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Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:40 pm
by scrapperqueen
Enterprise Rent A Car is having a used car sale and the deals look pretty good. I wondered if anyone had any experience with this?
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:42 pm
by BeatrizS
Nope but my cousin just bought a car from EBAY!
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:43 pm
by KBeachy
No I haven't. I do know that they generally get rid of their cars before they get too old or too many miles on them.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:43 pm
by scrapperqueen
No fooling!
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:44 pm
by letumom
If you do, be sure to run it through the service that is connected with Car Maxx - it will check the vin id to make sure there have been no accidents, or if the car was part of an insurance buyout. You would especially want to check that if the car is in an area that might have had recent flooding.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:45 pm
by IreneP
Our old grand caravan was a leased car LOVED IT
now we have an advenger which I can barely see out of
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:49 pm
by scrapperqueen
They have Carfax reports on the listings on their website.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:51 pm
by AlwaysHappy
My Chevy Blazer was a lease vehicle. I've had it several years now and it's never given me one minute of trouble. It's been the best vehicle I've ever had. They have to keep those cars in tip top running shape because that is the heart beat of their business. No regrets here~~
Good luck on whatever you decide.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:16 pm
by grifscap
It is my understanding that the cars are well taken care of in between being rented and sold. We have brought program cars before and they were good deals with low miles. We were not sorry be bought them, I would think those rental cars would be about the same.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:25 am
by scraptag
My brother just bought one. He told me that the dealerships don't give them 100,000 mile warranties, only 36000 mile warranties. So they try to get rid of them before their warranty is up. So if you buy one, get the extended warranty and you should be golden!
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:29 am
by SarahA
Yes, I have. I actually bought it from a dealership who told me some old lady turned it in. Months later, I found some paperwork in the visor that said it was a car from National Car Rental. It wasn't a bad car, but it did have a lot of little things that went wrong with it within the first year of having it. The rental places do regular maintenance on them and keep them clean. The bad part is that people don't always drive a rental as nicely or gently as their own, so they are usually kind of abused by the renters.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:57 am
by jody01
No, but I have mixed thoughts on if I would too. lol depend on good the deal was I guess! I would take to a mechanic and let them take a look before I actually took it home
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:54 am
by Queen Mum
Jeff Foxworthy says that buying a used car from a rental agency is like going to a whore house to look for a wife.
Just saying.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:05 am
by scrapperqueen
Queen Mum wrote:Jeff Foxworthy says that buying a used car from a rental agency is like going to a whore house to look for a wife.
Just saying.
That is hilarious, Gloria!
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:41 am
by BeatrizS
jody01 wrote:No, but I have mixed thoughts on if I would too. lol depend on good the deal was I guess! I would take to a mechanic and let them take a look before I actually took it home
ROFLMAO!!!
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:10 am
by Grandma Flowers
Nope, never have.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:15 am
by IreneP
Queen Mum wrote:Jeff Foxworthy says that buying a used car from a rental agency is like going to a whore house to look for a wife.
Just saying.
ROTFL
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:20 am
by MarthaT
My last vehicle was, and I got a steal on it. It was a 2008 jeep Patriot. I purchased it with a little over 20k miles on it. Like said above, it was only eligible for the 3 yr 36k mile warranty. I bought an aftermarket warranty for around 1k so for 11k total I had a 1 year old car with a long warranty, hard to beat that deal.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:39 am
by katarria
Never done this, but I suggest going to this site:
http://www.carbuyingtips.com/used.htm
I learned some AWESOME tips about buying new in this online age...very happy with the price I got.
Re: Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?
Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:42 am
by beknmichael
Oh no!!! I boought my car last december from a used car lot. well the owner before me only had it for about 3 months and previously before that it was owned by a rental company. Let me just tell you that I have spent more money on an 2007 vehicle than I have on our 1993 camry we had before..The carfax report only reported the last owner drove only 600 miles on the car...not a good idea in my book