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I guess when I was renting cars I did it enough to get the nice one (week long rental every two weeks, and an 4 and 8+ month rental). I usually ended up with Lincoln MKZs or whatever the same thing is in as SUV. They felt fine and tight enough even with 20k or so. I don't think I've ever rented a Chrysler product though. gently caress the ford escape or maybe edge, whichever SUV has the tiny back window. That poo poo is terrible.
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Platystemon posted:On a scale of FFFFFF to 000000, how black was your friend? Basically a nerdy Mike Epps.
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Elmnt80 posted:The chrysler 200 I got had 27k on the odometer and still felt tight as a drum. If you asked me, I would have guessed they had just gotten in. It seemed like it was a slightly more upspec model rather than the poverty/rental spec, so maybe that had something to do with it. v My last rental was a 200 S (I'm not sure what the S trim really adds), with right at 30k. It drove decent enough, aside from the transmission never being able to make up its mind as to what gear it wanted. The engine sounded pretty rough though, rattly as hell and about as refined as tar sands oil. Sounded like it'd never seen an oil change. Or oil. Tubesock Holocaust posted:All the rental cars I've driven have had less than 5,000 miles on them. The only 30,000+ mile rental car I've run into was a 2014 or 2015 Corolla, but the guy at the counter wouldn't let me have it unless it was 200 miles shy of its "let's dump this bitch at auction" threshold. I had a rental Cobalt with 35k on it, and holy poo poo... massive pile of poo poo. Kept overheating, rattling timing chain, transmission wouldn't downshift when you wanted it to, etc. Ionically I now own that car's twin, coming up on 150k now, and it's been a very solid car (just gutless as hell). randomidiot fucked around with this message at 06:43 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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Last time I got a rental it was an Impala. This was a bit over a year ago, and it was a fairly new car, about 17k on the clock and really in pretty good shape. Very comfy, drove nice, plenty of power for a highway cruising rental... Then after I got about 50 miles out of town, the cruise control dropped out and a warning came on the dash, something about the traction control system. Reset the cruise, 17 miles later, drops again, same warning message. I called the rental company and they instantly recognized the message and told me it was fine to drive, but if I wanted to I could swap it at the Vegas airport (I was about 80 miles outside of Phoenix at that point). Yea, think I'm gonna swap that bastard since I have a 12 hour drive ahead of me, and then the same coming back (I was doing a run to Reno to pick up a bunch of stuff and bring it back to Phoenix), and having the cruise drop out at random intervals on the highway is going to annoy the poo poo out of me. Got an Altima in Vegas with less than 3k in it, and that car was great. The only thing better about the Impala was that it had satellite radio (which is kind of handy in the empty wastes of both Nevada and Arizona). Luckily I had my iPod with me so I just had to stop in at Fry's near the Vegas airport to get the proper cable since the Altima didn't have an iPod or USB connector of course. When I swapped out the car in Vegas, they were completely unsurprised by the reason, so apparently that's a pretty common failure point for those cars I guess?
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I do remember the Mustang GT I rented for a weekend had what seemed to be a nice, deep rumble at cruising speed. Turns out that might have been a bad wheel bearing. I think it had 3k miles on the odo, but being an automatic V8 sports coupe....
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One of the best rental cars I've had was also one of the oldest... I rented that late 2005, 80,000 mile polo in 2016. 1.4 petrol manual (obvs) with 100hp, and went very well for a warm hatch. Perfect for the roads on Islay and Jura I was driving it on. Interior was wearing well and the only thing not working was the 12v socket. A lot of the small hire places on the Scottish islands are like that, on Uist I always ended up with some lovely 8 year Astra or Vectra. Getting a three year old Peugeot stump fucked around with this message at 13:56 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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Aug 10, 2016 12:27
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some texas redneck posted:Ionically It is too early in the morning for puns this bad, that better be a typo.
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The best hire car I've ever had was a Citroën DS4 I had when I was in Scotland a couple of years ago. Extremely comfortable, good handling, peppy enough to easily keep up with traffic, and adequately equipped (climate control and cruise control, primarily). 10/10 would drive a newer Citroën again.
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My last two rentals out of Philly have been Jeeps. The Compass I got felt cheap but was otherwise functional, but I was impressed by the Renegade.
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I've been using a brand new Nissan Altima from Southern California, with Nevada plates, while driving in Oregon the past few weeks. I've enjoyed it since it works right and handles the mountain twisters decently. Can get out of its own way but just barely. Speakers leave a lot to be desired. Mpg in the low 30s all trip. Holds our camping gear, dog, guitar, 3 cases of beer, a metric ton of books, and our clothes without much rearranging of the wife's packing style...
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I'm glad y'all like the Altima because the one I rented a few months ago was miserable. Couldn't handle the hills between Phoenix/Sedona for poo poo, even if I turned on sport mode. I'd bury my foot and it would spin up real good, and nothing happened.
