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05-03-2021, 04:03 PM #26
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05-03-2021, 04:36 PM #27
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05-03-2021, 04:40 PM #28
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05-03-2021, 04:54 PM #30
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05-03-2021, 05:06 PM #31
just here to say Fits are great little cars. absurd amount of space in there with the seats down flush.
I dunno... the potential headache associated with a fairly likely outcome (some damage/abuse) for what, a couple grand tops? Which you mostly hand over to the ins company to cover your deductible?
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05-03-2021, 05:26 PM #32
And that’s the gig economy, all of the risk for almost some of the reward. It’s a pretty sweet deal.....
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05-03-2021, 05:33 PM #33
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05-03-2021, 05:35 PM #34Registered User
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I have some dirtbag friends who told me they rented a FIT Japan and slept in it for 2 weeks touring around in Hokkaido
Lee Lau - xxx-er is the laziest Asian canuck I know
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05-03-2021, 05:36 PM #35
Nah. Got several speeding tickets on I80 in mine, but it was also red. Peppy little thing but the gearing helped. Hit and cruised at 110 easily when I could get away with it.
I actually miss my 08 Fit 5-speed some of the time, drove one for 10 solid years. Great little car, reliable AF, easy to work on, supreme mileage for a gasser, really fun to rally and drive in the snow (with studded tires for my locale). Slept in it multiple times. Best part was using it for work sometimes, made $$ on the mileage. Fit 20 pair of skis in there easily.
Was a loud little car for sure, cheap carpet and no sound deadening material anywhere. Back-breaking non-adjustable seats for long-distance and a 1/4 mile steep uphill driveway requiring AWD in the winter is what eventually did me in.
I wouldn't rent it if it's a GD3 (07-08) as those are a niche model, 100% made in Japan, and will become more coveted by Honda ppl than the crx in due time.
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05-03-2021, 05:39 PM #36
RootSkier. Sent you a PM.
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05-03-2021, 08:48 PM #37glocal
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lulz.
Will you take a credit card that covers rentals?
I get emails all he time to rent my RV. Little do they know it is a burning man specific RV.
But they have the scoop on insurance and all kinds of shit. I would not rent out a car without making sure the insurance company is good with it or they will deny the head on collision and multimillion dollar lawsuit.
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05-03-2021, 09:02 PM #38
Google “Soup Kitchen”.
I still call it The Jake.
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05-03-2021, 09:13 PM #39
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05-03-2021, 09:59 PM #40lysterine
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I used Turo and Getaround a bit last summer for renting some cars. Was pretty useful from a renter's side. I generally avoided Turo though because the prices seemed way too high compared to what I could get on Getaround at the time.
(fuck Zipcar btw)
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05-03-2021, 10:09 PM #41
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05-04-2021, 02:20 PM #42Wait, how can we trust this guy^^^ He's clearly not DJSapp
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05-04-2021, 02:44 PM #43
Do you have space so I can park my car on the way to Beartooth this summer and use yours?
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05-04-2021, 02:53 PM #44Good-lookin' wool
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Speaking of which, anyone here ever put their car on Turo? When I heard of the idea I thought there was no way it would take off, not because people wouldn't want the service, but because people wouldn't want strangers destroying their cars. I know a bunch of folks who rent cool cars on Turo and dig it but I cannot fathom being on the other end. My friend bought a gallardo and popped it on there for like $500 day in Hawaii. He obviously shares some of that with the company, but he says he easily covers his monthly nut and more so even if people are beating the shit out of it, he has a gallardo to drive once in awhile free of charge. We will see what sort of war chest he built up when someone leaves the transmission on the Pali.
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05-04-2021, 06:33 PM #45
What the fuck? I cannot fathom renting out a Lamborghini to strangers, specially Hawaiian tourists who are renting a lambo.
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05-04-2021, 06:40 PM #46Good-lookin' wool
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I suppose it’s a bit like renting an airbnb - high upfront overhead, someone else paying for your equity, having the ability to use the item yourself. Major difference being the depreciation. Not where I’d put money that for damn sure. Whatever happens, he’s gonna be left with a husk of a car. Even if it’s paid off and he covered insurance and maintenance for the life of the thing, seems like too much work.
Now, flogging the crap out of someone else’s lambo for a few days in Hawaii sounds like a decent time.
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05-04-2021, 06:43 PM #47
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05-05-2021, 09:13 AM #48Registered User
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Sounds like the fastest car in W Montana this summer is going to be a honda fit.
Please take videos of paying customers rallying it.
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05-05-2021, 09:19 AM #49
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Wait, how can we trust this guy^^^ He's clearly not DJSapp
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05-18-2021, 09:14 PM #50
Subscribed, I *think* we are going to try this here with turo. 2014 Escort, kind of an extra car that we don’t use, and are going to give to our son in two years. Pretty sure we reserve the right to vet the fuck out of potential renters, I want to run a credit report!
If they come back and there is even a whiff of smoke, bam, $1000 surcharge.
I’ll let y’all know how it goes.
$250 a day seems to be the going rate, which even after 35% to Turo, is still $1000 a week.
One week minimum.Forum Cross Pollinator, gratuitously strident
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