∆∆∆ On the above, I won't argue anything with anybody! I won't even respond to any attack

Barbiturate:
I'm reading things sha!

Me that check oil gauge, water, etc before leaving home.....now it's ignorance (abi Na wetin dem call am)....abi not maintaining my car well that caused engine oil shortage and faulty compressor/condenser.
Engine oil shortage isn't human fault, it is a mechanical fault....Engine issue!

For the records, I chose where I go to. I don't enter flood, except for small waters that won't go past tyre and I usually put off A/C when I enter such. No one can avoid this.
I don't drive to where the roads are very bad. I had taken a lady to community road before and dropped her on the way when I saw the bad road in front. I insisted I wasn't going again. Recently a lady refused to pay me cos I refused to follow akoka/bariga/chemist road to ladilak.


Another said you spend money enjoying and now you come to type because you want to repair! Lolz!
No matter your hustle, whether e-hailing or white collar, you have to still take care of yourself. You will eat, you will buy clothes and shoes(abi you want to wear akisa and be working) once in a while, you will hang out with friends, except you're the type that lives a Sedentary lifestyle, or you're a Misanthrope, which to me, isn't the best kind of life. The life is short already, so why would you live it like you're always mourning?!
Moreover, if you pay yourself salary, then the salary should take care of that!

If I pay myself salary and i save money from the business, and in a space of months, I had spent 300k on only repairs of faults not caused by me, then I think 'FOR ME', the hustle isn't sustainable. It should be a means to an end not a full time, 'long lasting', 'die there' job. I am not disputing the fact that people are making money in the hustle. I am just telling you my own personal experience and my take on the hustle. I am also not discouraging anybody.

I have driven in Lagos for over 15 years without accident. I've driven to Enugu State and back to Lagos, not once. I never used my first car(in a white collar job) to do e-hailing and I never had major issues like this, till I sold it.

From what I have noticed, if you use your vehicle on ehailing and use 20w50 oil and cheap filters, you must change your oil every 2000 miles max. Failure to do that over a period of two years will almost always result in the vehicle developing sludge, shorting oil and subsequent engine failure.

Nice views from all of you.

Best wishes

Itsrm:


From what I have noticed, if you use your vehicle on ehailing and use 20w50 oil and cheap filters , you must change your oil every 2000 miles max. Failure to do that over a period of two years will almost always result in the vehicle developing sludge, shorting oil and subsequent engine failure.

I’m glad you noticed he skipped telling us that part of his story

Conner44:


I’m glad you noticed he skipped telling us that part of his story

A very important part actually.

There's also the problem of the oil itself. He may have done everything right , changed oil frequently, use good filters and still have engine issues because he bought fake oil.

Engines of the regular Corollas and Camrys used for ehaling don't just knock. There's always an underlying cause.

Itsrm:


A very important part actually.

There's also the problem of the oil itself. He may have done everything right , changed oil frequently, use good filters and still have engine issues because he bought fake oil

Engines of the regular Corollas and Camrys used for ehaling don't just knock. There's always an underlying cause.

Aaannd . . . That is where the part of ‘ignorance’ comes into play

Pearl1910:


Omo, no dey call me put for your talk o.
I didn't drive all week, but I still net 100k in each of the weeks. Go and verify.
Can u afford ticket to Dubai without selling your properties?

What pained me is that you refused to post the 100k dashboards for the two weeks.

But it’s okay, me too I hands up.
Everybody should hustle smart / hard to withstand this present inflation.
Bolt/inDriver, office salary, business, farmer just make money and survive.

Itsrm:


A very important part actually.

There's also the problem of the oil itself. He may have done everything right , changed oil frequently, use good filters and still have engine issues because he bought fake oil.

Engines of the regular Corollas and Camrys used for ehaling don't just knock. There's always an underlying cause.

On this, I cant blame owner or driver for engine failure because we didn't buy the car brand new. Whether toks or naija used anything can happen cos u don't know how previous owner used d car.
I have said it before, I have bought a toks car and the engine knocked at 2nd rainbow on my way back from wharf. I personally checked d engine oil and other things before we moved.
So u can't really always blame driver or owner if engine has fault. My point is the expenses for repairs shouldn't be the cause of a stir to say d hussle isn't profitable.

BAZ001:


What pained me is that you refused to post the 100k dashboards for the two weeks.

.

