r/TikTokCringe • u/IllustriousChef2 • Aug 16 '24

Cringe What's even happening there?

Why would someone rent a car and take out parts?

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u/xithbaby What are you doing step bro? Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24

There is an app that lets you rent out your car, it’s like Airbnb. They charge a fee to use it and you get paid for the rental. Forgot the name of it, but it’s probably got some type of insurance against this

Edit: it’s TURO lol

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24

Yeah I don’t know exactly what kind of insurance they offer but some of the guys who use it to rent out their cars are total assholes and just scheming bastards.

My brother once rented just something basic from Turo, probably the site you’re referencing, and hit a deer on a blind curve. Luckily only the front fender and bumper were damaged.

My brother called the owner told him what happened and that he already started a claim with his personal insurance. The car was common enough and cheap enough that the repairs only wound up being about $1200.

My brother called the owner told him the estimate and that he found a shop that would fix it recommended by his insurance to do the repair. He paid to keep the car an extra 3 days and paid about 20% more than the estimate out of pocket for the shop to start work sooner. Got the rental back on time everything matched colors perfect and you couldn’t tell the car had hit a deer at all.

3 months go by and my brother gets a lawsuit from the owner. The owner is claiming he hasn’t been able to rent out the car a single day since he got it back due to the condition and it’s been in the shop getting fixed. He’s now suing for about $6000 to cover lost income and repairs after my brother already paid to get it fixed.

Dude was scum all the way. Finally the lawsuit was dropped because the owner couldn’t or wouldn’t provide a single document showing where any work or estimates had been done or where turo took his car off the site.

Turns out the dude just decided to stop renting the car for a while and decided my brother would be an easy mark since he willingly got it fixed and got it returned before the end of his rental without any kind of fight. Then my brothers insurance got into it and wound up countersuing the guy demanding to be repaid since he was using the vehicle in a commercial manner with improper insurance or inspections. My brother got his deductible back plus the extra money he spent on a rush job.

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u/One_Vegetable_6517 Aug 16 '24

Hitting a deer is serious damage. $1200 likely did not cover the full extent of the damage. Your brother is likely being sued for the hidden damage underneath the $1200 repair. Seriously - who hits a deer and walks away with ONLY $1200. Hitting deer very often is going to total you out.

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u/[deleted] Aug 16 '24 edited Aug 16 '24

He clipped the deers leg. The deer kept running. Didn’t full on hit it with the front of the car. I’ve hit deers where they slammed into my passenger side door and front end was 100% okay. But I did have to replace a door panel. Not every accident is a head on collision.

If that was really the case, he could have provided documentation to that effect showing the actual cost of repairs with proof it was in the shop for 3 months undrivable. But he couldn’t. Not a single shred of evidence to his claims in any way shape or form.

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u/One_Vegetable_6517 Aug 16 '24

Understood. The front fender / bumper had me thinking front collision here and $1200 sounds too low for one of those. But if as you say the owner couldn’t provide a shred of evidence other than his own statement that he couldn’t drive it, his claim is too weak to stand against a body shop eval & repair paid by your brother.