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Getting Personal
Getting Personal
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My advice for dealing with the rental companies is to go ahead and buy the insurance. Think they're getting all this free money? Then you go ahead and trash the car as much as you want. Take it to the shopping center with all the carts in the parking lot. Take it down all the dirt roads you want - don't worry about your speed or the washboards. Hit the ditch? You're covered. Go ahead and beat the car to death - that's what you paid for when you bought the extra insurance.
Because you bought the insurance, they *never* bother to look. Why should they? They already covered you. You pay for worry free use of that car - take advantage of it.
Just keep the receipt so you can prove you bought their insurance.
To be honest, you need to read the fine print. You need to be aware of some exceptions that some places have.
Unbelievable. Yes, that is what went through my head when David Lazarus gave the recommendation to your Miami listener. You know, the one about getting a bill from the car rental company. What kind advice is that to tell someone they should photograph all sides of the car before and after the rental? Should we photograph the mileage, too? What about the engine compartment? When does it end? The real issue here does the rental car company have a right to hold you accountable for damage that they cannot prove you even caused? And when are they required to tell you? It would seem to me that if a car rental company had a legitimate claim against you, they would know about the damage within minutes if not hours of the return. My feeling is that if the rental car company wants to pursue a renter then they should be required to tighten up the timeline between discovery and contact as well as prove you were the only renter since returning the car. Not that the folks that service the vehicles are great drivers, but we should give them that benefit of the doubt.
