| Vive le Quebec |
| Everybody knows the saying, "Drive it like a rental." But does anyone have any actual rental car stories that live up to this statement? |
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| Orzel_pl |
| I once rented a Camry and spilled salsa in the backseat. They never noticed. Mad Burn. |
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| 95EagleAWD |
| Pretty good airtime in a rental Civic on range roads over railroad tracks. |
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| ae1969 |
No stories..... but tips I can give you.
1. Take a digital camera and take pics of every side of the car and windows.
2. Drop off when an attendant is present. Take pictures again.
3. Use your visa (make sure you have rental coverage). Don't buy the optional insurance.
........ ideally try not to bag the rentals. In the end someone has to pay. |
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| Vive le Quebec |
K, my story:
Vehicle brokedown in Calgary. Left it there at friends place in order to get back to Edmonton via one-way rental from Avis.
Rental vehicle: Oldsmobile Alero
1. Jack-rabbit starts off EVERY light, EVERY stop no matter where.
2. Best part: taking it back screaming into the parkade with tires squeeling at the Edmonton International with the attendant watching the whole ordeal. First thing he asks me when I get out with a shit-eating grin on my face, "Is this your car?"...my response, "It's yours now." Hand him the keys and walk off. |
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| 95EagleAWD |
I got rear-ended in a rental Impala into the back of a Jeep.
The whole front end of the car was trashed, but still driveable. I called Enterprise and told them that I was rear-ended, and they said, fine bring it in.
I did... guy took one look at the crunched front bumper and smashed hood and said "you got rear-ended!?!?!?"
I had a huge smile on my face and went: "Yep! Here's the police report. More keys, please!!!"
Left with the abovementioned Civic. |
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| ChromeDragon |
| Never rented a car before, but I have heard the stories of many others who have taken advantage of their extra insurance. |
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| shawley |
never rented as i'm not old enough
but i know many funny stories from people
in canada and the usa
lets get started
350 burnouts everywhere
chevy hhr hitting garbage cans and the driver didn't get close enough, so the passanger opened the door into it, and they also drove into feilds and shit, and smashed the bumpers and fenders and just screwed the car (i saw the video, they even had on car video)
seen a mini van drifting on the salt flats haha
people renting one car the track package and owning a similar car and stealing parts like brakes and rims well swaping
people renting mustangs just to do burnouts
pathfinders and just going offroading everywhere with them
some vans and pulling the (hand) ebrakes while going like 120 and giving the tires flat spots and just screwing stuff over on it haha
haha some funny shit |
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| Vive le Quebec |
| ^ those are gooders...especially the ebrake while driving in a straight line, that's a fun one...and looks funny as hell. you're not slowing down very fast yet your tires are friggen' squeeling...and then of course the flat spots. |
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| Flex |
| an that is why you never buy a used rental car |
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| midnite |
| i'll just say the 4 wheel drive got well used in those daily driving situations where you must bust through ditches or climb over stuff. |
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| Vive le Quebec |
quote:
Originally posted by midnite
i'll just say the 4 wheel drive got well used in those daily driving situations where you must bust through ditches or climb over stuff.
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| 95EagleAWD |
quote:
Originally posted by midnite
i'll just say the 4 wheel drive got well used in those daily driving situations where you must bust through ditches or climb over stuff.
Yeah, I seem to have that happen a lot to me when I'm in my dad's Jeep... last time he was washing mud out of the doorjams for 3 months. |
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| ReasonOne |
I have at least 2 dozen stories and I'm trying to think of a good one.
I remember a few years ago renting a Chrysler Intrepid. It was winter time, a snowstorm was brewing and the rental I reserved (a 4x4 with winter tires) was "accidentally" given to someone else. :mad: This car was the only one they had left and I had to take this thing down to Lethbridge for an IT- related meeting. It had all seasons on it and the smallest engine available for that vehicle. I was falling behind in time and I still had to pick a fellow tech up and a $5000 IBM Netfinity server before leaving Calgary for Lethbridge. They gave me a steep discount because of the mistake so I figured why not pay for extra insurance just in case.
