Originally Posted by Wiggums
Okay, I am now in FRA.. and, yes, I reserved PDAR and they gave me XDAR!
A nice BMW 730d. However, I had numerous problems and I am not sure what to do. I drove it on the A9 from Nuernberg to Berlin and it was snowing. The car had no traction and I could not control it. Even at 10 km/h, a small tap on the brake caused the ABS brake to react. At the same time, there were cars passing me going over 70 km/h (it was snowing very hard).
I had to stop and discovered the car did not have snow tires. I was forced to leave the car on the parking lot of a supermarket, paid a taxi €130 to drive me from Gera to Chemnitz, and I had to pick up a different car.. a VW Polo!
Still, Sixt was very helpful in getting ADAC. It seems they both have a partnership because there was a Sixt in the ADAC parking lot.
Had the same problem with a Sixt car (BMW 5er) last weekend on a snowy autobahn (A4). The car had no traction. It was quite difficult to accelerate because of the rear wheel drive. Had no snow tires, too.
You can reserve a car with snow tires but you have to pay 15,50 EUR a day. Will be interesting to see what they'll do next winter cause there shall be a new statute that all cars need to have snow tires in some regions in wintertime. I am not familiar with the details.
BTW ADAC is a partner of Sixt.
Here is the link.