“Lies about vehicle available and charges required. Embarrassing excuse for an EV in 2024.”
About AVIS:6.0/10
I reserved a Tesla and was offered a Hyundia and a Mercedes. Hyundai is not the same class of vehicle. The Mercedes software was in beta stages. Lane keep assist would bounce around the lane even leaving it, it was if a drunk driver was driving. Navigation system failed 80% of the time either couldnt' find the location like Leogo land for instance but could find Legoland Holiday Inn. 4 out of 5 charging locations it directed me to were behind locked gates. Charging port wouldn't open and required 20 minutes with another Merc owner to figure out. Regenerative braking would simply give up by design at 20Km/hr in other words stop breaking coming up to another car at about 3 car lengths away nearly causing an accident. Later if stopped at about 80km/hr.
The car a is a disaster and would stop anyone from owning an EV if they didnt' know better. AVIS customer support was useless. They told me to drive back to the airport to talk to the front desk about changing my reservation. I asked why would i spend a 4 hour round trip driving instead of talking ot them on the phone to confirm they had a car available. This was not possible apparently as they are to busy for existing customer to pickup. I was obviously annoying the CR asking such questions.
Upcharged for Tolls. I was told I would go through a ton of tolls on my trip at least 10-15 and that I should purchase the flat toll fee. I went through two. A roughly $20 charge was turned into $70.
Upcharged for charging. Asked how much I thought I was going to spend charging the car up before drop off convinced I should spend $20 to charge it at drop off. The Merc comes with Free 30 minute charging more than enough to charge the car to full. Further lies.
Very dissatisfied. There were only two of us, and we rented a Ford Edge 5-seater SUV, which was quite large and booked three months in advance. At the airport, a black employee handled the paperwork but never mentioned an upgrade, just told us it was a Chevrolet. I agreed, thinking it was a similar type, and I can communicate in English without any problems. They also didn't inform me about the $20 charge because my husband was driving. They just had him keep selecting 'agree' without any explanation. When we returned the car, we got charged $80 and only then realized what had happened. Very angry. When we picked up the car, we saw it was a 5+2 seater and asked the staff at the station who confirmed it was the one. We drove off. I've already filed a complaint with the rental company and called to complain in the US. Originally, the rental wasn't cheap, and now it's even more expensive, about $107 per day. Very frustrated. Last year we also used this rental company for our US road trip, and it was fine. I hope you can resolve this issue because we would like to continue being your customers.
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