Luckily, I did. :lol:
Visibility was limited and the majority of traffic were driving at 70 kmph. I was racing through at 150kmph regardless of the conditions (I was pretty reckless in those days). I called my boss to tell him I would be late because of the above mentioned circumstances, but he wasn't interested in hearing it. He made it clear that it was mandatory that I be on time for this meeting or my chances of promotion could be affected. Oh well, no big deal. I increased my speed to upwards of 170 kmph on the straight portions of the highway, then it happened.
Not when I was doing 170. Not even when I was doing 150. But when I was 25 km outside of Lethbridge when I had slowed down to 70 to avoid any risk of getting pulled over by the RCMP. As mentioned before, visibility was limited (to about 25 to 30 ft). Right in my line of vision appears a 5 car pileup with their hazards all flashing. I began braking slowly, but I knew that I wouldn't stop in time. I hear the brakes squealing like mad even after not applying much pressure (they might have been worn out or frozen) so I downshift the transmission manually and that brought me down to about 45. Yeah, I think.. I can just drive around them now - I'm safe. :rolleyes:
I was. Until my sleeping co-worker in the passenger seat woke up. I maneover myself in between two of the cars involved and think I'm safe. In the middle of this, my chum in his groggy state begins shaking my right arm and asking me what the hell is going on. That shook the steering wheel enough to get me in a 4 wheel drift. Right after passing in between the two cars I find I'm drifting at a 45 degree angle down the highway - with a sixth car waiting form me another 30 ft away with it's hazards on. I try to keep the steering under control but it backfires. I've just turned the car into another 45 degree angle - this time with the rear facing the metal railing. I miss the sixth car by 5 ft but now the rear ass is dragging itself against the metal railing. The squeal of metal scraping metal is deafening and I'm wondering how that $5K IBM server is holding up in the trunk. :omg:
I shift down to 1st and nudge the steering wheel to the right. The car straightens out and I'm able to stop safely. I push on into Lethbridge and when we get to our destination we step outside the car and inspect the damage. The rear bumper and trunklid are pushed in and crushed from the rear centre to the passenger corner. There's also a set of deep scrapemarks along the passenger rear quarter. The trunk is jammed shut so we're freaking over the condition of the server. I have to put down the rear seats to get it out. To this day I don't know if there was anything wrong with it because I handed it over to a co-worker who needed it for an installation the next day.
When I return the car, they freak out on me. I pull out my additional insurance contract that gives me the big 0 deductible. :lol: There must have been at least $2500 in damage and I didn't have to pay a penny. Man were they pissed. I took that time to tell them if they had given me the vehicle I requested with winter tires this wouldn't have happened in the first place. Man that was fun. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
let's see...
My car was i for warranty work, so they send me to a rental company, dealership is paying for a neon sized car. I walk in they offer some tiny little thing, I look at it and say that won't work. They look at me, and I say well my car has modified rear suspension because I haul papers in it, I have no problem doing that in one of your cars, but do you?
Soooo that gave me a 4x4 Dakota, no extra charge.....
I did a couple gravel donuts by acccident, took it down a couple quad paths, nothing tooo major.
Next time my car was in, I was at Frag, they wanted to give me a small car, I explained bout all the equipment I had to haul back, and the papers the next morning... Free upgrade to a 2004 Grans cherokee, thing had like 5,000km on it.
So I folded all the seats forward and loaded it up, all the way.
Got home, did my papers, took it out on some quad paths, though a mud pit, almost got stuck a couple times.
it had like 3" of mud on it everywhere... I get back to Edmonton, I went to a wand wash to try and clean it up so they wouldn't yell at me.. got it looking clean in the car wash, by the time I got back to the rental company it had dried and there wher still huge mud chunks on it. I notice the front plate holder was on upside down, so instead of hugging the front bumper in hung down. The guy was checking out the jeep, and I commented about, he said something, so I joked about it's the offroading detection system, if it comes back broken, you know they went off road, he kinda laughed and all was good.