Look at this man...u developed temporary blindness abi.
Didn't I show u for free 100k net only on Saturday and Sunday on two different weeks?

Conner44:


Yep, any counters about that argument?

Came back late... Barbiturate has done justice to your question already. Good maintenance will obviously help any device to last longer, does not mean the machine is immune to failure.

Pearl1910:


On this, I cant blame owner or driver for engine failure because we didn't buy the car brand new. Whether toks or naija used anything can happen cos u don't know how previous owner used d car.
I have said it before, I have bought a toks car and the engine knocked at 2nd rainbow on my way back from wharf. I personally checked d engine oil and other things before we moved.
So u can't really always blame driver or owner if engine has fault. My point is the expenses for repairs shouldn't be the cause of a stir to say d hussle isn't profitable.

What vehicle was this?

pope191:


Came back late... Barbiturate has done justice to your question already. Good maintenance will obviously help any device to last longer, does not mean the machine is immune to failure.

And as I said, there are failures due to cases of ignorance or carelessness.

Factory faults are also up there there as well

fk001:


Lol, it seems we have different visions and how we see life,

No disrespect but the way you quoted how your classmates dad's trained his children to university by doing taxi work, perhaps you are the type of person that will be contented with solving his basic and immediate needs without looking into the bigger picture. If that's the case then ehailing will give such contention.


But if you are the type that sees the bigger picture of freedom other than solving basic needs and "training children to University" then you need to look for an alternate source of income or plan B because ehailing won't pave that road to freedom.

Agreed.... even at that do you know when you get to a certain age the gimmicks and hustling spirit will die down and realise its just you and you alone..... bro no matter the money and properties you get it will all be nothing but a thing and then you will want peace at all cost but you substituted that long before you got to the age. The man driving taxi 25 years back, if he is still alive will be better living than the person chasing 9 to 5 job back then.. cuz they are now treating diabetes, high blood pressure, low blood sugar and so on....


Bro after his struggle to get them off his plate he's relaxing now just take a day at a time but you envisioning greater path you are running upandan trying to protect the one you have from evaporating.

Life no balance

Itsrm:


What vehicle was this?

Toyota Matrix 2005

Conner44:


And as I said, there are failures due to cases of ignorance or carelessness.

Factory faults are also up there there as well

How is something you have no control over ignorance or carelessness.

Pearl1910:


Toyota Matrix 2005

If you went to buy a 2005 Matrix and the engine died before you got to your house then maybe you stop buying vehicles yourself.

There's absolutely no way anyone who knows what he's doing will buy a Matrix and the engine will die the same day.

We even buy these vehicles sight unseen no inspection from the US and with enough knowledge we avoid the ones with engine amd transmission issues talk more of the one you actually had physical access to inspect.

If you had said it was a Hyundai Sonata or any of these other cars made from hell I'll understand.

Well built engines don't just knock and you also allude to the fact that sometimes the damage has been done by the previous owner.

While I acknowledge that engines sometimes fail due to design errors and age, the human factor is responsible for a lot of engine failures in this part of the world. That's my point.

pope191:


How is something you have no control over ignorance or carelessness.

Give an example of such please

BAZ001:


Bro leave that guy , he doesn’t have any experience of ehailing, he’s just talking based on assumptions and dashboards posting.
He’s analyzing what is being posted here but doesn’t know what it takes to get it.
Doesn’t know that driving in Lagos is different from any other state in Nigeria.
Just watching football and cursing players that missed the goal.

What people need to understand is, there are Messis, Guardiolas, Dangotes and Cheerfulgivers in every profession.

I see where Pearl1910 says he does not drive everyday of the week. Its either he has something else giving him 30k a day or body no be firewood

It's easy to look at the dashboard, just enter the road and do the actual driving and see how easy it is.

Itsrm:


If you went to buy a 2005 Matrix and the engine died before you got to your house then maybe you stop buying vehicles yourself.

There's absolutely no way anyone who knows what he's doing will buy a Matrix and the engine will die the same day.

We even buy these vehicles sight unseen no inspection from the US and with enough knowledge we avoid the ones with engine amd transmission issues talk more of the one you actually had physical access to inspect.

If you had said it was a Hyundai Sonata or any of these other cars made from hell I'll understand.

Well built engines don't just knock and you also allude to the fact that sometimes the damage has been done by the previous owner.

While I acknowledge that engines sometimes fail due to design errors and age, the human factor is responsible for a lot of engine failures in this part of the world. That's my point.

