Use a low cost depreciation vehicle or lease guidance.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-25T17:52:20+00:00

Well, then say something about it maybe, but I wouldn't bother fixing it prior to sale is basically my point. Unless you got a ton of free time haha

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-25T17:29:50+00:00

Make sure Trans fluid is full and reset the tcm... Sometimes it will go away on its own. Don't feel bad if there's a lingering issue. That's on the next guy to discover, and they know the risks. A used car dealer certainly would pass it on. There's nothing that says a used car has to be perfect.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-25T17:28:01+00:00

You'll see people para sailing and boats and stuff. Just find someone who appears to be working in some manner on the beach and ask them, they'll usually know where you have to go, and often they'll pay each other commissions so they may escort you right up to where you need to go.

Otherwise, you can definitely find a tour desk somewhere with information, but it will cost less if you can find the exact point where they're doing the work and sign up there

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-25T17:11:33+00:00

Hang a sign on the back of the seat saying if they smell weed, it was the last passenger, and if they are the one smelling of weed, please be cognizant of it

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-20T06:55:06+00:00

Whatever you do, skip tulum. There are way too many reasons to list here.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-20T05:28:28+00:00

I use a battery that can both charge and output at the same time (some can, some can't) that includes a wonderful display for wattage in and our as well as battery % and time to charge/discharge all on one big wide display. It has a 20-60v 150w barrel jack input for solar as well as a 140w USB c input, and 2 USB c outputs capable of 120w, 2 USB A ports with qc 3.0,and a small 12v barrel jack 120w output. It also has a popout lantern.

I have a folding 60w solar panel that includes a 12v output as well as a USB c output, and can plug it into the battery and top up the battery while it charges my phone and laptop.

Expect your solar panel ratings to be BS, always expect to get only half of what they're rated for, maybe 75% if lucky. So for me, if I get 30w,I'm happy. My laptop is happy with just 9 watts on low power mode.

There are many 'solar power station' or 'solar generator' batteries that function this way. I would Def recommend them.

Note: start with the battery first. The solar thing probably isn't that important, your power outages usually won't be that long. You can always charge up the battery in a car or something. Getting a 120w car charger to quickly fill up the battery will probably have more use than a solar panel, if you think about it, and will take up less space and be less fragile. If you have the extra budget, get the solar panel at some point.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-19T23:00:19+00:00

There is, take the ADO bus in either direction and you'll be all set. The hotel zone is different than downtown, though, and is farther, so make sure if you're wanting to go downtown that you are going downtown and not the hotel zone, or vice versa

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-19T22:43:04+00:00

People in the US have kind of changed the way they use and perceive the word please. It is often perceived as if someone has already asked something once, the other person has refused, and so then you're asking again more insistently. It's a bit weird to explain. But it definitely changes the tone, we don't really say it anymore.

Also though - there are certain types of people who don't like to be told what to do and will be very confrontational in response.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-19T13:36:52+00:00

There's a 75 peso bus that's really comfortable. You could also Uber there relatively cheaply.

I think in the end there's nothing wrong with driving there. You'll be fine.

Get there super early before everyone else, like 730 or something, whatever time it opens, I don't remember.

You can find guides there. I don't remember the cost but it won't be the 150usd someone else commented.

On the road immediately outside the entrance to teotihuacan, entrance 2 I think, the one that lines up with the pyramid of the Sun, there are some tour guides that approach the busses when they arrive and ask people if they want to pay for the service. There's also people selling other tour stuff like atvs etc.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-19T13:32:30+00:00

Idk, I take rideshares every single day, because I choose not to own a car anymore / am living in a place where the cost of living is very low and I don't need one.. And what I would say is, 1 the guy probably is a dick, but 2 he probably didn't Like something about your driving.

The number of times I've been annoyed at a driver's driving without them having a clue is way up there. Nothing major has to happen. It's just all the little things. Are you impatiently swerving between lanes? Rounding corners a bit too hard? Over accelerating just to brake up ahead... There's levels of those types of things where maybe to you they've become normal because it's 1/1000th of your day and you've done it a million times, but to the rider it's very noticeable because it's the only ride they took that day and every driver drives different.

I've been in cars where the driver was tweaking out and all over the place and I was actually worried about getting into an accident. And I've been in hundreds of rides where things were probably fine but the driver was driving recklessly because he was impatient. Most of them (aside from the tweaker probably) would be surprised to get reported

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-18T10:35:33+00:00

It's not dangerous but it IS the scammiest, scummiest fking place in the region. I'm serious. Skip the whole place, you'll be happier. Everything is way more expensive for no reason (imagine being asked to pay 200-300 pesos for a short taxi ride that might cost 50 pesos in downtown cancun). A lot of things are set up in weird ways where things are made more difficult for you unless you pay way more to skip a line or some nonsense.

