toomush:



It maybe as result of drivers that drove in the flood yesterday...them dey mechanic since morning

davit:
Abeg blackbishop your expertise is needed here. After working on my shaft and bearing today, I notice that my car dey dance on the road ọ. The tires dey drag for road too. The steering is not going straight again. I managed to drive it home this evening. I have called the mechanic that worked on it. But I'm even afraid to go back to him.
Please what could be the problem?

newk007:



Did You do allignment ans wheel balancing. If NO beta run and do it b4 U buy new tyres

shollywendy1:

I have 2 drivers. One has never driven on rental b4 signing the hp contract. I.e he started uber with the hp car almost 2 years ago if taken the lockdown months out of it. Now, he has like 500k to balance up. Hopefully, soon.
2nd driver has driven almost 3 years on rental b4 signing the hp contract when the hope of buying his car was taking forever. He has N1m to take the ownership of the car. He has never had issue with the partner till date. Meaning never defaulted. I know of that one very well.
I believe if one is very sincere with his weekly remittance, he will surely get his ownership within the stipulated time except the car is problematic one.

izzou:


I was surprised someone said HP is better..

Anyway, to each, his own.

shollywendy1:

What felicity just said is true sincerely.
its not easy to safe money to buy a car thru rental oo. I have lots of friend that have been on rental for years trying and hoping to buy their cars thru savings from rental. Bro, its not easy.
Even getting a loan to buy the car self no easy except you or spouse if married are running a salary account or have a shop. The amount of money you or your spouse earns also determines how much you will be loaned.

Blackbishop:


Like it was stated above, go for alignment first, but you will most likely have to change your ball joint from experience sha.....

izzou:


While I understand him, I feel the advice was trying to put a cart, before the horse.

Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think there's anyone that wanted to be a taxi driver as a kid. Most of us entered this hustle maybe because of one circumstance or the other

One question I ask people who want to venture into HP is: Do you think you can commit yourself, week in week out, driving back to back for the next two years just to own an 18 year old car?

One must be very sure he needs this, and not saying it is better than rentals

If someone starts a HP plan, and doesn't complete it, he has also distorted the plan of the partner. That car would be difficult to put on HP again

My point is, it depends on the life plan of the driver. If you feel you can drive for two years faithfully, please go on

If you are still skeptical about your life, and you don't have Uber driving as a dream, please opt for rental..

Any is better, depending on the person

shollywendy1:

What felicity just said is true sincerely.
Izzou, its not easy to safe money to buy a car thru rental oo. I have lots of friend that have been on rental for years trying and hoping to buy their cars thru savings from rental. Bro, its not easy.
Even getting a loan to buy the car self no easy except you or spouse if married or trusted relative are running a salary account or have a shop. The amount of money you or your spouse earns also determines how much you will be loaned. Though i might be wrong but the ones i know are not finding it easy to buy the cars

davit:
Abeg blackbishop your expertise is needed here. After working on my shaft and bearing today, I notice that my car dey dance on the road ọ. The tires dey drag for road too. The steering is not going straight again. I managed to drive it home this evening. I have called the mechanic that worked on it. But I'm even afraid to go back to him.
Please what could be the problem?

davit:

I changed the ball joint and linkages today before the experience.

chillex8:

I don't know.
But HP favors car owners more than drivers.

izzou:


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Maybe I'm wrong, but I don't think there's anyone that wanted to be a taxi driver as a kid. Most of us entered this hustle maybe because of one circumstance or the other

One question I ask people who want to venture into HP is: Do you think you can commit yourself, week in week out, driving back to back for the next two years just to own an 18 year old car?

Felicity0001:


Nigeria is not getting any better, b4 you say Jack you'd seen yourself still driving on rental and 2yrs is still smiling on yok

izzou:




just to own an 18 year old car?[/b]

sharpk007:


Bros do d allignment first... Cos dats is what I feel is d major culprit

izzou:


One question I ask people who want to venture into HP is: Do you think you can commit yourself, week in week out, driving back to back for the next two years just to own an 18 year old car?



