http://toosigma.com/archive/2006-05-04/rental-ripoff/ far from normal Mon, 21 May 2012 02:15:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://toosigma.com/archive/2006-05-04/rental-ripoff/comment-page-1/#comment-333 Philip Sat, 06 May 2006 14:28:14 +0000 http://toosigma.com/archive/archive/2006-05-04/rental-ripoff/#comment-333 Since they use he fuel indicator rather than actually measuring the tank, the best option is to always fill the tank at the nearest station. When you take it back, the tank indcates "Full" and you aren't charged anything. The real thing to watch with some rentals now is that they use GPS to track the car and the speed. The rental company tacks on huge charges for speeding even a few miles over the posted limit (you know, "flow of traffic" speed). Another one is the GPS combined with a geographically impaired person behind the counter who will try to charge you extra for taking a "connecting states" rental to Oklahoma. "Connecting states" rentals are those which allow the vehicle to go to any state that shares a boarder with your origin state. As one guy I work with found out, make sure you have an atlas handy as the rental companies don't seem to know that Oklahoma does overlap boarders with Colorado. Since they use he fuel indicator rather than actually measuring the tank, the best option is to always fill the tank at the nearest station. When you take it back, the tank indcates “Full” and you aren’t charged anything. The real thing to watch with some rentals now is that they use GPS to track the car and the speed. The rental company tacks on huge charges for speeding even a few miles over the posted limit (you know, “flow of traffic” speed). Another one is the GPS combined with a geographically impaired person behind the counter who will try to charge you extra for taking a “connecting states” rental to Oklahoma. “Connecting states” rentals are those which allow the vehicle to go to any state that shares a boarder with your origin state. As one guy I work with found out, make sure you have an atlas handy as the rental companies don’t seem to know that Oklahoma does overlap boarders with Colorado.

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