₦airaland Forum

TUBLEZ:
looking to sell my 2012 luxury sweet ride 😀use the money buy sharp DC 2007 V6 then run CNG on it.. man can’t continue like this , hv not work for over a month now

It is quite unfortunate that Nigeria has reached a point where individuals are compelled to dispose of valuable assets in order to acquire lower-grade alternatives, simply to remain financially afloat.

Do not buy a V6, I repeat do not buy a V6.

While CNG is presently being embraced as a cost-saving alternative, it is important to approach this trend with caution. There is no guarantee that CNG will remain affordable or sustainable in the long term. A potential increase in its price, or unforeseen operational challenges, could place users in difficult situations.

Additionally, the current market trend shows a shift away from high-engine vehicles, with many buyers opting for smaller, more fuel-efficient cars. This could make it challenging to resell vehicles with larger engines, thereby tying down capital for extended periods.

What you should be doing is look for other vehicle brands other than the popular Toyota and honda with 1.0 to 1.5litre engine to buy and not more than 2m.

I will never support anyone to carry 5m and invest in this hustle!

Never!

Pearl1910:
Oga getat 😃... Kumuyii done talk in 1 day wetin u no fit talk for over one year.
It's now u are saying it. Either u are ignorant of what u are doing or u are deceitful in hiding d truth all these while.
Cng will not do anything it only exposes all d problems of your engine. Shey na talk be that? Engine functions that brainbox didn't say is bad before, it's CNG that will now come and tell u it's bad.
U know there are people that CNG has spoilt their engine but u will not want to say it here, u will say the person was driving with bad engine before, CNG just come knock am.

A typical Nigerian will tell you what you want to hear so you can bring out money, don't blame him

CNG saves you profit but that's not the way to go. What we should be agitating for is fair pricing across all apps.

Here are some cons of CNG
1. In some cars, cng messes with the electrical and brain box functions. E.g, gear goes to limp mode, car goes off on gas. Etc
2. You change plug faster using CNG just keep money down
3. CNG spare parts are expensive just incase you need to get parts replaced
4. There is a noticeable lag in the vehicles acceleration
5. You still have to buy fuel to enable you start your car as the engine should be started on fuel to preserve engine life
6. Most CNG technician will persuade you, oh convert your car, it's the next sweet thing after fried rice, but when the car starts misbehaving, they will blame your engine and leave you to carry your cross. Most guys that are dekitting, na some of these challenges dem dey face

Normally CNG conversion no suppose pass 250k to 300k but trust naija people, they will use every opportunity they get to extort their fellow man

Mind you, your car wil consume the same amount of gas just like it will on fuel, the only difference is that gas is cheaper so you may think your car consumes less gas.

If I remember more, I go drop

ReadaDream:
Please attend to the IACV issue very fast.. since you drive EOD, you know how connected the throttle body and the gear is.

I almost ran mad last year trying to fix banging/slipping and staying in limp mode issue when on CNG at low rpm. I even replaced the gear, thinking it was bad. That didn't solve the problem.

I spent well over 700k trying to get a solution... after extensive research, I figured its Idle related issue.

I told my mechanic to service the IACV, then increase the Rpm speed too 1100 at idle and 1000 on full load <ac and gear>.. case solved .

Shey na so oyinbo man do the car?

jideflash:
Some drivers have financial emergency like medical bills and others. But you are sabotaging their effort because of your own selfish reasons. If you don't like, shut your app, let others survive.

Person get medical bills to sort and is still able to drive?

Jegheter:
Guys this hustle is crazy. So now I'm driving my sexy RAV4 and I discovered before this increase that with 20k fuel I make 65k plus sometimes 70k. But since the increase I make like 45k. Or barely 50k.

So today I didn't on AC and made 60k but mehn no be small war with two riders. I change am for them ehhhh. Told them to rate me one star if Dem like. Like don't you know what's happening in d country. Even if my ac isn't working and so what. I will park a whole car at home cause my ac isn't working untop shitty price and high fuel

U see driver come to ur PU and u r outside. D driver wind down hang towel for neck u still dey ask is ur AC working .

But mehn sun wan fry my head.

So actually I save more money not using AC cause inner city driving has a lot of braking and acceleration unless u r traveling on d express.

God will bless all genuine hustlers. Iz not easy this period but God will make a way

Tomorrow some people go start to dey argue say AC doesn't affect fuel consumption
Yen yen yen...... 😏

capetownboyz:
yh 30k fuel.. 50k payment..

