Mr hoodboy, all this explanations won't take you no where, trying to push faults or blame won't fix your car. Sometimes, its better to plead especially when you have a lot at stake and the other person have nothing to lose.


You're matured enough to know what I mean and what you ought to do. Or should I who have given you a mat to lie upon also teach you how to lie on it with your wife (an adage I just spoke)?

lomomike:
Mr hoodboy, all this explanations won't take you no where, trying to push faults or blame won't fix your car. Sometimes, its better to plead especially when you have a lot at stake and the other person have nothing to lose.


You're matured enough to know what I mean and what you ought to do. Or should I who have given you a mat to lie upon also teach you how to lie on it with your wife (an adage I just spoke)?

Plead? really, gazzuzz owes me an apology, whether or not he tenders it is his business. If He feels he did nothing wrong, no problem. I felt aggrieved, and I have voiced my grievance. I had a bad experience, and there is absolutely nothing wrong in sharing it

abatically:


Bros, name a professional that allows his clients to go with him to get materials. Lets say u are having a wedding and give a contract to a wedding planner, do u also go with him/her to get materials? u can as well do the decoration and planning urself. When u are upcoming u accept every shyte because u are looking for clients, but once u become a professional, then u have to be professional in the way u deal with clients.

I'm sure you'd play a big decision making role in procuring the Cake, there are some key things that would require your involvement

hoodboy:
I'm sure you'd play a big decision making role in procuring the Cake, there are some key things that would require your involvement

P.S I was to get a replacement Engine, not just "parts"

lomomike:
Mr disloman, what anyone does for a living isn't your business you're not a police or any law enforcement agent. Unless you're interested in giving her a job (in the unlikely event she's jobless).


@ Mrs coldplay007, ignore the question asked by disloman.

Sorry Mike,How old r u?

hoodboy:


I never said I didn't trust him, at no point was mistrust an issue, well not until he bluntly said he didn't work that way, at which point I was open to his method but the way he just shut me off completely is my grouse. Telling me to go buy the engine myself, what do I know about buying engines. If he refused to put into consideration the distance I was coming from, He should have also considered that I had also patronised him on Sunday. Granted he told me he was under the weather, which I also mentioned, but that still doesn't excuse the way he treated me.


I know it is not by force, but when you have already agreed to do something, I think it's morally binding on you to see it through, especially if the other party is open to compromise when disagreements arise.

Eyaa u clearly can't do without dis gazzuz frm d way u keep talkin n lamenting. y nt go n lie down and beg him to help u out bc obviously u can see gazzuz has moved on n nt looking back y u haven't

I dnt honestly tink u did anytin wrong except dt u need his services more than he needs ur money frm d way u r indirectly seeking reconciliation with him n ur constant lamentation on this thread.

Hire another mechanic or go n lie down n beg gazzuz to help fix ur car. If he forgives n accepts then never say a word again until d job is completed jst go dumb to save us anoda drama

disloman:
Sorry Mike,How old r u?

You! My friend! Need to grow up...

ogawisdom:

Eyaa u clearly can't do without dis gazzuz frm d way u keep talkin n lamenting. y nt go n lie down and beg him to help u out bc obviously u can see gazzuz has moved on n nt looking back y u haven't
I dnt honestly tink u did anytin wrong except dt u need his services more than he needs ur money frm d way u r indirectly seeking reconciliation with him n ur constant lamentation on this thread.

I think I agree with Ogawisdom, I believe you should call Gazzuzz..
You will definitely be better off than giving your car to a Kazeem..

disloman:
Sorry Mike,How old r u?

meaning?

Just coming across this story, well rather too late tgan never. Many of the car owner wanna be DIY Thereby causing themselves arm than good. Buy trying to know the cost of part in the market and comparing with the prife u give them. From experience, as a tecnician. The Kazeem kinf of technicians always have a luxury of time following the owner to the market in getting parts and at the end coniving with the seller by inflating the price and persuade the owner to buy and collecting his ( kazeem) own share unknown to the owner. Some time the owner is lucky to get a good part and if it turns the other way Kazeem will let u know u both were involved so dont blame him.
Somtimes, too know makes some car owner to fall in a wrong hand, and not bother to make enquiries about the integrity of the technician that u want to work on you car.Many car owners are always in an awry and want things done once they drop money and they dont also want to care about the job you have at hand at that moment, so they put the technician in a rush.

op,u need to pay more attention to ur ride...ur mecho is milking u dry

@bros

i sincerely wish u cld ff gazzuzz to buy ur engine.after u myt av tagged along in d sun,almost get hit by truck pushers,av mud splashed on ur ironed cloth,destroyed ur leather shoes after stepping into different colors of muck,u alone will decide not to undertake such journey anymore

its not convenient,not enjoyable,can be very annoying,very very frustrating etc(for lack of adjective to use)

sometimes it takes a whole day just to buy one engine....no be shoprite wey goods dey ontop shelf....by the time u enter warehouse.........

concentrate on d driving first,i swear,every other thing will be added unto u

Coldplay007:


You! My friend! Need to grow up...

I think I agree with Ogawisdom, I believe you should call Gazzuzz..
You will definitely be better off than giving your car to a Kazeem..

Took the vehicle to Ayolola motors today, They specialise on Volkswagen and Toyota, and I like what I saw in their workshop. Did a search on NL and and found their address listed by someone who had previously used them, since they were in surulere I paid them a visit and now my car is there. I hope they get it right.

