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Old Sep 8, 2016 | 6:50 am
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Miles driven wrong?

I had a 2 day rental at JFK and when I left it had around 10,500+ miles on it and I usually reset the trip before I leave and it stated I drove around 500 miles. My receipt says I left at 9,000 and returned around 11,000. Stated drove 1,560 miles or so. I can't even fathom driving in nyc and long Island which was where I drove in that amount in 2 days.
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Old Sep 8, 2016 | 8:43 am
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If your rental included unlimited miles, I wouldn't worry about it.
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Old Sep 10, 2016 | 12:03 am
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I once had a 17 day rental from Buffalo to St Louis, and my emailed receipt showed I drove 21 miles. The wrong mileage was probably entered from the person who rented before you. As the previous poster mentioned, with unlimited miles, don't worry about it.
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Old Sep 10, 2016 | 3:40 pm
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Originally Posted by Closingracer
I had a 2 day rental at JFK and when I left it had around 10,500+ miles on it and I usually reset the trip before I leave and it stated I drove around 500 miles. My receipt says I left at 9,000 and returned around 11,000. Stated drove 1,560 miles or so. I can't even fathom driving in nyc and long Island which was where I drove in that amount in 2 days.
Second week of August, I rented a Taurus from JFK. Picked it mostly because it was the first car in the Exec Aisle and I had just gotten off of an overnight flight from LAX.

Drove from JFK to my customer's site in Oceanside, from there to a hotel in Rockville Center, back to the customer the next morning, and returned it to JFK that evening.

When I dropped it off I told them that I found it pretty annoying that I just bought a quarter of a tank of gas for what amounted to less than 30 miles of driving, and that I figured that 2017 model cars generally got better than 5 or 6 miles to the gallon.

The guys says "According to the odometer reading, you drove 429 miles."

Umm. no.

And, of course I wasn't given a copy of the rental agreement at the booth when I checked it out.

A quick conversation with some kid who identified himself as "the manager" led them to crediting my rental for the cost of the gas that I bought. I may or may not have been wearing my "I have worked two 30-hour days this week and I *really* don't need this crap" face....
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