There was the martix I got when my car was in after an accident... I "upgraded" for 2 days to a truck, the only truck they had a F350 crew cab long box 4x4, Wow whats a beast, I upgraded because I ws moving, the first day the wife made me take her places shopping for a new bed and such, then I moved with it, wasn't quite done moving(Only drove like 150km and fuelk was $50 in that truck) I managed to talk Budged into letting me keep the Matrix after I upgraded, so it sat there for 2 days at budget and htey couldn't rent it, I got it back, flips the seats down and used it to finish moving. I only got the really big stuff moved with the truck.
Then there was the brand spanky new 04 intrepid.. Nice car.. governed at 160 though... grrr. I pulled out to pass a semi like I would in my neon, hit 160 and the fuel cut hit...When I pass I stomp on it, full throttle til I pull back in, unless I have lots and lots and lots of room, but not knowing how the intrepid would accell on the highway I pinned it.
The next day I was driving from Athabasca to Boyle, it was really foggy, so I was going a little slower, 4 ways on, and I smoked a deer. I get out check the deer, it's dead. Check the car.. in the fog all I can see if the hood on the pasanger side is pushed down, so I pop the hood, twist the keeper thing, close the hood, ok she's lined up good. Continue my journy....
Get home, fog has lifted, wif looks at it, sees a ripple and a crack in the front bumper, deer hair sticking out. So thinking I'm gonna have to get it fixed, I got 4 quotes on a new hood and bumper. Bring it back, buddy looked right at the der hair, and his fingers over the ripple, so it's not like I hid it and they didn't notice, but he let it go.
Sooo really nothing special I did in a rental that I wouldn't do in my own vehciles. I mean when I got my 4x4 after my neon I took it everywhere I took the rentals and them some.. maybe just a little slower cause it was older.. but hey... |
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| KashHash |
| well myself I used to work for a rental company in edmonton not to long ago...and trust me NEVER ever buy a rental car...the employees bag the shit of every vehicle possible...myself I've taken mustang gt's and gone drifting...done donuts...burnouts...taken them out on to the highways going as fast as the stangs would go...and yeah...the usual off roading in the jeeps and trucks...e-braking with fusions and cobalts...it was pretty fun...and whats funny is I was being paid while i was doing all this :thumbup: |
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| Vive le Quebec |
quote:
Originally posted by KashHash
well myself I used to work for a rental company in edmonton not to long ago...and trust me NEVER ever buy a rental car...the employees bag the shit of every vehicle possible...myself I've taken mustang gt's and gone drifting...done donuts...burnouts...taken them out on to the highways going as fast as the stangs would go...and yeah...the usual off roading in the jeeps and trucks...e-braking with fusions and cobalts...it was pretty fun...and whats funny is I was being paid while i was doing all this :thumbup:
:eek: :lol:
gotta love the testimonials from actual employees.
i'm still waiting for somebody to do a jackass story...tell the story of how they deliberately blew up teh rental or took it back in peices... |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by Vive le Quebec
:eek: :lol:
gotta love the testimonials from actual employees.
i'm still waiting for somebody to do a jackass story...tell the story of how they deliberately blew up teh rental or took it back in peices...
You mean like the wet shot of Nitrous in the rental Neon where they put extra fuel in the windshield washer bottle and plumb it to the throttle body... I think in the mag they said they got a 75 shot going before they blew the engine, revertd it back to stock in like 10min, pushed it off te track, and onto ta publuc street, called the rental company and had it towed back. :P |
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| Stainless |
I'm going to be the asshole here, but is it okay to do this to rental cars, yet when some idiot breaks into your car and steals your stereo, you come crying to the forums.
I kinda think that respect should be universal. The rental companies are business that need to generate profit to stay solvent. If there are a ton of "Jackasses" who do this to cars on purpose, then the rest of us, the "adults" have to pay more to rent a car.
