Folks, we love a rental car whose dashboard lights up with sixteen dashboard alerts about brake errors and engine something or other halfway home, don’t we Seems bad
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good god this was my wife 1 hour ago hugs friend
aug 29, 2025, 8:36 pm • 3 0 • view
Probs the alternator, a mercifully (relatively) expensive fix
aug 29, 2025, 8:44 pm • 2 0 • view
oh we’ve already gotten the battery replaced ($300+ later) now happy friday everyone grape job
aug 29, 2025, 8:46 pm • 1 0 • view
😭 if the dash lights up like a Christmas tree again you know it’s the battery’s weird cousin then
aug 29, 2025, 8:47 pm • 2 0 • view
Audi?
aug 29, 2025, 8:38 pm • 0 0 • view
A Jeep Compass that sounds like Fred Flintstone’s car.
aug 29, 2025, 8:42 pm • 1 0 • view
I thought Ferraris didn’t do that.
aug 29, 2025, 8:35 pm • 1 0 • view
Hope it's not Hertz.
aug 29, 2025, 8:36 pm • 1 0 • view
How did you guess?
aug 29, 2025, 8:38 pm • 2 0 • view
Oh no. Hope they don't make you buy the car.
aug 29, 2025, 8:39 pm • 2 0 • view
Buy? I thought their deal was just oopsy-daisy reporting cars stolen while you're renting them
aug 29, 2025, 8:48 pm • 0 0 • view
They've also started using AI to detect "damage" to returned vehicles, which has been about as accurate as you'd expect.
aug 29, 2025, 8:50 pm • 1 0 • view
Oh god. Of course they are
aug 29, 2025, 8:52 pm • 0 0 • view
And they had a data breach, I learned about that and filed a claim even though I haven’t rented a car from them since the drama over the Mustang GT that got broken into in YYZ in 2004/2005. (I did rent from Thrifty in 2007 and 2008, which are also now owned by them and part of this.)
aug 29, 2025, 8:55 pm • 1 0 • view
The selection of rental companies is not the number of names available. I wish they'd just flat out consolidate and do something like tiers of service.
aug 29, 2025, 8:57 pm • 4 0 • view