₦airaland Forum

Olesekeniwoye:
E pain am

akanniade10:
Say whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa? You bought bread and butter? Who trained you guys? Do you know this job is about pick ups and drop offs.... make una no dey entertain this crap na! Driving uber/Taxify doesn't make one a delivery/errand guy. Na wa for some of una ooooo

Awhysy:
Carshopper
I downloaded the uber driver app, logged in and I was asked to upload a pic. Which I did but was just a random pic and I got an email this morning

Does this mean I passed the exam and I'm in?

protocol:
gazzuzz come and see groundnut oil.

GAZZUZZ:
work complete.

Ambient temp 32deg Celsius .

Cabin temperature 8.3deg Celsius

Engine speed 650-750rpm

High side 177psi low side 29psi.

Work continues......

Cc ifyeez.

Stealth100:
Who else is at Ikeja GRA? This place dull no be small. Adeniyi Jones is my base in Ikeja but traffic won't let me drive there right now

slamstanlee:
same Ago palcae way that leads to festac? That road is smooth na, interlocked. Only few mighty speed breakers... Maybe the inner streets are bad...

slamstanlee:
ANNOUNCEMENT!!!
5star Toyota corolla sport 2007
35k rental
Super clean, foreign used, well pimped like a personal car
Uber/taxify ready

That is the blue car on my uber profile.
I am giving it to the best driver available.
According to my partner, he said i should give a driver that is cool headed and that won't give stories like me... (yea we are buying another corolla this week).

Extras;
DVD screen (Bluetooth, aux,)
Reverse camera
Bend-able side mirrors with hazard lights
Remote starts and off the car engine from distance
Horse whip inside (lol like Romeo3 dem)
Airforce sticker (senior officer backup).

I will come up with very simple terms and conditions later

*Tip; car will be taken from you the very first week you give unreasonable excuse to deliver.

Impressive huh? Interested?
WhatsApp me, please whatsapp only, no calls whatsapp only. 080 652 40490

Cheers!!

paroh137:
Guys. Please I need 10k contribution from 100 people (N1m) to get a car and join e-hailing business. Please reply with your number so I can send account number. Thank you.

slamstanlee:
my first riders today, 2 talkative girls from a club... So unsettled and aggressive

slavemerchant:
do people still make money on uber? uber is slavery at its peak and it's so shameful that an international brand that has a good reputation wiĺl decide to cheat it's partners irrespective of the amount spent on fuel, the rates are just ridiculous not too talk of the risk involved, I suggest drivers should boycott uber

GAZZUZZ:
Driving full time on Fri, sat and sunday will give you a profit of about 50,000 on uber, no taxify.

You can sleep mon-thurs.

job that pays 200k and above a week might suffice.

zeekeyboy:
Exactly...........i feel i can still pull through. I really need something to do to help myself. I'm into tutorials for now which is more stressful than driving and takes my time buh i still cope

Olesekeniwoye:
Am in bode thomas. Lemmi take a peek for you

You no hustle today way u Dey find sneak peek

GAZZUZZ:
Last nite I had real time experience of what drivers go thru on the road.

I closed @ 6pm, was about leaving the workshop when I decided to turn on my uber app. I saw surge right where my workshop is located. I received first trip almost immediately but it canceled after a few mins. I then decided to drive a bit while waiting for next request. Got one on oba-akran (by then Dynamic pricing had left the building)drove to mangoro area picked a rider to lekki phase 1 (home of surge) trip was fantastic cause we had to look for ways around traffic (much longer routes)before 11pm I had completed 6trips @ over 10k. It was time to go home. Set destination back to mainland and it popped the Mumu network stability error try again another time. So I decided I will leave it on and cancel any trip not going my way. I was deep inside ajah heading home when I heard an uncomfortable sound from the serpentine belt area.....

I ignored it... by the time I got close to lekki phase 1 round about I had the battery light on with the engine running, stiff power steering and rapidly climbing coolant temperature values.

I am driving my Avensis 1998 2002 and it uses a 3piece belt. I turned off all major electrical gadgets except the engine (head lights, DVD systems, airconditioning) I used the hazard lights instead.

I stopped accessed the damage and realised all 3 belts had been ripped of by the larger belt.

Got back into the car and drove to a well lit area where I could see a few cars parked.

Immediately I parked the HNIC came out of the dark, I addressed my self as Captain gazzuzz of kano pillars international HNIC became calm, I told him my war was going to sleep in his care and I would pick it up in the morning, he had no problem with that.

I called one of my colleagues on the phone, and in a matter of minutes, a 407 with a horse whip on the dashboard appears, I bullied the driver to the passenger side and drove to workshop.

Got to workshop picked up another vehicle and headed home.

got to gate and seems the security guy was in a valentine spirit. Did everything possible to wake him up, my guy no appear.

So I turned on my app and headed to magodo as instructed by my Oga in the business. True to his words lagos started moving again, this time back to lekki.....

2 more trips, then I headed back to area where my faulty vehicle was parked.

I didn't allow HNIC see me, I located another area where I saw over 20 toyota corrola cars with drivers inside all sleeping

Any way I said to my self, this area must be safe.

turned off app set chair low and got some shut eye.


