Anyone done Rent a Toyota from a Toyota Dealership?

Trying to get a rental car (truck) for a week or so next month in MA. Rental prices are insane; you’re better off buying a beater and hoping it doesn’t die on you. I see Toyota does rentals for the tundra. Anyone have any experience with this?

 

That’s because the rental fleets were depleted during the pandemic . Rental fees are now through the roof raising revenue to increase the fleet sizes.

 

I guess I never thought about renting a car through the dealership. I know they have loaners for repairs but it never occurred to me that you cold just reserve and rent one for personal use without your vehicle being in for service or repair. I guess its worth a shot to see if they'll let you do that.

 

Yep we were renting for business last year because it was cheaper than buying. Not so much now. Hope this settles soon. I feel sorry for anyone buying used now. They will be 5-10k upside down once it gets back to normal.

 

I've rented from the Toyota rent a car before with a debit card, religiously for long road trips.. cheap and easier than Enterprise and their bs $500 deposit charge on a required credit card advance when the rental was waay less... eitherway the earlier 2nd gen Tundras did not have a hitch, not sure about the 2.5/3rd gen...

 

Do you remember if the rates were comparable to enterprise etc. or was it significantly more expensive. I’ll have all this info tomorrow after I call but would prefer to not get hit with sticker (rental) shock.. even though I kinda already did when I saw budget/enterprise wanted $700/day for a pickup.

This is what I’m looking at doing..
https://www.toyota.com/rental/tundra.html

 

I’m assuming you’re saying that all the rental car places sold off their fleets? Makes sense business-wise for them I guess. I know very little about the rental car market

 

It was cheaper than both.... and it was an inventory model not a special order with manual roll up windows

 

That is correct. They all sold their rental fleets in 2020 to survive. They had to do what they had to do because no one was renting cars. However 2021 is a different story and there is a serious shortage of rental vehicles.

 

Turo.com

Toyota Rentals are fine if you need a loaner for a short period / Enterprise-Hertz are just a pain for me to use, but always have a vehicle typically.

Turo is where I’d be looking if I needed a “long term” rental say over 30 days. Find an owner looking to rent long term from a fleet and make a deal. Lots of wanna be entrepreneurs on there trying to make a dollar.