Originally Posted by
JMN57
I'll add - I believe it is pretty much a safe assumption that anyone filling up a rental car is going to put the cheapest grade gas into the car they can.
I was ticked off at a gas station attendant last month in Italy who pumped premium into my rental Cinquecento as I went to the men's room. He said they were out of regular and I said he should have said something.
My boss rented a Mercedes from Hertz(or was it Budget) in Los Angeles.
I was with him when he was returning it. We stopped by a no-name
gas station in Inglewood. Well, it had a name, but it was something like
QuickyMart or something... definitely not one of those major brand-name
gas stations like BP, 76, Shell, etc... Anyway, I volunteered to fill it up
and he told me to fill it with regular. Since I also own a Mercedes, I felt
wrong filling up the rental Mercedes with no-name regular gas that came
out of an extremely dirty nozzle. (all Mercedes require premium and it's
clearly labeled on the inside of the gas cap)