I’ve used the crest white before. They work well.
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Great read on the life of your returned merch and the reseller market:
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Get 1 FREE day when you go electric.*?
Interesting buy 2 get 1 free for Hertz EV rentals.
They bought shit load of Polestars and now trying to find a way to make some money on them.
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There’s launch editions on sale for 30k used that look like they were former rentals. Low mile vehicles that might make sense as a commuter if they drop a bit more since they are fairly loaded.
How do you drive, park and treat a rental when you have one? Would you buy one driven like that every day?
I wouldn’t touch one as an owner.
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I don’t abuse rentals nor do I know anyone who does. That said, people like that may possibly have driven the rental in question.
What’s the bigger deal-breaker IMO is seeing a carfax on a former rental with, say, 26k miles and no records of any oil or filter changes. There are other records of stuff they literally could not leave unattended such as a flat tire replacement. But no oil changes, no recalls done, no TSBs done, nothing.
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I drive my rentals pretty decently lol. They also tend to be maintained better. I mean I agree that if it’s 2 comparably priced vehicles I would pick the non rental but I wouldn’t blanket ignore ex fleet vehicles.
Also would think ev wear and tear is lesser. Though flip side is if they drained the battery all the time might cause issues long term.
Agreed.
I also don’t abuse rentals but will eat on the go in a rental without any sort of hesitation when I would almost never do that in a car I owned, park it in the smallest of spots if close, throw gallon after gallon of 87 in it and floor it when required if not on an icy on/off ramp - warmed up or not.
I have also seen hundreds of people abusing rentals over the years, and regularly see employees doing the same with no warm up hooning in and around the lot. A rental with even less than 10k miles looks many times on the outside as if it was driven through the woods at night, with no lights on, by a person with limited vision. I also have never seen a rental with over 2,500 miles that did not have a scratched up top bumper from trunk luggage going in and out. If the outside is that bad, imagine the internals.
Last but not least are the permanent swirls in the paint from hundreds of hard-bristle auto wash run throughs.
Hard pass.
Exactly. Who wants to pay for some 1 inch curb rush or a scratch?
I would never purchase a retired rental, and there are a list of reasons why. Giving a damn on whether some history reports shows oil changes or not is not on it lol. 3/4 of the time, I think he likes to argue for the sake of arguing.
Rental cars are treated and driven like hell. Everyone and their blind grandmother knows that.
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Anyway, “back on topic”. Where is the non-automotive deal discussion. 
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What? How often do you even rent cars?
When you turn a car in the lot attendants almost never even look at anything but if the tank is full and log the mileage. On the front end the gate attendant almost never gets out and looks at the car.
Nobody is checking for scratches, curb rash or anything else.
Never had a problem on any rental, here or there.
Do you rent more cars in Europe than the US?
I do a walk-around video before I leave the Hertz lot just to keep myself safe, but they definitely aren’t seriously checking anything when you do the drop and go. They ask that the keys are there, check in the car, and someones already come and scooped it up and moved it elsewhere.
Unrelated, my last rental was at MSY and literally all they had was a Wrangler 4xE in President’s Circle. I wonder whose LH flip that was that Hertz bought at auction.
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SIXT in Europe charged me $750 for curb rash. Visa INK card picked it up. They definitely scrutinize more there than here. And attitude when returning? Wow.
For me, that’s usually the case with “older” cars that already had been slightly beaten up. What’s an extra scratch, curb rush or a ding when there are already a few of them?
I’ve been renting Tesla Model 3’s lately. And I can’t help but think these things get beat on because they provide that “instant torque” acceleration… so lots of renters (my dumba$$ included) are having fun with these things.
I wouldn’t f with it.
Not to mention these probably get frequent DC fast charging, much higher on average than regularly owned EVs (my guess)… which isn’t good for long term battery life—at least that’s what somebody told me.
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I think we got off track here… can we get back to sharing deals on non-auto stuff? I need to know who’s getting BOGO on some cheap junk.
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