Rental Cars. What have you "done to them"?

[DBogo]

alright i got you all beat, got it buried in mud then launched it off a 4 wheeler jump in a sand pit, ooh yea it was a suburban too

 

[OKish]

hmm, i think some of you are slightly immature. ugh.

 

[Cummins Pilot]

hmm, i think some of you are slightly immature. ugh.

Ok Mr "Getcrap" transmission and making the coal roll. All of us have some immaturity. No one is a perfect golden child.

 

[Duluth Diesel]

:-laf I can't even count the immature, idiotic things we did to cars when I worked at a local Ford dealer. Daily joyrides, offroading, taking the salesmans' golf carts rock crawling, doing hot laps around the local shopping mall with 4 wheel power slides on dry asphalt, raging huge burnouts, starting out in overdrive on a manual trans with foot on floor, and attempts to blow things up by locking them in 1st gear and driving around town against the rev limiter. Oh man it was terrible... Oo. I was not a "decent" kid back in the day.

 

[Sled Puller]

One word--- LAUNCH!!!

 

[bmoeller]

Person at the car rental- "Do you want the extra insurance?"



Customer- "Yes I do. " (While thinking, this Ford Fiesta is gonna see more air time than Michael Jordan).



:-laf

 

[TowPro]

My last boss was in the a Colonel in the special forces, now in the reserves. After he came back from Iraq they were on a weekend drill where they were practicing "urban warfare". they had 5 guys in a small rental will full armament, racing it up and down an air strip then slamming the car into park and everyone jumping out and taking cover.



worse I ever had to do was take them onto clapped out dirt roads to get to some "back woods" cell sites.



I did have a ferd Tbird with a 4cyl turbo I was driving from Vegas to Kingman AZ through the desert. It was late at night, and the car started acting like it was running bad, it just felt like it didn't have anymore power. I looked at the spedo and it was as high as it could go! That was my first drive through a desert, without trees going by I just could not tell how fast I was going. And to think I was swerving around the road trying to hit these little rats that kept running out in front of me!

 

[Cummnzpowr]

I can top any of you all

They don't call me crackbaby for nothing. . check this out. .

--2001 Chevy Cavalier rental my buddy and i had rented to go out of town, pulled the parking brake at 65mph and cranked the wheel to the left. . little to say that there was bald spots to the cords that made it virtually impossible to drive. We went to a local used tire place and bought 2 new rear tires from some mexican fella for $40.

--2003 Geo Metro i took the air cleaner off the throttle body and threw some sand in there to see if i could kill the engine because i didn't get the mid-size sedan i wanted. . however it didn't work, thing kept going... slight knock to the engine.

--2004 Hyundai Santa Fe did 3 Nuetral Drops to it at a stop sign before the CV Joints and transmission exploded causing a loud grinding noise in drive and car wouldn't move {the got mad i brought it back on the tow truck without a full tank of gas }

--2005 Ford Taurus rental... power braked in parking lot for 20 minutes causing major transmission slippage and burnt ATF smell everywhere,then proceded to launch over those huge triple speed humps in a neighborhood doing 50mph, broke the rear shock mounts and sent the skidplate under the gas tank into the trunk almost, annihilating the gas tank into a pretzel... :-laf

 

[SSabick]

Man you guys are crazy, the worst I have ever done is try crawling thru creek beds, and using tractors to pull them out when they were stuck. However, the king is still the guy that rented a U-Haul, and raced it at Indy... That is what legends are made of right there. That was so funny to watch that thing come to the line... I just couldn't belive my eyes.

 

[bmoeller]

However, the king is still the guy that rented a U-Haul, and raced it at Indy... That is what legends are made of right there. That was so funny to watch that thing come to the line... I just couldn't belive my eyes.

Still nowhere near the abuse as some of these guys. Was funny to watch though. :-laf :-laf That guy is a member on www.thedieselgarage.com and works for ISSPRO.

 

[Sled Puller]

However, the king is still the guy that rented a U-Haul, and raced it at Indy... That is what legends are made of right there. That was so funny to watch that thing come to the line... I just couldn't belive my eyes.

I'll give him King title... . until someone HOOKS a rental!!!!!!!!!!!! Oo.

 

[Cummins Thunder]

I'll give him King title... . until someone HOOKS a rental!!!!!!!!!!!! Oo.

Hmmmmmm... . Get one of them old POS gasser U-haul trucks, install a wet nitrous system , and have at it!!! :-laf I guess that would be an exhibition/tow rig class by the DHRA book????

 

[Cummins Thunder]

Here it is!!!



http://www.thedieselgarage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=17602&page=3&highlight=indy

 

[Duluth Diesel]

Well, this guy knows how to beat a car.

 

[HoleshotHolset]

Me - beat on rental cars?! I have no idea what you are talking about. :-laf

Link...



On edit:

I've never...

Yanked the e-brake whilst going down the road

Power-braked in the dirt by the side of the road and let it rip... hoping to get enough tire spin to roast the tires on asphalt

Purposely sought after wet leaves...

transmission drop after transmission drop

Cutting awesome bracket racing lights - when there's nobody around

Farted on the upholstry numerous times... with the windows down and the system up

Any car: Floor it in reverse... keep it floored and shift to 'D'... the little PT Cruiser TORE the crap out of the tires doing that on a freshly seal-coated parking lot. I tried to repeat it in Derby, CT - but she wouldn't get-r-done.

J-turns

Any FWD car: fully stopped, e-brake on tight, transmission in 'D' - you can pimp the rear end down like it has hydraulics by blipping the throttle

Any vehicle: up/down shifts WAY late/early with auto transmission...

etc... :-laf



I also happen to know that Saturn ION I4 engines 'sing' once they hit 6000rpm and beyond... it sounded like that odd squealing noise from the movie "The Ring" when the VHS tape is played.



I almost forgot - I had a Chevy Cobalt a while back that had a rev limiter in it. If you kept your foot on the floor in park or neutral - it would bounce off the limiter for a bit and then die.



Matt

 

[TORQUE THIS]

I've been wondering how long is was going to take for you to post on this thread...

The PT Cruiser was funny as hell...

What was better was the Chevy Trailblazer in the streets of DC while on the Nextel with ToolMan in front of the White House... :-laf :-laf

 

[KBennett]

This reminds me of the Jeff Foxworthy joke:

"Buying an ex-rental car is like looking for a wife in a house of ill repute. Do you really want to stick your key into something that's been driven that hard by that many people?" :-laf



I can't say that I have been easy on rentals.

 

[JLEONARD]

There was one company trip several years ago (when I was a rookie) where we ended up with 3 cars. At a stop light the car in the middle started playing bumper cars. All drivers joined in.

That was fun. Then we stopped at a store (yes you know why) and some of the guys started kicking in the fenders and doors.

The offenders were all upper management. The "leader" of the group then played helicopter with the windshield wipers.

Glad my name was not on the contract.

When I rent one I drive normally... but then again that leaves a lot to be desired.

Jay