Budget Car Rental Ireland
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I am still furious concerning the extra…
I am still furious concerning the extra insurance I had to buy to waive the 2000 euro* risk of car damage while I bought a 'full insurance' package when renting the car on-line via RentalCars.com. Apparently 'full insurance' doesn't mean what it says. On top of that the car assigned to us at DUB didn't move for an inch**, so we had to offload our bags and go to the office for another car etc etc. The second car, a Suzuki Swift, was OKish as long as you didn't increase the speed above a 100 km/hr - as that would result in a severe 'tremor' in the steering wheel. And secondly as long as you stayed of bumpy Irish roads*** - the suspension was not topnotch. Reporting these latter points when returning the car was sort of waived away as insignificant because searching for a few mm of smear/scratch on the front bumper was apparently top priority. I have rented cars all over the world dozens of times and never ever before I have such a bad experience as at Budget at DUB. *) A rather extravagant figure for an older simple cheapish car with more than 100k km on the clock. Might be able to get a better deal on the second hand market. **) Dead battery! Really? How can that happen? #megafail ***) which proved to be a challenge being in Ireland