Naona after Jalas atoke Milele FM na Mwakideu awache pombe, Mwakideu amekua mjanja sana na finances zake. The guy has been launching businesses za car wash left, right and center and making good financial moves. He has stayed with that BMW X5 for less than 1 year and is now selling it. Probably amegundua kuendesha iyo X5 ni ujinga, bei ya gari ni zaidi ya flat yake Athi River na kila 2 months inakula repairs na kurusha errors whose cost of fixing is more than his rent. Jalango bado anapiga kelele na hiyo nyumba anajenga ushago akiwaste pesa kwa magari kubwa kubwa. Mwanaume ni kuadvance na kuinvest beyond where your ancestors invested.
Zile za Ederman zinaitwa Greatwall, mahali akona carwash, zile zilikua zinaekwa gazeti zinawekwa on offer at 3M for cash buyers 2 years ago. But ziliuzwa zote.
I think every business has competition these days. The moment uanzishe kitu na ido fiti utaona wengine wanajaribu kucome up na the same business. As long as he finds a way to stay competitive and give value by maybe being in good locations and other value added services he may do well. Sai Kenya tumefika mahali those in business have to have a strategy to compete coz almost all businesses zikona competition intense. Hakuna business unaeza fikiria yenye mtu mwingine hajafikiria ama hataweza kucopy, the difference is strategy…no one can copy a strategy.
With China coming into the picture and Kenyans ability to travel and reside globally, equipment and machinery are easy to source, and at very competitive prices.
Now politicians are giving out car was equipment, meaning that, someone who used intense capital to establish a car wash in a prime location won’t be as competitive, as those you youth groups that have minimal overhead cost.
Nice machine. BMW is a good car, only that it is not for peasants. Watu hucomplain juu ya error codes should have no business owning a BMW or benz because it is beyond their means. Ukiambia middle class asijaribu kununua BMW anakasirika sana and takes it personally. Halafu anakuja kublame gari juu ya high maintenance costs. The car isn’t the problem, your pockets are. Middle class should learn to stick to their lane and stop blaming vehicles and calling them money pits. It’s not a money pit sir, you just punched above your weight.
Gari kama hizi kama hauko income bracket fulani lazima itakupiga stick. Na watu wengi wakipigwa stick huanza kusema gari ni money pit, sijui error codes, etc instead of admitting walinunua gari hawawezi afford kumaintain. They are referred to as luxury vehicles for a reason.
Your frequent use of the word ‘peasant’ and your tendency to drag it into a discussion at every possible opportunity betrays your noveau riche background. I’m guessing you came to Nairobi in adulthood from a not so well off family, made your first bit of decent cash in college, and now you think you’re Patrick fucking Bateman because you leased a German machine and rent a furnished apartment in Kilimani; the home of upstart new money’s with delusions of grandeur. Wewe na yule msenge wa kusmuggle ketamine kwa mcoosh akienda majuu, you’re just insecure posers.
Luxury cars are bought new kwa show room with 3 year warranty or 100,000km not as 8yr mitumbas that spend most of their time at the garage plugged to machines trying to diagnose errors and the mtumba owners fixing second hand spares from kirinyaga road.
I dont think its that expensive to maintain. To keep this you have to know something about cars and be a bit tech savvy so you know where to get spares and how to keep it running fine. You also need a cheap diagnostic machine costing about 3000-10000 shillings. You will need to know what you need to replace and buy spares yourself and have someone fix them or fix them yourself. Otherwise you will take it to the dealer and the quacks there will milk you dry asking you to buy parts they have guessed are the problem. take it to quacks elsewhere and they will damage it further. This applies to any car in kenya. We have no mechanics.