COURTESY CARS - Can I buy the car from them?
COURTESY CARS - Can I buy the car from them?
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anonymous-user

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82 months

Sunday 15th August 2021
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anonymous-user

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82 months

Sunday 15th August 2021
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Oh God, not again

Lester H

4,285 posts

133 months

Sunday 15th August 2021
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At a slight tangent, more punters buy courtesy cars than they ever realise! One owner, low mileage ( remember the old gag ‘ One owner: Avis Hertz’). Often, they’re none the worse for it. Or ‘ bought from a lovely Dutchman: Hertz Van Rental.’

Edited by Lester H on Sunday 15th August 20:56

23.7

28,892 posts

211 months

Sunday 15th August 2021
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You can ask but doubtful.

Likely to go to auction, often closed.

Monkeylegend

29,044 posts

259 months

Sunday 15th August 2021
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Lester H said:
At a slight tangent, more punters buy courtesy cars than they ever realise! One owner, low mileage ( remember the old gag ‘ One owner: Avis Hertz’). Often, they’re none the worse for it. Or ‘ bought from a lovely Dutchman: Hertz Van Rental.’

Edited by Lester H on Sunday 15th August 20:56
I bought an ex Hertz rental E Class, did over 300k miles with no issues and my son now drives it, just over 320k miles now.

Matt_E_Mulsion

1,746 posts

93 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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I'd have thought it would be easier to find an identical example that is already for sale on a forecourt somewhere.

Monkeylegend

29,044 posts

259 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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REIOTW does not do easy.

23.7

28,892 posts

211 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Interestingly as a dealer we used to supply a few cars this way, often an easy sale too.

Then the manufacturers got in the way making it awkward.

timberman

1,479 posts

243 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Most of the courtesy cars I received from my local Porsche dealer were listed for sale at the same time I was running around in them.

jonwm

2,715 posts

142 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Hire companies are holding onto everything they can at the minute as they cant replace with new stock, I would imagine it's doubtful.

Camelot1971

2,842 posts

194 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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anonymous said:
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Surely it would have been easier to speak to Enterprise or the dealer than ask random people on the internet?

Rotaree

1,239 posts

289 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Camelot1971 said:
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Surely it would have been easier to speak to Enterprise or the dealer than ask random people on the internet?
It would but he is a well known pillock!

syl

693 posts

103 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Camelot1971 said:
Surely it would have been easier to speak to Enterprise or the dealer than ask random people on the internet?
I wouldn’t know whereabout in Enterprise to start asking the question - perhaps the OP only knows it comes from Enterprise because of a sticker on the car somewhere. Maybe you could give them a steer in the right direction with a phone number, email or even department name?

Monkeylegend

29,044 posts

259 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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anonymous said:
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And you are the one who always complain that you get abused by other posters hehe

Dimebars

1,066 posts

122 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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It wasn't a dealer supplied courtesy car, which they own and ultimately will dispose of

It was a hire car supplied by Enterprise, meaning it will either be bought back by MBUK and sold through the dealer network when it's de-fleeted or sent to a closed MB dealer auction

You'd be better finding a similar example for sale already

Scrump

23,918 posts

186 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Plenty of ex rental ones for sale here:
https://shop.mercedes-benz.co.uk/used/results?Mode...

Matt_E_Mulsion

1,746 posts

93 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Monkeylegend said:
REIOTW does not do easy.
Should have looked at the name of the Original Poster before I bothered writing a post...

Rotaree

1,239 posts

289 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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anonymous said:
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rofl

anonymous-user

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82 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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Yes

Dolf Stoppard

1,391 posts

150 months

Monday 16th August 2021
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I really do hate the way the Merc website pulses while it loads results. It really is a hateful thing!