It's stunning to me that such a (seemingly?) relatively modest maintenance cost would be specifically called out as a massive oversight. Perhaps I'm thinking a

It's stunning to me that such a (seemingly?) relatively modest maintenance cost would be specifically called out as a massive oversight. Perhaps I'm thinking about this the wrong way. Oil changes cost next to nothing, the customer pays for fuel, everything from brakes to suspension components on down to wiper blades are irrelevant when they sell the cars before any of that stuff needs to be replaced. Maybe tires actually are their biggest wear item? While you might generally not have to replace tires before, say, 30k miles, the tires on a rental car do not exactly live an easy life, and when you're talking about fleets going up to 50k miles, they'll absolutely be needing replacement. It also makes me wonder if Dollar Thrifty was letting them get illegally low, or just below the Hertz standard.