Garmin nüvi® 370 GPS navigator
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new offer from IdeaMerge for IdeaMerge clients only:
rent the
Garmin nüvi 370!
A new, top-of-the-line model from industy leader Garmin, your nüvi® 370 ordered from IdeaMerge will come
loaded with high-resolution maps of both Europe and
North America,
integrated with a traffic-conditions receiver
and a points-of-interest (POI) database customized by IdeaMerge!
The IdeaMerge deal:
US$ 5 per day
(the duration commencing two days after you receive the nüvi, and ending
with the commencement of a four-business-day grace period in which
IdeaMerge expects to receive the item back from you)
plus US$ 69; includes
POI customization, handling, and FedEx shipping to and from you.
Indeed you'll receive the item two days
before your departure, so you can really get to know your
nüvi before you hit the road. And if you grow to love the little guy
— as we think you will — you can buy this nüvi
from IdeaMerge for
just US$ 449 minus the entire rental cost (including said shipping and handling fee).
Talk about a test drive!
If said up-front entire rental cost equals or exceeds US$ 449,
the rental automatically transforms into an outright, up-front purchase of
a brand-new nüvi 370 for US$ 449 total, including the POI
customization, handling and FedEx shipping.
That's a few hundred dollars less than the MSRP!
(Only in such case will the nüvi you receive from IdeaMerge
be guaranteed to be brand new.
You will receive it within ten business days.)
You may
order while booking your vehicle online.
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Renault optional extras
You can choose to pre-purchase outright from Renault the accessories below.
Such items cost extra and you will own them outright.
With the exception of the software CDs, they will be pre-installed
for you.
None of the accessories below are available for purchase upon the pick-up occasion.
Our online order software will present the prices and
allow you to order these items precisely.
Many customers who order
a child seat, roofrack, etc. simply leave them behind upon returning
the vehicle, which is fine with Renault. Of course you can instead
sell the items in Europe or mail them home. If you want to keep such items,
it is ultimately your responsiblity to detach them before or upon the
return occasion.
As of 1 July 2008,
All drivers in France and Spain must carry in their vehicle a reflective jacket and warning triangle. The fine for not carrying these is about EUR 150.
Renault Eurodrive customers can purchase a kit including reflective safety jacket and warning triangle when they collect their car from the Renault agent at all airport locations in France including Geneva, as well as from Avignon Rail station or Calais Ferry, at a cost of about EUR 15, or from a Renault dealer at a cost of about EUR 15.
Alternatively the safety kits may be purchased from most service stations and supermarkets at an approximate cost of EUR 10.
We apologise to customers of Renault Eurodrive for any inconvenience this may cause.
Renault map CDs for built-in GPS navigation
The GPS navigation noted as being a guaranteed feature in certain of the
Renault short-term lease vehicles is compatible with Renault-licensed
software only; software bought on the open market will not work with the
system.
In the short-term leasing program,
Nissan models and Renault Koleos GPS models,
as well as the Renault Laguna sedan and wagon GPS models featuring leather or automatic transmission,
come loaded with GPS navigation software featuring
high resolution maps covering the entire domain of the included insurance and assistance.
All the other GPS-enhanced vehicles in the Renault short-term leasing program are equipped
with high resolution maps covering France,
plus low resolution maps (i.e. showing primary and secondary roads)
covering the rest of Europe, plus
the French "Infotraffic" system that presents timely reports
about traffic conditions, road construction and such.
Regardless of its scale of coverage, the software does include English and
Spanish audio and visual in addition to French.
Via IdeaMerge you can buy from Renault particular software CDs to
enhance the low-resolution maps noted above.
Again, you will own such CD outright; thus
you may be able to sell it (via Ebay, perhaps) after your lease.
The available CDs are the following:
child safety seats
Although you could bring to and employ in Europe the child seats
your children use at home, Renault makes the following child seats available
for pre-purchase and pick-up with the tax-free short-term lease vehicle.
| elios baby seat | 0–9 months |
| | britax duo child seat | 9 months – 3 years |
| | ergos complete booster seat | 3–8 years |
| | ergos assise booster seat | 8–10 years |
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A careful address of these safety devices touches not only
on various domains and the laws thereof but on at least
one or another more overarching and conservative (i.e. child-conserving)
consensus about child safety. Nevertheless please note that IdeaMerge is neither obligated
nor qualified to present to clients nor to the general public
the full set of relative laws nor the letter of those individual laws;
the comments below, whether about law or consensus are merely intended
to indicate the nature of the general issue of child motor vehicle safety.
