Hertz Rental Car, EV, SUV, Van 4+

Unusable App

I’m a 25+ year Hertz member and for about a month the Hertz app has been completely unusable. Anytime I try to log in I get the error message “We are experiencing service issues, please try again later”. There doesn’t seem to be any fix to this message (I’ve tried to delete/re-install the app, changed my password etc many times) and calls to Hertz customer service has been even more frustrating. Took many tries to eventually get someone technical on the phone, and that person basically said “we are having this problem for a number of accounts and we don’t know why” and gave up. Said I need to just use the website to book/manage reservations. In this day and age, for an international company to have such a flawed app is inexcusable. I stuck with Hertz through their bankruptcy bc of of having used them exclusively for so long, but having a completely inaccessible app for weeks/months (it’s still to this day not working) is why I will sadly be using another company after 25 years.

Terrible Service

My wife reserved a vehicle online as it stated it was available. The following day the local store tried to call me, but since I am not able to take my phone into work I did not get the information. They had told me they did have that car anymore. The only car they had was a small SUV. They said they would have to charge me more because it was a 2021 SUV. I said well ok since I need a car. The manager said she would have try and get it lowered. So the price ended up being the same price as the original car I was going to rent. The problem came when she added PAI/PEC and roadside service without my approval and changing what my wife had selected online. So I brought this to her attention and she stated that if she took that off she would have to charge me $150 a day instead of $53 a for the car. She didn’t even show me the new charges or go over the documents. She didn’t even want to do a walk around for the car. I had to say ok let’s do a walk around. Then she told me that I would only have to put in as much fuel as was in the car already when I returned It. On the contract it says tank needs to be full. She was more worried about closing than. taking care of the customer. Before I could even get in my car they had closed up shop. It was 5:00 when we left. My wife’s number is also in my file, instead of trying three times to call me she should of called my wife.

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Terrible customer service and deceiving advertising

So I booked a car rental fro one day and half from the Hertz in LAX. The car was in good condition but there was zero help from the people working there. I asked where was the car I booked and the manager was like “just pick one from there” and when I asked a follow up question he straight up ignored me.

I was like whatever I picked my car and drove away thinking everything I needed to pay was paid for. Boy was I wrong! So when I booked the Hertz I put as drop off location the Hertz in Burbank (21 miles from the LAX one) since it was closer to my airbnb. Went to drop off the car and I get a $60 charge the day after, when I ask support about this they said it was an “intercity fee” for dropping off the car to a different location. Nowhere near the checkout page it said I was going to be charged a $60 fee for selecting a different location. Would I known that I would’ve dropped off the car at LAX and uber back to my airbnb (I guarantee it wouldn’t have costed me $60).

Very sad about my experience with Hertz and would not recommend it to anyone. Oh and don’t forget to fill up the tank before you return it or they will charge you $9 a gallon to fill it up themselves (they also don’t tell you that I had to google that myself)