Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Originally posted by: Ronstang
Originally posted by: Born2bwire
Wait... you want to rent a car and drive it cross-country round trip? Good luck finding a place that will rent you a car anywhere near a decent price. They ain't going to lend you a car for $600 a month so that you can put on 6,000 miles on it.
What are you babbling about? If he returns the car to the location he rented it from and he gets unlimited mileage up front they won't have any choice in how many miles he puts on the car.
I have rented 2 cars just to take vacations with them. I had both for two weeks and each time I put 2500+ miles on them with no problems.
My buddy and I also rented a truck to haul my trailer to CA and back to pick up a car. The truck had 20 miles on it when we picked it up and 4200+ on it when we returned it 77 hours later. That was not a problem either.
I said reasonable rates. He's talking about $600 for a month, going to San Francisco and back, and putting on at least 6,000 miles. Take a quick look at some of the mainstream companies.
Budget: at Boston for Oct. 10-Nov 10 costs $850 cheapest car plus $300 in fees (though $100 was airport since that's what I chose).
Enterprise: restricts it's free mileage to 150 a day (would only net him 4500 miles for the trip) and restricts the free mileage region to east of Mississippi and north of Kentucky. That costs $676 plus $375 for extra miles without considering the fact that he is leaving the area for the cheapest car they have.
Hertz: Unlimited but $1500.
I have a feeling if he reads the fine print on that offer he's talking about he is looking at more. Going with Budget, that's a grand for the car plus gas. I don't know what gas costs, but being generous with 30 mpg and $2.5/gal, that's another $500 for gas (probably realistically another $100-$200 on top of that for the round trip). Since it is a cross-country trip, he has to pay for meals and hotel lodgings. A fast trip would be 6 days roundtrip, four nights of hotels that's another $120 if he can stand the roaches.
If he wants a car, he would be better off renting it in San Fran, the costs of transporting the rental just to and from are huge (~$650 on the cheap plus food and any fine print in the agreement). If he is willing to go direct to California then I doubt he feels that he really needs the freedom of the car in between.
EDIT: Heck, he could probably use the money he would have spent on transporting the car to upgrade to a sleeper cabin now that I think about it.
Unlimited mileage, $600/mo plus taxes, so it was about $850. I read the fine print. It says "Unlimited mileage". Others say unlimited in certain areas, etc. This one does not.
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