Rented a Camaro SS Through Hertz with Questionable Equipment

The Rental Car Experience: A Cautionary Tale

As I stood in front of my rented car, I couldn't help but feel a sense of unease. The car, a sleek and powerful Camaro, was supposed to be the perfect vehicle for a fun drive through the countryside. But as I began to inspect it, I noticed something that made my heart sink. The tires were all wrong.

I had been renting cars from Hertz for years, but this experience was different. These tires didn't seem like they belonged on the car at all. They looked more like the kind of tire you would find on a lawn mower than on a high-performance sports car like the Camaro. I couldn't understand why anyone would put these tires on such an expensive and powerful vehicle.

I decided to test the tires further, so I took them out for a spin. As I drove, I noticed that they performed poorly in both dry and wet conditions. The steering was clicking, and the brakes weren't very responsive. It was like the car was struggling to keep up with my every move. I couldn't believe that Hertz would rent out such a car with such subpar tires.

As I continued to drive, I started to think about the potential risks of renting this car. If someone were to get a flat tire and have to change it themselves, they might not know how to do it properly. And if they didn't know how to change a tire, they could end up stranded on the side of the road. It was a scary thought.

I decided to take my concerns to the Hertz representative who had checked me in for the car. I told him about my experience with the tires and asked him if he knew anything about it. He seemed taken aback by my comments, but he didn't offer any explanations or apologies. Instead, he just shrugged and said that maybe the tires were not the best fit for the car.

I was disappointed by his response, but I tried to remain calm and composed. I explained to him that as a customer, I had a right to expect a certain level of quality from my rental car. And if Hertz couldn't provide me with a safe and reliable vehicle, then maybe they shouldn't be renting out cars at all.

As I left the Hertz office, I couldn't help but feel frustrated. I had been looking forward to spending some time behind the wheel of this beautiful Camaro, but now I was worried about the safety of the car. And if anyone else were to rent it out and get into an accident because of those tires, then who would be held responsible?

The Experience with Luxury SUVs

After my experience with the Camaro, I decided to see how Hertz's luxury SUV selection fared. I rented a brand new 488 Spider, and was excited to see if this car would live up to its reputation as one of the best in the business.

Unfortunately, my experience with the tires on the Camaro seemed to be an isolated incident. The 488 Spider's tires were actually quite good, providing excellent traction and handling both on dry and wet roads. But there was still something that didn't feel right about them. They seemed too smooth, almost too perfectly symmetrical. And when I asked Hertz representative about the tire model, he just shrugged and said it was a "newer" model.

I wasn't convinced by his response, but I decided to let it go and focus on enjoying the drive. After all, this was supposed to be a fun experience, right? As I drove through the countryside, I couldn't help but feel a sense of disappointment. The car was beautiful, with its sleek design and powerful engine. But something was missing.

The Burnout Issue

As I continued to drive, I started to think about the issue that had been plaguing me since the beginning: the burnout problem. When I hit the gas hard, there seemed to be a moment when the car would "catch itself" and regain traction. It was like the wheels were somehow able to self-adjust their rotation to compensate for the loss of grip.

I wasn't sure what was causing this behavior, but it seemed to be more pronounced in certain conditions, such as on steep inclines or on wet pavement. I asked Hertz representative about this issue, but he just told me that it was something that happened with all cars, and that it didn't affect the performance of the vehicle.

I wasn't convinced by his explanation, but I decided to let it go for now. After all, I was here to enjoy the drive, not to nitpick every little detail. But as I continued driving, I couldn't shake the feeling that something was off about this car.

Liability Risks and Rental Cars

As a seasoned renter, I know that there are certain risks associated with renting a car. One of the biggest concerns is liability - what happens if you get into an accident while driving someone else's car? Who is responsible for the damages?

In the case of Hertz, I couldn't help but wonder whether they had taken adequate steps to mitigate this risk. Were their cars regularly inspected and maintained? Did they have adequate insurance coverage in place?

I decided to ask these questions to Hertz representative, but he seemed evasive when it came to answering them. He told me that Hertz took all necessary precautions to ensure the safety of its customers, but I couldn't shake the feeling that he was hiding something.

