OT Renting a car.
I can count the number of times I've rented a car on two hands, probalby one hand, and I have two questions.
1) The tires have not reached the supposed "must replace" level, where the the tread is the same height as set of rubber bands that go from one side of the tread to the other (I'm sure there's a name for this), but the tread is only about twice that deep.Somewhere I got the idea that major car rental companies replaced the tires will before this level**. Am I wrong about that? **(and that's one source of used tires).
To be fair, it's not going to rain much this month and iiuc that's when one really needs deep tread, but I could be wrong about that too????
2) This time I'm confused.The day I picked it up on March 9 3/9 they put a charge in for
2400, the 1600 rental plus 800 possible damage. But didn't actually collect any money. Then on 4/6, same amount, 2400, also not collected. Then on 4/14, $636, which is one month's rent, but not collected**. Then on 4/21, $636, and finally they collected that amount -- the bank actually paid them -- a month and 12 days after I picked up the car.Is this normal behaviour for a car rental place? If not typical, is there a good reason to do all this? I would expect the first 2400 to be a hold, so there would be no need for the second, and I'd expect the monthly charge to be made on the 9th day of the next month, since I picked the car up on the 9th. (But not the 14th or the 21st.)
**Actually I was sure that the previous charge had been paid =- that was only a month and 5 days after I picked up the car, but maybe they reversed that charge and charged it again 7 days later?They also emailed me at about 30 days to call them and tell them my mileage, but when she looked it up, she decided I didn't have to tell them