Anybody ever bought a used car from a rental co?

scrapperqueen · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:40 pm

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?

BeatrizS · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:42 pm

Nope but my cousin just bought a car from EBAY!

KBeachy · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:43 pm

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.

scrapperqueen · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:43 pm

No fooling!

letumom · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:44 pm

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.

IreneP · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:45 pm

Our old grand caravan was a leased car LOVED IT
now we have an advenger which I can barely see out of

scrapperqueen · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:49 pm

They have Carfax reports on the listings on their website.

AlwaysHappy · Tue Jun 30, 2009 10:51 pm

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.

grifscap · Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:16 pm

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.

scraptag · Wed Jul 01, 2009 2:25 am

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!

SarahA · Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:29 am

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.

jody01 · Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:57 am

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

Queen Mum · Wed Jul 01, 2009 8:54 am

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.

scrapperqueen · Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:05 am

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!

BeatrizS · Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:41 am

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!!!

Grandma Flowers · Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:10 am

Nope, never have.

IreneP · Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:15 am

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

MarthaT · Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:20 am

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.

katarria · Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:39 am

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.

beknmichael · Wed Jul 01, 2009 10:42 am

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

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