The Verdict

As I left the Hertz office and returned my rental car, I couldn't help but feel disappointed. Despite the beautiful design and powerful engine, this car had been marred by subpar tires and a mysterious burnout issue. And as for liability risks, it seemed like Hertz wasn't taking adequate steps to protect its customers.

I wouldn't recommend renting from Hertz anytime soon. There are better options out there, with better cars and better service. But if you do decide to rent from Hertz, make sure to inspect the car carefully before signing that contract. You never know what hidden problems might be lurking beneath the surface.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enall right before we talk about hertz and why they carry a different standard for their rental cars especially their performance rental cars than i do let's talk about an opportunity for you guys to come to europe with us and you look behind me right there that's i don't know i haven't been there but that's in france somewhere it was a painting of a cafe in paris and what's good about cafes in paris are that you can be in paris with us this coming saturday now this is like the last minute of last minute giveaways check out the link in the description i'm going to sell 500 shirts that gives you a one in 500 chance or if you want to buy 500 shirts that gives you a you're coming to europe with us but i'm gonna take somebody to europe uh and this is like super last minute but there's those opportunities in life that it's like me personally i was working at a golf course will smith like like training for bagger vance shows up by himself in the morning i'm like do i quit my can i play with will smith because you're looking for somebody to pair up will smith to play golf with and i'm like i will quit my job right now and half of me regrets not doing it the other half well you know this is one of those opportunities because i'm going to take somebody to europe with us they're going to go to paris france on saturday we're going from paris over to bordeaux over to le mans down make our way to endor which you don't even know andorra is a country it's a small little awesome country it's like monaco but in the mountains then we're going down to barcelona for two nights staying at the w in barcelona going over to marsai from versailles going up to geneva driving col de arvis i pronounced it wrong because i'm american but it's a great driving road up there it's a lot of fun over to geneva back to paris it's gonna be an awesome trip and i've got one spot for one of you guys or one of the the use that buys the t-shirts if you haven't already clicked off me to click in the description now is your chance but uh that's out of the way let's talk about uh hurts cause hertz i just rent to the car from hertz i went down so i've been renting race tracks one a month uh i was doing videos on them but you guys don't seem to care about racetracks so i just go enjoy myself and we are the weirdest people to rent racetracks it's my buddy who's actually renting them and i just show up and hang out and drive but it's sort of weird because we don't really care race track companies are used to renting race tracks to like corporations people are like all right i've got 600 cars coming today we're doing run groups and it's like and everyone's there like before the gates open and then you get us you're at the racetrack they're like you guys coming today yeah it's only nine o'clock and we show up at like 10 but we rent the track from like eight to five when we show up sort of leisurely like hey you guys take lunch go take lunch we'll just you know we drove a little bit now we're like throwing a football around and like we'll go have lunch and come back eventually and then drive some more in the afternoon so we're very leisurely we have a great time and it's like we've had race tracks we've rented was like two cars just like three of us driving around two cars it's a lot of fun i drove the 720r down there and that thing was pretty silly but the whole reason for this story is that i rented a come out it's funny me and my buddy brandon both end up renting the same cars when we travel we have no idea why but it's like oh i'm going to get a ford fusion he shows up in the ford fusion i'm like good dude then i go rent a camaro don't tell them i'm renting a camaro ss dude shows up in the camaro iss i'm like what are the odds so i just went to the camaro ss down in raleigh durham at the airport and i got it i was like oh cool it's got the little sticker on the side that says like we clean this car he sanitizes this car you should feel good about how clean and sanitary this car is and you open the door just like a bottle under the sea you see it from like like oh there's a bottle under the sea when i go to put my bag in the back super clean uh different cleanliness standards and i have i got in the car it i didn't look at the year but it was a 37 000 mile v8 camaro ss now this is their premium offering right this is like the best sports car that they had i went to get a mustang it's mustang or similar they gave me a v8 camaro ss but they do guarantee the v8 and i'm like good i can enjoy this i'm down driving in the mountains not taking it on the racetrack or anything like that who would ever do something like that but um i went out had a good time rented this car and oh my god this car doesn't feel that great and uh when we're at the track we're bored you know we're throwing a football around so i'm like let me take a look just to see like how this car is equipped because it doesn't drive great but i figure it could just be a v8 camaro and i just i'm used to like higher performance