Self-Drive in Western Iceland

Waited a very long time for the car pick-up and drop-off shuttle from the rental company...

Excellent airport pickup and drop-off

We didn't see any Green Motion signs at the airport. After asking the information desk, we waited about 10 minutes before seeing a shuttle driver holding a Green Motion sign. The drive to the pick-up point took less than 10 minutes. There weren't many people in line, but the efficiency was low. There were various sales pitches for different insurances.

We have had a horrendous experience with Green Motion cars, the car which was given to us was a 10 year old car and on day 2 as we left Reykjavik to go around Iceland we started facing a number of issues: 1. The Air Con was not working- since it was peak summer in Iceland, we needed AC most of the time and the AC in the car was not working. 2. The wipers were not working and this caused lot of issues during the whole trip 3. Anti Mist not working- we faced a lot of issue because of the clouds/misty/foggy conditions where the anti-mist was not working. When we called support and customer services a number of times, they asked us to visit a garage in Mvytan where we had to go out of our way to visit the garage and the mechanic confirmed that the ac pump is broken and he also said if he changed the wiper blades it wont make much of difference as it was an old car and the wiper motors need change. We were asked to continue the trip in these horrendous conditions since they dont have any other option and would offer a discount when we return the car back.

Long wait on booking in, vibration through steering probably wheel balance, wipers were not very good and one head light was out.