dan_dollar:

Even if they sell their cars at exhobitant prices,how do I even know I am buying a good car and not an accidented or salvage car,if for example,I want to walk into a car lot in lagos to pick a car?
I want to get a car soon,probably frm a car lot in lag,but scared,because I don't want to make the mistake of getting someting that would give me problems or allow my money go down the drain ,being that this would be my first car.how do I go about it?

baby-boy:
I dont know how much a 2006 Peugeot 407 cost in Nigeria but I have a friend who bought a one for £2100 (RHD) we drove it from Newcastle to Tilbury and they shipped for £440 to Nigeria

The agent he used charged him N300,000 and the car was delivered to his door in Ipaja!!! then paid N180000 to change the steering over to LHD,

So we are looking at around N1.2m


Now going by that process, last year I man wanted to sell me a 2000 Peugeot 406 for £1m,

This is a car that I could get in England for around £500 (cheaper if it has failed an MOT or even Cheaper at a car Auction) around £500 to Ship and around £1k to clear,

May be N200k change the steering over!!! to the Left and they are now changing them over to the LHD over here in England.

payless: For the record, I just got a call from Nigeria where someone asked for 2004 Toyota Highlander. The man was telling me it is sold for 1.4 million naira in Lagos. In a situation like this, what is the best way to respond to this type of people? I already told the man that no way in hell they sell for that price in whole of USA. I think he was trying to say if the car is sold for around 1.4 million naira in Lagos, then, it should be less than that amount if I helped him out buy one from U.S.

I am a professional blaa blaaa with my office in North Carolina. It is just a passion for me buying cars to sell in Nigeria. I am addicted to going to evening auction just to buy cars. I can't do without checking out cars, but I take offence to people unrealistically throwing price of cars around like it is a pack of sugar or piece of meat.

unipol: the clearing is 190 000 and above but still the poster has a point because in neigbouring countries cars are far more cheaper than in nigeria. i friend of mine went to senegal to buy car at rate of 1000 dallars and use another 1000 to bring it to nigeria. what is the problem with nigeria. why should our govt add such huge amount of money in clearing.