Chile Forum

Hello all,

I work as an off road driving instructor, photographer, and videographer in the U.S., and am interested in putting together an expedition to southern Chile. Central and southern Patagonia to be exact. Does anyone here have experience with renting 4x4(land rover/toyota), and planning routes? I'm not trying to spam, but after quickly reviewing the rules this seems acceptable.

Thanks,
Johnathan

patagoniax does.

Nothing new it’s done all time, I use:
http://www.econorent.cl/
I rent in Pt Montt.
If you are going into Argentina make sure they know 2 weeks before you rent as they need to setup the proper papers (costs a bit more), and make sure the names of drivers and passport numbers you give are the people behind the wheel when you hit the frontier. PX reports on gas availibilty in the south of Argentina regularly as there is often problems with fuel and also changing dollars.

Thanks for the information.

I checked out econorent, but they didn't seem to have exactly what I was looking for in terms of vehicles. Also, my spanish is rusty, so that may have been the issue. Either way, I was looking for more of a prepared overland vehicle for rent, i.e. a hilux or rover equipped with recovery gear, winch, hi lift, jerry cans for fuel, water...something along those lines.

OEXjohnathan wrote:Thanks for the information.

I checked out econorent, but they didn't seem to have exactly what I was looking for in terms of vehicles. Also, my spanish is rusty, so that may have been the issue. Either way, I was looking for more of a prepared overland vehicle for rent, i.e. a hilux or rover equipped with recovery gear, winch, hi lift, jerry cans for fuel, water...something along those lines.

feeling rich?.... they exist..... they are not cheap....

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zer0nz wrote:

OEXjohnathan wrote:Thanks for the information.

I checked out econorent, but they didn't seem to have exactly what I was looking for in terms of vehicles. Also, my spanish is rusty, so that may have been the issue. Either way, I was looking for more of a prepared overland vehicle for rent, i.e. a hilux or rover equipped with recovery gear, winch, hi lift, jerry cans for fuel, water...something along those lines.

feeling rich?.... they exist..... they are not cheap....

many people ship in there own vehicles and ship them out after....

$4000-5000 each way to bring in a vehicle, probably $1500-2000 a week to rent if you can find one, might be cheaper for a 3 month trip to bring your own.

Buy, give it the 4x4 tweaks you like, and resell when done. You might even come out a bit ahead on the resale, depending on what you do to it.

You are going to have a hard time finding any 4x4 for rent in chile that are fully off road ready, that did not come from the factory with what they got. If you do, they are likly beaten to hell already and you would not want to drive them outside Santiago anyway. Most everyone drive's stock factory 4x4. The ones that are tweaked out, tend to be too valuable to drive anywhere they might not come back from.

zer0nz wrote:

OEXjohnathan wrote:Thanks for the information.

I checked out econorent, but they didn't seem to have exactly what I was looking for in terms of vehicles. Also, my spanish is rusty, so that may have been the issue. Either way, I was looking for more of a prepared overland vehicle for rent, i.e. a hilux or rover equipped with recovery gear, winch, hi lift, jerry cans for fuel, water...something along those lines.

feeling rich?.... they exist..... they are not cheap....

I've contacted these guys, but so far no response. Anyone know of something else around, or if these guys are still in business?

http://www.greenwichexpedition.com/index_com.html

I'm not scared of the expense, if it's too much, I'll just say no...in Spanish.

OEXJonathan,

What did you find? Still working on this?

Just interested personally for the coming summer...

Hi,
I am presently planning a 3 week self drive around the north of Chile in 2013 and have found "rhino car hire" a useful website.
I would be interested in any updates from you on how your planning is going.
This holiday is a recce for a 3 month tour around the continent in a few years time. I have also considered shipping a vehicle from the UK but may well end up buying a vehicle in Chile and then getting the suspension improved, maybe a stronger front bumper and some reinforcing for a high lift jack.
I am fortunate to have inlaws in Chile that can help.