Tough choice.

"404 - User No Longer Available" (toni-cipriani)
10/03/2016 at 12:18 • Filed to: None

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So adjuster called me, I’m not-at-fault (duh) so I’m covered for a rental. Problem is, nobody has a “compact convertible” to rent to me, so I’m likely just getting an econobox with an auto. Of course instead I can drive my own, but we know what they say about rentals, hoon the shit out of it.

So what does Oppo think?

DISCUSSION (14)

E90M3 > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 12:23

Get the rental, even if it’s some shitbox it’ll still be a different car to drive the wheels off of. I like driving around in cars that aren’t mine, let’s you test out something different.

Wrong Wheel Drive (41%) > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 12:24

It’s an easy choice for me. No way I would want to drive a rental if I had another car to drive around. But since you arent paying for it, you should take the rental anyways. Even if you dont drive it much, at least you have the backup car for bad weather or whatever. There seems to be no harm in obtaining the rental but not driving it.

Klaus Schmoll > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 12:27

In Germany you can get the rental or somthing like €40 a day. If you have another car and can get the money, I’d do that.

fourvalleys > Klaus Schmoll
10/03/2016 at 12:29

Must be nice, no way any insurers in the US would let you get away with it. Usually it’s a “reimbursement” for a rental car up to $_ per day.

Monkey B > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 12:47

take the rental...even if it sits in your driveway it costs insurers money. Fuck insurers, it’s one of our few opportunities to fleece them.

Alex Zapata > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 12:57

Having a rental has a big incidence in the amount of time they take to fix your car and/or process payment to you, since it costs them by day every day they keep you waiting, it makes sense to take it.

shop-teacher > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 13:24

I’d take the rental.

Rust and Dust - Oppositelock Forever > fourvalleys
10/03/2016 at 13:55

Actually, I’ve seen insurers provide a cash payout for skipping rental usage more than once. Never hurts to ask

404 - User No Longer Available > Klaus Schmoll
10/03/2016 at 13:55

Yeah, the adjuster made it clear there’s no compensation if I don’t take it. At most a cab ride to fetch my car, but thing is my other car is in another town half an hour away...

Klaus Schmoll > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 13:57

So that settles it then. Have fun with your Focus or similar.

404 - User No Longer Available > E90M3
10/03/2016 at 13:58

Well, it might or might not be a shitbox, I know GM dealers/Enterprise does qualify my equivalent as midsize and up. In my previous ventures for warranty I got a Malibu, an Impala and a Traverse. I almost got a Silverado once. And hey who knows... maybe they have a Mustang convertible for me to go find them Cars and Coffee to make some grand exits.

404 - User No Longer Available > Monkey B
10/03/2016 at 14:10

LOL I like that thinking.

E90M3 > 404 - User No Longer Available
10/03/2016 at 14:51

Hell might as well get it then. Give you something to write a review about. Through my rental experience I’ve learned I could like a Benz and that a base Mazda is too base and that if the rental car was the first impression I had of Kia, I’d be like how have they sold 1, let alone hundreds of thousands.

404 - User No Longer Available > Alex Zapata
10/04/2016 at 10:39

Actually I just decided to get my own shop to do it instead. I thought might as well get the clearcoat failures and rust bubbles fixed. The shop they assigned mine was quite busy plus they wanted a fortune for the same fixes. So the slight issue now is, it might become a hassle to return the car midway when my car’s still in the shop, on a second thought.