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Babadee1900:
What car is it? New or Toks?
I bought mine 6k toks

6k for the two sides? If you're referring to the parts, its toks, but the car is Nigerian use and I've been using it now for 1yr5mths with this being the first time I'm experiencing this.

1.5k could still go a long way if I save that and add to labour cost.

Please what's your parts dealer contact?

PS: Honda crv 02

Thanks.

Babadee1900:
Bad C.V joint (shaft)..For the wobbling steering, check tie rod

Yeah. Called my mechanic and he confirmed its the shaft. My parts dealer at oyingbo said 4k for one, but 7.5k if I buy both.

Babadee1900:
@ Crvrider, loud is synthetic wee.d.
I buy parts from Oyingbo because they deal majorly with Honda and it’s closer to the Island. I have a mechanic I use there, any part I need he takes me to the sellers shop.

Meanwhile, this afternoon police stopped me at Addo road, I was with a rider. When the officer came, I greeted him.

Me: Good afternoon Officer
Officer: Shey Na Uber?
Me: Yes it is
Officer: ......long hiss, abeg they go they go.

Me and my rider had a good laugh

When I turn to the left I am beginning to hear that dreaded kikiki sound...it happens when I turn right too but turning left seems worse. Also the steering wobbles and swerves to the right when I let go of it while driving.

Vision2045:
Lol...vision 2045 is more of a national thing....I hope to join politics and contribute my own part towards a better Nigeria

Okay, if you say so but me I no go vote for you sha. No hard feelings.

ksmart027:
The pics mean he talk without using his brain

Yes I know. Is just that the beard metre read full. Wish say na so my fuel tank dey full always.

Olayetan:
That's how you know roads, people that are so familiar with every routes in Lagos started like that too, before you know it now, you will be claiming you know everywhere in lagos too...


Just make sure you keep understanding the bridge connects and road networks...

The bridge connect is another case on its own. Every time na so I dey study ring road on google map like say I wan write exam on the thing.

Eventually I will conquer.

Vision2045:
Appreciation post


Guys kindly help say a word of prayer to my Madam....

She is a very private person, she is on Nairaland and I believe she might be following this group because she picked my number from here when I was looking for HP

My baby boy (11month old) was very ill, started since Friday but got worse over night...we took him to the hospital and after some test and diagnosis..I was asked to make a payment of 150k..... I was down and swept every where and was able to raise 50k plus..after several calls to some friends and close family that I can approach...the outcome was still negative...so summoned my mind to call my partner for a loan of 100k to be paid in installment with my weekly remittance. Lo and behold my people my madam and hubby rather gifted me 50k...

Words can't express how grateful I felt....

I quickly deposited 100k to balance up before my boy is discharged ....

Hitting the road to keep the hustle going

Mrs B God will surprise you and your family with blessings and favour now and forever.

Sorry for this and thankfully your boy is doing okay. I really don't mean to be sarcastic, but that your vision year too far, bros. What will you be doing before that year comes? 2045 ba wo?

Just to lighten you up.�

Babadee1900:
1. I rate it 8/10, would have given it 10/10 if it was a civic with smaller engine.

2. I use it full time and it has never let me down.

3. Yes, I will recommend it any day anytime (provided you are buying it toks or well maintained Naija use)

4. My experience with EOD has been a bitter sweet one. I’ve owned an EOD that turned out to be a nightmare (Naija used), but this particular one I’m using currently is bae. The driving experience is lovely, AC is excellent. No engine/transmission/ac repair work since 4years of entering Nigeria.

5. I use Tokunbo ball joint. OEM is expensive, Part sellers will try to sell you same thing for different prices. You will hear this one Na original, this one no too strong but e go last, NA LIE. The only time I tried to use the China ball joint I suffered for it.

Sometime ago I traveled leaving the car behind, upon my return I told my babe to give the security guy the car key so he can wash it before I get back. He decided to drive the car to show off to his friends around the neighborhood, on his way back to the house he had an accident with the car. The impact affected the right ball joint, absorber and linkage. We couldn’t get toks ball joint around so we resulted to using the China one, less than two months after the ball joint pulled out at VGC exit gate around 7pm

Again at that time of the day, and location, only new will suffice, bought one around and replaced. A week later I changed it to Toks.
That silly act by my security guy made me loose my stock absorber, linkage and ball joint.

Generally Honda is a good brand. Just get yourself a good unit (Tokunbo or sound Naija used), stick to the recommended oil especially the gear oil and all will be well.

