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The drawbacks for me are the time spent checking for damage before driving (especially in the dark/pouring rain) in case you miss something you're subsequently charged for - and the nagging worry that you're liable for £750 excess for any damage that does occur in your hire period even if it's caused by another driver.
This may be of interest to streetcar members, it's something I'm considering before the next hire: https://www.icarhireinsurance.com/insurance-information-centre/car-club-members.html?gclid=CMK0-Pedv6YCFQ8f4QodOTBuIA
"Unfortunately in recent months we have been regularly targeted by vandals particularly in and around your area who're breaking into our vehicles. These break-ins result in numerous problems for us, including replacing keys, moving vehicles and waiting for new permits if they have also been taken.
We're working with the Metropolitan police and looking at ways in which we can minimise this problem so it doesn't have this negative impact on our members. My locations team have assured me that we still hold these locations and will be returning cars there, however it may be the case that it is March by the time this happens as we await new vehicles and permits."
I take this as a slightly euphamistic way of saying that they realise they screwed up in terms of providing far too many BMW's and have now seen sense...
I don't object to having a choice, and I might even hire a BMW once in a blue moon for novelty value -- though I'd probably be rather more likely to hire a Prius. In fact, isn't it Streetcar that has one of the new plug-in Priuses that aren't actually available for sale yet?
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Thank you for your email regarding the removal of streetcar vehicles in N4. The Council are aware that a number of streetcar vehicles which have been temporally taken out of service in the N4 area. Unfortunately the car club vehicles at these locations were stolen by a car theft gang which had been targeting car club vehicles in Haringey and across London over the last 2 months. These vehicles have since been recovered and have been with the Police forensics team. Arrests have now been made and the missing cars will be operational again within a week. All streetcar vehicles are trackable and therefore are not good cars to steal, as the criminal gang has since found out.
Streetcar would like to emphasis that this theft issue has caused minimal disruption to the car club service and the usage of all the car club vehicles in the N4 area have been performing consistently well. The car club scheme is Haringey has been a success and the Council, in partnership with streetcar, are continuing to expand the network of car club vehicles across the borough, with an additional 20 vehicles being introduced in the spring 2011.
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