. And I normally drive quite conservatively, but city
I would never buy a rental, just based on how i've driven my rentals the
past two months. And I normally drive quite conservatively, but city
driving just brings out the worst habits in me.
On 10/16/07, John M McIntosh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I used to go fishing up in the mountains of Colorado on roads that
were only passable by 4x4 trucks or rental cars. I would fly into
Denver, rent a car, and bounce it all over those roads for a week. If
it didn't have rattles in the dash before, it would after...
YMMV.
This was years ago. Course
Not sure what enterprise does, but the cars my parents bought had
under 23k on the clock. Your trip would have gotten the car on the
lot really fast.
clay
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I used to go fishing up in the mountains of Colorado
not hard at all if you have the right equipment. I saw a report on
German TV a couple of years ago where there was a thriving market for
folks who would come to your house etc and reset the odometer to any
reading you want ( and at the time is was not really illegal, one of
those loopholes
Couple of people I know have been happy with cars they bought from
Enterprise. I've also heard horror stories about the things people do
to rental cars. Any opinions?
Allan
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Still they would be newer, they likely had regular approved service,
how would you know the treatment
was *any* different than a car from some used car lot which has no
history...
Is there some large difference in
Don't know about the pricing. Seems reasonable, but not really great
at first glance. Especially considering they probably bought them at
a serious discount from the manufacturer. One draw is that there is a
large selection in one place. They *say* that they only keep their
best cars for sale,
Hi,
I bought a 2001 Cherokee Classic in December 2001 23k miles.
I had them install a western plow and drove it to 93k and love it.
$19,800 and 8% $492 for 5 years. Still my newest of the fleet.
Ed in Chicago
'82 300sd 120k; '85 190d 90k; '90 sub 6.2 na 252k; '90 F250 7.4 4x4 95k;67
Enterprise is *supposed* to be real good at maintaining their vehicles,
but I had to rent one of their compacts a couple of years ago in New
Hampshire that only had about 10k miles on it and the thing was beat.
At least most of the car places are better on keeping the scheduled
maintnence up,
Allan,
For what this is worth, when I was working a friend at work had bought
program cars for years as she would put quite a lot of miles on a car each
year as she lived a considerable distance from work. We were office mates
eons ago and, even though we were in different areas of the company in
You should buy a brown one. Then no one would be upset if you gave it a
name.
--R
Glenn Brown wrote:
Allan,
For what this is worth, when I was working a friend at work had bought
program cars for years as she would put quite a lot of miles on a car each
year as she lived a considerable
car but I have no desire to go
out and really flog it.
My Aunt has a Volvo she bought from a rental agency, she's had terrific luck
with it.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:58:45 -0400
From: Allan Streib [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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she bought from a rental agency, she's had
terrific luck with it.
-Curt
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:58:45 -0400 From: Allan Streib
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My family bought a 78 Mercury Zephyr from Hertz many
years ago. Lasted 10 years 100k miles w/no problems.
Got me through college.
Would do it again through a rental car company or
through CarMax or the like as cars come off lease.
Fred Johnson
1977 240D
1983 300SD
1991 A/R 164
1996 Civic
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Friend of our family ran a Hertz agency back in the '70s, they did
absolutely NO maintenance - at least at that time.
Still they would be newer, they likely had regular approved service,
how would you know the treatment
was *any* different than a car from some used car lot which has no
My folks did the purchase a rental. Liked the three cars they had.
No issues and they drove them across the country a number of times.
Biggest issue was to get dad to install new tires when needed. All
were toyota, so no data about american cars if you are looking at them.
clay
On 16
on 10/16/07 20:30, OK Don at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Friend of our family ran a Hertz agency back in the '70s, they did
absolutely NO maintenance - at least at that time.
Yeah I worked for Budget around that time and many of their outlets did the
same thing. Was well known in the industry on
on 10/16/07 11:58, Allan Streib at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Couple of people I know have been happy with cars they bought from
Enterprise. I've also heard horror stories about the things people do
to rental cars. Any opinions?
Any car can be subject to abuse, just ask a dealer service
In a message dated 10/16/2007 8:59:21 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time,
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Couple of people I know have been happy with cars they bought from
Enterprise. I've also heard horror stories about the things people do
to rental cars. Any opinions?
Allan,
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