Lol brother, you forgot to ask pearl a simple question before you posted this. The question is below :

DID YOU CHANGE THE FLUIDS BEFORE TAKING THE VEHICLE OUT OF THE TERMINAL?

How can you go to buy a tokumbo vehicle and then proceed to drive it off the venue of purchase without first at least changing the engine oil?

Do you know how long that vehicle had sat before purchase? Do you know that the vehicle could have stayed at an auction lot overseas for years before being bought and shipped to Lagos before it sat for even more years before it was finally purchased by the end user?

A 2015 Toyota Corolla could have been involved in an accident or flooding in 2017 and then towed to an auction house garage by the insurance company where it sat for 4 years before one Nigerian man sees it and bids for it, he wins the bid and then trucks it to the port to be containerized and shipped to Nigeria where intensive body, interior and suspension work begins which last an additional 6 months after which it’s ready for the dealership lot to be displayed for sale to the public. They won’t touch the engine or gearbox oh, just other affected visible areas that won’t trigger suspicions.

Then someone who isn’t knowledgeable will proceed to see it and buy it then take the key and turn the ignition hoping to drive it to ikorodu to go and show his friends and family to celebrate his new toy then gbam engine knock

He will then call dealer to complain and the dealer will tell him

‘ahn-ahn . . . But I changed the oil naw, look at the dipstick, isn’t it clear and golden color?’

And you will say it’s true oh, the oil is indeed looking clear and honey color meanwhile every single lubricating and detergent properties contained in the oil has been degraded or expired due to age and humidity while it sat for years in an unused engine in the hottest and coldest of extremes

The above scenario has happened to my dad. He went with his mechanic and bought a cargo van from wharf and on his way home it knocked engine. We later got to find out the van had sat at the wharf for donkey years. Oil was looking clean and all things looking good to go. Since that time I’ve learned a valuable lesson.

ALWAYS CHANGE ALL AVAILABLE FLUIDS IN A VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY AFTER PURCHASE AND BEFORE DRIVING OFF THE SALES LOT


now was my dad careless or ignorant? Or was it a manufacturer error?

I’ll leave you to decide

Itsrm:


If you use your vehicle on ehailing and use 20w50 oil and cheap filters, you must change your oil every 2000 miles max.

This is what I do. Someone mentioned it here early last year and I've bn doing that since then. My recent car isn't up to 18 months since I bought it. I bought it Tokunbo.

Barbiturate:


This is what I do. Someone mentioned it here early last year and I've bn doing that since then. My recent car isn't up to 18 months since I bought it. I bought it Tokunbo.

Endeavor to use the right specification of oil for your engine this time around. 20w50 is very unforgiving if used in the wrong engine and worse still there are numerous fakes of it in the market.

Conner44:


Lol brother, you forgot to ask pearl a simple question before you posted this. The question is below :

DID YOU CHANGE THE FLUIDS BEFORE TAKING THE VEHICLE OUT OF THE TERMINAL?

How can you go to buy a tokumbo vehicle and then proceed to drive it off the venue of purchase without first at least changing the engine oil?

Do you know how long that vehicle had sat before purchase? Do you know that the vehicle could have stayed at an auction lot overseas for years before being bought and shipped to Lagos before it sat for even more years before it was finally purchased by the end user?

A 2015 Toyota Corolla could have been involved in an accident or flooding in 2017 and then towed to an auction house garage by the insurance company where it sat for 4 years before one Nigerian man sees it and bids for it, he wins the bid and then trucks it to the port to be containerized and shipped to Nigeria where intensive body, interior and suspension work begins which last an additional 6 months after which it’s ready for the dealership lot to be displayed for sale to the public. They won’t touch the engine or gearbox oh, just other affected visible areas that won’t trigger suspicions.

Then someone who isn’t knowledgeable will proceed to see it and buy it then take the key and turn the ignition hoping to drive it to ikorodu to go and show his friends and family to celebrate his new toy then gbam engine knock

He will then call dealer to complain and the dealer will tell him

‘ahn-ahn . . . But I changed the oil naw, look at the dipstick, isn’t it clear and golden color?’