Be like say make I plank you better 2 by 2

Na Una dey spoil this work

Ask yourself these questions

What if something happens to your car on the road?
What if police or road officers hold you on the road while enroute?
What if your tyre gets damaged on the road?
What if someone hits you or vice versa?

Will that 20k profit will able to sort any of these?

PeaceMaker24:
Baba abeg make una no spoil this work patapata na
I can't even take someone from Surulere to and fro Ajah fr that prize , how do you guys maintain your cars sef;

Any trip that can't make minimum of x3 of whatever fuel cost used should be a big NO to any e-hailing driver that knows what they are doing.

God bless you

Kaymax2222:
Abeg if we dey advocate for driver to smell nice and dress nice pls let's do same for riders pls how you go enter motor and everywhere go dey small of urine.......nawa for all this OS oo

So na women of virtue dey use Uber, OS na indrive and bolt dem dey use 😂

Jegheter:
I agree. So on point as in dis mechs r nasty. Dem no dey pity. Dem and police I know who go drag hell pass

I guess you meant lastma instead

Vela01:
GOODNEWs Fams!

I bow out from this hustle last last💃💃

Road cleared today for me and my family for Europe movement. I give God all the glory!

May God open way for everyone with same plans.

Congratulations bro

That land will favour you

Vela01:
Boss, Ibadan is generally like that for business.

In Lagos, I use the same toyota matrix. With 10k fuel, I should make 20k net.

The things is, target residential areas in the morning, and buzzing centers during the day. Ventura in Samonda, heritage in dugbe, ShopRite in ring road etc.

If I get you correctly, you both earn the same

He makes 10k profit (After fuel and commission deduction)

You make 20k net (After commission deduction alone)

Except if you mean otherwise

Vela01:
Buy oil and engine flusher make they flush the engine first, e fit re correct. If your mechanic can take his time to work on it,it'll work

Using engine flusher will do no good as he already said the engine is already burning oil

Nelochukwu:
Iz not about continuing. Uber is d best app. Ave often wondered y drivers don't use them. With Uber u make more driving with them than any other app. Their commission u won't even feel it cause u make much more. Just that their wahala is much like things u can get away with other apps u can't with Uber. Documents etc is hectic but once u r sorted and ready to drive with them, u must make it.

It's d best drivers app in my opinion. Just ignore d trips u don't like but once u accept a trip try consummate am.

Till you end trip and it shows 14k and their commission is 6k, your eyes go clear

Gentlelife50:
Some people no even wan pay

If it's possible for a driver to drop some riders inside their bedroom, riders will agree

Me I will first ask you immediately I don enter your street CASH or TRANSFER??
Then the rider already knows what to start doing

cyif2003:
Stanbic ibtc.. I mailed Dem and they send me my branches sort code

Use another account if stanbic is not working
Life no hard bro

Gentlelife50:
You never see anything, they will still mark it as driver didn't respond.

Leave that man, he still dey use eyes of 19 kokoro dey look this hustle

hardiodun:
I hear you, but I will not be unfortunate sir, neither will my problems double, rather, I'd have a success story 😁. I'm sure some persons on here would have been running HP/rental successfully, despite the challenges for years. I know nothing good comes easy, however with God on my side and the necessary modalities in place, it will end in praise for me. Still, thank you for your suggestion.

You asked other things like as if you were willing to listen
He answered, yet you countered him that you're still bent on doing this business cos other people are doing it 😂

The truth is other folks here doing rental and hp, they didn't tell you they bought their car when cars were cheap.
You'd invest 3m on a car, then maybe extra 500k for papers and maybe one or two fixes. Then you give it out for 4.5 or 5m. How long will you have to wait to regain your 3.5m before you now start looking at profit?

I'd advice you start with one car and see. Only then will you know if you'd buy another one

Omoapena:
Gobey, no worries, e go soon dey compete price with fuel

You wan use style spoil market for much respect abi 😂

PuZZyNegro:
Don't you think you're being extreme with your analysis.

How do you expect someone to start working by 7am and close by 10pm? That's overstretching yourself.

Nobody can do that consistently. Because if you close by 10pm, before you would get home, eat, bath, and sleep, it should be around 12am.

And you'll wake up by 5am again to prepare and go out by 7am. This is not a good practice and almost unrealistic.

Let's be sincere, the effort we put in this work is no longer measuring up with the reward. All this 40k, 50k net analysis is to give hope to people that something is still left of the business.

To me, 30k for a 1.8 litre engine is more practical to be earned consistently.