If someone starts a HP plan, and doesn't complete it, he has also distorted the plan of the partner. That car would be difficult to put on HP again

izzou:


If someone starts a HP plan, and doesn't complete it, he has also distorted the plan of the partner. That car would be difficult to put on HP again

jpworld:


Bad news spread faster than good news.Plenty of hard working drivers are completing Hp deal every year. I will still come back here to inform you the Hp deal has been fully paid.

If you are a family man with kids and ur wife is jobless, you're not Qualify.

If your house rent is above 200k annual, my hp not for u.

B4 i agree HP with u, you must have driven for me, minimum of 3months.

xule20:
You don't have to chat with yourself with different whatsap number to make any point

Felicity0001:

Brother reason this context very well...


There is this song we usually sing then in school...

Parents listen to your children
We're the leaders of tomorrow...

I'll stop there. Brotherly, how many leaders do you know presently in Nigeria that's your class mate or age mate now?

My brother, I graduated 2.1 Pet&Gas Engr.
My wife graduated 4.43(tight 2.1) accounting, both of us University of Portharcourt. e don tey no b today... D country no dey smile...no b lie...

Signing up last yr with uber wasn't sth I thought I would still be doing after a yr... So with all of these put together couple with industrial experiences in times past you should anyone should know[b] y my blood the hot [/b]at every slight provocation.

I believe you should understand what it means for over 75 junior staffs to report to you in telecoms. Small pikin like me (ordinary 16yrs pls )

You can ask dru23 when he first contacted me to drive for him, the first question I asked him is if he does HP and I still tried in 2-3 occasions but when he told me No! I never asked him again. Had I taken the opportunity from a woman that contacted me from this thread while I was waiting for dru23 car for 3whole months by now I would have been planning to roundup the HP but to me all of those months I spent on rental I see it as a waste because trust me I didn't get any savings from those months. Yes! Believe me its coming direct from me. If not for my investments while I was working[b] e 4 red[/b] .

But shall, all man to himself.
Just brain storming

manny656:
If I was dru23, my car won't have lasted 1 month in your hand. Your partner was fully incharge of maintenance of your car and at some point, you were remitting 10k per week, yet, you drove the car out of state and back and you were always here ranting about how your partner's car consumes fuel etc and now, you are champion for HP ? I don't know anyone that has completed a HP agreement. The 3 persons I knew, they either returned the cars themselves or it was retrieved.

manny656:
If I was dru23, my car won't have lasted 1 month in your hand. Your partner was fully incharge of maintenance of your car and at some point, you were remitting 10k per week, yet, you drove the car out of state and back and you were always here ranting about how your partner's car consumes fuel etc and now, you are champion for HP ? I don't know anyone that has completed a HP agreement. The 3 persons I knew, they either returned the cars themselves or it was retrieved.

manny656:
If I was dru23, my car won't have lasted 1 month in your hand. Your partner was fully incharge of maintenance of your car and at some point, you were remitting 10k per week, yet, you drove the car out of state and back and you were always here ranting about how your partner's car consumes fuel etc and now, you are champion for HP ? I don't know anyone that has completed a HP agreement. The 3 persons I knew, they either returned the cars themselves or it was retrieved.

jaymejate:


You don't know doesn't mean they don't exist. You'd be surprised they are in large numbers even.

Felicity0001:


Kindly answer these simple questions Sir and if you can't provide simple and honest answers please hide your face in the sand like an ostrage, why because you don't shouldn't poke noise in people business like you know all.

1) Are you the ine that rented a car to me?
If Yes
2) Did I bridge any of the contract agreement we entered and signed?
3) Did I at any time default in my rental remittance pre and post covid-19 at each of the agreed amount?
4) Did you in any where mentioned to me either by the signed contract agreement or by mutual or verbal agreement that I as the rentee should not at any time under any circumstance take my rented car(your car) on a trip out of state and I disobeyed?
5) The N10k you claim was too little for weekly rental, did I forced it on you? Did you or not agreed to it? Did you accepted it or not? Did I for once failed to pay for the few weeks? Or did I object to any review of contract i.e at all if you even made an attempt to try. Off course you knew for sure no one would accept a review when he's spending more than 50% of his earnings on fuel due to a faulty component which I was patiently waiting its arrival for almost 3/4months only for you to call for your car.
6) For the 7 months your car was in my custody did I ever call you for day to tell you car was vandalized, damaged or stolen?

