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Conner44:
Dru23 is okay. Stop worrying about him. Whenever he’s ready to start engaging guys here he will.

Your tone is dismissive bro. Let me worry about him it's my concern, really.

Foreigner12:
70k monthly? Na steal i steal the car?
Won't it be better if start chasing irrelevances up and down with the car ?

I laughed at "chasing irrelevances"

Viking07:
On the contrary, there’s nothing worrisome about it. Only jobless trolls spend days trolling and insulting each other. The best way to enjoy this Nairaland is by ignoring silly comments.

I get your point bro. Not like I miss his trolling, my comment is just out if concern.

I mean he's not been on Nairaland since then, at least if he ignores this thread it's understandable but going awol. Well I hope he's ok.

It's actually worrisome that Dru23 has not visited Nairaland since that fracas. I hope he's fine.

Reality don they set in right and left.

They no they tell person

Felicity001:
The truth is this, no job/business/hustle is bad, best of worse. Every job has its own challenges, good time, bad time and cashout time.

There is always a time to call.it quit in every race in life, no one does one job or business for ever in life. Life is progressive irrespective of spiritual, political or geographic challenges.

Even the Holy books says, there's a time to show and a time to reap/harvest
A time to cry and a time to be happy
...
There are stages in live change is constant and anyone who doesn't grow in life simply has no business living.

Ehailing is one in a million hustles in the world, not everyone will do the same job, not everyone would be president, neither would everyone be a doctor.

But, show me a beautiful miss world and I'll show you a husband who is tired of crewing her... Irony of life!

Everyone of us interest in this job will fade away one day, my has faded away already, izzuo, carshoppers, eherbal, Gazzuzz, jessusson, name them, it's a sign of growth. If you still find yourself doing this job actively after 5yrs then it's a sign you're not growing because it's not business any right thinking person should do for long, nevertheless, it's never a bad job at some point.in once life.

Ehailing opened my insight to the business i'm currently doing, so I'll be the worst hypocrite advising anyone who wishes to go into it especially if they see it as their only option. You can't make decision for people, allow them make their decision because you won't be there when they're being faced with challenges.

I still drive, yes! My offline clients still call in and make bookings and thank God for my current business which give room and time to accommodate other routine jobs.

Every business has its challenges but the only that keeps one going is the passion and joy of it.

I didn't buy my car from proceeds of ehailing please you guys should stop the misunderstanding, but I meet good people and bad people and I'm grateful to God for helping me to go through this path of ehailing because it's a part of my testimony and nothing will ever take it away from me.

Ehailing is not a bad job neither is it a business for anyone but for the ehailing coys so you driving find you own business your children will inherit and build upon.

Feli, why you no sleep? Wetin they happen?

tundeayh:
Please house is toyota echo a good car for ehailing because Its the only pocket friendly vehicle and I just got an offer of 2m for toks..please help a newbie with your advice or any other vehicle either manual or automatic

What does the one you are been offered for 2m looks like? Manual transmission? 2 doors? And what year is it?

AgentXxx:
If it’s not doable, I won’t bring here, just be plain and say I can’t do it, stop making wrong conclusion for everyone, I have many who work 8 to 5pm minus traveling time, extra work from office and still finished. in life you can’t be great without making sacrifices and everyone have what they are willingly to make sacrifice for and becoming a developer isn’t one for you . Did it come easy for you moving from rentals to owner, how many months or years/ discipline did you sacrifice for that? Enjoy Driving

Where did I discouraged anyone willing to try? I only talked about myself.

Needless dragging this further chief.

73O9:
Programmes like these are for people with no responsibilities, hence spending such time wouldn't be hard to them.

Exactly! Nobody with responsibilities can do it, day in day out.

AgentXxx:
Person wey know wetin e Dey find no go see am as big deal… Software engineer no small for this world oo, if you see how much there are been paid, you wouldn’t say such, how much time do you devote for bolt? Most likely 10hrs or above. This is the battle between instant gratification versus future gratification.

Easy to say. Out of 24hrs, take away 7hrs of rest/Sleep, 10hrs of Bolt works 6-4pm, where is the extra 10hrs for Software programming training going to come from?

That course is only meant for someone still eating 'mama thank you'. Anybody with full responsibility can't do it. You will wear out, you will drop out. We are not talking of two months training, One full year!

AgentXxx:
For anyone who has passion for IT and willingly to devote time, check out ALx free one year software engineering program. I would have dropped the link but make nairaland no go block me.