I know the MTV generation is all about consumption and destruction, but give it a break already. |
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| 95IntegraRS |
The worst thing I ever did to a rental car was swap some parts.
My buddy had the Performance Pkg 350Z and wanted the Brembos and the Rays 18 inch wheels.
So we got a rental Track Pkg and swapped the parts over. No damage done.
We took it back and they never noticed. I believe they sold the car as a Track Pkg model. I wonder if anyone ever noticed. :D |
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| Vive le Quebec |
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Originally posted by 95IntegraRS
The worst thing I ever did to a rental car was swap some parts.
My buddy had the Performance Pkg 350Z and wanted the Brembos and the Rays 18 inch wheels.
So we got a rental Track Pkg and swapped the parts over. No damage done.
We took it back and they never noticed. I believe they sold the car as a Track Pkg model. I wonder if anyone ever noticed. :D
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| 95EagleAWD |
quote:
Originally posted by 95IntegraRS
The worst thing I ever did to a rental car was swap some parts.
My buddy had the Performance Pkg 350Z and wanted the Brembos and the Rays 18 inch wheels.
So we got a rental Track Pkg and swapped the parts over. No damage done.
We took it back and they never noticed. I believe they sold the car as a Track Pkg model. I wonder if anyone ever noticed. :D
:bowdown:
You're the man, Matt. |
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| 95IntegraRS |
| *bow* Thank you, thank you! :thumbup: |
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| tokes |
| Got a beater sunfire rental while my buddies car was in the shop last summer. Take one nitrous kit (sans solenoids and jets, of course), duct tape the hose inside the air filter housing, open bottle, and enjoy nitrous kit :) |
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| SilverZ24 |
| And people then post here and wonder why many rental companies don't want to rent to people under 25. lol |
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| Inzane |
quote:
Originally posted by 95IntegraRS
The worst thing I ever did to a rental car was swap some parts.
My buddy had the Performance Pkg 350Z and wanted the Brembos and the Rays 18 inch wheels.
So we got a rental Track Pkg and swapped the parts over. No damage done.
We took it back and they never noticed. I believe they sold the car as a Track Pkg model. I wonder if anyone ever noticed. :D [/B]
Congratulations. You have just openly admitted on a public forum that you committed a crime. What you described is theft... several thousands of dollars worth. |
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| ae1969 |
quote:
Originally posted by 95IntegraRS
The worst thing I ever did to a rental car was swap some parts.
My buddy had the Performance Pkg 350Z and wanted the Brembos and the Rays 18 inch wheels.
So we got a rental Track Pkg and swapped the parts over. No damage done.
We took it back and they never noticed. I believe they sold the car as a Track Pkg model. I wonder if anyone ever noticed. :D
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I am not sure why everyone has such little respect for others properties?
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| Britain |
| Rent a mustang or something and take out the extra insurance.. Add nitrous and you have a fun rental car.. If the engine goes you have insurance! |
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| Vive le Quebec |
| Is it really that easy to add NOS to a rental? Where do you put the bottle and where do you run the hoses to and how do you run the hoses? |
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| shawley |
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Originally posted by Vive le Quebec
Is it really that easy to add NOS to a rental? Where do you put the bottle and where do you run the hoses to and how do you run the hoses?
i know in a trailbazer you can add everything with drilling one hole, for the nossles or w/e
everything else had paths to go lol |
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| Godzilla |
| my swim team rented a 15 pass van for nationals in kamloops last year, they told us when we picked it up that we have insurance and they are happy if we return the key. We took it literally, half the interior pannels were falling of and that thing got bagged and off roaded soo friggin much, not to mention our favorite new game, median jumping! |
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| silvermist |
| a friend of mine used to work for a gm dealership on the south side she told me once they had a h2 come in because the rental company was complaining about something on it( I don't remember what.) any how they jack it up and take off the skid plates on the bottem and the mechanic is dumb founded as he turns around to see the skid plate still there. Some one rented it and went off roading with it,( dealer voids warinty if you go off reading with the car.) and they caked the suv with so much mud the skid plates looked like they where still on the car after taking them off. |
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| JonJonPoPong |
Wow so many people who have no respect for anothers property.
