|| Richard Brookman wrote: || ||| A person called Honest John has a column on car-related issues in ||| the Daily ||| Torygraph. In this week's offering, someone was asking about the ||| wisdom of ||| buying an ex-rental car. (A guy had bought a car as "one owner" ||| from a dealer. It turned out that the one owner was a car rental ||| company.) I would run a mile, but Honest John advised that this ||| would be a good purchase, as it would have properly run in (what?), ||| well serviced (probably) and that "a lot of different drivers is a ||| very good thing for a car". ||| ||| Is this true? And if so, why? ||| ||| Just curious. ||| || I suppose that one reason it could be true is that multiple drivers || not used to the car are more likely to spot problems and insist they || get fixed.
That reason was given in the article: all faults would have been reported and rectified before the next customer. Seems fair enough.
|| But I doubt this effect, if it exists, would outweigh the || "I don't own it so I don't worry what I do with it" effect.
That's my thought exactly. Wheels will have been kerbed, clutches fried, gears crunched, engines slogged or over-revved.