cars returning my rental camaro here at hertz and not that i ever pay attention but the uh n5000 pluses on the front at least that one this is an ss by the way so it's a performance car the zeke's xc name whatever the falcon on the other side that vir shirt and we've got the uh rapsis on the back wrap this on the side so we're close so there's three different tires on the car so there's like two in the back and i thought it was four at first and i think the reason because i was rushing through the airport i think there's two different of the same brand in the back and then the fronts are completely different too so these are all like absolute rocks right these are like like ling lang like whatever 500 tread wear rating the things don't roll over they just sort of make noise and perform terribly and how terribly would they perform well i don't know if you were driving equivalent camaro with all the same tires i would guess probably about five seconds a lap faster is my intuition if the same driver is driving both cars which is a big difference and as a guy running a rental company for so many years i would say that that is an unsafe condition in which to rent a car now if it was standard ford fusion i get it how that slips through the cracks but you're renting premium performance cars this is your performance car offering you're a god i don't know it could be a negative billion dollar company or a positive billion dollar company depends on the stock market but this is a lot probably the one of the largest if not the single largest car rental company in the world and they allow their cars to go out with mismatched tires now you're not talking like one mismatched tire somebody got a flat and swapped it they're all mismatched like i was like you know what at least the rotational direction is correct because at least that would have been like all right this is embarrassing like that one tire's going backwards now it didn't rain uh is this an unsafe condition is the question right is it unsafe to rent somebody like the worst thing for hertz is if somebody crashes that car even no matter what if somebody crashes that car trying to like slide around the corner in the rain as soon as a lawyer picks picks wind of those tires all being wrong hurts a suit like it's a lawsuit and like what is this is this safe like do they sell tires individually and you pick one for each corner no you have to buy them in a set and i've even in the past been concerned about renting like like the same brand but different tires in the front different tires in the rear i felt it was okay because i used to be able to run my like my corvette i would run it on like bfgs in the front and then drag radials on the back so technically different tires and not incredibly unsafe but then you drive at high speed on drag radios like this isn't really safe but uh it didn't seem like the end of the world now when you start throwing different tread patterns on different treadwear ratings at least i i'd hope they were the correct size it becomes less dangerous but one of those things that i've avoided for at all costs is we always check the tires we want to make sure you got good tires they are um appropriate they're not bad tires and i don't know if there is a legal argument that you can make that somebody put crap tires on the car because i was flown out to tire rack i did their winter driving academy and they had us testing and not winter tires but they had us testing tires on their skid pad this guy woody over there is in charge of i want to say product development but i think it's just fun i think woody's in charge of fun over at tire rack and uh he was just sort of lapping the track and we would go out and they would wet the whole thing and we'd go out and the like they took like legitimately as a company called like ling lang and you get them on they don't even sell them on tire act like look we don't even sell these they're such crap they look like tires around they're black but they don't perform like anything else so we drove a sequence of different sport tires and the ling langs and it's like sort of it's incredibly noticeable in the dry less so but in the wet it's like you're all over the place you're like what is going on why would anyone put these tires on the car so i don't know if that would be a liability risk for a rental company because a rental company is giving you something and you're under the impression that it's maintained that it's safe it's it's the way it's supposed to be the steering was clicking on my camaro and the um brakes weren't so good the brakes tended to fade a little quicker than i would have expected but that just could be standard 37 000 miles on the camaro and then the tires being wrong wasn't i think if it rained could have been a significantly larger issue and the question is do i do that no would i do that no that's that's why if somebody gets a flat tire and it sucks right if you get a flat tire and somebody has to charge you for like a pair nobody likes doing that but you have to like if a tire is at the point it's always one of those things with customers that i feel really bad for like you blow out a wheel and it's like i can't just put a brand new tire on front right and front left is like 60 worn or 40 worn i've got to do something here so i got to match those up the rears and the fronts tend to wear at different rates on the exotic cars especially if it's a rear wheel drive car because there is just something i'm not talking about burnouts but there is a little bit more wheel spin like even a 488 when you get on it that it does like it catches itself but it does wear the rear is faster because there's a