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    Business ProfileforCheap Auto Rental Co., LLC

    Auto Renting and Leasing

    At-a-glance

    Customer Reviews

    1.67/5stars

    Average of 6 Customer Reviews

    Customer Complaints

    3 complaints closed in last 3 years

    2 complaints closed in last 12 months

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    Overview of BBB Rating

    Overview

    This company offers used auto sales, rentals, and repairs.

    Business Details

    Location of This Business
    384 S Colony Rd, Wallingford, CT 06492-4519
    BBB File Opened:
    9/2/2003
    Years in Business:
    21
    Business Started:
    9/1/2002
    Business Incorporated:
    9/16/2002
    Type of Entity:
    Limited Liability Company (LLC)
    Alternate Business Name
    • More Auto Rental
    • Marathon Auto Rental
    • Little Guy Discount Rent-A-Car
    • Honest Lou's
    Business Management
    • Mr. Lewis J. Schatten, Owner
    Contact Information

    Principal

    • Mr. Lewis J. Schatten, Owner

    Customer Contact

    • Mr. Lewis J. Schatten, Owner
    Additional Contact Information

    Fax Numbers

    • (203) 294-0593
      Primary Fax

    Industry Tip

    BBB Tip: Renting a car

    Customer Complaints

    3 Customer Complaints

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    Most Recent Customer Complaint

    03/11/2024

    Complaint Type:
    Product Issues
    Status:
    Answered
    This dealership sold me a car that has problems and they will not return my money.
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    Customer Reviews

    6 Customer Reviews

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    Most Recent Customer Review

    N. C.

    1 star

    06/14/2023

    Terrible customer service. Purchased a vehicle from this place last month. Drove the car for 1 week, 6 codes cluster not lighting up. Back and forth from ********** ** *********** 4 times, wasting my time, and my money for fuel in 2 vehicles and Uber Twice. The owner tells me that’s not too far. To make matters worse they still have the vehicle for a catalytic converter code, and cannot get it through emissions. Grant it they replaced it the first time with an aftermarket catalytic converter. The code came back on, and when I told them that they said it was impossible. They just put a new converter on the car! This place has no respect for peoples time or business! They will put you on the back burner like they did me. I am extremely disappointed by the customer service, by the way, my car is still sitting in the parking lot which they told me to come pick up that I could still drive it. I can’t afford to keep running back and fourth to Wallingford for a car that still needs to be repaired. I deem it their responsibility to get it through emissions, I am not being compensated for my time, nor my fuel, or the cost to get back home after dropping off the vehicle, or the fact that now I have to rent a vehicle because the vehicle that I purchased from Cheap Auto rental will not pass emissions. Fix the vehicle, get it through emissions, then allow me to pick it up! Before the car is sold, once a deposit is placed on the vehicle all of these issues should’ve been addressed before allowing the customer to drive off with it. I put my trust into what this business advertised online but I guess once they close a deal the integrity goes out the window. Absolutely unacceptable! *******

    Cheap Auto Rental Co., LLC Response

    06/15/2023

    You purchased the car knowing that it was going to be due for emissions. It's a $3,488 car with 199,000 miles. I purchased a replacement catalytic converter in good faith. It's no good. I have ordered another one and will return the first one when I get this one. The car is perfectly driveable in the meantime. You have chosen to leave it here until I have the second replacement cat installed and have gotten it through emissions. I am fulfilling my obligations under the very precisely and explicitly worded warranty in good faith and as quickly as possible. This is a cheapo buy here pay here financed 15 year old car with nearly 200k, not a new *********

    Customer Response

    06/24/2023

    Ok. So you trying to re use a catalytic converter is legal? Per the EPA THIS IS ILLEGAL! You’re selling cars to people knowing they won’t pass emissions. I will follow through with pushing this complaint through the better business bureau, the EPA for your illegal actions, and also the department of motor vehicles. You’re gaslighting your customers! Just off of your responses alone on all of your negative reviews, it’s almost comical! It would be different if it was an honest mistake but you’re literally pushing cars out from the auction that you’re not even inspecting. You have a real scam going on over there and someone needs to put a microscope on the scam of a used car dealer you are running. If you put a used catalytic converter on my car just to push it through omissions believe me the EPA will be notified. Fair warning

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