Rental Experience (2)

• tastybanana

  13 Apr 05, 17:44

  Hey guys, let's discuse about ur rental experience here..
  
  anyway I 'm going to rent a honda civic esi for $40 per day it's a 93 honda civic esi for a week kekeke
  
  anyway does anyone have an idea what happen if the car were to break down? since it's quite an 'old' car almost 12 years old haha.. do I need to pay or anything lidat..
  
  any bro experience renting of car but car break down after 2 days of careful driving?
• ShutterBug

  13 Apr 05, 19:16

  Here's a little warning:
  
  My friend rented an old Toyota Saluna over the weekend. On the first day it was fine, on the second day, while driving normally out of carpark, the car just shuddered violently and died.
  
  I called the rental company, they came and picked it up, and gave him another as subsitute.
  
  Upon returning, the rental office charges him for the replacement of timing belt, amounting to $500. Stating that it timing belt burst due to over-revving.
  
  This is an incident you should consider, when renting a car/van/truck.
• Praetorian111

  13 Apr 05, 19:43

  If you want to rent it cheap chances of paying for the repair cost will be high.
  I am sure that you will sign an agreement with the rental company.
  Remember to read it thru. All this will be stated.
  
• Saggice

  14 Apr 05, 08:16

  be careful and if u wan to be safe.... rent from those bigger rental companies or thr fren's introduction....
• tastybanana

  14 Apr 05, 10:31

  hmm sorry to mention that I am not renting from any company.. just from those private renter... no contract or anything.. so shouldn't be a problem perhaps
• carmour

  14 Apr 05, 17:33

  If anything goes wrong, they can always deduct from your deposit.
  No matter private or company, there's always the risk.
  
  
• free4ever

  14 Apr 05, 21:16

  Originally posted by tastybanana:

  hmm sorry to mention that I am not renting from any company.. just from those private renter... no contract or anything.. so shouldn't be a problem perhaps

  Just to highlight, no contract can even be more risky. The contract is to protect the interests of both party and yes, that includes you. If there are a no contract (meaning no excess, no terms of responsbilities), then if you wreck the car or the car is serverly damage due to some reason, and the insurance company dun allow for any claims, then it is up to you and the hirer to spilt the $1X,000+++ cost. If you refuse to pay, he, as a owner can take you to court and and even if he doesn't, things can turn very nasty.
  
  And don't forget, if the owner will definately take down your particulars(from your ic), so dun even think of renting and running. He will need to look for you to get back his car.
  
  Don't work either way. I am not against private rental (or for company rental), but I am totally against renting without any contract.
• PaulQ

  17 Apr 05, 18:15

  i consider renting from REAL rental company before but there are too many rules. So more, u need to pay $$$ refundable deposit.
  
  that is why i continue to 'rent' cars from a car-sharing company.