little bit more aggression going on in the back of the cars but uh let me know your thoughts i think it's unsafe for hurts to rent a car with i was amazed like to me like i'd fire people i don't want to fire people because it sucks to fire people but like somebody's got to be in charge of that for such a large company to let something like that slip through the cracks i don't know what to say hey like the experience i had renting their best like and i don't know if that's their best their luxury suvs could be better but for their performance category performance category means like you know what i'm going to rent a nice v8 performance car and i'm going to go for a nice drive through the countryside and when you do that you want to give somebody something that's safe and i don't feel that that car was incredibly safe hertz may disagree with me i don't know i voiced my opinion to the guy checking in the car whether that gets anywhere or not who knows i'm like by the way all these tires are wrong just so you know like this is just me to you and i could be like got your buddy then uh then he leaves uh who knows if that actually gets rectified or not but if you end up renting that car in north carolina it's probably raleigh durham still and it's got north carolina plates if that's a car that you rent it's still got those four tires that's a hurts problem uh hertz is aware of this if you crash that car in the rain and you find this video and you're like holy crap the tires are all still wrong i'm gonna crash it in the rain you owe me 10 rob ferrari thank you for watching hope to see you in europe uh reminder go check out and grab a t-shirt there's 500 of them after i hit 500 of them i'm gonna stop the sale so uh check it out i'd love to see one of you guys come to europe with us i've had many many guys uh all guys so far well 98 of my audience is male but uh statistically uh maybe there's going to be a girl that wins some time but any of you guys and girls that want to go out win a trip to go to europe uh that's going to be this friday if you're from the us you're gonna have to fly out this coming friday i will cover your flight i've got the trip and i'll make sure you're in a car and you're gonna have a great time rob ferretti hope to see you in europe if not i'll see you here on the channel tomorrow thanks for watching see you then youall right before we talk about hertz and why they carry a different standard for their rental cars especially their performance rental cars than i do let's talk about an opportunity for you guys to come to europe with us and you look behind me right there that's i don't know i haven't been there but that's in france somewhere it was a painting of a cafe in paris and what's good about cafes in paris are that you can be in paris with us this coming saturday now this is like the last minute of last minute giveaways check out the link in the description i'm going to sell 500 shirts that gives you a one in 500 chance or if you want to buy 500 shirts that gives you a you're coming to europe with us but i'm gonna take somebody to europe uh and this is like super last minute but there's those opportunities in life that it's like me personally i was working at a golf course will smith like like training for bagger vance shows up by himself in the morning i'm like do i quit my can i play with will smith because you're looking for somebody to pair up will smith to play golf with and i'm like i will quit my job right now and half of me regrets not doing it the other half well you know this is one of those opportunities because i'm going to take somebody to europe with us they're going to go to paris france on saturday we're going from paris over to bordeaux over to le mans down make our way to endor which you don't even know andorra is a country it's a small little awesome country it's like monaco but in the mountains then we're going down to barcelona for two nights staying at the w in barcelona going over to marsai from versailles going up to geneva driving col de arvis i pronounced it wrong because i'm american but it's a great driving road up there it's a lot of fun over to geneva back to paris it's gonna be an awesome trip and i've got one spot for one of you guys or one of the the use that buys the t-shirts if you haven't already clicked off me to click in the description now is your chance but uh that's out of the way let's talk about uh hurts cause hertz i just rent to the car from hertz i went down so i've been renting race tracks one a month uh i was doing videos on them but you guys don't seem to care about racetracks so i just go enjoy myself and we are the weirdest people to rent racetracks it's my buddy who's actually renting them and i just show up and hang out and drive but it's sort of weird because we don't really care race track companies are used to renting race tracks to like corporations people are like all right i've got 600 cars coming today we're doing run groups and it's like and everyone's there like before the gates open and then you get us you're at the racetrack they're like you guys coming today yeah it's only nine o'clock and we show up at like 10 but we rent the track from like eight to five when we show up sort of leisurely like hey you guys take lunch go take lunch we'll just you know we drove a little bit now we're like throwing a football around and like we'll go have lunch and come back eventually and then drive some more in the afternoon so we're very leisurely we have a great time and it's like we've had race tracks we've rented was like two cars just like three of us driving around two cars it's a lot of fun i drove the 720r down there and that thing was pretty