ADVICE: TAKE TONS OF PHOTOS (EVERY ANGLE) AND VIDEO OF THE CAR YOU RENT!!! (You'll read several…read moreother reviews that give this advice based on their experience as well). If you don't document absolutely every possible piece of damage, no matter how small or insignificant, they will try to lay the damage on YOU.
After arriving in the UK from the U.S on a 10 hour flight, we took an Enterprise shuttle from outside T-5 to the Heathrow Enterprise office and lot. We had pre-booked the car through a well known membership store.
The branch was very busy, as you might well expect being at one of the world's busiest airports and it took us some time to get our car. One member of your party lines up in the small office while the other(s) stand outside. It's somewhat chaotic.
A rep walked us over to the car and the three of us looked over it for damage, the rep explaining that damage had to be 'bigger than a golf ball' and showing us a circle cut-out on a piece of plastic for demonstration. One of us took a few photos, which later ultimately saved our bacon.
When we dropped the car off at a different Enterprise location, (we had the car less than 24 hours) they walked around the car and claimed the black plastic that goes over the wheel well was 'popped out'. Looking at it, you could barely see it. It definitely wasn't something we'd noticed picking the car up, but if you stood at the right angle, you could see it was SLIGHTLY protruding.
Long story short, the rep at the drop-off location filed a report. Fortunately, we had some photos, albeit, not the best angles. At this point, we were BOILING MAD since we'd had the car less than 24 hours and had NOTHING to do with the damage.
We were about to spend a month on vacation on a cruise and in the UK. Over that month, we spent many hours (and wifi data) on communications between ourselves and Enterprise and our credit card insurance, trying to straighten out the situation. It really took a toll on our vacation enjoyment.
Fortunately, after about 3 weeks and much mental anguish and aggravation, due to our photos and explanations, the claim was waived, really only due to the fact we had photo evidence. However, I'm sure some unfortunate future customer will have the same claim put on them.
I would avoid renting from Enterprise as reading reviews, this seems to be a standard practice.