- Location
- Roanoke VA
Thanks! It was a PITA and still isn't perfect but it looks good enough
Ex-Rental Car Fleet Jeep Cherokee
- Thread starter burkemotorcross
- Start date
Thanks! It was a PITA and still isn't perfect but it looks good enough
joe_peters
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Grants Pass, OryGun
Whaddya mean back when...they brought them back for 2007, and switched to convertibles for 2008.
64 1/2, 65, 66--the classics!
DrexelSpivey
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Carlsbad CA.
I wouldn't buy anything I've ever rented..
austinaubinoe
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- Montgomery County, MD
Little off topic, but has anyone ever rented a manual car? My family was renting a car at a fairly large enterprise rental in florida, and I couldn't find a stick on the lot. I asked a manager and he said they dont have a single one!
Unless you're talking about a specialized market, like MDT trucks, or high end sports cars, I doubt you'll ever see a stick shift on an American rental lot. It's quite a different story outside of the US. I was in Dublin around 1997, and the American couple in front of me at the counter had never driven a stick, and were completely perplexed that no automatic transmission equipped cars were available. Me, the only problem I had was shifting with my left hand, and looking the wrong flippin' way first.
Darky
NAXJA Forum User
- Location
- 29 Palms, CA
Think about it...with a stick shift, you've got one big expensive wear item: the clutch. Do you really want to be changing the clutch every 5-10k miles?
- Location
- NJ, U.S.A.
Think about it...with a stick shift, you've got one big expensive wear item: the clutch. Do you really want to be changing the clutch every 5-10k miles?
Word. When I was listening to Car Talk regularly a couple years back (fell out of the habit of recording it for later convenience), I remember shaking my head at all the people who couldn't get even to 80K on a single clutch and thinking "geez, don't these people know how to drive stick?" To my way of thinking, if the clutch doesn't last at least 150-200K, the defect is either in the parts or the driver's technique (it ain't rocket science, people!). I shudder to think about how many clutches an operation like Enterprise or Avis or Hertz would have to do.
Darky
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- Location
- 29 Palms, CA
I forget when my clutch went out in my little Tracker. Pretty sure it was under 100k, the tranny wasn't long after (mileage wise). I blame that on driver/mechanic error though. I learned to drive stick, and then I taught three teenage girls to drive it as well. I also learned to wheel a stick in that poor thing. So the clutch was expected/understandable. Then the transmission...when me and my buddy replaced the clutch, we didn't put in a new throwout bearing so when it went, it took the while tranny out with it.