silly but the whole reason for this story is that i rented a come out it's funny me and my buddy brandon both end up renting the same cars when we travel we have no idea why but it's like oh i'm going to get a ford fusion he shows up in the ford fusion i'm like good dude then i go rent a camaro don't tell them i'm renting a camaro ss dude shows up in the camaro iss i'm like what are the odds so i just went to the camaro ss down in raleigh durham at the airport and i got it i was like oh cool it's got the little sticker on the side that says like we clean this car he sanitizes this car you should feel good about how clean and sanitary this car is and you open the door just like a bottle under the sea you see it from like like oh there's a bottle under the sea when i go to put my bag in the back super clean uh different cleanliness standards and i have i got in the car it i didn't look at the year but it was a 37 000 mile v8 camaro ss now this is their premium offering right this is like the best sports car that they had i went to get a mustang it's mustang or similar they gave me a v8 camaro ss but they do guarantee the v8 and i'm like good i can enjoy this i'm down driving in the mountains not taking it on the racetrack or anything like that who would ever do something like that but um i went out had a good time rented this car and oh my god this car doesn't feel that great and uh when we're at the track we're bored you know we're throwing a football around so i'm like let me take a look just to see like how this car is equipped because it doesn't drive great but i figure it could just be a v8 camaro and i just i'm used to like higher performance cars returning my rental camaro here at hertz and not that i ever pay attention but the uh n5000 pluses on the front at least that one this is an ss by the way so it's a performance car the zeke's xc name whatever the falcon on the other side that vir shirt and we've got the uh rapsis on the back wrap this on the side so we're close so there's three different tires on the car so there's like two in the back and i thought it was four at first and i think the reason because i was rushing through the airport i think there's two different of the same brand in the back and then the fronts are completely different too so these are all like absolute rocks right these are like like ling lang like whatever 500 tread wear rating the things don't roll over they just sort of make noise and perform terribly and how terribly would they perform well i don't know if you were driving equivalent camaro with all the same tires i would guess probably about five seconds a lap faster is my intuition if the same driver is driving both cars which is a big difference and as a guy running a rental company for so many years i would say that that is an unsafe condition in which to rent a car now if it was standard ford fusion i get it how that slips through the cracks but you're renting premium performance cars this is your performance car offering you're a god i don't know it could be a negative billion dollar company or a positive billion dollar company depends on the stock market but this is a lot probably the one of the largest if not the single largest car rental company in the world and they allow their cars to go out with mismatched tires now you're not talking like one mismatched tire somebody got a flat and swapped it they're all mismatched like i was like you know what at least the rotational direction is correct because at least that would have been like all right this is embarrassing like that one tire's going backwards now it didn't rain uh is this an unsafe condition is the question right is it unsafe to rent somebody like the worst thing for hertz is if somebody crashes that car even no matter what if somebody crashes that car trying to like slide around the corner in the rain as soon as a lawyer picks picks wind of those tires all being wrong hurts a suit like it's a lawsuit and like what is this is this safe like do they sell tires individually and you pick one for each corner no you have to buy them in a set and i've even in the past been concerned about renting like like the same brand but different tires in the front different tires in the rear i felt it was okay because i used to be able to run my like my corvette i would run it on like bfgs in the front and then drag radials on the back so technically different tires and not incredibly unsafe but then you drive at high speed on drag radios like this isn't really safe but uh it didn't seem like the end of the world now when you start throwing different tread patterns on different treadwear ratings at least i i'd hope they were the correct size it becomes less dangerous but one of those things that i've avoided for at all costs is we always check the tires we want to make sure you got good tires they are um appropriate they're not bad tires and i don't know if there is a legal argument that you can make that somebody put crap tires on the car because i was flown out to tire rack i did their winter driving academy and they had us testing and not winter tires but they had us testing tires on their skid pad this guy woody over there is in charge of i want to say product development but i think it's just fun i think woody's in charge of fun over at tire rack and uh he was just sort of lapping the track and we would go out and they would wet the whole thing and we'd go out and the like they took like legitimately as a company called like ling lang and you get them on they don't even sell them on tire act like look we don't even sell these they're such crap they look like tires around they're black but they don't perform like anything