This trip took me to Denver got to see Mile high up close and got to visit red rocks with my friend(who lives in Colorado) more pics will be coming soon(of red rocks and Denver)
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Enjoy your trip there, brother. I’ve been to Colorado several times. It really is a very scenic area.
Well this is the end of my trip I fly back today. It’s been a fun few days here except avis doesn’t get what economy means when they tried putting me in a jeep Cherokee. I went back in and they put me in a smaller suv but I was just done and took that because I had places to be
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That reminds me of when I was in Seattle for work and had to rent a car. I had everything lined up through the rental car agency, can’t remember which one, and the woman at the counter assured me that she could put me into a BMW SUV for an additional $30 or some nominal fee. So I’m like what the heck it’s on the company dime let’s do it. I had reserved a car for three days and what she did was combined all three days in the one and added $30 on top of it. So in reality, it was going to cost me more than triple what I was expecting somewhere in the neighborhood of $800 for three days. So I contacted the agency and returned the BMW after one day and they put me into a Mustang. I had a little mishap while using the Mustang and tore off the plastic trim along the bottom of the car just below the driver side door. When I return the vehicle, it was at the airport and the garage was kind of dark. I never mentioned anything about the missing trim and never received a notification for the damage. I did have to explain to my boss though why the rental car was so expensive. Luckily, he got a kick out of it and didn’t really care.
So to make a long story even longer, when I ripped off the trim, I had a couple of British guys in the car with me. I think they were appalled when I jumped out of the vehicle, grabbed the trim, scraped off a sticker just to eliminate any chance of tracking it back to this vehicle, and tossed the trim into a nearby ditch. But in the end, it didn’t cost me or the company any additional money for the damage and it served the rental company a little payback for the BMW overcharge fiasco.
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In summary! @Lionpile may or may not be wanted for vehicle vandalism. 
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Luckily, it was about 10 years ago so I think the statute of limitations is exhausted.
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I got a free upgrade to a jeep grand Cherokee for a weekend rental to drive to Milwaukee. It had a beautiful sunroof that opened all the way back.
Being unaccustomed to it i ended up leaving it open after we went out to the cigar bar. The nice weather turned weird and we found 2 inches of rain inside the next morning.
We sopped up what we could and ran the ac on recirculation all the way home. Nobody seemed to notice…
And this is why you don’t buy rental cars.
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Just imagine all the people who beat on them purposefully.
After buying my 1991 Ford Ranger I vowed to never buy a new vehicle again. So we typically buy vehicles that are a couple years old around the 30,000 mile mark, which to be honest are most likely leased cars. I think people typically treat those a little bit better than rentals. One driver looking for reliable transportation versus 120 drivers trying to race back to the airport in under 16 minutes. Possibly with a couple prostitute bodies to dump along the way.
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I exclusively buy cars with over 100k and under 10000 dollars. Never had a car note, but it leads to me doing goofy things like renting a car for road trips just to be safe.
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Bought a Enterprise car, a 2018 Elantra in May 2020, literally as the COVID lockdown started that day. It was in Sterling Heights, 169 miles away and they were gonna drive it to me that morning, and the abrupt lockdown order came (and I needed a car for work, as I hit a deer 3 days into another white Elantra from Enterprise a couple weeks before (made $1.5k on it after my comp deductible) for driving it 3 days, as I get 1k off family discount …and they said they werent allowed to drive to me.
So I rented an Enterprise car in Kalamazoo, drive there, signed in 10 minutes (same price as 3 day deer bait Elantra), drive back. 37k miles on it.
Fast forward to today, 61 months later, 258000, miles on it, just tires and brakes and 2 ignition coils.
Gonna buy a 2024 Elantra end of next year after I hit 315k or so on this bulletproof beastie.
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Nice man. Buying used vehicles is the way to go. I don’t like a car payment much more than about 300 bucks. Then drive it until it becomes unreliable or unsafe. There is nothing more rewarding / satisfying than driving a vehicle for an additional four or five years with no payment attached. Most people with $700 / $800 car payments are nuts. I would rather invest that extra $500 than sink it into a depreciating asset. After about six months, a new car just seems like a used car anyway but with an expensive monthly payment and expensive insurance to go along with it. Not worth it in my opinion.
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I cant agree more with all of that.
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