And you will say it’s true oh, the oil is indeed looking clear and honey color meanwhile every single lubricating and detergent properties contained in the oil has been degraded or expired due to age and humidity while it sat for years in an unused engine in the hottest and coldest of extremes

The above scenario has happened to my dad. He went with his mechanic and bought a cargo van from wharf and on his way home it knocked engine. We later got to find out the van had sat at the wharf for donkey years. Oil was looking clean and all things looking good to go. Since that time I’ve learned a valuable lesson.

ALWAYS CHANGE ALL AVAILABLE FLUIDS IN A VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY AFTER PURCHASE AND BEFORE DRIVING OFF THE SALES LOT


now was my dad careless or ignorant? Or was it a manufacturer error?

I’ll leave you to decide

Interesting perspective

Let me seek your opinion on something. The vehicle was last serviced in the US on the 14th of December 2021 at 151k miles. The dealership put a sticker on it that says next service is at 155k miles or 14th of March 2022.

Vehicle came into the country in September at 152600 miles and is currently on 154k miles on the original oil that came with it.

What do you think? To change the oil immediately or run till the scheduled 155k miles.

Barbiturate:


This is what I do. Someone mentioned it here early last year and I've bn doing that since then. My recent car isn't up to 18 months since I bought it. I bought it Tokunbo.

Like Oga pearl has pointed out, something could have been wrong with the engine before you bought it. However, if you are certain the engine was in pristine condition the time it was bought then I have to question the quality of the oil you've been using.

Out of curiosity, what's the original mileage of the car?

Pearl1910:


Look at this man...u developed temporary blindness abi.
Didn't I show u for free 100k net only on Saturday and Sunday on two different weeks?

Ohh nooo My bad,
I thought that was Gabrinchiii’s dashboards

Na dem Tojahh, pope191, 7309 & likes confused me.

Imagined if u worked mon-fri/ sat&sun that will be 200k net.

Damn

Itsrm:


If you went to buy a 2005 Matrix and the engine died before you got to your house then maybe you stop buying vehicles yourself.

There's absolutely no way anyone who knows what he's doing will buy a Matrix and the engine will die the same day.

We even buy these vehicles sight unseen no inspection from the US and with enough knowledge we avoid the ones with engine amd transmission issues talk more of the one you actually had physical access to inspect.

If you had said it was a Hyundai Sonata or any of these other cars made from hell I'll understand.

Well built engines don't just knock and you also allude to the fact that sometimes the damage has been done by the previous owner.

While I acknowledge that engines sometimes fail due to design errors and age, the human factor is responsible for a lot of engine failures in this part of the world. That's my point.

Smiles...I didn't buy it from apapa...I bought it overseas and imported it myself. Buts that's besides d point...the point is car can spoil, engine can knock, gear can pack up anytime even without any sign. They aren't meant to last forever.

Either you don't have enough experience or u aren't exposed enough cos these your concluding and sweeping statements are false.
I have seen Lexus RX 350 and Toyota Corolla engines knock with no sign no symptom. This is apart from my personal experience.
There are many ways or scenarios for a car engine to knock not necessarily having wrong oil or managing long present engine sound.

Itsrm:


Interesting perspective

Let me seek your opinion on something. The vehicle was last serviced in the US on the 14th of December 2021 at 151k miles. The dealership put a sticker on it that says next service is at 155k miles or 14th of March 2022.

Vehicle came into the country in September at 152600 miles and is currently on 154k miles on the original oil that came with it.

What do you think? To change the oil immediately or run till the scheduled 155k miles.

I’d run to the scheduled 155k miles. An oil is only good once it’s been poured into an engine and used regularly for 5k miles or 6 months or it was poured into the engine, seldom used but in the crankcase for up to a year at most

So to answer your question, so far it hasn’t been up to a year since it’s change and storage I’d still use it for the stipulated miles allotted by the dealership.

Pearl1910:


Smiles...I didn't buy it from apapa...I bought it overseas and imported it myself. Buts that's besides d point...the point is car can spoil, engine can knock, gear can pack up anytime even without any sign. They aren't meant to last forever.

Either you don't have enough experience or u aren't exposed enough cos these your concluding and sweeping statements are false.
I have seen Lexus RX 350 and Toyota Corolla engines knock with no sign no symptom. This is apart from my personal experience.
There are many ways or scenarios for a car engine to knock not necessarily having wrong oil or managing long present engine sound.

But did you change the oil in that matrix after you bought it and immediately before driving it off from the place of purchase?

