What have you done to a hire car?

[robbo31]

Hey all, there must be some funny stories out there about people and cars that they have hired, so let's hear 'em:D ;)

[Merli]

Not 25 yet. Can't hire a car.

[holdens_r_better]

sat in one on the way to brissy

[akeenan]

hired a toyota starlet in queensland, they are as slow as ****.

[BB GoDZilLa]

I'm not 25 yet either but have had a few memorable experiences in a hire car.

Driving at speeds of 100-110 down a 45degree inclined road into a dip causing sparks from the car scraping the road preceeding a sweeping right. All in a fully loaded Tarago. This was on Broadway in Sydney somewhere.

Then last year on our snowboarding trip to Queenstown we rented a Tarago and a Barina. And guess what??? We rear ended the Tarago with the Barina.

hehe.... I would never buy a second hand rental car.

[Nizmo]

yeah havent been in a rental car but worked for car delaership ..... the stories i have to tell you wsill NEVER by a car from caryard again

*Reps getting drunks and kicking panels in/ smashing glass

*Burnouts in cars

*Bumper cars in the lot car - if anothr rep is in front of them at the lights they'll repeatedly ram the car in front

* Pot getting smoked in the cars ...... cars boots also filled with ice n alcohol and turned into portable eskys

* cars parts getting transferred into their girlfriends cars ....hehe thats where my nismo strut braces ....amps and subs have come from

*turbos blown on Wrxs etc

* i got really drunk one night and chundered in one of the wrxs .... couldnt reach a piece of ham under the seat to clean so left it there ..... appropriately a copper bought that car!!

Thats just the car ....... pissed off reps have gone to make their clients a cup of coffee and rubbed their dicks around the rims of the glass beforeit gets served.

My ex had an accident in one and wrote off the vehicle ..... he told the boss that drunken abos had stepped out in front of him and he had to swerve to miss them .... hmmmm yeah and the boss bought it!

and thats a reputable dealership ...... hate to imagine what happens in the dodge ones!!!

[siksII]

Used a brand new auto mirage as a test vehicle for front wheel drive, auto, drifting techniques... Over and Over and Over again around a nice wet slippery corner. Also kept it in second gear, nearly every time i drove it for 2 weeks.

My family hired a tarago to go to jenolan caves with another visiting family, and i was driving on the way back cuz my dad was tired.. Coming away from the blue mountains back to sydney, everyone was asleep, so i held between 5 grand and the redline in second for minutes at a time coming up some of those fun hills...no one woke up

Also tried drifting in (taken when she was not home) my sisters 4cl camry company car tail comes out nicely due to cheap tyres just in case anyone wants to try..

[rev210]

I've been hiring cars for 3 years or so for work interstate, so here are a couple:

In Kalgoorlie I hired an Avalon grande'.

It was my first visit to the mining town and in the suburban areas the roads are extra wide (for trucks in the old days I guess) These roads have a huge dip in them.

At 70kmh I got the Avalon airborne for a few metres ala dukes of hazard (yeeeeeee haaaaaa!). And boke part of the front spoiler thing (which I super glued back on without penalty).

I return to Kal 4 times a year and continue the tradition, as little as 60kmh will do for one intersection in a commodore (the legal speed limit actually).

I regualrly do brake burnouts when in S.A, I particuarly like the Enfield shopping complex speed bump and all the traffic lights coming back from Munna Parra to the city at night.

In Darwin I get to top speed test all the cars legally just 15min out of town or so.

In Sydney I found the handbrake turn works very well around frenchs forest in a new camry, as does holding the auto in 1st gear to redline till you smell burning trans fluid.

Mmmmm...burning trans fluid.

[silverskyline]

my mate and i when we were overseas had a fiat uno, after we picked it up, drove it down the street the airfilter came of and my mate being a mechanic did all these things to it to make it go quicker, anyway 2 days b4 we took it back we trashed it at this party we were at. the next day we sold all these parts of it and then drove it into a ditch of the side of the road, they had to send a tow truck to come pick it up, by this time we were on a plane back home, i think we lost our 400 dollar bond. i had one here in sydney when the hail hit and the car got screwed and i thought to myself im going to loose my insurance bond any way so i went on a 2 day thrashing rampage, i ended up a kerb head on pushing the front wheels back, popped one wheel, sideswiped the whole left side in a car park, when i got back to the hire place they asked me what happened, i told them i was driving and it started hailing, the car infront stopped and i had to go around and ended up a kerb and into a wall sideways

[Shell]

I've never done anything too bad in a hire car - but always drive em alot harder than i would if it was my car

drove a Baleno around Tassie...gave it a good thrashing because the roads are so much fun and it was winter (non tourist season) so no one else was on the roads.

got rear-ended in a Laser...fantastic bumpers on those things, wiped the marks from the other car off and Hertz never knew.

got smashed windows on a Pulsar (it got broken into). Took it back and they upgraded me to an auto Camry (YAY FOR ME!!). Had to pay for the windows though, because it was cheaper than the huge insurance excess I would have had to pay

[Craved]

how about a day at wakefield in a corrolla

even spent some time in the gravel trap, ooops.

Glad it wasn't in my name!

[fattdex]

watch Jackass: the Movie to see some great hire-care shenanigans :-)

[Cyric]

Hire cars rule The thing that amazes me most is they have an inate ability to use leaded, unleaded and even diesel petrol.... now if only the car companies would catch on

About a week ago I had a few mates in the car, and we were messing around with a Supra... anyhoo he reved his a bit so I gave the rental a bit of stick.... the lights changed and POW! i jamaed the foot on the floor and the rental beast took off

Fattdex will back me up, the Supra had an ass of a time keeping up He finally took off on me when we hit like 150, I had to turn anyways and he was in my lane....

So I think that would prove for once and all that dispite public opinion, neon lights dont add the much needed 20kw!!! Some of us desperately need

Oh and it was a V6 3.0l Auto Camry CSi...... and neon's rule

[fattdex]

yeah, i think he must have only running 2 neons or something, he was pretty far behind. Should have seen the look on poor Sleek the l33ts face :-P

[Ronin 09]

reverse burnouts with the handbrake on in a front drive laser

[hungry6]

a few years ago we went to babinda for fishing trip, when we arrive and most of the shops were close as we need to buy bait for crab pots, so i came up with a brilliant ideas of using the stateman with the high beam on i would mow down half a dozen or so wild rabbit on the nearest rd for crab bait, so never buy a ex rental.

[Duncan]

I'm with craved.

Took a renter MX5 round oran for an advanced driving course.

Was meant to come back for a second day but had to take it back that night after the brakes caught fire one time too many....

[RAIDER]

brand new white falcon

some oval in qld

big burnout in the dirty carpark

car covered in dust,

lucky it rained the day b4 we returned it

[Nrage33]

rented a porsche boxster and a BMW 330ci convertible with a friend, raced up to noosa at about 220km/h at some points. very exciting stuff. Both cars are so nice to drive, but the porsche has got the power and the race car feel.

440 bucks a day for the porsche plus a $2000 bond, that hurt....lucky it wasn't my money!

[warrior_350]

had a camry airborne a few times, and a brand new commodore with 2000k's on the clock in the NT, gave it good thrashing (good old auto dumping back 2 gears at 180km/h) and due to the roadworks and sideways action along the way, from the windows down was red mud, couldnt even see the paint, and when we dropped it off at the airport the guy just laughed - best rental car fun i've had.