In many cases (such as Canada and the United States) the law applies based on the
state, province or territory in which the vehicle is registered or in which
a particular rental commences. In Canada such law is strictest in Quebec and
in Ontario. Which is to say, these are the only provincial units in Canada
that require booster seats. The general North American consensus considers booster
seats necessary for children weighing 1836 kg (4080 lbs),
forward-facing safety seats necessary for children weighing 918 kg
(2040 lbs), and rear-facing infant seats necessary for children
weighing up to 9 kg (20 lbs). Age-wise these ranges correspond to
4.5 years through 7 years, 1 year up to 4.5 years, and 0 years up to 1 year.
In Germany, however, the high-end figure is more conservative, in the sense
noted above.
German law puts this figure at up to 12 years or up to 1.5 m tall
(4 ft. 11 in.);
moreover, children under age of 10 may not travel in the front
passenger seat of a car,
the exceptions being: (a) a child younger than 1 year old seated in a
rear-facing safety seat, (b) a vehicle with no rear seats or seats
that temporarily cannot be used, and (c) a situation in which all rear
seats are already occupied by children under 10 years old.
French law puts said high-end figure at up to 10 years.
In Ontario a child need not use a safety seat if (a) his/her weight is over
36 kg (40 lbs) or (b) his/her age is over 8 years (i.e. he/she has turned 8 years old) or (c) his/her height is over 1.45 m (4 ft.
9 in.).
Generally a rear-facing safety seat should not be used in a seat equipped with a functional
frontal airbag. Also generally speaking, children under 12 years old
should sit in a rear seat.
In the context of the whole IdeaMerge Website it is appropriate to address
a few more specific cases. The state of Washington in the USA
is relatively strict: children up to 1 year old or less than 20 lbs must be
seated in a rear-facing infant seat; children from 1 year old through 3
years old or 2040 lbs must be seated in a forward-facing child seat;
and children from 4 years old through 5 years old or 4060 lbs
must be seated in a booster seat (in the rear if the front passenger seat is equipped
with an airbag). In the state of Oregon children from 0 through
3 years old or less than 40 lbs must be seated in a child seat, and children
4 years old through 5 years old or 4060 lbs must be seated in a booster
seat. In the state of California, children from 0 through 5 years
old or less than 60 lbs must be seated in an appropriate child
seat, perhaps a booster seat. In the state of Nevada
children from 0 through 3 years old or weighing less than 40 lbs must
be seated in a child seat. In the state of Colorado, children
from 0 up to 1 year old or weighing less than 20 lbs must be seated in a
rear-facing child seat; children from 1 year through 3 years old or 2040 lbs
must be seated in a front-facing child seat; and children from 4 through 5 years
or less than 55 in. tall must be seated in a booster seat.
In the state of New Jersey, a child 0 through 17 months old
must be seated in a child seat; a child 18 months through 4 years old must
be seated in a child seat if riding in front; and a child less than 8 years
old or less than 80 lbs should sit in the rear, if rear seating is available.
In Australia a child from 0 up to 1 year old must
be seated in a child seat, and this seat must be fitted with a top
tether that is in turn attached to a suitable mounting point on the
vehicle; other constraints apply per territory,
but the general rules noted above should nevertheless be applied
and are typically indicated by vehicle rental vendors.
In New Zealand a child from 0 through 4 years old must be seated
in an appropriate safety seat; a child from 5 through 7 years old must if seated in
front be seated in a booster seat or, we are told, secured with an
adult safety belt (although this latter option seems too lax);
and again the general rules noted above should neverthless be applied
and are typically indicated by vehicle rental vendors.
roof bars
Sorry but no roof bars (and hence neither luggage nor
bicycle holders) are available for
the Renault Trafic, the Renault Master
and the Nissan vehicles. The Renault Espace comes
standard with such roof bars although you should order
the straps (free of charge) if you want to use its bars to hold
luggage. The optional Renault roof bars come with the straps.
roof luggage holder
Sorry but no roof bars — and hence neither luggage nor
bicycle holders — are available for
the Renault Trafic, the Renault Master
and the Nissan vehicles. The Renault Espace comes
standard with such roof bars although you should order
the straps (free of charge) if you want to use its bars to hold
luggage. The luggage holder comes in a hard-sided and a soft-sided
version, costing the same but mutually exclusive.
roof bicycle holders
Sorry but no roof bars — and hence neither
bicycle nor luggage holders — are available for
the Renault Trafic, the Renault Master
and the Nissan vehicles. The Renault Espace comes
standard with such roof bars although you should order
the straps (free of charge) if you want to use its bars to hold
luggage.
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