At what point during the ride did the battery die?

Did you make a stop?

While you were driving?

You might have bigger problems than just needing a jump.

 

The battery is good, it was simply Cold and I got a jump from a fellow slave, and the **** trying to get a free ride notified fuber. They sent me a message right away saying I needed to submit proof or drive the mule to a green hub to become active again, I cursed them out and the robot they have replying to people sent some bullshit idk. All I did was buy a mechanic I know a receipt for the alternator and battery and immediately got reactivated. It's absurd. I literally was not going to deal with it but the mechanic works out of the place where I lease the freaking car out of. Whatever. ****uber. I do lyftand radio dispatch neighbor cab service anyways for the majority of my income

 

But when did you run into a problem?

You pulled up to pick up pax and car turned off?

How was your battery cold if you drove to pick them up?

At what point of the ride did you need a jump?

I'm trying to understand how this happened and it doesn't make sense.

 

Hey.......car battery just doesn’t all of sudden need a jump unless there is other underlining issues. Look at it from pax perspective....inconvenience ride along with safety.

 

Take it to autozone and has ed the ak alternator tested... it' free ...throw the battery in for good measure

 

Hey.......car battery just doesn't all of sudden need a jump unless there is other underlining issues. Look at it from pax perspective....inconvenience ride along with safety.

Thanks for the advice, man.. the mechanic I went to for the receipt actually looked at it, he said everything was fine, this is the thing though.. as soon as fuber put my account on hold until I came up with proof I realized that any paxhole with knowledge that a driver has to go through the incovinience to get back on line after being reported will totally use that to their advantage, if let's say they don't like the drivers this or that, do you know what I'm saying?

 

Here's the deal, you are driving a Taxi, working for Uber means you drive a cab,your car when driving Uver is a Taxi Cab, Your Taxi Cab Broke Down, Pax was delayed,Pax notified your Base,"Uber" saying your taxi broke down, Your Base, Uber, Took you off the road,until, you fixed your taxi cab,you issued receipts to your base,Uber, they cleared you to drive your cab again,after you fixed your cab. End of story All this is done electronically when working for Uber.
PS to you, no big deal, that you had to jump your car, to ME and a PAX it's a big deal Simple as that,JMO

 

It sounds like it was a relatively quick fix, but I can completely understand a pax complaining about it.
1- if the battery died before you started the trip (which is the only thing that makes sense to me), you should have not started the trip... apologized to the pax and Canceled/No Charge.
2- if somehow the battery died mid-trip (how?) the pax had to wait (and pay for the time) while you figured out a solution, which wasn't guarenteed to be quick... of course they were going to complain about an unreliable car.

 

I'd have given the trip for free if I could have, I didn't know how to... It is what it is man, this thread is switching to someone saying is a fake story lol. So I give up on reasoning with the crowd, which was that a paxhole can make a FAKE TO F UCK WITH YOU if they simply want to.

Because you aren't answering simple questions. This story comes down to one of two things. Either you are having more issues with your car than you realize (or will admit) or you're coming up with a story to make your point that pax and Uber are bad. The unwillingness to answer simple questions about it leads people to believe that it's the latter.

Besides, we're already aware how easy it is for pax to shut down drivers (and sadly, so are a lot of pax). All they have to do is say you were drunk and even with dash cam footage proving you were fine, you get a 2 day or so vacation while they review it. You actually got lucky you were only down as long as you were (innocent or not).

ASK ME ANYTHING. I just got back on the thread. Cableguy.! ASK ME ANYTHING! LET'S GO.

I'd have given the trip for free if I could have, I didn't know how to... It is what it is man, this thread is switching to someone saying is a fake story lol. So I give up on reasoning with the crowd, which was that a paxhole can make a FAKE TO F UCK WITH YOU if they simply want to.

ASK ME ANYTHING. I just got back on the thread. Cableguy.! ASK ME ANYTHING! LET'S GO.

I'm up all night for you

 

Your not telling the full story...
Tell the full story please

 

Agent037

This is a fake story.
Dude refuses to answer a simple question.

How did this happen?
How did pax knows your battery died if obviously your car was running when you arrived to pick him up.

Why do people come here with fake stories?

Unless it's a fake story about a babe you hooked up with, makes no sense to make stories up.

Wtfdo I get by coming up with such a story, guy? I picked up the paxhole and soon after needed the boost, got one and went omw. Right after uber sends me proof that I fixed the vehicle, she was on her phone The whole time, simple dude, she notified Uber and they took action.

