A reader’s complaint about a post-rental damage charge in Germany raises a broader issue: when rental car companies have financial incentives to find damage, the return process starts to feel like a shakedown.
But the complaint touches on something I have heard far too often in Europe, and particularly in Germany: a returned rental car is scrutinized with a level of zeal that feels less like ordinary asset protection and more like a revenue exercise.
The reader also sent this:
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