I knew my serpentine belt was a bit frayed, but I had been procrastinating for almost a year now on replacing it, finally my village people Got me on 14 Feb.


Moral of the story

Keep vehicles as sound as possible. Replace all faulty parts as soon as you notice to avoid disappointments like this.

And if you can, keep a spare in the boot.

nitigriti:
I have a simple operational policy - I don't do return trips. In fact, once I get to the final destination, I politely end the trip because "somebody is waiting for me at the airport". I collect my fare first, then we now discuss this new trip you want me to do, with me asking the rider to get a trip quote from the app first, which I will then use to decide how much I will charge. For example, I had a female rider I picked around 11pm from an estate in Ogba to Gbagada. We got to her place around 12 midnight and then she asked if I could take her to Egbeda, after she showers and freshen up. I told her yes, but that I will end this trip first, collect my fare and then bill her #1000 for wait time of 30 minutes and trip fare of #4000. I live in Egbeda, so it was pretty convenient for me. She agreed and we did the trip after she freshened up.

Iwant2know:
Who be this one self..

blackfm:
You can say that again!! i had a not so palatable experience sometimes last month as well.
Dropped off a rider around 11:30pm in an estate, killed engine to take a leak only to get back in and car refused to start. turns out the battery was dead and the car was hard starting that morning but i ignored it thinking ill call mech to check it at work on Monday, make i use weekend cash out afterall i bought the battery in January 2017.
I looked around and all gates were locked, nobody to ask to help jump-start,no cars parked on the street, called rider for assistance and she was like all her neighbors were out, i was OYO.
Thank God for small sense, i requested taxify, called the driver, introduced myself as a driver and explained my predicament. The man came through immediately he heard i was a driver, helped jump start and even refused taking any cash for the assistance.

God bless that man!! Imma repay some other driver someday.


i still made the new battery money that weekend tho

blackfm:
sir?? did you mean to say 1.7 coz im not understanding

Ifeanyimark:
Send his number and location

justifiedcoyy:
How far with your car's AC?

Arizona1:
My brother I wish I can but I no fit o.
You fit still get from here shaa, those nigazz looking for a car to drive, you can just call one of them.

GAZZUZZ:
depends on what you talked about? You might have been on the wrong foot ball team or wrong political party. Are u Pro IPOB?

ameristu:
It is so surprising that guys are realizing so late that Uber is a complete cheat. I don't drive on Taxify yet but I am preparing to dump Uber.

What I do to break even on Uber is when rider tells me where they are going, I then decide if I would put my A/C on or not. Some trips are just not worth it with Uber, I give drivers all type of excuses for not being able to have air condition on the ride an be as friendly as possible to still be able to get a good rating.

Arizona1:
There's no boost anything. Taxify pays divers than uber, I have compared my uber trips with Taxify with guys that did same distance, Taxify always tops uber fares by N250 to N350. Some serious get up to N400.
Even some of my riders always ask me how do uber drivers break even especially those that use bigger cars that uber fares are too cheap.

omatynx:
Bro pls I crave ur experiential comment. My driver uses a mobile phone for uber. When he starts a ride, he puts d phone off (it overheats if he doesnt) and puts it on when approaching final destination. Does it affect the calculation of the distance(km) traveled?

Also he did 466km last week and claimed he spent #19k on fuel. Is that possible? Its a corola 2008 1.6l (big size) sound engine

GAZZUZZ:
Since 10k has become a bone of contention, let me help you.

Tell your technician to provide you with the following information and I will tell you exactly what to change on your air-conditioning system that will make it function perfectly.

1.present Colour of compressor oil. E.g clear, light brown, dark.

2. Discharge all refrigerant, pull a vacuum @ 13psi on high and low side wait 3hours and record readings.

3. Pull vacuum again and recharge system with 0.5gramms of 134a refrigerant.

4. Start engine, record exact engine speed.

5. Turn on a/c leave to run for 2mins record engine spped.

6. Record values of a/c pressures on high and low side with ambient temperature @ 29-30degrees celcius.

7. Record values of a/c pressures on high and low side with ambient temperature @ 32-40degrees celcius.

8. Record cabin temp in number 6 above.

9. Record cabin temp in number 7 above.

10. Set engine speed to 2000rpm and record values of high and low sides of airconditioning.

11. Ensure coolant temp readings for every step is recorded.

12. if "2" above drops to about -1 to -6psi in three hours, install U.V dye in system, run airconditioning system for another 3hours then use U.V light to detect patches of U.V dye on a.c lines and compressor area. Record all results.

13. Disassemble glove of compartment, use electronic sniffer to check for leaks from evaporator.

14. Discharge all refrigerant, block off entry and exit points on a/c line to evaporator, pull vacuum and record values after 3hours.

15. Disconnect lines to compressor, block off lines, pull vacuum and record values after 20mins

16. Disconnect lines to condenser, pull vacuum and recored values. After 20mins

17. Do a visual inspection of fins of radiator and condenser. Clear all blockage.



You do not have to pay a diagnosis fee to me.

Just provide more info and I will tell you what the exact faulty parts are.


Gazzuzz.

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