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Very Bad Experience renting a car with Sicily By Car

This summer we went to Slovenia, but Ryanair at our local airport flies to Trieste and not to Ljubljana, so we decided to fly there, and rent a car. In Trieste you have the usual rent-a-car companies, such as Avis, Europcar, and so on, and you have a few cheaper companies, among which we decided to rent with Sicily By Car: they were cheap and charged no additional fee for driving outside Italy and into Slovenia (which is a very safe country). The online booking process was fine, and so was the check-in at the desk in Trieste airport, but when we saw the car (a Fiat 500) we were surprised, and not for good: a car with over 90000 kilometers, which is a lot for a rented car, and full of dents and scratches all over the place. It was faster writing down the parts that were fine than the ones that were damaged, so we took a few pictures and a video with our cell phone. And off we went. Using the car was fine and uneventful, until the day before the last. We drove it for maybe 2 hours, and s...