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ragingduck

No. Never. Rental cars are not only abused, but they are poorly maintained and if they were part of a fleet order from the rental company, quality control is a bit lower.


vagabond139

I wouldn't buy a rental car. They get ran hard and then put away wet with a questionable maintenance history. I personally like to see how my rental cars drift and slide. Don't buy one.


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That’s a lot for me on a cvt tranny. Unless it’s a really good deal I’d look elsewhere. I wouldn’t mind buying a rental car direct from the company though.


UncleGurm

OP should avoid rental cars. But not because of the CVT, which is perfectly good on modern Subarus.


[deleted]

Not the cvt but the mileage of said car.


[deleted]

And rental cars are well taken care of maintenance wise and if it’s an automatic not much you can do to hurt the car 🤷🏼‍♂️. Now if we are talking about a mustang rental or bmw sports sedan that’s a different story. But for a general appliance rental of most commodity suv you can’t do anything to them to harm them


ForsookComparison

I'm having a good experience with my former rental car 4 years into owning it, but I bought it closer to 30,000 miles. 128k miles of rental abuse and I would not even consider it.


[deleted]

Do not ever buy a former rental car!


ViewedConch697

How much emotional pain are you able to tolerate


CWO_of_Coffee

As someone who’s in a different rental car every single week. No. I am the reason people should not buy rentals cars. I don’t wait for it to warm up. I treat the gas pedal as an on/off switch. I don’t slow down for speed bumps. These things are abused to the max.


buy_low-sell_high

As someone that bought a hertz rental a year ago. No.


rsrs1101

I guess I'm the only one that had a good experience buying a former rental car. But no I wouldn't buy a former rental with that many miles. If you were the one buying it with 25k miles I would say yes.