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From: ed@mtxinu.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Budget plays Bait-and-switch
Message-ID: <114@mtxinu.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 27-May-84 01:02:27 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 27 01:02:27 1984
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My worst car rental experience was with Budget.  I rented a car at the
LA airport from them.  It was a warm day, so I left the air conditioning
on when I drove out of the lot.  Several minuted later, on the freeway,
I decided that the combination of small car, automatic transmission,
and air conditioning was too much, and turned off the A/C.  Within
about a minute, the car began to stink of cigars.  I turned the A/C
back on, and the smell lessened, but didn't go away all together.
When I finally got where I was going (about 20 minutes) I looked
around and discovered that the ash tray was stufed full of buts!
Even dumping the ash tray wasn't enough to get the smell out of the
car for the rest of the weekend.  Fortunately, I didn't have to
drive too much.

That was the last time I rented from them.

I've also had marginal to bad experiences with both Hertz and Avis.
When I have a choice, I pick National these days.  They're the only
company that's *ever* come through with a manual transmission,
even though I always request one (even they only did it once, though).

-- 
Ed Gould
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