Nice. I have 2 Fiat 500s in my Turo fleet. One has 66 trips!! The new one I just bought is a sweet Granite Crystal Grey color with black wheels. It's doing great!
@@WatchJRGo thanks for posting! I recently bought one to tow behind my RV but I’ve now fallen in love and want an Abatth.!!! They’re fun stuff, especially for a 6’6” guy. Roomy as can be. Keep it up JR, you’re doing stellar work!
I absolutely love my 500 Abarth, and my wife drives a 2016 500 Lounge in the 1957 edition spec. You are correct that the oil is critical, and also (IMO) correct in using only Motul in the Multi Air engine! Great to see some FIAT love from WatchJRGo!
Wow, this was very interesting and impressive. I think these Turo fleet videos are a very good addition to your channel's content. When I was looking at the TPMS tool, I thought that is something that you buy when you have the volume to use it, like in your case. Now, I am wondering if you are getting close to the point where you would want to buy the equipment to mount and balance your own tires. Obviously, that would make the cost per vehicle to put new tires on lower, but also save you time - no need to bring it to a tire shop and be limited by their schedule.
1. JR, surely you know the trackday trick--put painters tape on the car and then stick the temporary license plate adhesive to that. 2. When putting a car on Turo, what business and insurance precautions do you take to protect yourself?
i been planning starting a turo fleet for a couple month and 2 of the cars i was looking to buy was a Dart and a Fiat 500 hahahha, im a former mopar tech and i know these very well that help alot when you know the vehicles inside and out and you do all the maintance and repair
Man, you're really committed to the rental thing! I hope it works out for you. Last time I rented a car, the engine caught on fire as I was pulling in the the business. And the guy working could care less! Pretty funny.
Mines the same color with 64k miles but I have the 15 sport with digital dash and digital climate control, with sunroof. Bought it new. I drive it once a month for a week. I do otr trucking
JR - make sure the HVAC plenum chamber drains are not blocked with leaf debris. They were on my wife's 595 Abarth and it soaked the carpets all through the car. It took close to a month to dry it completely.
I'm impressed yet again by your ambition and determination. You've come such a long way! How's your dad coming with that car crusher? I'm kinda hoping that you are going to have a chance to give us regular updates on that project. I find it to be interesting as all get out. Peace.
Agreed, I hope John will at least give us an update video when the car crusher is done. Also fully agree that John's ambition is impressive. Keep up the great work John.
Don't bother matching tires on the Turo fleet John. Car rental contracts only obliges the hirer to replace a damaged (during their use) tire with a subjective "like-for-like" and doesn't have to be the same brand. Tire damage is the most common issue too, so you'll be needlessly out of pocket trying to match them when they get returned with a different one on.
Yes, I meant he shouldn't be. I'm that fussy too, but the liklihood is they'll come back with odd tires as it's common damage for hire cars and the hirer doesn't have to match them.
I am just now getting into turo. I purchased a 2013 fiat sport 100k miles for 5500 Last week. I had to replace the lift gate handle and the window clip and motor. I just youtube how to do it. It was all really easy. I am listing it next week for about 45 a day. I am in florida and these cars are popular for the beach.
I may be just tired, but every time you show the boat in the background I think the outboard motor is the Statue for some reason and it's gotten me more than once.
I've heard a lot of negative with Turo, but I don't have the time to really deliver them. My local airport will not allow them to be stored so it requires delivery. As far as user perspective, I rented 1 turo so far which was in Charlotte. They had a great system of delivery and recovery with no interaction other than messaging through the app. had to take it to a car wash and vacuum it out when returning before my flight which probably made it easy on them. in an attempt to use one again, I found the delivery fees too high so I just rented one from the airport this time. Good Luck!
Looking forward to seeing your Turo financials after a few months. I hope you include when you will be in the black (at the rate of current rental). It'll be interesting to see which car makes the most money percentage-wise.
I had a pop manual it was a fun car to drive then i got a red turbo .. I stop riding my bike.. one of the most fun car ( is not fast is fun to drive and the turbo makes it more!!) Love the color This pop don't have sunroof and automatic it makes it not as fun to drive as the manual Watch for the motor starter they go down really easy and the hatch wiring usually brakes .. then you can't open the hatch
I actually bought a 500 pop as a flip, and all I did was fix the passenger door handle, new shocks, and replaced the steel wheels with a set of Abarth Wheels I picked up on Craigslist. We made 2500 on the car
JR, you should add a Jeep Wrangler soft top to your Mopar Turo line-up. They are relatively inexpensive to purchase and they rent at a premium, especially in the summer months.
JR, you have the Fiat 500 listed as a manual transmission on Turo. You might want to change that to bring more people in. I hope you can see this! Good work!
I can see it now, Scotty Kilmer's next video title: "Here's why Turo with Stellantis vehicles is a bad idea" - then Scotty will tell you to get a fleet of 1994 Toyota Celicas and put them on Turo, of course.
I test drove a 500 in 2012 and it was a tin can. Possibly the worst new car I ever did a test drive with. I have a fiatmaster 2500 van though and I love it.