NB: You will not be able to meet up bonuses oo as this program will gulp about 70hours of your time weekly. But Trust me it’s a skills wanted by many countries and May aid your JAPA


Ciao Amigos.

I got accepted for the scholarship in April, I got discouraged because of the time needed. 70hours weekly means I have to dedicate at least 10hrs daily for it.

Shey because say na free make I come kill myself.

obinoral1179:
I don vow never to go there.... One lady want to sweet talk me last week Thursday to go there from surulere that she will show me shortcut... I cancelled the order....

Festac from Surulere is not even worth it. Trips like 1.9x from Majek/Sangotedo to Festac using 3mb-Oshodi-Cele...... that's the kind of trip I'm talking about.. and the time of the day also matter.

Is this playing?

SamuelTaiw0:
I never see money wey rider go pay wey go allow me go that Festac. Everything is wrong about that place.

Yinmu
You won't know how it will happen, before you realize, you are already navigating through 2nd Avenue looking for 202 Close

morax101:
You ought to have used Epe, I was in Ibadan 2 days ago when I checked the map, I just turned towards Ijebu Ode and came in through Epe.

That Epe route has always been my go-to route but I wanted to stop by at Ojuelegba before heading home that was why I used there and I thought leaving early I wouldn't have to deal with the traffic, I was wrong.

Everything was just irritating me, been the only one in the car even made it worse

olusola2bello:
this is terrible o....and i have someone who just left ibadan heading to lagos. the bad part is i am waiting for the person before i can start work cos we need to discuss one or two first......

Humm you'll have to be extremely patient. The traffic is crazy.

If it's not a life and death situation, don't take any trip going out of Lagos through Berger except you plan to return using EPE-AJAH route.

Wtf! I've been in this traffic since 430am! Not anywhere close to Berger. More than 4hrs now , this is terrible.

Gentlelife50:
Do they do that there too?
As in live oven lightening?

Yes o my brother. During my night hustle days, my ear heard things, especially those white guys. BJ, live sex yapa

lanrexdo:
Please house

Need recommendations for live Bleep in ikeja or vi.

Client ready

Not a nude party oo

Silverfox

Conner44:
From your description, Yes truly your oil pressure switch was shot but I’m wondering why you believe the oil pump just decided to pack up at that moment? Do you think the oil pump failing was connected to the faulty pressure switch? If the vehicle was not involved in an accident then it was daily driven until parked for sale/auction right?

It’s a fact that wrong/bad engine oil damages the cylinder walls, valve seals, piston rings and THE OIL PUMP of vehicles but I do admit that factory errors can occur but this usually happens on low mileage newer model vehicles especially before their warranty runs out. What year of matrix was this again?

I still say that it was a mistake not changing out the engine oil at the point of purchase/taking charge of that vehicle. Heaven knew how long it had sat in the crankcase before you fired it up and decided to drive it home.

Why are you hell bent on making it seem as if not changing oil from purchase is the cause of that engine knocking? Thousands of people ship in cars and drive them home without issues.

Car parts have specific mileage to cover (lifetime) before giving way. Parts like water pump, oil pump etc all have a set lifetime. Even new vehicles sometimes have their parts going bunkers upon purchase.

What if it was the timing belt that snapped? Would you still hold this opinion?

YeyeGbami:
Original OEM sef go too cost, kazeem sef dey there to do rubbish. More reason why investors need to look at cheap vehicles when going into the biz.

Apt! See that kazeem part ehn, na them do pass

You have to stay with them all through the process of repair, if not na Oyo. About two weeks ago I wanted to change my rear brake pads, I was reluctant to drive in traffic to get to my sure mechanic place so I decided to try this guy in my estate, dropped the car with him and walked to the salon.

He had finished by the time I got back, following day I began to hear "kpaparan kparan" from the back. I knew something was off. Later in the day I inspected the brakes properly, that's when I noticed that the mechanic didn't put the pin that's supposed to hold the brake pads in place. The pads were already out of the calipers, the only thing holding them from falling off is the rim.

Conner44:
The main issue with this hustle and it’s effects on your vehicle should be mainly the depreciation of your suspension components due to the terrible road conditions in the country.

Oyibo use their vehicles for taxi and put roughly 30-40k miles on their odometers a month and still sell such vehicles to us here as tokumbos. It all boils down to their maintenance culture. Using original parts and timely services due to their smog checks and such.

