Rental Sled Insurance???

[plumnuts]

If you can't get insurance on the sled and you total it. You can do what a buddy of mine did and go into the parking lot with it and back over it with his truck and let the auto insurance cover it.

that is funny as hell!!! I probably have something to do with the insurance issues... back in the day you could rent a sled and for a minimum up charge get "walk away insurance" i.e. wreck it and walk away, nothing out of pocket... we looked as this a great opportunity to "test" sleds... honestly never wrecked one but I really did "ride it like a rental"

 

[LRD]

They do that so people take better care of the sleds. So instead of "riding it like its a rental" you might actually try not to wreck it and you might treat it like a borrowed friends sled that has no insurance.

Other than that, Rick is a great guy and i just got my sled back from him. I have rented sleds from him before and it was awesome. The sleds are all set up well and run better than most rentals. Would not rent from anywhere but the Cooke City Exxon.

A friend of mine would tell anybody that rents to take a multitude of before rental pics and try to find any discrepancy possible on the sled, scratches, cracked hood etc. Not doing that a few years back cost him the price of a hood.

Good Luck

 

[Clarke673]

thats why you rent from people who seem like honest people. Bear claw bob is also a good guy in cooke. Can't realy go wrong renting from either of them.

 

[snowhawkaddict]

LOL

A few more totaled Twoskis ain't such a bad thing, maybe knock some sence into the rider's head.

Maybe if your renting you just treat the machine like a friends and be more than normal carefull, duh!

 

[Tuesday]

Most of the rentals I did a few years back, they did not seem to worried about minor riding damage but the the basic agreement was you break it you buy it. I was always more nervous on a rental because I was afraid to get dinged for something minor.

If you only go on a couple trips a year renting is fine but other then that I find its better you have your own. Set it up the way you want it and have insurance. I used to hate how rental companies would detune the sleds.....super crappy clutching(500rpm low) and cranked up oil pumps.

 

[mnsnowhawk]

You can get the vin from the rental before going and then get insurance from your own company.

 

[13below0]

No way I would pass it up. 3 years ago out in west my buddy trashed a m8 only cost him $800 out of pocket. Pretty sure the dealer said he was going to total it. When we talked to the guy at the dealer he said there was probably just over $4000 in damage.

 

[revrider07]

rentals

When I have rented, ride it like its yours don't ride scared about wrecking it thats when it chit happens.

 

[OrangeKowJumper]

Absolutley, most definitely walk around the machine and take pictures of it from all angles before ya even start it up if your gonna rent one!!. . that way there will be NO questions about damage before or after. ..no matter who your renting from.. . .that's insurance for yourself