^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^
I have driven two SUVs (though this goes for all vehicles) on a completely shot battery (as if there were no battery at all) merryon2nd is absolutely right, you can drive a car completely on an alternator alone (unless the alternator is failing), a car will not shut off completely mid trip unless there is an issue you are not telling us about

If the alternator is functioning properly (as you claim) and the battery is functioning properly and just low/dead (as you claim), just the fact the car was running fine previously means that unless you let the car sit for an exceptionally long time, the battery should remain warm and slightly charged enough (from the alternator charging it beforehand) to at least get another start out of it

The only way for this to be slightly plausible is if you shut off your car and put it on accessory mode (reverse key turn or if push start, a double press without brake), or possibly, you went online and accepted a ping before you even went out to your car... but why would anyone do that?

Like everyone else is saying, there's something you aren't telling us

Don't know what to tell you man, .. I'mma see if I can post screen shot of support messages,

Always blame the pax when your POS whip isn't working...clearly ride scamming.

You're hilarious, what scam am I going to do just to get fuber money? I do Uber as secondary income when I don't give 2 shits about uberand you think I'mma come up with some scam? LMAO.. made my night

Your not telling the full story...
Tell the full story please

Just wait til it happens to you, you'll see how a paxhole can sidetrack you if they notify fuber, WHICH WAS THE POINT OF MY POST, .. not making shit up, cause really... Why? Its hard to fathom that no one here has had a mechanical problem while with a paxhole, and is REQUIRED TO SUBMIT PROOF of fixing the problem! Did you know that Uber knows before hand when TLC is going to suspend your license here in nyc!? And no one knows how and why. Fuber here in nyc is a COMPLETELY different animal. The majority of folks in here cannot possibly be from from my neck of the woods so I gotta be flexible with some things. It's a different world here.

 

....a lot of this story makes no sense though. I can't see how you could have had a cold start, even if you did turn the car off to wait for pax. It takes components up to 45 minutes to completely cool to that point, even in frigid temperatures. It gets balls hot under the bonnet of a car, and I know not one driver who will wait that long for a pax. And a car doesn't cut off mid ride unless there's a fuel issue, a spark issue, it's choking on lack of air, or the alternator is shot and you're driving on battery power alone.

 

...And a car doesn't cut off mid ride unless there's a fuel issue, a spark issue, it's choking on lack of air, or the alternator is shot and you're driving on battery power alone.

^^^^^^^THIS^^^^^^^
I have driven two SUVs (though this goes for all vehicles) on a completely shot battery (as if there were no battery at all) merryon2nd is absolutely right, you can drive a car completely on an alternator alone (unless the alternator is failing), a car will not shut off completely mid trip unless there is an issue you are not telling us about

If the alternator is functioning properly (as you claim) and the battery is functioning properly and just low/dead (as you claim), just the fact the car was running fine previously means that unless you let the car sit for an exceptionally long time, the battery should remain warm and slightly charged enough (from the alternator charging it beforehand) to at least get another start out of it

The only way for this to be slightly plausible is if you shut off your car and put it on accessory mode (reverse key turn or if push start, a double press without brake), or possibly, you went online and accepted a ping before you even went out to your car... but why would anyone do that?

Like everyone else is saying, there's something you aren't telling us

 

The battery is good, it was simply Cold and I got a jump from a fellow slave, and the **** trying to get a free ride notified fuber. They sent me a message right away saying I needed to submit proof or drive the mule to a green hub to become active again, I cursed them out and the robot they have replying to people sent some bullshit idk. All I did was buy a mechanic I know a receipt for the alternator and battery and immediately got reactivated. It's absurd. I literally was not going to deal with it but the mechanic works out of the place where I lease the freaking car out of. Whatever. &%$@!*uber. I do lyftand radio dispatch neighbor cab service anyways for the majority of my income

Fellow drivers are not slaves,They are Other drivers,The Pax deserved a Free Bee ,do to the break down,or $$ off the fair do to the time it took to resolve Battery issue,This issue is on a driver,in this case YOU, not the PAX,Listen, driving people around working for a Taxi "UBER" co, is serious bizness,not a joke,if the $$ Uber pays you is not enough,don' take those fares,Or Quit,enough said, JMO

 

Always blame the pax when your POS whip isn't working...clearly ride scamming.

 

We should all be more straightforward like this.....lol

 

Your car battery shouldn't die in the middle of a trip. Let's assume you were at the airport waiting in the queue with the engine off. You get a ping and then find out your battery died. Another ant was nearby because they're also in the queue, and they jumped your car. The rider shouldn't have to know that you got a jump. If you have car trouble prior to a trip, cancel it!

 

Agent037

This is a fake story.
Dude refuses to answer a simple question.

How did this happen?
How did pax knows your battery died if obviously your car was running when you arrived to pick him up.

Why do people come here with fake stories?

Unless it's a fake story about a babe you hooked up with, makes no sense to make stories up.

 

At what point during the ride did the battery die?

Did you make a stop?

While you were driving?

You might have bigger problems than just needing a jump.