Please where do you get your suspension parts from? Ladipo or oyingbo? Any contact please share?

Felicity0001:
The picture below describes you.

Go fvck urself.

It took me like 3sec for the image to register. Laugh wan ke me. Empty brain...full beard. Bros I dey sell beard oil o.

Babadee1900:
Offline trip is interesting. Let’s just be careful with riders we negotiate offline trips with.

The girl I took to Atican beach earlier bought 30,000 worth of ‘Loud’ on the way. Imagine what will happen if you are with that kind of a rider on offline and police stop you.

By the way, SCIID abi SARS are already on that Okun-Ajah road as at the time I was leaving.
Some guys coming to the beach had to do a 360 turn when they sighted the police guys. Had to slam hard on my brake to let him go. Crazy stunt.

I am lost. What's "Loud"?

Sakamanjeh99:
Hello house...
Pls hw is d huzzle on weekdays...as hav bin doin weeknd for ova a year...
Wil b free for mon n tue...
Jst tinking if it wil make sense to huzzle for soz 2 days...

Hold up is always the issue on weekdays.

deedee44:
When I just joined. Owner asked me to come and take car from ogba to total oniru for taxify inspection, I didn't even know how to get to island on my own let alone locating oniru before now getting to total but boss had faith in me lol. All thanks to G-map I went and returned unscathed

I throw salute for gmap. If not for gmap how man go do this business. This technology has been very helpful.

One time I carried three girls to idumota. Gmap carried me all the way to marina through 3rd mb from iyana ipaja. I was confused because map said I had arrived, the girls ma no know idumota except from one direction, carter bridge.

Fast forward to the 30th: I got a trip to songotedo, afraid to take 3mb because of the closure, I went through ikorodu road-oyingbo and then I found my self on carter bridge, memories started to fly by. As I descended from the bridge through martins st na so I see myself for marina, na so I laugh.

Conclusion: there are many ways to skin a cat. If I had known, the day I took those girls to idumota, and found myself at marina, I for just tell them to come down, walk through martins street, kapish.

ekehopp:
Complain thus:

1 Book an appointment on Driver app (Treated by Nigerian Branch)

or

2 Raise support ticket from driver app (Treated by HQ)
Help -> Sign up to drive -> Creating an account -> I cant create my account

or

3 Reach them via Twitter DM https://twitter.com/Uber_Support
(Treated by HQ)

Many thanks.

Felicity0001:
I know 4 people that where paid 1m each to form like they have codiv19 while they go stay at the isolation center for two weeks with better food.

They go in the morning come back at night like say na office them dey go.

Guy forget no do video for 9ja our government is just fooling us to fill their stomach

1m each!? Bros, why you no sign up, abi you be part of the 4 pepoo?

Good evening house. Please does anyone in here have uber's email address. I have been stuck here (see image below) for the past couple of weeks one. Please help

Please fam,. Is there a part of elegushi beach that is open to public, a client wants to take some wedding shots?

Slickleo:
Uber rating is different if he gets 1 star rating it will reflect immediately and take him to 4.5 - 4.6 I have experienced it.
Ok see my recent experience

Na so God save me on Sunday after I dropped off a rider@ somolu around 7:45pm I decided to set destination to festac town, when I got Anthony under bridge a request came in PU was Coker rd by town planning I ask rider where to he said Maryland Note
I set destination to festac town I decided to do the trip because of no traffic after I picked rider he was with another guy standing on the road side immediately Parked he jumped in front alone wearing jeans denim up/down na so I start to feel somehow I start by approaching town planning way to enter express na the guy say make I do U turn said we are picking someone on the same Coker rd na so I para say I set destination and he was going to Maryland so I don't have time for all dis I made a U turn dropped the in front of all dis estate security d guy refused to get down that I should drop him@ a lonely roundabout I ignored him until he got down treating me sayin I go see na so I fire down to my destination note d trip was surge and it ended 1k under 2-3min I no collect money I l8r report to Ubar dy pay me 4h, when I got home another 1 star don enter me know say na d guy. Low and behold d next day I saw a report on NL PL be careful out there, guy on dreadlocks looks like the rider that I picked he was even complaining that I should off my inner light.

https://www.nairaland.com/6017146/police-arrest-2-dispatch-riders

You drive with inner light at night on?

Beng1234:
There are no seats. I use for my own personal logistics. But since I haven’t been working, the bus hasn’t been working too. That load idea na correct one but na person wey sabi way round market e go Favour.