Years ago I moved back to Florida and ordered a custom plate for my Trans Am so they issued me a temp.tag that screwed into the bumper where the normal tag goes. I took a trip.acoss the everglades (Alligator Alley) to Fort Lauderdale and when I parked at my destination, I noticed the plate was gone. The screws were still there so the plate apparently tore at the screw holes and blew right off the car. I had to put a cardboard "lost plate" sign on there for the trip home LOL.
John, I love the background on the Photos for the Dodge Durango. I was a Semi-Pro Photographer (been taking photos since I was 13, I'm 68 now and I just take photos of my cats)!!!
Now that your fleet is growing, you should move your Turo operations over to building number two. That way you don’t have randos wandering around your shop.
I hope the turo fleet works out for ya! Make sure to get GPS units installed. I’ve watched horror stories about that. I heard their insurance is pretty good. I wanna start something like this on the side because once you build up a few cars, I’ve seen people make decent money!
*not sponsored by Turo in any way shape or form* so you do like 20 videos in a row buying cars for your rental fleet. i remember when you used to do fun things like fix Geo's. ::le sigh::
Correct, these are good (modern) cars I actually enjoy working on and they have value when they're finished. You know how how it is to sell a Geo Tracker you've got $5k in? It's impossible. 🍻
@@WatchJRGo no one told you to put 5k into a Geo Tracker lol. my over-all point is, these turo videos smell like they're being made by Turo themselves.
Where is the sun roof? I owned a Fiat 500 when I was stationed in Naples, Italy. It was a blast to drive. My wife left it outside of our rental instead of driving it to the garage under the building and it was stolen. We lived on the third floor with no elevator. Luckily we were young so it wasn't that much of a hassle. You had to pay someone to deliver you bottled gas using cartons of cigarettes otherwise they wouldn't deliver. Luckily neither my wife or I smoked so we used our rationed amount of cigarettes as extra cash. When in Rome do as the Romans do. Lesson learned.
You ought to buy a Beetle and Mini for Turo as well, you could have a retro rental fleet, might be popular. Also if the 500 is being used anywhere salty, the rear beams are prone to rusting so might be worth giving it a paint over.
Did you check the state of the spare tyre before dumping the brand new tyre; bet the spare was an original (old) tyre/ But Stay Safe, and keep on going, love the program. -
@@WatchJRGo That makes sense; and I noted further on in the recording that (I think) you retained the new tyre. Good, no sense in wasting a good tyre. Love the program, keep it up !!!!!!!!!!!!!
I have a 2013 abarth 5speed, and with the styling the abarth is so much better and idk if I would even want a regular 500 unless it was like a cheap beater or something with a 5speed
More Fiat content please. I bought my Abarth after your videos on it. Best decision I ever made. Everyone told me the typical “it’s an FCA product it will break right away” it has 133k trouble free miles. Tuned on the factory clutch lol.
What an ingenious setup! You'll have plenty of potential videos just on acquiring and maintaining the fleet cars, all while providing a steady flow of income for the shop. It's a win-win! The 500s are glorified go-karts, and I mean that as a compliment. A friend of mine has an Abarth, and that thing is super fun to toss around corners! It's also insanely quick when the turbo spools up. I mashed the pedal and next thing I knew I was 30 over the speed limit, hehe~
@@WatchJRGo Totally! I recall seeing your videos on that Abarth. Quite a shame they straight pipe'd it like that, otherwise it would be a super fun street car.
My wife has one of these, 2012/13 I think. Absolute trash cars imo. Unrefined in every way,uncomfortable,cheap ass hard touch plastics through out the car. Noisy beyond belief.road noise from the tires even after putting some decent new tires on it. The car only has around 75,000 miles on it but its still horrible. I hardly ever drive it,hell I don't even want to sit in the car its just a shit box if you ask me.
Lmaooo sounds like my wife with her shitty little '19 Nissan Kicks that she picked out. She gets pissed that I wont even wash that ugly turd for her lol.
You say cars need to be 2011 or newer to rent, but Turo allowed me to select my 2008 Toyota Tundra to use. And in Nashville I found a 2002 Honda Civic listed for like $29/day
If I could help Watch JR Goes get the Fiat 500 ready for Turo I would drink the shot of whiskey and the cold Bartle Skeets and puff on the Cannabis Cigars and get all schmoked up
These are common as muck over this side of the pond, do you get the Ford Ka Mk2 variant of the 500 in the US or the twin air 2 cylinder variant. My cousin has the early 1.2 litre 500 I think with the fiat fire engine which she bought new and remember it had a recall because it didn’t go up hills but apart from that it’s been reliable. Base high mileage early models of these can now can be had for a grand here and I’m tempted to get one as they make great town cars,
I own Fiat Grande Punto with 1.4 8v (Fire), it has : no power, low need for fuel, super short gearbox (doing 100km/h on 5th gear is like 2.5k rpm) aaand after 13 years - no rust (almost)
Hey JR your listing says it’s a manual, when it’s an automatic. Fix that to get more people. You know people don’t know how to drive a manual nowadays 💀
