Ex rental prefix registrations
Discussion
av185 said:
We had a company a few years back which acquired ex Hertz daily rental cars mainly Ford's and Vauxhalls through BCA.
Whilst they were generally good cars none had main dealer service history they were 'serviced on site' and had no manufacturers warranty as a result.
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Wrong about the servicing !! if done to manufactures spec then warranty would be valid .. Whilst they were generally good cars none had main dealer service history they were 'serviced on site' and had no manufacturers warranty as a result.
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however I think some fleet customers can get extra discount if they agree to say a 12 month warranty ...
Wooda80 said:
Gojira said:
I'd probably think twice about an ex-press car though 
I sold a 991 GT3 last year and proudly showed the purchaser the clear HPI report upon which all the previous private number plates were listed, including 911GB!1, I can't afford it
2, SWMBO would probably kill me!
Chucklehead said:
av185 said:
Enterprise are generally the worst rental cars to buy used as they are rarely serviced and if they are it will be 'in house' comprising of an oil change and that's it.
This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
Absolutely none of this is true. This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
Yep .. would I be right in saying the daily rental type cars mostly are sold about the time they are due for a service or at a mileage that makes them attractive to the used car market ??
powerstroke said:
Yep .. would I be right in saying the daily rental type cars mostly are sold about the time they are due for a service or at a mileage that makes them attractive to the used car market ??
Chucklehead said:
av185 said:
Enterprise are generally the worst rental cars to buy used as they are rarely serviced and if they are it will be 'in house' comprising of an oil change and that's it.
This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
Absolutely none of this is true. This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
eltax91 said:
Hi folks
Wifey has a 2.0 qashqai that’s she’s had for 7 years. It’s being hugely reliable until very recently when it’s thrown us a few issues that have totalled up to 4 figure spend and now it’s thrown An engine light and is running rough she’s decided the time has come for a new one.
She’s quite taken by the Hyundai i30 and we viewed one earlier today, a 1.4T petrol, which she liked.
When I was rooting through the glove box I found an enterprise rent a car ice scraper and when they presented us the paperwork they told us it was ex rental too. This doesn’t bother me but it puts wife off. In this case what bothered me more was the 4 mismatched ditch finders.
Anyway the sales lady told us that all EN and EO prefix cars are likely to be enterprise registered. Is this the case? To be fair they had priced it accordingly.
To aid me with my shortlisting, does anyone know any other preix’s I should watch out for, for other rentals?
To the best of my knowledge, anything first registered by Hyundai will be on plates like that, not just Enterprise but all of the big rental firms, staff lease deals, any leases they actually provide directly from head office rather than a main dealer, etc etc. Seems strange that they would say that any of those plates would be at Enterprise only. Wifey has a 2.0 qashqai that’s she’s had for 7 years. It’s being hugely reliable until very recently when it’s thrown us a few issues that have totalled up to 4 figure spend and now it’s thrown An engine light and is running rough she’s decided the time has come for a new one.
She’s quite taken by the Hyundai i30 and we viewed one earlier today, a 1.4T petrol, which she liked.
When I was rooting through the glove box I found an enterprise rent a car ice scraper and when they presented us the paperwork they told us it was ex rental too. This doesn’t bother me but it puts wife off. In this case what bothered me more was the 4 mismatched ditch finders.
Anyway the sales lady told us that all EN and EO prefix cars are likely to be enterprise registered. Is this the case? To be fair they had priced it accordingly.
To aid me with my shortlisting, does anyone know any other preix’s I should watch out for, for other rentals?
Just like BMWs registered in Yorkshire.
I have an ex daily rental BMW 320d Touring - I think it was at Thrifty but only based on hiring one from them of identical spec in the past. It seems absolutely fine (it covered 11k miles before it was de-fleeted at 9 months old and sold as a BMW AUC at a main agent)
Edited to add - I would sooner have a car from any other company than Enterprise, based on the utter drivel I have rented from them in the past.
Edited by Toaster Pilot on Saturday 18th January 21:58
av185 said:
Chucklehead said:
av185 said:
Enterprise are generally the worst rental cars to buy used as they are rarely serviced and if they are it will be 'in house' comprising of an oil change and that's it.
This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
Absolutely none of this is true. This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
My first car was an ex-rental pug 306.
Dad bought it from the local independent car supermarket, about a year old on high millage for its age, and then did a 1hour commute in it for nearly ten years, before giving it to me as my first motor when it had done something like 120k and had a book value of about £800. I then ran it for two years before misjudging a tight muddy bend and writing it off into a post and rail fence.
Never missed a beat in the the entire time we had it.
Dad bought it from the local independent car supermarket, about a year old on high millage for its age, and then did a 1hour commute in it for nearly ten years, before giving it to me as my first motor when it had done something like 120k and had a book value of about £800. I then ran it for two years before misjudging a tight muddy bend and writing it off into a post and rail fence.
Never missed a beat in the the entire time we had it.
Chucklehead said:
av185 said:
Chucklehead said:
av185 said:
Enterprise are generally the worst rental cars to buy used as they are rarely serviced and if they are it will be 'in house' comprising of an oil change and that's it.
This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
Absolutely none of this is true. This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
Some people do like to spout alot of b
ks! Years ago we used to regularly buy 6 month old Ford Escorts inc XR3's and Cabriolet's from Avis that had never been hired out with delivery miles on them just because they had to take and register hundreds from Ford to attract the massive discounts which enabled then to still make a profit when selling on 6 months later.
SuperAd said:
Motorpoint got a load of 320d. M sport ex hire cars, all starting HN16. I've got one, and ammount of reg twins I see is ridiculous
Do you know what rental company had it when it was new? I’ve never seen BMW rental cars that weren’t registered by BMW UK on Y* registrations carlove said:
My Astra is an ex rental (DX prefix) I didn’t actually know until after I bought it, but almost two years in and I’ve put many miles on it and it hasn’t missed a beat. I would buy an ex rental again. I don’t know what company it was from but my warranty wasn’t affected.
There were loads of Vauxhalls around on DU11 registrations which was quite apt av185 said:
Enterprise are generally the worst rental cars to buy used as they are rarely serviced and if they are it will be 'in house' comprising of an oil change and that's it.
This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
Do you have any real experience of this, I assume you buy ex Enterprise cars and get warranty claims rejected?This will automatically void any manufacturers warranty.
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