That's a start, while I'm no mechanic, I suspect he's trying to isolate if it's with the alternator not charging up the battery right or what.

 

The only way he could have died mid-trip, as stated, would be if there was a spark/fuel/air issue where the car was choking/drowning/not receiving enough power and it finally caught up with him, OR if he was driving on a crappy alternator and using up the Reserve CCA power in his battery. Either way, I'm curious as to which it was. Because the battery only exists to initially start the car and then leach recharge off of the alternator to either start the car the NEXT time it's needed, or to supply limp-mode power for when the alt goes.

Just genuinely curious as to what the reality here is.

 

Also, it goes without saying that now-a-days even dealerships will hire the most inept grease monkeys to turn wrenches to lessen operation costs. So I take anything 'a friend of mine that works at a dealership/shop...' with a grain of salt. Unless I've worked with the individual myself, I don't let word hold any weight. lol

 

I’m still wondering why you wouldn’t want to just tell us the full story. Maybe you already know your alternator is dying, so what? By being so evasive you’re leading people to simply not believe you at all.

“My alternator is dying and I needed a jump, pax called in and I got deactivated. Pax suck. I got a fake receipt for now so I’m going again. Guess I’ll need a new alternator soon.”

Yeah, many are still going to say that the pax wasn’t wrong to call, after all, you did have to get a jump. Then you point out how easy it is for pax to get us temp deactivated, and we point out that’s it’s worse than that, they can straight up lie, and the thread dies.

See how that version didn’t result in people doubting you?

 

Still, I wouldn't blame the pax for calling in. That could be viewed (in a customer point of view) a potential hazard to health had the break down happened on the expressway, highway, or boulevard with no where to pull over. People have, honestly, died that way. Not paid attention to a warning from their car, decided to go anyway, end up dead weight in the middle of a road with no emergency lane and rear-ended/sideswiped/etc, usually by a vehicle large enough to cause catastrophic damage due to inability to adjust speed or shift lanes fast enough.

If this was an issue that you were aware of previously, that makes this even worse. Because then you KNOWINGLY put you AND the pax in the path of danger.

 

Dude thinks we're stupid.
Which we kind of are for driving Uber.
But we have other smarts that we ain't gonna ignore when a story doesn't make sense.

 

It's just too suspious, the leaving out of anything telling on the dash (would have happened when he lost power, a light, a dimming, something!). Everything checking out good after a stone stop (would never happen). It would be nice to have a little bit of honesty on this one. Lol

 

No shame in having a clunker man. Some of my best buys were 400 buck junkers that just needed a little minor work. Wont lie, those things held up longer than my newer cars ever did.

 

A Battery can absolutely go bad AFTER you have started the vehicle while driving.
An example would be hitting a severe pot hole thus causing one of the connections between plate grids to break and killing one of the 6 Cells, there is a nominal 2 volts per each of the 6 cells in a 12v Auto battery.

The above could cause what is being described.

BUT, this would also cause the vehicle to also die again very soon after receiving the claimed "Boost" as the battery would not be able to either be Charged or Hold a charge.

It is entirely possible to run from the alternator only and having a bad battery as described above BUT, modern cars and their charging systems are not designed to run a "Full Load" with only the Alternator. You need a fully functional battery to accomodate short term surges including times when the engine is just simply not spinning fast enough to supply the needed current for what ever it is you have turned on, in this case waiting at the curb Idling with lights and heater running while charging Cell Phones and who knows what else, maybe he was running a Vibrator and having a good time while waiting.

The bottom line is this indicates a serious problem and Uber/Lyft are correct in deactivating until the problem is resolved.
You can come in here and complain all you want, waa waa boo hoo. now go and buy a new battery.

My Diagnosis is, the driver is a cheap skate and does not replace the battery every 3 years as I would recommend and now has suffered the consequences.

A Lead Acid battery takes a beating(Vibration) when city driving, and can cause premature failure of the internal connections.

Oh, and what is the "Battery was Cold" mumbo jumb0? I live and drive in Minnesota, want to talk about "Cold" batteries? ROFL

 

Agent037

This is a fake story.

I don't think so. When my wife's "car" wouldn't start. We figured it was her battery.

I tried jump starting it, but to no avail. I had to buy her a new battery. Batteries sometimes do get overworked.

 

I have, a loose connection coupled with a heavy joust can cut off a car. However, i didnt see anything about the car suffering a trama at any point either.

Bottom line, regardless of the situation leading up to the car dying, it was still a potentially dangerous position that both driver and rider were placed in.

 

We need to stop making sense. If you look at all the stupid out there looking in, people might think us insane and call the looney bin on us.

 

I've also seen batteries that corroded so badly that they had holes in them in the weirdest spots. I've seen the bloody things explode from a jump or an over charged alternator. Batteries are fickle things really. They can last forever, last less than a year, all on the same car.