Hopefully when someone strips your car thier nice enough to replace the parts they steal with shittier ones.
What are you 13 you think thats cool?
God your like those idiot kids who steal candy bars from a 7 11 and think thier all "gangsta".
yea your so cool, why dont you tell us about the time you went into futureshop and when no one was looking you stole a CD key to some game? |
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| TrevorK |
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Originally posted by Stainless
I'm going to be the asshole here, but is it okay to do this to rental cars, yet when some idiot breaks into your car and steals your stereo, you come crying to the forums.
I kinda think that respect should be universal. The rental companies are business that need to generate profit to stay solvent. If there are a ton of "Jackasses" who do this to cars on purpose, then the rest of us, the "adults" have to pay more to rent a car.
I know the MTV generation is all about consumption and destruction, but give it a break already.
I agree 100%.
I've rented several cars now, and everyone I treat as if it were my own (I park where I'm least likely to get a door dent, don't follow semi's for fear of chips, etc...). Hell, I even fixed a piece of trim that fell off for them too.
Why do people think because it's rental it gives them the right to trash it? |
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| ChromeDragon |
quote:
Originally posted by JonJonPoPong
Wow so many people who have no respect for anothers property.
Hopefully when someone strips your car thier nice enough to replace the parts they steal with shittier ones.
What are you 13 you think thats cool?
God your like those idiot kids who steal candy bars from a 7 11 and think thier all "gangsta".
yea your so cool, why dont you tell us about the time you went into futureshop and when no one was looking you stole a CD key to some game?
Hey c'mon now. Stealing car parts may be stupid, but snagging CD keys is HARDCORE!@:bowdown: |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
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Originally posted by ChromeDragon
Hey c'mon now. Stealing car parts may be stupid, but snagging CD keys is HARDCORE!@:bowdown:
expessially when the manufacture is dumb enough to put them on the outside of the package. |
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| Bad Egg |
I am with the buzzkillers that are saying you need to respect other people's property, and that includes rental company property. You don't have to baby it, but deliberate theft and destruction is just wrong. That being said, here is a story from years ago about an old buddy who had no respect.
Buddy gets a rental while his new "Vette" is getting some warranty work done. Buddy takes same said rental on a road trip/pussy hunt and comes back towards town late at night. Being low on fuel, he pulls into a farmyard where he has previously "borrowed" gas from a bulk tank just out of site of the farmhouse. Buddy fills up and heads off to town.
A couple of miles down the road the car dies on the way up a hill. He does some troubleshooting and discovers that the sneaky old farmer had changed the tanks labelling and buddy had filled up with farm diesel instead of purple gas. The next day buddy went back to the rental car and punched a hole in the gas tank with a nail, drained it completely(handy the car died on a hill!), filled the hole with chewing gum, and added a jerry can full of gas and drove off.
Needless to say buddy never said anything when he dropped it off. |
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| Vive le Quebec |
quote:
Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
expessially when the manufacture is dumb enough to put them on the outside of the package.
WHAT?! i can't believe they'd do that. wow...that's pure brilliance on their part.
Ya, I suppose swapping parts is a bit of a jaw-dropper...and so is DELIBERATELY destroying a rental car...but come on, bagging it?! I bag a car when I test drive it...even the salesperson tells me to. When I drove the X5 4.4i...I was driving like a wuss, and the dude looked at me like, "WTF mate?!"...so I drove like a bat out of hell and he screamed, "Now that's how you drive!" So in the end bagging the shit out of a rental car is about exploring that car just like I did when I originally bought my car...when you get acclimatized to it, I'm sure it subsides, besides it just wastes gas. |
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| 95EagleAWD |
quote:
Originally posted by Vive le Quebec
when you get acclimatized to it, I'm sure it subsides, besides it just wastes gas.
