I rented a car from Budget car rental and then returned the car in a good condition. After a month later, I got a letter from the car company claiming that the car was involved in an accident during the rental period and they want me to contact my insurance/credit card company. I am really confused now since I (the car) was not involved in any type of collision or accident. As far as I remember, I returned the car got the receipt and came home.
What the heck is going on??? Can anyone please help!!!
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Send a certified letter to the company stating that the car was returned in the same condition as rented. The car was not involved in any accidents.
Also state that Budget had accepted the car in the condition returned and failed to report any problems at the time the automobile was dropped off.
Wait for their response. If they still want to give you a hard time there are two ways to handle it.
1) Report it to your insurance company claiming fraud
2) Hire an attorney
Technically anything could have happened to the car from the time you dropped it off to the time they sent you a notice. Since they did not check the car over themselves when you dropped it off, they pretty much don't have a claim.
yes and this sounds fishy, but you were there. If you have the rental agreement look on that to see what it says if anything. Write a letter to the address on the letter and tell them they are mistaken that you did not have an accident. Did you pay for budget insurance? or use your own car insurance?. They will have a hard time proving you did any damage, deny any responsibility for damages, and wait and see what happens next. This could have been a mix up to. the worst they can do is sue you in small claims court if you do not cooperate and they choose to push a claim, but you could still call your insurance if it became necessary up to 2 years after a claim.one letter at a time, wait and see.
Any damage to the car would have been noted at the time of return, the service manager will have taken pictures of said damage, dated and applied to your contract number, then that goes through their corporate office and eventually they send you such a letter, realistically the person that checked your car in should have noted the damage at the time of return, but as the old saying goes pay peanuts get monkeys, so they have to back track to recoup there losses, so now it comes down to them proving you did the damage or you proving you didn't, as far as I remember anyway.
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Hire an attorney. A real good one who will make them pay you if they are lying.