Originally Posted by
lardiop
Not interesting at all...
Avis has the ability to discount a rental if you incurred costs literally 'while on the road'.
I did an oil change on an Impala way back when after doing a good number of kilometers. I provided a bill of the charges I incurred and had the $49.99 applied as an on the road discount on my invoice.
sdsearch: Did something like that happen to you?
No, that's the thing, it was a completely uneventful rental in those terms.
The only eventful thing was that they automatically assigned me an SUV (I had reserved a compact), which I didn't want. I went back to the Preferred booth and asked for a car, and they said "is a 2 door ok" and I said yes and they gave me a new contract and told me which car to take. I don't know if I was un-upgraded or not. But the funny thing is, I made that choice (to turn down the SUV) to reduce my "on the road expense" that's called the cost of filling up!
(Btw, I filled up before returning, so there was no gas filling charge at Avis either.)
I did put a few hundred miles on the car in a couple days (I rented at DEN but was visiting Rocky Mtn Natl Park, staying in Estes Park and Loveland). But again, other than the gas (which was high priced because I didn't find anything close to the airport except for the high-priced Conoco one mile away from the Avis return site), I had no "on the road" expenses.