Lastly, be honest oh oga since you are dru23, did I for one day offended you starting from day 1 of our contract till we went our separate ways[/b]?

So Sir, with all due respect if you can't give answers to any of these question I would advised that you keep quiet and stop quoting me.
rub bish!

jpworld:


By next month this thread will be 5years old.i see drivers that will remain uber driver in the next 5years without owning a car.

That 18years old car as you people call it, doesn't come easy, it comes with almost 2millions naira, that might build 2 bedroom Bungalow in your village.

Youth of these days want easy money, even if you have oil and gas dreams, million dollar contract, at the moment wat u r presently doing or surviving with is uber, if it takes 2years to sacrifice to own the car, battle it fir 2years.

If it requires u sending ur wife back to the village, and share a room with ur friend to pay up the car, do it, you must get out of ur comfort zone to succeed in life.

When u type, ur fellow uber drivers will sing ur praise, oil dey ur head, biscuit full ur brain.

Meanwhile abakaliki boys are completing their hp deal and moving on

Firstly, nowhere did I talk anyone out of HP, neither did I say the 2 million is a chicken change. I only wanted the intending driver to be sure.

And as for the 18-year old criteria, that's entirely my own opinion...and yes, I CANNOT TAKE A CAR THAT OLD, DRIVE IT CONSECUTIVELY FOR TWO YEARS, AND THEN IT BECOMES MY OWN...I CAN'T

It has nothing to do with quick money. I also consider what's left of the car and it's expectancy in the long run.

We have seen two drivers here complain of how their HP cars have started giving them issues, and they have not owned it yet. It's a no brainer that the car is old already. Then you flog it back to back for two years....What will be left for you in the next two years for you to enjoy. If Uber decides to raise the bar to 2008 cars anytime, what's your fate?

Please, in my own opinion, and not trying to dissuade anyone, it's not a wise business decision for me. I used Uber to survive, changed the hustle, and I'm doing better now.

I hope to be like you one day sir, but it's definitely not by driving on HP

Felicity0001:


I've a philosophy that belives, "the human being is a sojourner on earth that goes according to the directions the winds blows him.

If you can remember there was a guy that seek advise here on this thread some times back on how he signed up for HP after graduation and just about 9months without any default he got a job which his 3months salary put together can buy him the said HP car? You remember that guy right (I've looked forward to hearing frim that guy to know how he later handled that issue).

Now, the point is, most opportunities come to only the prepared minds and some opportunity comes, but, once in a life time. So it why one should always try as must as possible to always get prepared and then make every time count.

Its no once plan to fail but when it happens you take it in good faith. And if it enters good.


This is a sentiment I would never ever make mistake to be a part of again, my decisions would be best for me and my family before I can consider a third party simple!

The last time I tried to save a drowning scorpion I was stung twice that I almost drown.

So let everyone save themselves from drowning.

I've never seen a man standing with one leg carrying a child comfortably without falling with the child

izzou:


Firstly, nowhere did I talk anyone out of HP, neither did I say the 2 million is a chicken change. I only wanted the intending driver to be sure.

And as for the 18-year old criteria, that's entirely my own opinion...and yes, I CANNOT TAKE A CAR THAT OLD, DRIVE IT CONSECUTIVELY FOR TWO YEARS, AND THEN IT BECOMES MY OWN...I CAN'T

It has nothing to do with quick money. I also consider what's left of the car and it's expectancy in the long run.

We have seen two drivers here complain of how their HP cars have started giving them issues, and they have not owned it yet. It's a no brainer that the car is old already. Then you flog it back to back for two years....What will be left for you in the next two years for you to enjoy. If Uber decides to raise the bar to 2008 cars anytime, what's your fate?

Please, in my own opinion, and not trying to dissuade anyone, it's not a wise business decision for me. I used Uber to survive, changed the hustle, and I'm doing better now.

I hope to be like you one day sir, but it's definitely not by driving on HP