else so we drove a sequence of different sport tires and the ling langs and it's like sort of it's incredibly noticeable in the dry less so but in the wet it's like you're all over the place you're like what is going on why would anyone put these tires on the car so i don't know if that would be a liability risk for a rental company because a rental company is giving you something and you're under the impression that it's maintained that it's safe it's it's the way it's supposed to be the steering was clicking on my camaro and the um brakes weren't so good the brakes tended to fade a little quicker than i would have expected but that just could be standard 37 000 miles on the camaro and then the tires being wrong wasn't i think if it rained could have been a significantly larger issue and the question is do i do that no would i do that no that's that's why if somebody gets a flat tire and it sucks right if you get a flat tire and somebody has to charge you for like a pair nobody likes doing that but you have to like if a tire is at the point it's always one of those things with customers that i feel really bad for like you blow out a wheel and it's like i can't just put a brand new tire on front right and front left is like 60 worn or 40 worn i've got to do something here so i got to match those up the rears and the fronts tend to wear at different rates on the exotic cars especially if it's a rear wheel drive car because there is just something i'm not talking about burnouts but there is a little bit more wheel spin like even a 488 when you get on it that it does like it catches itself but it does wear the rear is faster because there's a little bit more aggression going on in the back of the cars but uh let me know your thoughts i think it's unsafe for hurts to rent a car with i was amazed like to me like i'd fire people i don't want to fire people because it sucks to fire people but like somebody's got to be in charge of that for such a large company to let something like that slip through the cracks i don't know what to say hey like the experience i had renting their best like and i don't know if that's their best their luxury suvs could be better but for their performance category performance category means like you know what i'm going to rent a nice v8 performance car and i'm going to go for a nice drive through the countryside and when you do that you want to give somebody something that's safe and i don't feel that that car was incredibly safe hertz may disagree with me i don't know i voiced my opinion to the guy checking in the car whether that gets anywhere or not who knows i'm like by the way all these tires are wrong just so you know like this is just me to you and i could be like got your buddy then uh then he leaves uh who knows if that actually gets rectified or not but if you end up renting that car in north carolina it's probably raleigh durham still and it's got north carolina plates if that's a car that you rent it's still got those four tires that's a hurts problem uh hertz is aware of this if you crash that car in the rain and you find this video and you're like holy crap the tires are all still wrong i'm gonna crash it in the rain you owe me 10 rob ferrari thank you for watching hope to see you in europe uh reminder go check out and grab a t-shirt there's 500 of them after i hit 500 of them i'm gonna stop the sale so uh check it out i'd love to see one of you guys come to europe with us i've had many many guys uh all guys so far well 98 of my audience is male but uh statistically uh maybe there's going to be a girl that wins some time but any of you guys and girls that want to go out win a trip to go to europe uh that's going to be this friday if you're from the us you're gonna have to fly out this coming friday i will cover your flight i've got the trip and i'll make sure you're in a car and you're gonna have a great time rob ferretti hope to see you in europe if not i'll see you here on the channel tomorrow thanks for watching see you then youall right before we talk about hertz and why they carry a different standard for their rental cars especially their performance rental cars than i do let's talk about an opportunity for you guys to come to europe with us and you look behind me right there that's i don't know i haven't been there but that's in france somewhere it was a painting of a cafe in paris and what's good about cafes in paris are that you can be in paris with us this coming saturday now this is like the last minute of last minute giveaways check out the link in the description i'm going to sell 500 shirts that gives you a one in 500 chance or if you want to buy 500 shirts that gives you a you're coming to europe with us but i'm gonna take somebody to europe uh and this is like super last minute but there's those opportunities in life that it's like me personally i was working at a golf course will smith like like training for bagger vance shows up by himself in the morning i'm like do i quit my can i play with will smith because you're looking for somebody to pair up will smith to play golf with and i'm like i will quit my job right now and half of me regrets not doing it the other half well you know this is one of those opportunities because i'm going to take somebody to europe with us they're going to go to paris france on saturday we're going from paris over to bordeaux over to le mans down make our way to endor which you don't even know andorra is a country it's a small little awesome country it's like monaco but in the mountains then we're going down to barcelona for two nights staying at the w in barcelona going over to marsai from versailles going up to geneva driving