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Originally Posted by Tully
I work for a software company as an engineer supporting their sales force. I drive typically 2-3 rental vehicles a month. I'll share this with you guys because I love you ;-) but NEVER - NEVER EVER buy a used rental car. Me and my coworkers have sent multiple vehicles back to the rental car lots on flat beds because of how much we've abused them.
We'll drive them for MILES in 1st gear with the e-brake engaged - on the highway (bucking/smoking/etc). Or be going 20-30mph and suddenly engage the e-brake to see how far we can slide the vehicle....etc etc etc
Seems ridiculous...but you have no idea how funny it is until people drive by staring with the oddest looks at your disabled/smoking/bucking vehicle as your rolling down an interstate. 
The funny thing is, with most corporate rental agreements, all insurance is included and half the time the rental car company doesn't even ask what happened, they are just happy to get 2000-4000lbs of metal back to the lot.
We've done this to an H3 and ended up getting MONTHS of laughs out of the event....got it stuck in a snow embankment and ended up DRAGGING it out w/ a tow rope and a V8 Tundra. :-)
Dumbest thing you can ever do is buy a used rental vehicle. |
Your right, I didnt realize that there many banana heads like you out there.
