Count car company rentals among dissatisfied customers from the widespread Toyota recalls.
“The nation’s largest rental companies have been rushing to pull thousands of recalled models off the road and assure renters that all the remaining cars are safe,” says the LA Times.
Enterprise Holdings Inc., the parent company for Alamo, Enterprise and National car rentals, owns 35,000 recalled Toyota and Pontiac Vibe vehicles out of a fleet of about 870,000 cars.
"It is a big undertaking," Enterprise Holdings spokeswoman Laura Bryant said.
Two days after Enterprise Holdings announced that its divisions would stop renting the recalled cars, the firm had pulled 50 percent of the troubled cars off the road, according to the newspaper.
Four days after that, the company had rounded up a total of 83 percent. By now, nearly all of its recalled rental cars are either fixed or off the road awaiting repairs.
Meanwhile, the parent company of Avis and Budget rental cars began pulling 20,000 recalled models from the two companies’ fleets last month.
By this week, 97 percent of the recalled vehicles were off the road and had begun repairs, said John Barrows, a spokesman for Avis Budget Group Inc.
By David Wilkening