You could go to a major market around your area and ask those guys how it works. I know it's doable and less likely to cause you stress from agberos collecting money on every busstop.

Beng1234:
What transport business can one do with a bus (fiat ducato) ? My bus has just been parked for months, I feel it should be generating something.

Ps: na Disiel engine

You could take the seats off and use it to carry loads in the market. This approach is less stressful, unlike using it to transport passengers.

pope191:
It's pointless not seeing it from that angle, let's not act brand new, we r products of a broken society and who we r. There r traits u must have by being a Nigerian and worst if you r born in Lagos, Warri or PH. I'm not a saint, full lasgidi rep, but they r things I just don't have energy in again. Riders r owing me as I type now, I even pick someone from v.i to surulere yesterday 4hrs traffic on surge, trip ended at almost 20k. It's the matter that I am trying to settle with Uber and they r telling me that's the right estimation after review. Told rider to pulse payment, I'm not sharp or dull, my joy and peace is everything to me

Note: Learnt in Dubai, they r not offering Nigerians job, e get why.

I think its a trait all black men will have to live by. If a black man enters into an elevator with a white woman, she clings her purse. Till date I wonder how we got here, is it a reputation we've built over the years or we found ourselves here as a result of, "someone has to be blamed", so its easy to blame the black man?

An African american comedian once said, "Americans stole a whole country from the Indians and nobody said a thing, but if a black man were to look at a candy store for far too long, they call the cops"

Its a tough one. So to the young man who wanted aunty radu to help receive an item on his behalf, you see where its all coming from. This is the black mans reality ... don't blame her if she has trust issues!

izzou:
[color=royalblue] Really?
Didn't know this ohh

I know there was a night it rained....I was in my house around 10pm and was getting requests from Marina. All of them cancelled because of long pick-up...The cancellation was almost up to 20.

The next morning, my rating was nearing 4.5, from 4.8+[/color]

Why you no go off line?

1daboi:
guy u almost make sense. I'm disappointed in you. You are feeling entitled to a total stranger? U f**k up bro

Guy just die the matter. Why would anyone help do such a thing? What if the item was bought with a stolen credit card? Not insinuating .... just saying. Forgive me for seeing it from this angle.

deedee44:
Instead of executive driver

Na so the other day one lady refer to me as driver. Wanted to correct her and remind her that my name showed up on her phone when she accepted me for the pickup, but then again I just let it slide ... not worth the effort.

Mjosh1000:
Yea that's true, you have to joing a group (cult) before you can go into the business of palm oil.

Nigeria my country.

nitigriti:
On this Bolt trying to lower fares further, maybe we should consider porting to EkoCab. I see potential in EkoCab for two key reasons:
1. It is State Government backed;
2. Sterling Bank is financing

Why don't we form a "body" or a "committee" to engage EkoCab as it plans to launch. I have inside information that they have an initial 100 tokunbo cars to give out on hire purchase to drivers. The cap is #2,000,000 and the interest is 17% per annum for 2 years. That means a #2,680,000 payment over 2 years - or approximately #26,800 per week. If you take a car that is worth #1,500,000; your total payment over 2 years will be #2,010,000 or #20,100 per week. And the whole remittance thing is flexible.

I understand good cars can be registered on the platform too.

EkoCab has the potential to knock both Uber and Bolt out of the Lagos market. Maybe it's time we all key in.

Lastly, e-hailing should always be seen as a side hustle. There are other legit hustles that pay off well. For example, I know someone who brings in Palm Oil into Lagos from Benin. Another packages and sells yam flour on Jumia. Yet another brings in kilishi from Abuja. They all make good money.

My 2 Kobo.

My brother that palm oil thing, just like frying akara, they say you have to join something. Thought of that business but my mother in-law say make I no think am.

pope191:
Look at it from this angle, if u have 7 trips daily at 10k and u have 4 hours break in total. Reducing the price now will make you do like 14 trips that may worth 15k with less or no rest, that way you drive extra, u burn more airtime to call rider, u make extra 2500 instead of 5k on 7 trips, while Bolt make extra 1k plus the 2k. At the end of the day it's a win win for Bolt and riders, while car owner face the challenge of fixing over worked variable asset and drivers r left with different aches.

