Today is a good day

"Land_Yacht_225" (nadenator) 07/25/2016 at 12:53 • Filed to: None

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Why, you may ask? Because I’ve got a nice car at work. Not just for one run, but the whole day. Because it’s a delete. And a delete is a rental car taken out of service due to reaching its milage limit. And that means no renting. When a delete comes up you just have to sit on it until the drivers come to pick it up and take it to the pre-sale lot. Which means that your branch driver gets to tool around town in it for a day or more.

And because this branch’s normal driver is out sick, and I’m filling in, I get to be one of the lucky drivers at a branch with a deleted luxury car: a 2016 Volvo XC60 T5.

Slant6 > Land_Yacht_225 07/25/2016 at 12:57

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How many miles are on it and what shape is it in?

Land_Yacht_225 > Slant6 07/25/2016 at 12:59

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A hair over 18,000 miles and I would say it could use a nice detail and a carpet shampoo. Other than that, it doesn’t smell funny, it pulls nice, has the nav and the panoramaroof.

BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind > Land_Yacht_225 07/25/2016 at 13:00

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18k is enough to pull from service? Crazy, you'd think they would at least let it get closer to the end of the warranty.

Slant6 > Land_Yacht_225 07/25/2016 at 13:01

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I still don’t know about buying a rental. My mom has wanted one just like that for a while now.

I might have to keep an eye out for it.

Ash78, voting early and often > Land_Yacht_225 07/25/2016 at 13:04

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I love these things, but the small luxury crossover segment is just too tainted by old people (not literally, but demographically) for me to feel comfortable with them. I really WANT to like the GLK, Q5, XC60, and the rest...I just can't get over the fact that I never see my peers in them. They are today what every Buick was 20 years ago. /stereotype complete

SidewaysOnDirt still misses Bowie > Land_Yacht_225 07/25/2016 at 13:05

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There’s still plenty of time to have to use your AK.

Jack Does Cars > Land_Yacht_225 07/25/2016 at 13:49

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I’m in Raleigh, as you know, and my mother is starting to look for a replacement for her Equinox. Do you know how much it’d be advertised for?

Land_Yacht_225 > Jack Does Cars 07/25/2016 at 14:25

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I really couldn’t tell you. We may just shove it off onto the auto auction in Greensboro with such low mileage. I went onto our website and I couldn’t even find an XC60 for sale there. Being that it isn’t even a year old, I’d guess north of $40,000.

Land_Yacht_225 > BrianGriffin thinks “reliable” is just a state of mind 07/25/2016 at 14:28

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Big ticket cars get pulled earlier than small fish like the Chrysler 200.

Jack Does Cars > Land_Yacht_225 07/25/2016 at 14:40

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I’m seeing year old XC60s for sale on Cars.com or AutoTrader for under $30,000.

But would you, a rental company employee, buy a rental car?

Land_Yacht_225 > Jack Does Cars 07/25/2016 at 15:56

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I’m seeing mid 30s for a 2016, so I was a little off.

I’d consider buying something higher end, just because we do what is necessary to protect their value, so we don’t let stuff slide so easy with them. I wouldn’t buy anything associated with Fiat-Chrysler though, not even tangentially.