col de arvis i pronounced it wrong because i'm american but it's a great driving road up there it's a lot of fun over to geneva back to paris it's gonna be an awesome trip and i've got one spot for one of you guys or one of the the use that buys the t-shirts if you haven't already clicked off me to click in the description now is your chance but uh that's out of the way let's talk about uh hurts cause hertz i just rent to the car from hertz i went down so i've been renting race tracks one a month uh i was doing videos on them but you guys don't seem to care about racetracks so i just go enjoy myself and we are the weirdest people to rent racetracks it's my buddy who's actually renting them and i just show up and hang out and drive but it's sort of weird because we don't really care race track companies are used to renting race tracks to like corporations people are like all right i've got 600 cars coming today we're doing run groups and it's like and everyone's there like before the gates open and then you get us you're at the racetrack they're like you guys coming today yeah it's only nine o'clock and we show up at like 10 but we rent the track from like eight to five when we show up sort of leisurely like hey you guys take lunch go take lunch we'll just you know we drove a little bit now we're like throwing a football around and like we'll go have lunch and come back eventually and then drive some more in the afternoon so we're very leisurely we have a great time and it's like we've had race tracks we've rented was like two cars just like three of us driving around two cars it's a lot of fun i drove the 720r down there and that thing was pretty silly but the whole reason for this story is that i rented a come out it's funny me and my buddy brandon both end up renting the same cars when we travel we have no idea why but it's like oh i'm going to get a ford fusion he shows up in the ford fusion i'm like good dude then i go rent a camaro don't tell them i'm renting a camaro ss dude shows up in the camaro iss i'm like what are the odds so i just went to the camaro ss down in raleigh durham at the airport and i got it i was like oh cool it's got the little sticker on the side that says like we clean this car he sanitizes this car you should feel good about how clean and sanitary this car is and you open the door just like a bottle under the sea you see it from like like oh there's a bottle under the sea when i go to put my bag in the back super clean uh different cleanliness standards and i have i got in the car it i didn't look at the year but it was a 37 000 mile v8 camaro ss now this is their premium offering right this is like the best sports car that they had i went to get a mustang it's mustang or similar they gave me a v8 camaro ss but they do guarantee the v8 and i'm like good i can enjoy this i'm down driving in the mountains not taking it on the racetrack or anything like that who would ever do something like that but um i went out had a good time rented this car and oh my god this car doesn't feel that great and uh when we're at the track we're bored you know we're throwing a football around so i'm like let me take a look just to see like how this car is equipped because it doesn't drive great but i figure it could just be a v8 camaro and i just i'm used to like higher performance cars returning my rental camaro here at hertz and not that i ever pay attention but the uh n5000 pluses on the front at least that one this is an ss by the way so it's a performance car the zeke's xc name whatever the falcon on the other side that vir shirt and we've got the uh rapsis on the back wrap this on the side so we're close so there's three different tires on the car so there's like two in the back and i thought it was four at first and i think the reason because i was rushing through the airport i think there's two different of the same brand in the back and then the fronts are completely different too so these are all like absolute rocks right these are like like ling lang like whatever 500 tread wear rating the things don't roll over they just sort of make noise and perform terribly and how terribly would they perform well i don't know if you were driving equivalent camaro with all the same tires i would guess probably about five seconds a lap faster is my intuition if the same driver is driving both cars which is a big difference and as a guy running a rental company for so many years i would say that that is an unsafe condition in which to rent a car now if it was standard ford fusion i get it how that slips through the cracks but you're renting premium performance cars this is your performance car offering you're a god i don't know it could be a negative billion dollar company or a positive billion dollar company depends on the stock market but this is a lot probably the one of the largest if not the single largest car rental company in the world and they allow their cars to go out with mismatched tires now you're not talking like one mismatched tire somebody got a flat and swapped it they're all mismatched like i was like you know what at least the rotational direction is correct because at least that would have been like all right this is embarrassing like that one tire's going backwards now it didn't rain uh is this an unsafe condition is the question right is it unsafe to rent somebody like the worst thing for hertz is if somebody crashes that car even no matter what if somebody crashes that car trying to like slide around the corner in the rain as soon as a lawyer picks picks wind of those tires all being wrong hurts a suit like it's a lawsuit and like what is this is this safe like do they sell tires individually