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Terstappen Autovermietung Big time ripped off! Munich, Nationwide
6th of Oct, 2011 by User789267
I have to add a very unfortunate, recent experience with Terstappen as well. We had booked a car through Expedia.com with (we thought) Dollar Rental to be picked up at Munich airport on 09/01/2011 until 9/14/11. Our rental confirmation shows a total price, all inclusive, of $306.13. At the counter we immediately noticed that, aside from the "Dollar" logo, we would be dealing with Terstappen, whom we never heard of and would not have rented from for that reason. Immediately they refused to honor our Mastercard insurance, which we had confirmed prior to our departure. We were forced to pay 30 Euros per day for insurance coverage, which brought our total to $887.55 for the car rental, a total budget buster! The car, a sick sounding Kia, was so filthy, I thought it had participated in an off-road rally, with mud splashed across the passenger door including the inside frame. Over time, the Kia (an "upgrade" by the way) hummed louder and louder. On day 12 it died a sudden death! When I say sudden, I mean in the middle of a major intersection at 10 p.m. from one second to the next. Nothing worked, no brakes, no steering, no warning lights, no lights. After more than 2 hours the car was finally towed. The next "vacation" day was spent making about 17 calls and receiving at least that many with ever changing updates. The gentleman who helped us was very nice and personable though, I have to say that. We were promised a C Class Mercedes as a substitute to make up for our troubles. After 16 car-less hours, a pair of clowns (Laurel and Hardy-esque) arrived at a Park & Ride we had to go to using public transportation, because their GPS could not locate a major street in Bamberg where we were staying. They arrived in a C Class and a Kia. You guessed it, we got the Kia and they rode back to Frankfurt in style with the Mercedes. But before that, we noticed that the Kia was almost out of gas and the agreement was that they had to fill it, because the first Kia died with a full tank. Well, Terstappen allows only Shell to fill their cars. We ended up driving all over the city in search of one of only two Shell gas stations. When we returned the car we were assured that we would get immediate credit for our $300 additional deposit. We did not get credited for 20 days and by then we lost over $30 due to the exchange rate. We feel completely scammed and wish we had the chance to read these reviews first, rather than being led to believe we were renting from Dollar. "Rent a Terstappen" ? Not bloody likely ever again! BEWARE!
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4568 days ago by Tryzub
Ich hatte eine ähnlich schlechte Erfahrung am 03.11. mit Terstappen. Ich hatte meinen Mietwagen bei billiger-mietwagen .de angemietet. Bei der (schon durch die Airline verspäteten) Ankunft am Flughafen München konnte man an der Terstappen Mietwagenstation zunächst meine durch Kreditkarte bereits bezahlte Buchung nicht finden.

Erst nach der Recherche des bemühten Mitarbeiters fand sich meine Reservierung. Zugleich nutzte der Terstappen- Counterangestellte die Gelegenheit, um mich zu informieren, dass "heute morgen Probleme mit der Wagenvorbereitung bestünden, die Waschanlage würde nicht schnell genug arbeiten" - ein nur schwer nachvollziehbares Argument. Alle vorhandenen Fahrzeuge mit Winterreifen wären nicht zur Vermietung bereit. Es bestünde aber die Möglichkeit, einen Wagen ohne die gesetzlich vorgeschriebenen Winterreifen zu erhalten, natürlich auf eigenes Risiko. Das war schon mal die erste Frechheit, einen Kunden zu einem gesetzwidrigen Verhalten führen zu wollen.

Dazu muss man wissen, dass mein Zeitbudget an diesem Tag sehr eng bregenzt war, da ich solche Probleme aus meinen früheren Mietwagengeschäften mit anderen namhaften Firmen einfach nicht kannte. Ich hatte mich darauf verlassen, dass ich bei dem o.g. Vermittler auf eine seriöse Mietwagenfirma treffen würde und dementsprechend eng geplant.

Natürlich ging ich nicht auf das Fahrzeugangebot mit den Sommerreifen ein. Ich konnte ja nicht wissen, dass es weitere 90 (!) Minuten dauern sollte, bis die Firma Terstappen mir endlich einen Wagen mit Winterreifen zur Verfügung stellen konnte. Dabei war ich bei meiner Ankunft an der Mietwagenstation der Zweite auf der Warteliste, alle nach mir mussten noch länger warten. Der wirklich bemühte, aber machtlose Mitarbeiter teilte mir dann noch mit, dass ich nun ein kostenloses Wagenupgrade erhalten hätte, was aber angesichts der enormen Verzögerung auch notwendig war, um so wenigstens einen Teil der Verspätung wieder aufzuholen.

Weiterhin wollte er einen Vermerk in der Datenbank von Terstappen machen, um für meine nächste Wagenmiete bei Terstappen ein weiteres kostenloses Upgrade bereit zu halten, allerdings werde ich es nicht nutzen. Das war meine letzte Geschäftsbeziehung zu dieser Firma.

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