Towing with a rental Tahoe

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The general, easy, willingness to lie and cheat bothers me most.

joe
for me it's like do I buy insurance for every package I ship? no I do not because the risk of the package getting damaged is extremely low, I do for high value things but not every single thing getting nickel and dimmed along the way no way. Insurance for a rental is insane, when in most likelihood your existing insurance covers you already. Is there risk if you do something not "allowed" sure there is, there is also risk just driving down the road minding your own business.
 

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My insurance covers it and my Amex card covers the deductible, so I’m going to go with….. tow it for the win!
 

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for me it's like do I buy insurance for every package I ship? no I do not because the risk of the package getting damaged is extremely low, I do for high value things but not every single thing getting nickel and dimmed along the way no way. Insurance for a rental is insane, when in most likelihood your existing insurance covers you already. Is there risk if you do something not "allowed" sure there is, there is also risk just driving down the road minding your own business.

Yeah, but we're on different issues here; different facets of the situation.

joe
 

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Yeah, but we're on different issues here; different facets of the situation.

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these rental company's are well aware of what people do with there vehicles, if you bring it back with a dent and your insurance covered it while you were driving it, then it just goes thru the claim's process like normal, you pay your deductible and everyone has a nice day, the particulars of towing are perhaps a bit more complicated but if it is repaired and no one was injured you have little to worry about.
for instance if you were towing and it broke down and you know you were not "technically" allowed to tow? well you use your brain and call a tow truck on your own with your own roadside or credit card or whatever, you don't call the rental company and say hey my dumbass was towing and I need assistance,,,,,,,,
you get the tow situation taken care of then call and say it broke down....
is there is a risk? yes
is it a high risk? no
short trip less risk, long trip taking it hundreds of miles increased risk
 

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Man, sorry, but lying and cheating are lying and cheating.

I think I'll drop this now. I know, from long experience, that my attitude is not common, and not popular.

joe
 

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Man, sorry, but lying and cheating are lying and cheating.

I think I'll drop this now. I know, from long experience, that my attitude is not common, and not popular.

joe
true, there is of course a better way, I am no angel myself, never have been the system is rigged against me since birth I may as well embrace it.
 

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The only concern I had was if there was a major mechanical malfuntion, where the rental company could say that towing was the cause of the failure.
Not gonna lie, this is actually the thought that popped into my head. With all the hi-tec telemetry and the such the rental companies are using to communicate with the vehicles nowadays I’m surprised they don’t have a complete log of every sensor and readings such as the RPM’s and towing mode engaged. And if they did, it’s possible they could have used that against you in the event something had gone wrong.
 

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If im not mistaken, most rentals don’t even have hitches on them..

Didn’t realize you already did it. Well, glad it worked out
I've rented Tahoes, Burbs, and Eskies... all of them had tow packages... all of them had an oem factory hitch cover that blends nicely into the bumper, that one can conveniently pop off. Make sure you reinstall on return... nothing mentioned to the rental company.
 

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