You'd think so, eh? |
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| Can't_stop_ns |
I had a jbody rental when my civic was hit. I use to put a chunk of steel on the gas pedal in the morning then go eat breakfast while the car bounced off the rev limiter.. I figure if they didn't want that to happen they should have rented me something with command start. =P
Needless to say the car with 5000kms on it was burning oil and had a blown speaker when I took it back. |
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| Stainless |
quote:
Originally posted by Can't_stop_ns
I had a jbody rental when my civic was hit. I use to put a chunk of steel on the gas pedal in the morning then go eat breakfast while the car bounced off the rev limiter.. I figure if they didn't want that to happen they should have rented me something with command start. =P
Needless to say the car with 5000kms on it was burning oil and had a blown speaker when I took it back.
You are the coolest ever.
Edit: And I bet your neighbours love you too. |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
Yeah,, why would you redline a car when it's warming up? I mean you went in to eat breakfast so it's not like you needed it warmed up in a hurry.
And I have never never seen a rental yet with command start.
A shop did that to my truck, redlined it when it was -40 and first start of the day.... quite the piss off, they actually cracked the head, shattered a coupld lash adjusters.... GRRR |
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| Vive le Quebec |
quote:
Originally posted by Can't_stop_ns
I had a jbody rental when my civic was hit. I use to put a chunk of steel on the gas pedal in the morning then go eat breakfast while the car bounced off the rev limiter.. I figure if they didn't want that to happen they should have rented me something with command start. =P
Needless to say the car with 5000kms on it was burning oil and had a blown speaker when I took it back.
i had a good chuckle at this.
are you for real?! |
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| Can't_stop_ns |
| Yes I am being honest.. If you want to know the real reason why I started treating the car like complete shit was because the autobody shop that had my car. Had returned it once to me all ready with the frame still bent, to the point where I had to hold the steering wheel at a 45 degree angle just to drive in a staight line. I was more then a little angry at them considering that they charged me 3000 to fix the car. Its a rental and I can think of a lot worse things to do to a car... have you ever looked at the outside shoulder on the whitemud going east bound where 149th goes over and joins the whitemud. I think that would be pretty sweet at about 80-100km/h |
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| TrevorK |
quote:
Originally posted by Can't_stop_ns
Yes I am being honest.. If you want to know the real reason why I started treating the car like complete shit was because the autobody shop that had my car. Had returned it once to me all ready with the frame still bent, to the point where I had to hold the steering wheel at a 45 degree angle just to drive in a staight line. I was more then a little angry at them considering that they charged me 3000 to fix the car. Its a rental and I can think of a lot worse things to do to a car... have you ever looked at the outside shoulder on the whitemud going east bound where 149th goes over and joins the whitemud. I think that would be pretty sweet at about 80-100km/h
Nothing screams maturity like maliciously damaging property because you're upset.
So if Futureshop doesn't treat you right do you start cutting down/pulling out all the trees in their parking lot to get even? :smack: |
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| Insomniac |
no, a better analogy would be that Future Shop didn't treat him right so he cut down the trees at the local burger king.
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| shawley |
quote:
Originally posted by TrevorK
Nothing screams maturity like maliciously damaging property because you're upset.
So if Futureshop doesn't treat you right do you start cutting down/pulling out all the trees in their parking lot to get even? :smack:
i've seen someone do that at bestbuy beacuse they were mad:lol: |
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| silvermist |
quote:
Originally posted by shawley
i've seen someone do that at bestbuy beacuse they were mad:lol:
that would have been so f--k funny to see I ssooooooo wish I could have seen that. what best buy was it. |
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| 95EagleAWD |
quote:
Originally posted by silvermist
that would have been so f--k funny to see I ssooooooo wish I could have seen that. what best buy was it.
