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Planning to Rent a Car For a Week
The car I currently drive for Uber and Lyft has over 332,000 miles on it, with at least one ball joint that needs to be replaced as soon as possible…maybe on both sides on the front.
The next 9 days are going to be really busy since the state fair is in town. I’m planning to move to another state in early September, and I want to use my car as little as I can between now and then. After I move, there is a local mechanic that said he’d do the left front for about $100, instead of the $300 to $500 PER SIDE I’ve recently been quoted, and he’s OK with me bringing in the part.
Anyway, I’m planning to rent a car through Uber for at least a week. Just wanted to know if it would be worth it for the extra $10 or so per day to get the Uber XL compatible vehicle. I’ve never driven for Uber XL, and my main concern is either getting too many Uber X rides and over paying for gas, and dealing with 6 annoying drunks at the end of the night instead of just 4 annoying drunks.
I can save about $70 by going with the small or midsized car, and there is also the option of a Chevy Volt EV, for about the same price, except I have to put down a deposit for the EV. If I go through Avis and get the Uber X rental, there is no deposit.
Anyway, please let me know your thoughts. Would I enjoy the XL, or would I regret it? Has anyone used a Chevy Volt for Uber X, and if so, did you like it?
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Get the XL as you can turn off the lower paying X trips if you wish and get a gas engine. You don’t want an EV, you’ll spend too much time charging, not making money and at charging stations costs more than gas.
Since you won’t have a home charger powerful enough which needs to be installed by a electrician to take advantage of cheapest home charging prices.
If you install Mystro, a third party app, you can control the X trips but using filters so your taking the profitable ones and not being overloaded with garbage trips.
Set a $1+ per mile and $20+ per hour with a $10 minimum pay per trip to start and work up from there until X slows down enough your getting the few XL trips that come in which pay much more
Your Acceptance Rate and Uber Pro Status is going to take a hit, but it doesn’t provide anything worth a dam anyway.
Just be warned Uber will kick you offline and log you out, wipe your preferences every three declines, so Mystro will handle the on/off line routine necessary to defeat this but you have to agree to everything they want to set up which is disabled person control of the Uber app.
The default is to review each trip like you normally would and accept what your filters are set to, however it also reviews unwanted trips which you have to click that link and scroll down to set auto decline immediately unwanted trips.
It takes some getting used to, and seems to jam up under high demand, but it works.
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