#uberdriverslifematter. #uberdriverscantbreath

bolabiyi:
recently, i told him of my inability to save for a new apartment as i am under fire in my present apartment. he said Biyi dont worry, God will make a way. i drove to his house the next morning to pick him for work....ME.. good morning sir, how was ur night? he replied, fine. i thought about you yrsterday night and i have decided to support. i will support you u with 300,000. i was shocked is this how God works? so is not about struggle i wept inside thanking God. he requested for my acct num and transferred. im writing this to encourage someone....dont be discourage with ur present circumstance, dont rely on ur struggles......seek God and you will testify... Blessings only come from God.... one love guys...

Truth is Mr. Biyi, don't just sit all day and be browsing o. Give yourself 1 to 3months to learn a soft skill like Microsoft excel. You could start with this book: excel 2019 bible by Michael Alexander. If you're into books then this is a site you'll love:
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toomush:
At bolded, it's a lie to get you to their office, that's what all the LGA council tout used to say.

I knew he was lying. Just didn't want to make a simple matter worse. I had my wife and daughter in the car with me.

xana101:
Took one rude girl from gbagada to ikeja. Price was N1,200. On Bolt. Both of us had quarrel from d express to her destination. When she paid me,, I had to swear for Bolt cos if I receive this kind insult and rider paid N2,500. I’ll be happy not receiving insult on peanut, yet they plan of reducing it more. Ok no problem. I’m waiting. One, I won’t put on AC. Two, if u insult me I end trip and drop u. Three, if u no take time I might injure u. Four, ur life will be at risk if u don’t respect urself.
That’s why u can’t do uber or Bolt and be successful in Nigeria. Their commission is very high. Fare is so cheap. If u Gross 12k on Bolt a day, ur profit is 6k that is if u drive ur own car. now traffic are everywhere so how do u complete d more rides. Even with d current price at times u won’t be able to off ur app cos request keep coming. I prefer to do 4 trips a day that will give me 10k or more, than doing 10 useless trips. At this juncture, we need a union. #unionforuberboltdriver

What you need is a bug, a crawler that can gain access to drivers phones to enable you shut the uber app at will.

jaymejate:
I know what Bolt is trying to do. They see that all other means of transportation are increasing their fees. Danfos, train, and every other transport blah blah blah, they are increasing.
This means that people will choose to be comfortable to take Bolt because it's a slight difference in transportation fare.

They did not think about the number of people cars on this bolt can carry and it's not a carry and drop thing or junction to junction thing. Moreover, even if there are millions of requests, traffic will never allow you to do enough for a day. We never talk of those touts calling themselves law enforcement idiots.

It's bad

My broda the tout thing tire me o. I was stopped by some guys
wearing MOT reflective jacket today at ikotun for not wearing nose mask. I was with my wife, and my daughter was at the back seat and we had the windows rolled up cause ac was on.

One of the guys spoke to me gently and asked me to go with his colleague to write my vehicle number down since i was a first offender. He insisted that I won't pay a thing when I got to their office...all na wash.

Got there and I refused to drive inside their compound. Told the guy that a sound was coming from my engine. The next thing one guy came around and deflated my tyre. Na so I begin para.

I shout down the whole place. My wife begin take pictures. Las las one of their oga call me go corner come dey tell me say me I be gentle man bla bla bla.

Las las I drop 5h and they apologized.

Funny thing, these guys even have air compressor machine. They pumped my tyre and I drove off

davit:
Guys see Wetin a guy did in my car this evening. He vomited inside and messed up everywhere. He apparently took too much of free drink and pepper soup at his friend's house. We were on uber trip. What do you suggest? Rider not ready to pay for cleaning. Uber indicated a receipt for such in their app. My car is smelling of alcohol and pepper soup that he vomitted.

He is even saying he didn't have money for the trip.

I have taken the car to car wash. Got receipt and sent details to Uber.

Bad market. Which kind stupid mofo be this. On top of that you still knack ac give the guy.

Vision2045:
To be honest we sincerely need a platform where atleast 70% of e-hailing partners can be reached.....

This companies just do as it suit them.... I don't know if anyone notice that today....around that afternoon destination was hidden.

Now they are talking of economy .....same car, same fuel cost....same wears and tears, same distance.... But low fare.....

Abeg who no go choose economy when you know the service is same as the lite.....why the premium package no sell, na cos less people opt for it....before we know it economy will become the new lite

Aswear if I get money I go buy that indriver repackage their strategy and app... In just a year .. Bolt will be out of business in Nigeria

Imagine someone on economy behaving rudely towards you with the 300naira him/she wan pay u...

You know this thing you mentioned can happen o. The way indriver is growing, uber/bolt can buy the company and just crash it. The same way coca cola did with limca. It happens every time with big companies when they feel threatened by smaller companies.