South Common. |
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| 180sxforthewin |
| We were in Cancun about 5 or 6 years ago and my parents rented an old VW buggy. The rule was you had to fuel it up before bringing it back so we were cruising around at around 11pm at night trynig to find a station. My dad was driving quite fast and he didnt see the crosswalk approaching and when we hit it the bug caught air. The crosswalk was higher than the road in a sort of A shape which acted as the jump. I hit my head on the roof, it was pretty fun. My dad has a courtesy truck right now and I have been taking it out to the back roads doing brake stands and donuts and what not. I love rentals. |
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| Vive le Quebec |
quote:
Originally posted by shawley
i've seen someone do that at bestbuy beacuse they were mad:lol:
:lol:
oh man, i had a good laugh.
that's friggen' amazing.
ya, destroying property is bad, i agree...but bagging a rental, like driving the piss out of it isn't damaging it. if a car wasn't meant to go around a corner at 60 kmh, it wouldn't, it'd either flip, understeer, or spin it...but if it can hold control, then it was meant for that type of maneuvering, right?
ya come on...i sense some agreement here. offroading a vehicle is bad if it gets damaged, but if it's just caked in mud, then that's just sweet. |
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| TrevorK |
quote:
Originally posted by Vive le Quebec
ya, destroying property is bad, i agree...but bagging a rental, like driving the piss out of it isn't damaging it.
Driving the piss out of it is disrespectful.
If you wouldn't do it to your car, why a rental? |
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| SilverNeonRacer |
quote:
Originally posted by TrevorK
Driving the piss out of it is disrespectful.
If you wouldn't do it to your car, why a rental?
Cause I drive my car teh same way :P Or rather I drive the rental just as hard as I drive my own. |
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| Vive le Quebec |
quote:
Originally posted by SilverNeonRacer
Cause I drive my car teh same way :P Or rather I drive the rental just as hard as I drive my own.
That's exactly it. I don't drive my car like a sissy. I drive the piss out of it. Not everyday, because it's not that easy in rush hour traffic, or when you have a passenger in your car (co-worker). But on my own, hell yes, I love to throw my 'cura around corners in jet-fighter style maneuvors. |
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| SilviaDrifter |
| hahah someone brought a ford tauras rental out to one of the autocrosses this year hahahahaa |
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| Vive le Quebec |
quote:
Originally posted by SilviaDrifter
hahah someone brought a ford tauras rental out to one of the autocrosses this year hahahahaa
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and they allow that? |
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| SilviaDrifter |
| hahah yea i guess so...and tehre was liek 4 ppl in it hahaha |
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| SilverZ24 |
I hate to bump this back up, but I thought some people might find this interesting.
We just had someone return one of our rental trucks with an aftermarket exhaust on it. :blink:
The guy that returned it on behalf of the company told is it "sounds like the muffler is wrecked." When we realized someone purposely cut out the stock exhaust and welded on an aftermarket one, the guys from the company claim no one knows who did it (several differnt people have driven it sine they rented it). And now they are pissed that we want to charge about $500 to return it to stock. lol
Anyway, seemed like a crazy thing to do. The truck sounded like shit though. I just can't figure out why someone would do that. :loco: |
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| Can't_stop_ns |
| Was it NADP that rented the truck.. Its sure a easy way to get a car to build a prototype for a aftermarket exhaust system. I would be more then willing to rent a car, bring it to my shop and use it as a test dummy. I would put the stock stuff back on when I took it back though. |
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| SilverZ24 |
| No, oil company. And it was a gas truck. Maybe someone had this exhaust on their truck and wanted to go back to stock and figured swapping was easier than buying a new stock muffler (which it probably would be). Stock parts are expensive. |
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| SilverZ24 |
| So upon closer inspection it was a full cat back exhaust. 4" pipe all the way back. So now we are charging the customer $1500 to have a GM dealership put a full brand new exhaust on the truck. Blows my mind that someone would do this to a rental. lol |
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