Just felt like sharing my trip on one of the most horrible stretches of road in East Nigeria.
I had gone to Enugu earlier on Thursday (15/11) to sort out some personal stuff and also to get my windscreen changed. The windscreen change was a disaster (Details in Peugeot thread). On driving with the car stereo off, you can hear the distinct whooshing sound of air around the edges of the windscreen from inside the car. Will try and have it sorted out at a specialist workshop here in Uyo.
Anyways I left Enugu on Sunday (18/11) around 12 pm from the beginning of the Enugu-Port Harcourt Express way (after filling my tank at the NNPC Mega Station).
The early stages of the journey were relatively smooth… I could at times get up to 120km/hr. and the journey was relatively ok up to the Lokpanta Nta Cattle Market…
The rest is best described by the pix….
Still a lot of old school vehicles on the roads… Volvo 240, Peugeot 404 pickups, 504s, 505s, W124s etc.
Apart from the very common scraping of my undercarriage on the horrible road surfaces, my 307 Pug drove like a dream… with my AL4 tranny shifting perfectly and seamlessly… Performance has improved drastically since I had my ABS sensors changed… And I was Chilling AC all through…
Got home like 5.30 pm… so that was five and half hours for a 250km Journey… We really have a long way to go o…
I love my lion to pieces…. But am beginning to think I need a second car… preferably an SUV otherwise my Peugeot would age prematurely if contionuosly used on that road… Any thoughts/opinions on the Jeep Liberty or the 2003 Nissan Pathfinder…?
…tdie

Journey Start...
Full Tank...
Bon Jovi on my stereo...
Leggo...

Four Corner junction Agbani...

Good going... Behold my travel companions...
Also got some New Nigerian Hip Hop Albums... I particularly like Flavours new Album...

I never exceed 120km/hr.. no matter the provocation from other drivers... behold a Merc 190E dusting me...
Make them wait until I get my V6 Peugeot 406 Phase 2

Taste of things ahead...

Cattle market ahead... The horrible roads start...

Natural Cobblestone like roads... Grrrrrr...!

One side of the express is not motorable at all... thus we all share my lane... Sharp reflexes needed or you might end up in a head-on collision

Okigwe junction... Going straight ahead would have been the shortest option... unfortunately it is absolutely unmotorable...
So i had to detour... which is like twice as far...

Detour off Okigwe junction...
Note the w124 approaching...

About one and half hours later...

Volvo 240 abi 244 still waxing strong...

My Car's Grandfather... the 504 Pug... Such cars are sadly not made anymore...

y'ello Abia...
You go fear Gods own State... not with the current Governor

Umuahia Towers... This is the place i should have ended up at least 1 hour earlier if i did not have to detour at Okigwe junction...
Note the VW Passat/santana in front, and the VW Golf MK2 on my left...

My Cars Great Uncle...

Umuahia town... getting into Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road...

University of Agriculture... Along Umuahia-Ikot Ekpene Road...

Shitty Ikot Ekpene-Umuahia Road... More horror ahead....

My Cars Ancestor.... Lol
Pug 404 Pick up... wonder where the spare parts are sourced from...

Meet the extended family...

Common sight on Nigerian Roads... Untethered Containers on a Truck.... will tip over at the slightest provocation

Horror... My poor car...
and thats actually a highway...

Another one bites the dust...

Am seriously envying the dude in the pathfinder

lonely stretch...

My Poor Ball Joints and struts...

Ikot Ekpene...

Finally... Good roads once more...

Yello Uyo... Akwa Ibom Ayaya... Uncommon transformation...