I. INTRODUCTION

For rental operations in regions that have severe winters, one of the annual tasks is that of installing snow tires on rental cars. CARS+ provides the ability to track the application and removal of snow tires on units. And during the transition period, it clearly indicates to the counter agent which units have snow tires and which do not. This chapter covers the set up steps necessary and the steps to follow when installing and removing snow tires.

II. REQUIRED SET-UP STEPS

A. GVT CODES

The following GVT records must be set up to turn on this feature, contact your Thermeon Customer Support representative for assistance:

• SECUREST - this activates the logic for installing and removing snow tires
• SNOWTIRE - this changes the Vehicle Search program to display the snow tire indicator

B. OPTIONAL EQUIPMENT CODES

This is an optional step, only required by Hertz locations. Use the program Edit Vehicle Options to define a two character code for installed Snow Tires as illustrated below. If using an option code other than ST, the option code must be specified in the Alpha field of the GVT record SNOWTIRE.

OPTION: EDIT VEHICLE OPTIONS 1 Code ST 2 Description SNOW TIRES 3 MQ Field 4 MQ Quantity 1PRINT 2 3ERASE 4 5 6 7HELP 8

C. SERVICE CODES

Using the program Service Code File Update, define two Service Codes, one for installing snow tires and the other for removing them. Enter a new service code that that defines and describes the installation of snow tires in fields 1 and 2. Place the Vehicle Equipment code previously defined for snow tires in field 14 and place an "A" (for "Adding" snow tires) in Field 15. (for non-Hertz clients, this value is not validated against the previous table). The records will look something like the following:

The record for installing Snow Tires should look something like the following:

OPTION: __ SERVICE CODE FILE UPDATE 1 Service Code SI 2 Description INSTALL SNOW TIRES 3 Cost 20 Hold Code2 4 Mileage 1 21 Hold Code2 Miles 5 Mileage 2 23 Hold Code2 SC 6 Mileage 3 7 Time 1 8 Time 2 9 Time 3 10 GL Acct 11 Rev Acct 12 Damage Display 13 Hold Code 14 Option Code ST 15 Option Action A 16 Apply Once 17 X Coordinate 18 Y Coordinate 19 Car Graphic 1SAVE 2NEXT 3ERASE 4DELETE 5BACKUP 6 7HELP 8

Create a new service code that defines and describes the removal of the snow tires from the vehicle in fields 1 and 2. Place the Vehicle Equipment code previously defined for snow tires in field 14. and place an "R" (for "Removing" snow tires) in Field 15. (for non-Hertz clients, this value is not validated against the previous table).

The record for removing Snow Tires should look something like the following:

OPTION: __ SERVICE CODE FILE UPDATE 1 Service Code SR 2 Description REMOVE SNOW TIRES 3 Cost 20 Hold Code2 4 Mileage 1 21 Hold Code2 Miles 5 Mileage 2 23 Hold Code2 SC 6 Mileage 3 7 Time 1 8 Time 2 9 Time 3 10 GL Acct 11 Rev Acct 12 Damage Display 13 Hold Code 14 Option Code ST 15 Option Action R 16 Apply Once 17 X Coordinate 18 Y Coordinate 19 Car Graphic 1SAVE 2NEXT 3ERASE 4DELETE 5BACKUP 6 7HELP 8

D. OPTIONAL CHARGE FOR SNOW TIRE EQUIPPED VEHICLES

The above set up will allow you to track when snow tires have been installed on a vehicle or when they have been remove. It will NOT charge extra for snow tire equipped vehicles. If you desire to charge a surcharge for snow tire equipped vehicles:

1. Set up an Optional Charge Code in Edit Optional Items
2. Set up the appropriate rate in Edit Option Rates
3. Finally assign the Option to the Snow Tire equipped vehicles in Vehicle Inventory Control as shown below:

OPTION: __ VEHICLE INVENTORY CONTROL (Page 2 of 4) 1 Check Dgt Meth Curr odom Due 2 Lic Flt Lease Flag Curr date 3 Acquisition Code Curr time 4 Depr. Status Code Curr loc 5 Hold Code 1 Last RA # 6 Insurance Co Create Date Name Create Time 7 Policy# Create Employee 8 Premium Last Mod Date 9 Option Code SNTRE Last Mod Time 10 Charge Opt Y Last Mod Empl 11 Generator hours Times Rented/Exch / 12 Asking Price Last Non-Revenue # 13 Retail Price Carbon/Km Gross Weight 1SAVE 2NEXT 3ERASE 4PREV 5BACKUP 6SEARCH 7 8NXT PAGE

WARNING: Using Vehicle History Update as outlined below will NOT automatically add the Optional Charge to the Vehicle. Nor will removing Snow Tires cause this option to be removed from the vehicle. Both actions must be done manually.

III. COUNTER INSTRUCTIONS