I’ve seen a 2018 Toyota Camry with 610k miles that was used as a taxi in usa still going strong and everything sound here in Nigeria before and there are thousands of such examples in the dealer parking lots here in this country waiting for unsuspecting buyers all because they have dubiously rolled back it’s mileage. In fact, apart from rust and accidents their taxis last a long time on the road. Even their rentals are the same story.

Take care of your vehicle and it will work well for you . . . Period.

Just keep money for suspension work and resprays after okada scratching and bashing

I agree with you. Our roads are just too bad and this work, you can hardly escape not going to some place.

We also don't have full access to original OEM parts, there's too many china knockoff parts in circulation. Toks parts are 50/50 or a gamble you are more likely to be on the loosing side.

Barbiturate:
I went there today. They scanned it. Its the compressor. They said I'll change it and also change the condenser. They'll give off the gas and refill. Everything plus workmanship 140k!!!

I just fixed the engine few months back cos it shorts oil. Changed rings and some other parts around it. Spent about 150k.

Na like this I go take hit the millions ba?!

Eish this hustle ehn. May God help us. It's not easy at all.

Like my friend will say: this hustle will kill your car and if you allow it, it will kill you too

Must be a joke! 5.?

Barbiturate:
Thanks bro, shey na rewire go fix thermostat abi Na A/C man?

AC man. It's attached to the Evaporator.

They call it Evaporator temperature sensor or thermistor.

You can go to Ibidun street at Ojuelegba, ask for AZ AC.

09078585789 that's one of his boys no. He has a high-end scanner that he'll use to scan for codes.

Barbiturate:
My car A/C is really dealing with me. I discovered at first that it stops to chill at intervals......as in, it will stop chilling and after like 10 mins, it will pick up again. So yesterday I discovered it stopped chilling finally. It didn't pick up at all. So today I went to put gas. The man checked everywhere and didn't find any leakage. Then they had to bring down the dash to check if it's the evaporator. It wasn't the evaporator. So I topped the gas, then it started chilling again. After about 20 mins when I'd left the place, it stopped chilling again, then picked up again. I'm tired already!!! Please who knows a very good A/C man around Yaba?

It could be as simple as a thermostat issue. Had this experience in August. Even my AC guy in Ojuelegba confuse. I had to research extensively, when I told him to replace the thermostat he was skeptical but I insisted. That solved the problem, hopefully yours too.

AC Wahala no be here.

Chae:
Lik 2bar and I fill d tank till is pouring out, also av scan d car everytin was fyn

How many Kms did you cover between F and -2bar?

mejai:
I know that some riders are mad. But for Indriver to allow this..... Indriver too is crazily mad. Even if na charity work.

wetin be this .. must be a glitch. Normally Indriver no go allow that amount, e fit help the raise am to like 2350


Modified.....See the price

pope191:
7 hrs in traffic

The only thing going on in my head was how much I would have made in 7hours. Heck, I don't even get UpTo 7hrs of sleep daily

Girls and frivolities Sha.. I'm looking at this girls nails, I'm not seeing anything special.

Meanwhile she's on phone call telling her friend she spent 7hours getting it done! Like fkn 7hours.

This fine girl wants to talk about Fuel subsidy removal and it's resultant effect on transportation.

Me I just want to drive and enjoy the AC, collect my money and find my way home.

....and this girl fine.

mejai:
This kind thing dey pain. This morning I experienced something like that. Kept calling to get access code, the stupid girl no answer. Kept me unnecessarily waiting and ajah-lekki traffic was building up. Just that I have told myself, I need not insult people again. If not I would have bombed her with curses. I just cancelled and moved on.

Last week another idiot boy, booked and I told him I was on my way. On getting to his nonsense tight ( u can't even make a u-turn in the smelly estate) PU, I kept calling and this boy was busy on another call. After many attempts, he picked his call and told me 'i have went away with another car'. I knew he was lying but the English slapped me dawai.
I replied: you have gone with another car, why are u arrogant and u couldn't notify me? Next thing.... I cancelled.



Soon, I will break my promise and start educating them with insults. That's the only language dey understand.

Omo 2 girls wey I carry yesterday na psychos .
They kept gisting for 2hrs from dating married men, not associating with broke guys, to sex to weed. And they were laughing sheepishly.
Our girls don cast.

I don't have that chills. Once you misbehave, I don run you SMS sharp. Especially wasting my time early morning!