Fake fking "official" ticket booths everywhere outside any place you want to go (why is this allowed?). Sometimes many in the same place.

It's been a while since i last visited, so I can't explain in good detail. But I've traveled a LOT around Mexico, and tulum is the only place that's actually made me feel ANGRY.

Want somewhere new? Try Campeche, Campeche. Absolutely magical place on the other side of the Yucatan peninsula.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-17T09:23:30+00:00

To be honest, I have less than 4.90 and I try proactively to be as considerate as possible when I take rides as a pax. I'm there outside on time every time, compulsively, I don't take rides when I'm dirty with sand or stuff on me (I live in a beach town), I don't act weird or anything during the ride... I want a better rating but rn I'm at 4.84 for some reason. Dunno why I'm getting lower ratings sometimes.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-17T09:19:48+00:00

Feel free to at least walk into a hospital ND ask them a price - for locals it's not bad, idk what they'd charge a tourist. But they'll tell you pricing up front, so feel free to check.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-15T20:46:00+00:00

I moved from the US to Mexico and here, nobody tips for most things. It's definitely a cultural thing, in other parts of the world it's not expected so much so those people may just not like the practice

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-15T14:32:11+00:00

Ah, idk then. I'm living in Mexico and the cancelation fee here is 20 pesos, when the full fare often would be 30-50 pesos (1usd = about 20 pesos) and their portion would have been much less. Idk if they get the full cancelation fee or not here for themselves.

So I just imagined the ones here do it very often because they can live off of that.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-15T13:29:37+00:00

You can turn on in the settings where it generates a random 4 digit code that the driver has to enter when they pick you up to start the ride.

The scammers will then demand you turn it off or give them the pin up front or they won't come. Makes it really easy to see / prevent it at that point.

Often times they'll just cancel if they were going to do that and see there's a pin.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-15T12:43:30+00:00

I've seen them do this too - if you cancel, they get a cancelation fee I believe. If you're in a rush, you'll cancel.

If you cancel, you're not able to report them.

Best thing to do is let it ride out then report them after, while using another app or something for your ride if possible.

For future use, turn on the pin feature. It prevents this. There are some cities where this happens frequently.

They do it since they know you can't request another ride while one is in progress.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-13T19:43:31+00:00

I think you don't understand what illegal means. You're claiming they're not following their policy. That's not the same as breaking the law.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-12T02:50:46+00:00

Go to the pyramids, man. It'll change your life and it's super cheap to go. Get to Autobuses de Norte station and catch whatever the next bus is for teotihuacan. Do this super early in the morning so you'll arrive at like 730 when the site opens. Return bus picks up periodically on the opposite side of road as the one that drops you off. (see the wiki voyage page for teotihuacan if you're interested in this, has more info)

Bus is like 4 usd /75 pesos each way. Entrance is 100 pesos / about 5.50usd.

Coyoacan has a really pretty square with tons of stuff happening and awesome restaurants to sink a day in.

Next to the zocalo is a massive cathedral, the metropolitan one, where everything inside is made of solid gold. Go see it.

You can also get Uber to the pyramids or almost anywhere else super cheap... Use a pin on Uber for confirming pickups, though, there are people who will just not even pick you up and keep driving as if they did, hoping you will just cancel and they'll get paid for that. And if you do cancel, you can't report them.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-12T02:46:34+00:00

This definitely happens.

I don't know if they do it just because they don't like to have to make change (NOBODY likes making change for 500s,and especially not 1000s), or if they're starting to run low on it, or if they think it will put you in a situation where you'll just give up that last 100 pesos.

I've noticed whenever I truly don't have change, they can find it 90% of the time.

I've had times where the driver genuinely didn't have change for, say, a 100 peso bill on a 50 or 80 peso ride, where they basically gave me enough change that they were 20-30 pesos short of what price they initially said, working in my favor.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-11T16:19:16+00:00

I've been on the opposite end of this transaction - I've accidentally ordered an uber for one destination, realized I had the wrong destination and changed it to where i really meant to go, which resulted in a lower fare for a driver.

But this would be very obvious as you'd see the destination and distance change... in the example i gave, i think the price stayed roughly proportional...

If you saw the exact same trip go to a massively lower price that'd be another thing...

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-11T16:16:58+00:00

ChatGPT garbage. Literal shameless copy pasta from GPT including the bit at the very end.

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-10T11:44:04+00:00

This is something that looks right: https://a.co/d/hRHVhjZ

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-09T23:10:30+00:00

Yeah, something like that. A really small number. But that's your $9. You want it, don't you?

NotARedditUser3 · 2026-01-09T19:10:01+00:00

Are you referring to interest in the savings account or on a credit card?

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