DO NOT RENT FROM FLEET MASTER DUBAI
DO NOT RENT FROM THIS COMPANY: Fleet Master Rent a Car, based in Dubai. Their website is as listed here, and they advertise on OneClickDrive.com and Renty.ae
I experienced systemic predatory commercial practices renting from them from March to April 2026. These include illegal withholding of funds, made up and inflated damage claims, contract manipulation and unquoted fees.
1. Illegal Deposit Withholding: Not returning the deposit, despite telling me, OneClickDrive and even the Dubai government (DET - consumerrights.ae) many times over more than a month that they would return the deposit. By law, the deposit is to be returned within 30 calendar days. Their contract says 30 working days (which is illegal) and even that deadline came and went. They are 25 days overdue as I write this.
2. Predatory Damage Claims: When returning the vehicle on 8 April 2026, staff used immediate and high pressure tactics to extort the full AED 4,000 excess (plus AED 450 for a police report) to cover two pre-existing minor 5cm scratches. Had the scratches occurred during my rental, they would have cost AED300-800 to repair, not AED 4,000. When I challenged the cost for approx. 5 minutes (with another staff member on speakerphone saying repeatedly I had to pay and a card machine being held in my face), they dropped the claim to AED 2,000 and continued pressuring my to pay immediately by card. When I checked my video taken when collecting the car, and saw the scratches were there when I picked the car up, they immediately dropped any requests for payment. They did not check their own records or pictures or apologise – I believe they knew the scratches were there and were hoping the pressure tactic would get me to pay.
3. Stating the Deposit Cannot Be Used for Damages: During the above exchange, I asked why they could not use my deposit. They stated that the deposit was not for damages and I had to pay the full amount. This is exactly what deposits are for – indicating again, they intended to get as much extra cash out of me by any means. Note their more than a month log avoidance of returning my deposit – hoping to get both the deposit and additional charges from me.
4. Illegal Deposit Processing: They processed my AED 1,500 security deposit as a full credit card charge/sale instead of a standard pre-authorisation hold. Again, this violates UAE law – the Dubai DET Circular No. (1) of 2024 mandating a strict 30-calendar-day return ceiling and prohibiting taking security deposits as standard purchase transactions – they should be a “Hold”.
5. Bait-and-Switch Pricing: During the booking phase, Fleet Master twice explicitly quoted an insurance excess of AED 3,500. Upon vehicle pickup, they inflated this figure to AED 4,000 on the physical printed contract.
6. Several other issues including: Adding collection fees (AED 75) not mentioned until organising collection, telling me to move from a free parking area to a paid parking area on returning the car, and then making me pay the parking (AED 30), multiple dodgy and likely illegal clauses in their contract e.g. “If the hirer is under 25 years old or if their driver’s licence is less than 6 months old, they will be responsible for the full cost of any damage caused by an accident, regardless of fault.”
I leased a Chery Tiggo 4 Pro (Plate: S67653) through a marketplace platform, and there is an ongoing complaint with the Dubai Department of Economy and Tourism (DET) under Case Reference: CMP-26-604496. I recommend reporting similar issues on consumerrights.ae, as I did.
As of this review, they have completely blown past the legal 30 calendar days deadline, their own illegal "30 working days" timeline, and a subsequent refund date given to the government.
Protect yourself and rent elsewhere.
8 aprile 2026
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