Would you purchase a used car from a business fleet?

I personally would never buy from car max, but there’s a dealer here in Florida that sells a lot of business leases. I would never buy a vehicle with a prior accident, that’s more important than it’s prior use.

Business fleet is probably decently taken care of as most of those have standard, required maintenance schedules.

Rental fleet, frick that

Their 100 point inspections are a joke, they are a wholesale buyer and seller than deals in volume and they couldn’t give a shite less about you after the sale.

We've bought two from rental fleets and had no problem. Once in '09 once in '18. Both had unexpectedly low mileage for their model year at the time.

People always say they treat rental cars like shite but what does that even mean? spill coke on the floor? OK my kids would've done that within 48 hours anyway. At least I'm pretty confident Enterprise is running regular oil changes etc.

I have treated all of my company trucks pretty well. I’d buy my previous 2 in a heart beat. My current one is a 2019 Silverado and I had manufacturer issues so I wouldn’t buy it, but not because I rode it hard and put it up wet.

It’s a used car that has probably been maintained better than most vehicles. It might have been abused but it probably also had at least some maintenance.

I bought a 2 year old Lexus es350 with 18k miles that was a corporate car for about 14k less than brand new. It has been great but as always you want to do your homework.

Depends on what it is.

Ford Fusion with 50k on it. Probably fine.

Work truck with 100k on it, not a chance in hell.

As my dad would ask …you know the difference between a 4 wheel drive and a rental / business use vehicle? There are just some places that a 4 wheel drive won’t go.

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How do you treat a rental or company car?
I wouldn't buy mine

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You probably treat your personal vehicle like shite as well then.