If you say yes, I won’t argue but try to be honest, we are all here to learn from each other’s mistakes (which humans are naturally prone to)

Please . . . resist the urge to pull a ‘gabrinchi’

Conner44:


But did you change the oil in that matrix after you bought it and immediately before driving it off from the place of purchase?

If you say yes, I won’t argue but try to be honest, we are all here to learn from each other’s mistakes (which humans are naturally prone to)

Please . . . resist the urge to pull a ‘gabrinchi’

Lolz...ur lap

I didn't change d oil, d oil was still okay and guaged to dispel any suspicion about the cause of that engine failure.
The culprit was a failed engine oil pump and defective oil light switch.
So the engine oil light didn't indicate when the oil pump failed and stopped pumping oil to the engine. That is catastrophic at high speed.

Now, this is just one example of engine failure not being a result of bad oil or drivers negligence or owner postponing repairs.

Life just happened.

Pearl1910:


Lolz...ur lap

I didn't change d oil and to dispel any suspicion about the cause of that engine failure.
The culprit was a failed engine oil pump and defective oil light switch.
So the engine oil light didn't indicate when the oil pump failed and stopped pumping oil to the engine. That is catastrophic at high speed.

Now, this is just one example of engine failure not being a result of bad oil or drivers negligence or owner postponing repairs.

Life just happened.

I understand your opinion on the issues that must have caused your engine in the newly purchased matrix to fail. How did you do a teardown and diagnosis to confirm that your engine failure was indeed due to the engine oil pressure switch and the oil pump? What were the steps you took with your mechanic to arrive at that specific conclusion?

Barbiturate:
I'm reading things sha!

Me that check oil gauge, water, etc before leaving home.....now it's ignorance (abi Na wetin dem call am)....abi not maintaining my car well that caused engine oil shortage and faulty compressor/condenser.
Engine oil shortage isn't human fault, it is a mechanical fault....Engine issue!

For the records, I chose where I go to. I don't enter flood, except for small waters that won't go past tyre and I usually put off A/C when I enter such. No one can avoid this.
I don't drive to where the roads are very bad. I had taken a lady to community road before and dropped her on the way when I saw the bad road in front. I insisted I wasn't going again. Recently a lady refused to pay me cos I refused to follow akoka/bariga/chemist road to ladilak.


Another said you spend money enjoying and now you come to type because you want to repair! Lolz!
No matter your hustle, whether e-hailing or white collar, you have to still take care of yourself. You will eat, you will buy clothes and shoes(abi you want to wear akisa and be working) once in a while, you will hang out with friends, except you're the type that lives a Sedentary lifestyle, or you're a Misanthrope, which to me, isn't the best kind of life. The life is short already, so why would you live it like you're always mourning?!
Moreover, if you pay yourself salary, then the salary should take care of that!

If I pay myself salary and i save money from the business, and in a space of months, I had spent 300k on only repairs of faults not caused by me, then I think 'FOR ME', the hustle isn't sustainable. It should be a means to an end not a full time, 'long lasting', 'die there' job. I am not disputing the fact that people are making money in the hustle. I am just telling you my own personal experience and my take on the hustle. I am also not discouraging anybody.

I have driven in Lagos for over 15 years without accident. I've driven to Enugu State and back to Lagos, not once. I never used my first car(in a white collar job) to do e-hailing and I never had major issues like this, till I sold it.

Well said boss.

Conner44:


I understand your opinion on the issues that must have caused your engine in the newly purchased matrix to fail. How did you do a teardown and diagnosis to confirm that your engine failure was indeed due to the engine oil pressure switch and the oil pump? What were the steps you took with your mechanic to arrive at that specific conclusion?

Top cylinder was dry, at first examination before we towed to d workshop.
Oil Indictator light didn't come up when ignition was turned to position 2.

At the workshop engine was opened and we discovered oil pump was broken and one piston was bent.
When vehicle was fixed, the oil indicator light still didn't come up when ignition was turned on.

Conner44:


Erm . . . It’s like I’m among the other 25% because I don’t want to kill my own boss . . .

I only want to piss on his bald head

Please drink enough water and piss fast fast. ..... Be bold and do it quickly with all the unrealistic theories/hypothesis you've been typing. No offense boss. Na people wey dey watch ball dey criticize players more. I thank God for sparing boss Vikings. Bottom line is let's all enjoy what we do while we're at it either e-hailing or otherwise. The grass is not always greener on the other side