I was looking on a carfax and saw this:

Sold at auction
in Pennsylvania
Listed as
a fleet vehicle


what is a fleet vehicle?

thanks.

 

Company car.

 

Ditto, owned be a business... Careful, the company could have been a RENTAL...

 

Note to self, check spelling, then hit submit...

 

Fleet means abused...

 

Avoid rental and fleet cars like the plague.

 

u see how people abuse rental cars. i wouldnt touch it. most likely its was a rental car.

 

By the time I was done with a hyundai rental (1 week of driving), it made all kinds of weird noises. It only had 10k miles on it.

 

a (rental) car that's been abused, like everyone said. Avoid owning one

 

my car was a corporate lease vehicle.....same as a fleet vehicle?

ive had no problems with it. just over 100k miles now and it runs great

 

i take care of my company car.

 

depends. company cars ppl ususally take care of. rentals obviously not.

 

i worked at a rental company and the majority of the cars received all their maintenance on time and weren't crappy when we got rid of them. sure, some of the cars really got beat up and many people abused them, but there is two different outcomes to cars the company i worked for sold: in order to sell them at the rental company's dealer, the cars had to be flawless, no mechanical or physical flaws...every other car with damage or mechanical issues were sold in auction. so, they're not all bad...plus, who is to say original or previous owners didn't beat on the car just as much...as long as the car is okayed by a mechanic, it's all good...

 

BOTH of the maximas in my family are fleet cars i belive, and fleet does NOT mean it was abused, i don't know where you guys are getting this info.

 

also note to urself that there is an edit button

 

My 1st 4th gen was a rental car. It had 23k miles on it. I sold it with 259k miles on it and it never left me on the side of the road. The people renting the car probably didn't drive it any diffe
rently than you drive your car now.

 

My dads 97 C280 was owned by a business up north. It wasnt abused. He bought it in 2001 with 67k miles on it. So, not all fleet cars are the abused ones. You probably need to search deeper to find out what kind of company had it. Was it a company or a rental? Thats what my dad did to determine if he was going to buy or not.

 

There's this thing called luck. If you're lucky, your fleet car will outlast someone elses car that was bought brand new. If you're unlucky, even if you buy a brand new car it'll crap out on you.

 

I purchased a fleet vehicle. Sad it is. But is has done ok. Nothing super major. Just typical Nissan crap.

 

I would never ever EVER buy a fleet vehicle or any other vehicle that may have been a rental car. I work in a shop and Enterprise and Fleet are both right next to us (the Enterprise vehicles are actually kept in great shape and all tend to run very well)...Fleet on the other hand sucks. Today I put 2 new tires on a Mercury Sable but pulled all 4 wheels off to inspect the brakes since they were complaining of some vibrations when braking. Of course the front rotors were warped but that's not the issue. The issue is the damn drum brakes in the rear. At 80k they had NEVER been taken off! I still had to pop the factory clips off the studs...so yeah...that car had been driven for 80k with no prior brake service (at least on the rears). And by that time they were so corroded that I wasn't going to get the drums off without taking a bunch of other sh*t apart so I was like eff it we fix fleet vehicles for free so im not going to bother they can pay someone to do it. I know brakes aren't something that will permanently hurt the car or anything like that but if they weren't taken care of when they should have been then you never know what other service the car has been deprived of as well as the typical abuse of multiple drivers

 

yeah.. the guy ended up selling it.. but thanks for all the replies..

Still looking.. I can't believe its so hard to find a nice 5 or 5.5 gen manual ..

 

Mine was a fleet car that was own by a older gentlermen who used it as a company car. I have had no problems with it

 

My rental focus had 400 miles when I got it, by 2500 it had no e-brake at all, bald spots on the tires and noisy suspension. I was pissed at the rental company for 3 different reasons which I can only recall one of them right now!

 

I work for a fleet leasing company. A lot of the cars are well taken care of and I would buy without a problem. Plus I have access to all the maitenance history.

 

They may be well taken of by your company and have records out the wazoo, but you don't know what the people doing the actual driving of the car were doing. When I was younger, I remember abusing the crap out of a rental dropping the car into drive from neutral revs, shifting the car to park while it was still moving, abusing the brakes, bouncing the rev limiter, etc. Consqequences of abuse like this doesn't really show up immediately. You drop of the rental or turn in the lease and pretend nothing happened. Looking back, I feel bad for doing that and I would never do that again.

 

I would if they treat me like shiet!

 

often, state/county agencies (social services, dept of transportation) maintain "fleets" of company cars that are used by various workers for various long-distance trips. i woulnd't say they're necessarily as badly abused as rental cars. with fleet cars, the bosses "know where you live" so to speak and if you mess up one of their cars you could be held responsible.
however, with rental cars, all bets are off.

 

fleet cars are a 50/50 chance. Some guys take excellent care of them, because it isn't there money paying to upkeep it. Meanwhile others don't give a ____ and run it till it dies. Just be very careful. I know at my company, the fleet manager keeps service records on the cars. That might be something worth asking about.