Rent A Wreck

I recently rented a car there and I gotta say they had good customer service. Its a clean building. Got a Impala at first, The air didn’t work and the passenger window didn’t roll down. Called them the next day they swaped it out for a Taurus with no problems at all. It works great (I still have it) John took care of us and I will follow up with a review when I turn it back in if there’s any problems or hidden fees that I wasnt expecting.

Had a great experience with Rent-​A– Wreck at this location. Tina was very helpful in renting us a car at the last minute. Our other rental fell through, called Tina when they opened that morning and had a car when we flew in that afternoon. When we returned car, they even drove us to the airport at no cost!!! Great customer service, great vehicle at a great price! We will definitely use Rent-​A-​Wreck again and again!

Sometimes ya gotta do what you gotta do. I ended up renting from these guys for a few weeks, and it worked out for me but only because I got a car that looked ridiculous on the outside (severe hail damage ALL over the car so the white Buick Regal looked like, and was called by the staff, «the golf ball»), but ran great and was very comfortable on the inside. It didn’t start out like that. The first week I was there I was given this awful little Dodge of some sort (Aveo?). The whole deal: no air conditioning (it was July), stinky, ugly, manual windows, rattly, etc.,… but sometimes ya gotta do what you gotta do. When I went in to renew it for another week I think they took pity on me AND I think I was johnny-​on-​the-​spot because the «golf ball» had just come back, and I asked if I could exchange. They agreed, and for the same money (even though it was a bigger car), I was off.
I sometimes could see people looking at me funny when I drove it around, and even saw a couple of college boys laughing at my ride, but I didn’t care: she drove like a champ and all the power windows, seats, air conditioning, sounds, etc., worked. The people at Rent-​A-​Wreck in Canton were really great, and I got to know them a little bit coming in once a week for a few weeks. I figure I probably saved about 50% by going with these guys, and for the time period I had it that was a significant savings. The moral of the story: if you can get the «wreck» that looks bad but runs good you’ll probably have a good trip. Otherwise, it’s hit or miss. Ask for the «golf ball»…

Pros:
— They had a rental available when ALL of the other car rental places were sold out… and I checked a week in advance! (Does anyone else think that’s weird? That the car capital of the country does not have rental cars available??)
— The friendliest people I’ve ever dealt with at a car rental agency — super accommodating, and just good people
— They picked me up from the airport 6 (or was it 10?) miles away — $ 50 round trip
— only $ 25 per day for the rental!
Cons
— The rental I was given should’ve been retired oh, 10 years ago (it had over 120,000 miles on it, and it definitely showed)
— I think the only thing keeping the car together was the rust
— I was scared driving the car
— Air conditioning didn’t work (it blew hot air at me!) so during a torrential downpour I had to figure out if I should drown or suffocate
— Manual windows (so trying to roll up the window on the passenger side while driving through a monsoon could’ve been deadly)
— Trunk didn’t open
— The car didn’t have automatic ignition (???) so you had to go through a weird progression of steps to turn on the car — EVERY time (which would be bad if I was ever in the middle of a car jacking or a potential attack?)
— The car was neat, but was by no means clean. I kept wishing I had worn pants as I wanted no part of my exposed skin to touch the inside of this car
— I returned the rental as fast as humanly possible as I wanted it out of my life forever
— They don’t take AMEX
So yeah… They really do rent «wrecks» — I think next time I’ll just take a cab to the Enterprise 10 miles away and just charge my company the extra $ 50. It would’ve been worth it!
But I did escape relatively unscathed. So… yeah. Just be aware. They do have «nicer» cars as part of their fleet, but by the time I got there I received the better of the 2 cars available.