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[Taxi_Driver]

I get hire cars all the time at work, Peugeots seem to be the worst, yet to get one with fully working electrics and had the exhaust drop off one of them on the A46...it had 500 miles on the clock!

That i am surprised at   Pugs 406's 407's diesels seem to be a fav with taxi drivers here......i dont like em.....but if they kept going wrong esp being a taxi why they fav's  :-/

[Del Boy]

chips all over the windscreen

Any sausages

Walked into that didn't i but being serious now one was right in the line of view i said to the bloke u need to get that sorted m8 bald front tyres and a chip in the windscreen he said MOT is due next month so i said better be done quick he didnt seem to take it very serious idiot

[Taxi_Driver]

Had a honda accord 2.2 in Thailand 3/4 weeks ago, not bad, killed some snakes in it also driven toyota camry 2.0 litre, a couple of smaller cars in Thailand, Toyota Verso in Norway (not bad), for a small people carrier, volvo S70 in Ireland, also mondeo CDTI estate (not bad) again in ireland, and a few others. However, the pieste a resistonce was in 2000 going to my neice's wedding in dundee, flew into glasgow, and hired a facelift meega, was so impressed had to buy one, need I say anymore, converted I was

Ahhh....that's what you were telling me in the pub yesterday Mick - I didn't have my Acme translator switched on

I'll bring a pen and paper the next time

Just text AA....an he'll do it for you  

Oh hang on texting might be a bit modern for AA......suggest you phone him instead  

[Bo Bo]

I get hire cars all the time at work, Peugeots seem to be the worst, yet to get one with fully working electrics and had the exhaust drop off one of them on the A46...it had 500 miles on the clock!

I wonder where they were made!  

[Timbuk]

I get hire cars all the time at work, Peugeots seem to be the worst, yet to get one with fully working electrics and had the exhaust drop off one of them on the A46...it had 500 miles on the clock!

I wonder where they were made!  

Not for much longer

[Bo Bo]

I get hire cars all the time at work, Peugeots seem to be the worst, yet to get one with fully working electrics and had the exhaust drop off one of them on the A46...it had 500 miles on the clock!

I wonder where they were made!  

Not for much longer

I got offered a job there about three years ago, glad I didn't take it now!

[Admin]

I get hire cars all the time at work, Peugeots seem to be the worst, yet to get one with fully working electrics and had the exhaust drop off one of them on the A46...it had 500 miles on the clock!

That i am surprised at   Pugs 406's 407's diesels seem to be a fav with taxi drivers here......i dont like em.....but if they kept going wrong esp being a taxi why they fav's  :-/

That is because Mark gets the 307... which really has not gained itself a good reputation (oh and Mark is really not a fan of French cars...  )!

406 is a very proven motor in diesel form, as you say, taxi drivers love them, and you guys depend on a good car.

407 has so far been relatively ok too. However the 2.0 hdi is hardly quick off the mark.

[Salty]

Had a 4cyl facelift omega auto once as hire car. It nearly put me off getting one, just seemed so underpowered compared to my senny and it had some really annoying rattles in the cabin.
Had a new 525 BMW estate in france last year, I was reasonably impressed with that. It was free upgrade because it was the only auto they had.
Just had a focus auto in spain, not too bad, did the job I suppose.

[Ghosts in my machine]

Had loads of hire cars over the years. Hyundai Accent was the worst. Not because it was a shed, it was just crap!

Anyway, who cares. Hire Cars are the fastest cars in the world. Thrash 'em then give them back. Great!

Had a Corsa as a hire car for a day. Drove my normal route down the A38 at 70 mph happily until I got to a roundabout near Brum. Slowed right down for it, saw there was nothing coming so floored it onto the roundabout forgetting that I wasn't in my Omega Auto and was actually still in 5th Gear. . . . . Burning clutch doesn't smell nice does it! [smiley=embarassed.gif]

[Elite Pete]

I had a Suzuki Jeep thing when we went to Gozo a couple of years back. It had a cloud of burning oil smoke behind it all the time, infact we got more to miles per gallon of petrol than we did of oil. The steering was that worn it had about 6" of play, it was like being in one of the old black and white films and when we came to a slight incline my three passengers had to get out and I met them at the top

[Big Rod]

Like Mark, I get and have gotten hire cars quite regularly through work. Most of 'em are/were quite ambiguous, but one time when I destroyed the clutch on my N/A 405 diesel, (No I didn't do it on purpose! Ah - ah, no not me!!), a brand new Fiat Marea HLX Weekend 2.0 20 valve appeared outside my house!! What a lovely car sounded sweet!! Unfortunately the brakes had a mind of their own, so I had it swapped for a Megane!!  

Also when I was about 18, I pranged my company Cortina and as punishment had to drive around in a Fiat Fiorino van for a month. Wouldn't pull you out of bed but damn did it corner well!!

The best story I have is having been on S2N, hiring a brand new, straight out the wrappers, Focus at Luton airport. I drove it to Northampton and it broke down so had to be recovered and swapped. They gave me a Zafira which TBH, I was actually quite impressed with. Damned if I could get the hang of the indicators though!!  

[omegaV6CD]

Got to go to Manchester tmz so company hired me a 7 seater to drive us all.

It's just arrived and first impressions look ok.  Black Vx Zafira Design 06 plate.

But then I found the steering controls don't work, it has no cruise, no audio on dash display, it's a 1.8 petrol and not the 1.9cdti I was expecting and to cap it all the rear tyre was sitting at 24psi - all the rest 33/34 which points to a slow puncture.

The good news is that I get to give it back at the end of the day.

Anyone else hired worse?

Only abroad, where you get right heaps, esp in Spain/Greece...

You get what you pay, so be carefull what you say about Greece

[omegaV6CD]

I use a lot of hire cars at work, worst one was a Xaara picasso 1.6d 90hp, this car is a total heap of jung, no wait a minute.. the worst car i ever got was the focus Cmax, it was a disgrace of a vehicle. Best one it was in rome in Italy where i got a brand new alfa 156 1.9diesel.
It is nice to use hire cars because u get to judge every manufacturer. My favourite hire car in the UK is the Vectra CDTI 1.9 which i tend to ask for.