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Rental vs. using your own car for vacation - how much $/mile makes the difference?

kranky

kranky

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Looking at rental car prices for an upcoming vacation to see if it might make sense to rent instead of using my own car. When I figured out how many miles I'd put on in a week, some of the rental quotes come out to about 11 cents/mile, and that's including all the miscellaneous add-on fees and taxes.

I'm thinking for 11 cents/mile I'd be better off using the rental instead of putting 1700 miles on my own car.
 
hmmm...
my wife is going on a 3 week, 3000 mile trip starting friday
our van is a bit old, i wonder if i should consider doing this also
 
Originally posted by: FoBoT
hmmm...
my wife is going on a 3 week, 3000 mile trip starting friday
our van is a bit old, i wonder if i should consider doing this also
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Do you have confidence in your van?
 
Originally posted by: kranky
Looking at rental car prices for an upcoming vacation to see if it might make sense to rent instead of using my own car. When I figured out how many miles I'd put on in a week, some of the rental quotes come out to about 11 cents/mile, and that's including all the miscellaneous add-on fees and taxes.

I'm thinking for 11 cents/mile I'd be better off using the rental instead of putting 1700 miles on my own car.
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That seems a little too cheap, it worked out to like $187
 
The last 2 rental cars I got from Avis were:
4DR Malibu for $20/day w/ unlimited miles

Where are they still charging per mile?
 
We've rented cars at least twice for 3000+ mile vacations. I don't abuse rentals, but when we got they still had a lot of things wrong with them that I was glad didn't happen to my car (worn brakes, mileage, etc.)
 
That seems a little too cheap, it worked out to like $187
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Yep. Using a coupon from the Entertainment book and a discount code I found on Flyertalk.com, that's just about what it came to for a 7-day rental for a full-size car from National.
Where are they still charging per mile?
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There's no per-mile charge, but I computed what it would cost me per mile so I could look at whether it was worth using my own car or renting one. Obviously if I wasn't going to drive so far it wouldn't make sense to rent.
 
I've done this a couple of times and to me it's well worth it. No extra wear and tear on your car and at $20 to $30/day why not? I've always used Hertz as I'm a Gold member, but I'm sure any of the rental agencies would work fine.
 
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