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| - I will rent from Hertz again but if they're giving me a Ford rental, I'll confirm the Ford's MyKey isn't set to annoy me.
- I would have given Hertz/this office a 5-star Yelp review but my Sat/8 Feb - Mon/10 Feb Ford Fusion rental's MyKey setting for 74 miles/80 miles per hour (74 MPH/80 MPH) warning annoyed me so much my round-trip 9 hr drive Vegas/LA that I'm wary of renting any Ford from Hertz again:
1) Pros of Hertz:
a) Free Hertz Gold membership https://www.hertz.com/rentacar/member/enrollment
- The main benefit for me is the free car upgrade (ie one-time I booked a Corolla and my membership got me a free upgrade to a Camry).
b) My 8 - 10 Feb rental was an Intermediate class car (eg Corolla or equivalent) and with my AAA discount plus discount code/RQ "VSTPTE" I ended up paying total $64.30 for a 2 day-rental. So only paying $32.15/day for a rental with unlimited miles was a bargain. On this Feb rental I got an upgrade to an available Ford Fusion (unfortunately; whereas on a previous 2013 rental I had a free upgrade to a Camry which was a much better driving experience than a Fusion).
1) Pros/Cons of this Hertz Local Edition office:
a) Pros:
- Offers pick-up service (and whenever I drop off my rental cars they've given me a ride back to my home).
- Friendly, professional staff.
- Initially they were gave me a Corolla rental but I asked if an upgrade was available and it turned out that the Fusion was available, which they free upgraded me to.
b) Cons:
- The Ford Fusion MyKey setting has a "80 MPH speed limit" which I'm okay with. But, there's an annoying audible & visual warning that comes on when I hit 74 MPH, and again when I hit 79 MPH, and 79 MPH is the fastest the car will go even though MyKey claims the speed is limited to 80 MPH.
- I understand that there are highway speed limits (eg 70 MPH on I-15 freeway) but sometimes I need a little extra speed to pass cars (to avoid a wolf pack of cars or cluster of motorcyclists, big rigs, cars/trucks with unsafe/unsecured loads in their open-truck bed, debris coming from a car/truck, etc).
- I wasn't smart enough to disable/adjust the MyKey setting to disable the audible warning whenever I hit 74 MPH & 79 MPH. Or maybe Hertz intentionally set MyKey such that the renter is not able to alter that warning system.
2) Pros/Cons of the Ford Fusion:
a) Pros: Nice styling, fairly comfortable ride
b) Cons:
- MyKey. The dual warnings at 74 MPH and 79 MPH even though MyKey states that the car is speed limited to "80 MPH" was frustrating.
- Ford Sync by Microsoft. I don't know what Microsoft accomplished. I connected my iPod shuffle via USB port to the car's music system & the Sync by Microsoft wouldn't let me control my iPod via the car's music controls. Whereas my cheapo JVC Arsenal head unit in my car allows me to do so because it has better software programming/iPod recognition.
- Radio station change buttons. On the far right of the radio console so I had to reach, and selecting the right button (eg Preset 1, Preset 2) was harder because the buttons are small with no space between them (rather than large buttons with a little bit of space so I can select the correct Preset button to press based on feel). I had to pretty much look at the radio console every time I wanted to press the correct Preset button I wanted.
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