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 Brand new craftsman lawn mower that started leaking oil after running it for 2 minutes. I pulled it apart to find this on the underside. Some mouthbreather tapped the wrong hole all the way into the case juuuuust enough for it to leak. Gee, I wonder why it was on clearance for $50? (we returned it, but for fiddy bux I kinda wished I just JB welded the hole shut and ran it til it died) Slim Pickens fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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some texas redneck posted:My last rental was a 200 S (I'm not sure what the S trim really adds), with right at 30k. My wife had a Cobalt for 7 years. The engine and transmission were perfectly fine, it was everything else that fell apart. Safety Dance posted:My last two rentals out of Philly have been Jeeps. The Compass I got felt cheap but was otherwise functional, but I was impressed by the Renegade. I rented a Renegade for a week in June. Hated the million speed transmission and thought it had poor gas mileage for how small it is. Actually felt better driving on dirt roads than on pavement.
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I had an Altima rental when I drove Vegas > Tahoe > SF > LA > Vegas a year ago . As a town and highway car I really liked it, but coming up the 207 to South Lake Tahoe it was awful. I had a clear road ahead of me and was attempting to have some funhouse the hill but it had a horrible habit of upshifting coming into corners just you were transitioning from brakes to throttle. On the open road sport mode actually seemed to make it drive worse, it seemed just to add extra fake shifts, whereas normal mode it acted more like a CVT should and kept the revs nice a high when booting it.
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FogHelmut posted:My wife had a Cobalt for 7 years. The engine and transmission were perfectly fine, it was everything else that fell apart. Surprisingly, the only non-mechanical part that's given me any issues is the sunroof. It got jammed awhile back, and when I got it unjammed I got showered with a bunch of brittle broken pieces of plastic. Still works, but makes a "pop" when opening and has a lot more wind noise now. The (manual) transmission is showing its age a bit, it grinds going into 2nd occasionally. But it was never a refined gearbox to begin with. I'm at 150k on it, so some synchro bitchiness is expected. Only non-wear item on the car that's had to be replaced has been the fuel pump, and GM covered that. Original battery made it to 10 years, still on the original clutch. The part of every GM you expect to fall apart - the interior - has held up really well. I have a couple of rattles, but nothing has fallen apart. e: now that I've posted this it's going to burn to the ground next time I try to drive it, isn't it? randomidiot fucked around with this message at 21:35 on Aug 10, 2016 |
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No GM has always had a reputation to build economy cars that won't die but be the absolute worst shitboxes ever in the process. Truly a brand for the most masochistic of us. My Saturn L200 had the exact identical sun roof failure.
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https://pittsburgh.craigslist.org/cto/5705301723.html
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I for one am SHOCKED that it would have suspension problems.
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Funzo posted:I for one am SHOCKED that it would have suspension problems. Horrible pun aside, what is even holding those upper and lower coil springs together? I don't see a donut thingy or any sort of mount between them.
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Owner: yeah it's pretty good but you know what it needs to really push it to the next level? *spray paints SKEETERBILT on the side* O: yep. There it is, perfect.
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Aug 11, 2016 00:56
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Does that thing even have brakes?
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0toShifty posted:Does that thing even have brakes? yea, pinion brake. you can kinda see it in the first ad pic, and the assembly in the quoted photo.
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0toShifty posted:Does that thing even have brakes? Even if it did, would you want to prolong your death or just end it quickly?
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0toShifty posted:Does that thing even have brakes? Why would you need brakes, what are you, a pussy?
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Raluek posted:Horrible pun aside, what is even holding those upper and lower coil springs together? I don't see a donut thingy or any sort of mount between them. Jack poo poo. There's a reason the tubes are busted.. it's one good bump away from an amusing failure.
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I think if you drove it up alongside the edge of a cliff and pushed it sideways, it'd go over like a slinky down stairs. There's just...nothing laterally supporting at all.
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It's not a Ranger either, it's a Mazda Bwhatever. Same thing but not as good to the kind of person who builds/buys this poo poo
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What the gently caress kind of suspension setup is that even TRYING to be? Its not 3 link, Its not triangulated 4 link, its not 5 link. Its literally held in alignment with boogerwelds and red paint.
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Ferremit posted:What the gently caress kind of suspension setup is that even TRYING to be? Memento posted:SKEETERBILT
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Ferremit posted:What the gently caress kind of suspension setup is that even TRYING to be? Its not 3 link, Its not triangulated 4 link, its not 5 link. Not to take away from the general awfulness of that, but it sure looks like a triangulated 4 link to me...
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Same setup as the rear suspension in a 99-04 WJ chassis Grand Cherokee. Upper is a Y-link/wishbone, lowers are separate. If properly set up it works pretty well, if done improperly, you get a LOT of roll steer. The "coilovers" made out of whitebody shocks and several junk coil springs stacked together and the extra shocks just sorta slapped on piecemeal are what really makes it awful. Oh, and the link angles, and the welding, and the coilover brackets, and the fact that they debraked the axle and pinion braked it (ok for offroad only use) and then left all the random hoses and bullshit from the stock brakes still stuck on there (ghetto as gently caress.)
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Cross-post, might not be a mechanical failure but close to one:cheese-cube posted:F-22 Raptor grounded by 20,000 bees http://edition.cnn.com/2016/08/12/politics/f-22-raptor-grounded-honey-bee-swarm/index.html
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I guess you could say it's generating a lot of no i can't even do it.
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... buzz?  If those were yellow jackets or hornets I'd say hell with it just fire it up and the problem will take care of itself, but we need all the honeybees we can save.
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Bee-force?
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Not even bees can make that piece of poo poo fly.
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