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| ![]() Had my first experience with Zoom Cars in Pune yesterday thanks to my company recommended taxi service having no cars free to ferry me around. Rented a Honda City from the pick up point near Viman Nagar/Pune airport at 7.45 AM and drove to MIDC Ranjangaon and dropped the car off at the same place at 7.30 PM. Overall good experience. The journey was around 100 kms two way. What went well 1. Booking through Zoom mobile app was seamless. Did the booking at 3AM from Bangalore airport for pick up at 7.45 AM. 2. Finally drove the 4th gen Honda City I-DTEC over a long distance. Got a good feel of the car. Diesel engine is a tad noisy. 6th gear useful in cruising. 3. Brand new clean car. Had done just 1655 kms when I picked it up. So followed a sort of run- in policy (speeds less than 100 kmph, constant variation in RPM). Avg mileage at time of drop showed 18 kmpl. 4. Drive on the Pune-Shiradi highway. What did not go well 1. Checklist was not going through on the mobile. Called up helpline and asked them to send it on my behalf. Did not have to unlock or lock the car process using the app due to this. 1. Mobile in the car was not working. Highlighted this in the pick up checklist by calling the helpline. 2. Mobile holder started to disintegrate during the trip. Highlighted this while return checklist was done. The Zoom car representative was kind enough to drop me off at my hotel in Nagar Road as he was going to fill diesel in the car. Now awaiting final invoice from Zoom car. Looking forward to drive the Mercs in around Bangalore next time. |
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BHPian Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Was PB, DL, HR , KA and Now GJ-1
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| ![]() Zoom has updated their website with Mumbai and Chennai locations. Source: Zoom Currently they have 7 offices in Navi Mumbai, none in Mumbai as of now. ![]() Three offices in Chennai currently. ![]() Also, Zoom has added the Maruti Ciaz to their Bangalore fleet. ![]() |
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| ![]() Had my first Zoomcar experience yesterday. Booked a Figo for an airport run. BLR airport being where it is, is a 100-odd km roundtrip from my house in South Bangalore. Booked the car for 13 hours (130 kms allowance), but completed the run within 100kms, so returned the car 3 hours early. Got 50% refund for the unused booking (as per their rules) as credit in my account, so the whole trip cost me 1150 INR at weekend rates (cheaper during weekdays). That's much better than hiring a cab or trying to use the shuttle services. Pick-up and return were seamless, submitted checklists from my phone app both times without issues. The car was decently maintained, 4 months old with 22k on the ODO. The engine had a weird shudder while idling sometimes, nothing unmanageable. Clutch understandably on the harder side due to varied usage. Decent experience and I'd definitely use their services again, given I'm car-less for the time being ![]() |
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Just to quote the available MVD docs: Zoom operates under the "1989 Rent a cab scheme" http://transport.bih.nic.in/Guidelin...A-Cab-1989.pdf Since this is a central MVD rule, the states have to implement it. AFAIK Delhi and Karnataka implemented it. (The initial Zoom vehicles in Pune were bearing KA numbers, not sure about current situation). While the central act does not talk about the plate format, the state act does mention them. Here is the Delhi MVD website link referring to this scheme/number plate format: http://delhi.gov.in/wps/wcm/connect/...+registration/ Other state police/mvd folks are generally ignorant about this number plate, and I was once flagged down by Kerala police for driving with illegal number plate. They let me go after I showed them the documents of the (Zoom) car. | |||
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BHPian Join Date: Aug 2008 Location: TS 10 / TN 43
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| ![]() Had a query regarding the reliability of cars. Have any zoomcars customers experienced major mechanical breakdowns? I just completed a 3k Km road trip between Hyderabad, Banglore, Coorg and Udupi. In Karnataka, I crossed a lot of zoomcars. It is difficult to describe how badly the cars are being abused. On one rough patch in coorg where even the Inova taxis where doing about 30 Kmh, we were over taken by zoomcars branded Honda Amaze and XUV 500 doing at least 60-80 kmph! That is just one example of abuse I observed the entire 2 weeks I was in Karnataka. |
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| ![]() I am having trouble trying to understand Zoom's pricing. I was looking to hire an XUV in Delhi for a day's drive to Jaipur covering a maximum distance of 500 kms and will return the car to them in 14 hours. Now as per my understanding from their tariff chart they will charge me 140 Rs for each hour which comes to Rs. 1960 for 14 hours. This will allow me to drive the car for 140 kms according to the 10km per hour rule. So beyond this I will be charged for remaining 360 kms at the rate of 15/km which comes to approx Rs. 5400. So all in all a trip of 500 kms & 14 hours will cost me around Rs. 7500. This is a lot of money. My own Innova with a FE of 10 kmpl will cost me aaprox Rs. 2500 for the same trip. A hired Taxi Innova ( usual Delhi rate is Rs. 12/km) will cost me around Rs. 6000 and has the added advantage of a driver. Am I making some mistake in the maths? If not then why will anyone choose Zoom over a regular taxi? |
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Now you return the car in 14 hours. You have returned it 36 hours before your actual return time. Zoom will add credit in your account for Rs.70 (50%)*36 = Rs.2520. Effective cost is Rs.4480. This is what I do with them. | |
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| ![]() You aren't mistaken, Zoom doesn't make sense for small-duration-high-usage scenarios. With Zoom, it makes sense to hire the vehicle based on your distance usage requirement, not duration. Only downside is you'll need to park it unused for the remaining time to avoid paying overuse charges. In your case, hire the car for 50-odd hours, use it for your trip, park it for a day and then return it. Quote:
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Long story short, you can earn credits only if you booked for longer time duration/kms allowance than you really needed, then returned the car with unused kms ahead of return time. Unused time alone doesn't earn any credits. E.g. I booked a Figo a few days ago for 13 hours/130 kms. Returned it in 10 hours with 100 kms on the trip-meter. Got credit for 50% of unused booking (INR 150). The credit is money-based, not kms as hourly rentals vary by day of the week. If I'd driven the whole 130 kms and still tried to return in 10 hrs, I'd be billed per km for 30 kms. Last edited by Chetan_Rao : 28th April 2015 at 17:00. | |||
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| ![]() You bet! Given how you described it, one could theoretically drive unlimited kms and gain credits while doing it, not that I'm against such perks ![]() Jokes apart, Zoom should really do away with the kms capping, probably for an additional charge. Current setup really restricts people who want to drive longer distances over shorter times. |
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