and you pick one for each corner no you have to buy them in a set and i've even in the past been concerned about renting like like the same brand but different tires in the front different tires in the rear i felt it was okay because i used to be able to run my like my corvette i would run it on like bfgs in the front and then drag radials on the back so technically different tires and not incredibly unsafe but then you drive at high speed on drag radios like this isn't really safe but uh it didn't seem like the end of the world now when you start throwing different tread patterns on different treadwear ratings at least i i'd hope they were the correct size it becomes less dangerous but one of those things that i've avoided for at all costs is we always check the tires we want to make sure you got good tires they are um appropriate they're not bad tires and i don't know if there is a legal argument that you can make that somebody put crap tires on the car because i was flown out to tire rack i did their winter driving academy and they had us testing and not winter tires but they had us testing tires on their skid pad this guy woody over there is in charge of i want to say product development but i think it's just fun i think woody's in charge of fun over at tire rack and uh he was just sort of lapping the track and we would go out and they would wet the whole thing and we'd go out and the like they took like legitimately as a company called like ling lang and you get them on they don't even sell them on tire act like look we don't even sell these they're such crap they look like tires around they're black but they don't perform like anything else so we drove a sequence of different sport tires and the ling langs and it's like sort of it's incredibly noticeable in the dry less so but in the wet it's like you're all over the place you're like what is going on why would anyone put these tires on the car so i don't know if that would be a liability risk for a rental company because a rental company is giving you something and you're under the impression that it's maintained that it's safe it's it's the way it's supposed to be the steering was clicking on my camaro and the um brakes weren't so good the brakes tended to fade a little quicker than i would have expected but that just could be standard 37 000 miles on the camaro and then the tires being wrong wasn't i think if it rained could have been a significantly larger issue and the question is do i do that no would i do that no that's that's why if somebody gets a flat tire and it sucks right if you get a flat tire and somebody has to charge you for like a pair nobody likes doing that but you have to like if a tire is at the point it's always one of those things with customers that i feel really bad for like you blow out a wheel and it's like i can't just put a brand new tire on front right and front left is like 60 worn or 40 worn i've got to do something here so i got to match those up the rears and the fronts tend to wear at different rates on the exotic cars especially if it's a rear wheel drive car because there is just something i'm not talking about burnouts but there is a little bit more wheel spin like even a 488 when you get on it that it does like it catches itself but it does wear the rear is faster because there's a little bit more aggression going on in the back of the cars but uh let me know your thoughts i think it's unsafe for hurts to rent a car with i was amazed like to me like i'd fire people i don't want to fire people because it sucks to fire people but like somebody's got to be in charge of that for such a large company to let something like that slip through the cracks i don't know what to say hey like the experience i had renting their best like and i don't know if that's their best their luxury suvs could be better but for their performance category performance category means like you know what i'm going to rent a nice v8 performance car and i'm going to go for a nice drive through the countryside and when you do that you want to give somebody something that's safe and i don't feel that that car was incredibly safe hertz may disagree with me i don't know i voiced my opinion to the guy checking in the car whether that gets anywhere or not who knows i'm like by the way all these tires are wrong just so you know like this is just me to you and i could be like got your buddy then uh then he leaves uh who knows if that actually gets rectified or not but if you end up renting that car in north carolina it's probably raleigh durham still and it's got north carolina plates if that's a car that you rent it's still got those four tires that's a hurts problem uh hertz is aware of this if you crash that car in the rain and you find this video and you're like holy crap the tires are all still wrong i'm gonna crash it in the rain you owe me 10 rob ferrari thank you for watching hope to see you in europe uh reminder go check out and grab a t-shirt there's 500 of them after i hit 500 of them i'm gonna stop the sale so uh check it out i'd love to see one of you guys come to europe with us i've had many many guys uh all guys so far well 98 of my audience is male but uh statistically uh maybe there's going to be a girl that wins some time but any of you guys and girls that want to go out win a trip to go to europe uh that's going to be this friday if you're from the us you're gonna have to fly out this coming friday i will cover your flight i've got the trip and i'll make sure you're in a car and you're gonna have a great time rob ferretti hope to see you in europe if not i'll see you here on the channel tomorrow thanks for watching see you then you\n"