This has always been my stand

You are blessed

yemitexcel:
I dropped my resignation letter today for one month notification.
Own a car and I just changed the engine...
I use to do bolt weekends and evening after works here in ibadan but presently things are really difficult and hustling in ibadan is another story and for the fact that I earn 70k monthly and own my car breaks my heart every day because I have some people on hire purchase here in ibadan paying 70k plus weekly.
Now I took a bold step resigning and ready to face hustle fully by coming to Lagos ending of this month.
Please Ogas in the house I need guidance and mentors.
I drives yaris salon and everything is working. Thank you all

Fast fast drop that job
You will sure make more than 70k monthly for sure

SHOOPSYN:
Lagos state government Tax official viewing ehailing apps
Posting the dashboard is not actually bad. But posting without details of your actual net is the problem. I smile whenever I see Bolt social media handles post with huge amounts make by drivers. Ofcurse, they don't care if you use fuel, urine or do car maintenance. Unfortunately, drivers also do this or even lie about their expenses and time spent daily, just to drive home their point of been a lucrative business. Nevertheless, it doesn't rule out the fact that you will one way or the other break even, but not as some describing it because of their ego, especially those generally low demands periods. Only few drivers post their car maintainance, but can post dashboard whenever demands are high. As if there are no other days that you will ask yourself, do you really know about this business . The point is, high dashboard is possible and also low demands and high car maintenance is possible. Week in, week out theory is still going through testing in the lab. However, motivation is good, but the absence of its reality makes it.... ...

Well said
God bless you

Nelochukwu:
It's not 12 yet

The Uber dash is for only today abi🙄
And I guess with he has used just 4k fuel to achieve the dashboard you posted

Person wey no know the difference between dashboard showing 600k monthly and having savings of 600k monthly inside account.

When you don motivate men as you claim, you go rest.

Biodun1929:
Lol...It's true sha. It doesn't always work that way. If it was that simple a lot of people on here would have been saving 1 million or more every month.

Baba no let any body deceive you, prices of trips are far worse than how it used to be
Infact it has reversed to pre fuel increment era


You will be seeing 30 something km trip for 7800 on indrive, even some bolt 1.9 surge will leave you wondering.

Na person here do 400 and something km for 100k plus and came here to say he used 25k fuel🙄

If I was to charter him to delta (drop off) for 100k plus he will decline without thinking twice
Also, will he use 25k fuel from Lagos to Delta?

Don't let anyone deceive you, experience they say is the best teacher

Nelochukwu:
This isn't about counting chickens before hatching this is what many people including me have done and are doing. Im not telling him anything I haven't or even my friend who just started hasn't done. If one is disciplined and really treat hailing as a business u will go far and save. I saved bro from this business.

It takes dedication and zeal. Self talk even wen d going gets tough. Just resolve to save EVERYDAY you drive and u will be fine.

The key is having a good car. Once you do you are gone bro.

Mr man, save us the sermon of your friend this, your friend that!, you know someone that this, you know someone that that🙄

What did you yourself achieve
Show us your own workings and stop making noise

It's very easy to save 35k daily
Yen yen yen😞
So why did you now quit this soft money business?

Omoapena:
this guy ehen


well, I wouldn't say it's impossible, it all depends on the person and the car.
if the car is in perfect condition and the person is determined, he can save 600k monthly and in 7months, he should make the 4m.


mind you, 600k monthly savings is just 20k daily and it's very much achievable even for a family man with 1 kid.

600k savings abi
I hope you have eaten sha

PuZZyNegro:
No, Bolt is not more profitable. You have to use both apps now to break even. I'm telling you for a fact... Especially now that indrive is also giving bonus.

For the past 3 weeks, I've not paid much to Indrive. I discovered that most riders book Bolt now after being ignored by Indrive drivers. One was booking from Anthony to Arowojobe Street, Mafoluku and put 3900 naira and no driver was accepting it.

The same trip came to me on Bolt and my net was 3100.

Just imagine 3100 from Anthony to oshodi
So those people shouting bolt is better, can you see how ridiculous bolt prices are🙄

Biodun1929:
But can you break down how one should charge, based on the KM of the journey? So that I know how much to add ontop of the amount for a trip that indrive brings.

You wan dey add money ontop predetermined fares by useless app coys

Be ready to stay one place for hours cos riders go just dey cancel 😂

Kingbrighto:
I will advice u use court instead of DPO , get a lawyer to file a civil suit against him and u both of explain urself to a judge , the court can enforce action more than the police

Have you factored in the wait time involved in court processes and dealings?

The partner would have even sold the said car before the court pass the judgement