I’m seeing a lot of 05 X’s for sale that were rentals. Does anyone know if…..

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Is there any way to get the vehicle service history from Hertz?

Does being a fleet rental unit void the factory warranty?

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just know that you dont want to know what happened to that vehicle while hertz had it, maybe 15k on the odometer, but the real punishment is probobly 50.

i from experience am not nice to rental cars and i dont feel anyone else is??
last time i got a cobalt on 2 wheels

 

I cannot imagine that the RAC industry is contributing much to the amount of the Excursions out there. Our local station has kept the same one for a year now and since they dont make them anymore I think they will keep it. The industry as a whole has been less frequently re-fleeting because the incentives are not as good as they were.

I would never by a rental car. That said I dont know if that would apply to the high end rentals such as the Expedition.

 

Mine was a Hertz rental. From Florida. Before I bought it I called Hertz in Fla. and found that it was rented out of orlando, and used to ferry VIP's. Purchased by them in Nov. 2004, and removed from the fleet in late May. They had full maintenance info that they emailed me, and The maintenance was on schedule and complete. It had 19,500 on the clock, and it runs perfect. The interior had been cleaned professionally by a company that specializes in cleaning rentals for sale. Not a single problem out of the EX in the 11000 miles I have put on it since October.
The dealer was selling it as a certified vehicle, and they had to do NO work to it to make it that way. They only had to check things and OK it.

Not all rentals get treated badly.

 

I forgot to mention that there are various ways that Hertz deals with the vehicles. Turnbacks are sent back to Ford to sell and they must maintain them to do that. Generally its in their best interest any way the sell the vehicle to have the warranty in place. To do that they usually keep detailed records.

 

My grandparents bought a 92 Thunderbird from Hurtz years ago. They ran that car into the ground over 200,000 and no problems. Their next car was also from hurtz, a 94 Crown Vic. They didnt keep the Vic more than a couple years but again no problems.

 

I bought a 2004 LTD EX last August at the local Ford dealer. He had 4 that came from a Florida rental operation. (I'm in suburban Phila.) Car Faxed them all, all wholesaled out of Florida in april-may. The VINs were all within 20 numbers and they were identical. I took the lowest mileage one at 12,500 miles. Dealer gives me full service as if it was new, plus I bought the top Ford extended warantee. have had small things fixed like water leak and a warped grill. No charges. Mechanically 100% and I am sure there were new tires when I bought it, maybe brakes too, not a mark on the rotors. In fact, not a mark on the whole unit. Who ever preped it after rental did a great job.

 

my X was a rental.. i was freaked out to, but thats why i wanted (and got in on the deal) a 6year/75K mile bumper to bumper (not just the power train)..

 

I also have a rental, I bought it with 18,000 on the clock and now have 141,000 and still trucking. I guess you know that it is a v10 since is was a rental. My thinking behind the excursion as a rental vehicle (since I am also VERY hard on rentals ) is that the kind of person that rents an excursion is TOTALLY different from the type of person that rents a compact car. First, the price of the rental, and secondly it usually was a famliy vacation vehicle.
That is my 2 cents.


Bryan

 

Bought My 05 X Limited V10 from Ford in NOV 05. It was still on MSO, but had been "owned" by Hertz for a while. There were about 50 of them on Cars.com last NOV, all the same model. Mine came out of Arizona. I got a screaming deal.

About 3 weeks after I bought it, I loaded the 4 place enclosed snowmachine trailer, and the family (wife, 2 kids, and 2 big dogs), and drove from Western WA to Billings, MT area for Christmas and max snowmachining! Truck pulled like a champ on that trip, including some towing up the mountains above 10k elevation, in 4x4 on snow covered roads. No prob.

Just completed the trip from Western WA to my new home near Anchorage, AK. Pulling same trailer, with a bunch of furniture and stuff, plus the sleds. total GCVW (truck, trailer, and all contents, in case I screwed up the acronym): 15,500#. Got 9 miles/gallon (or the Canadian equivalent, ) 2500 miles, in 3.5 days. Truck pulled like a champ, through the Canadian Rockies, at or above speed limit.

Moral of this long story: My truck is awesome! I've put over 17,000 miles on it since Thanksgiving, and it's great! Don't worry about the Hertz heritage. Buy it from a Ford dealer, and check it out good. And, Ford will honor the warranty. My brakes were warped, so I took it to them under warranty. They turned the rotors for free. 2k miles later, they were pulsing again. Couldn't talk them in to pitching in on aftermarket rotors and pads, but they put all new factory rotors and pads all the way around, under warranty. Never heard of any dealership doing brakes under warranty before!