Now the thing is even when I took to Gazzuzz, he didn't even test drive the car with me, and when I suggested that he came over to pick it up so at least he can see how it drives he said he couldn't. These things help to build confidence, and perhaps is what made me want to be very much involved in the repair process. Knowing fully well that I'd be leaving with it to Port-harcourt and would not have the luxury of stopping by at his workshop if issues arise.

So fingers crossed, eventually everything is going to be alright. My issue with him was his attitude, I didn't say he should compromise his "standards", it is not like I was foretold, so I wasn't in anyway wrong to assume that I'll be part of the procurement process, not because I had it in mind to haggle price, as the price he gave me was quite competitive and I was comfortable with it.

Yes I know he's quite influential in this section as he is quite active and offers solutions to people's problems which is what even made me call him in the first instance, but If you understand the distance driven, you would know that him not giving me a listening ear was quite wrong. I still wait for him to say if I spoke to him in a rude manner or not, as some people are suggesting that might have been what happened. Will take it that he was probably on his "period"(no offence) but everyone has got issues so we have to learn to live and let live.

I just could not resist commenting after going through this thread because i've had a similar experience but a different outcome.

I can recall that years ago when I got my first car I needed to have the compressor changed.
So I got to the expert following a recommendation from a friend.
The mechanic checked it out and confirmed I needed a new compressor and told me the amount.
I replied that it was ok by me and asked him to tell me when it was convenient for us to go pick it up.

He gave me a funny look and told me he doesn't work that way and he would simply make a call and it will be delivered if not I was free to go buy it myself but he will not give any guarantees.
I simply played along with him and he did a very good job at the end.

Looking back now I do not bother to accompany any mechanic to get any car part. It is absolutely unnecessary, all you need to do is have an idea of the price and get someone trustworthy as a mechanic that will deliver good service.

I think hoodboy may have been a victim of transferred aggression. From the good reports on Gazzuz his honesty and competence seem not to be in doubt.

He may have been in a bad mood or you struck a wrong cord inadvertently. It happens and both of you should just move on peacefully.

@hoodboy, even without seeking to hear gazzuzz own side of the story, am certain u have not told us all that transpired b/w u both.

gazzuzz I know that is so compassionate that he can travel quite a distance to rescue a distressed vehicle and relieve the owner's pain and most often without a fee CANNOT ask u to take your vehicle back home merely becoz u requested to accompany him to the market for the purchase.

I would also want to know what you meant by calling him 'petty'

U'd better not delay apologizing to him because u will certainly need him soon.

CMGO:
@hoodboy, even without seeking to hear gazzuzz own side of the story, am certain u have not told us all that transpired b/w u both.

gazzuzz I know that is so compassionate that he can travel quite a distance to rescue a distressed vehicle and relieve the owner's pain and most often without a fee CANNOT ask u to take your vehicle back home merely becoz u requested to accompany him to the market for the purchase.

I would also want to know what you meant by calling him 'petty'

U'd better not delay apologizing to him because u will certainly need him soon.

@CMGO why not ask him what happened, rather than assume, me I've moved on. As for needing help, last I checked no one is indispensable.

I wonder what else I'd have called his behaviour if not petty. I drive all that distant after we had agreed that you'd fix my vehicle, I had even asked him on Sunday when we first met if they were going to deliver the engine to his place, and he said he'd prefers to go select, then I get there on Tuesday to drop off the vehicle for him to drop down the Engine as he had said so we can get a new one the next day, only for me to be told to drop money for engine which I didn't come with as I had assumed it was the next day it was to be gotten, and the place it would be gotten from is near my location and Inhad thought I'd follow him. Immediately I mentioned this he just got upset and asked me to leave with my vehicle, even when I tried to reason with him and reach a compromise, he wouldn't speak with me. It was at this point I reminded him of the distance and stress to which he replied he didn't care, at that point I called him petty, and I was clearly not out of place.

He owes me an apology, whether he does or not changes nothing, but he owes me one.

robedu:
I drive toyota avensis 2007.

And my mechanic is making life a living hell for me, when the car has issue, most times i cannot be repaired once, he will repair the first, bring it and the same thing will happen and he will do it again, sometimes it takes up to 3 to 4 times to get one issue resolved.

The one that happen now is so annoying, last week the car accelerator at some point will not move fast even if you press with all your power and finally it will stop. and then i will start it again.

My Mechanic came to pick it up, fix it and bring it for me on Sunday and on Monday the same thing happen.

Will i ever be able to get a good mechanic to help me out on a low budget. i am so tired, im even crying

My Brother, if you want low budget and peace of mind, just understand your car and DIY on it the industry standard way-many does it this way the world all over. It doesn't condescend your personality, else drop your car with qualified service centre and go to sleep, if you are the BIG BOSS type(money shouldn't be an issue here).

Service centres though expensive, will put the car overall mechanism back in good working shape. I DIY my 3 Benz's, keep them functional at maximum factory health all year round at almost no cost, contrary to the opinion of some who claims that these cars are unreliable-tho i'm surprise to hear a toyota behaves this way-i tought they way the most reliable brandm as polished here always...

DuchessLily:
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Gazzuzz petty?? I don't believe u bro .
U must have said or done something really annoying to Gazzuzz..

Hope u haven't missed ur chance with him, cos in Lagos u can't get an auto mechanic as experienced and honest As Gazzuzz

Exactly why I said his story was a fraction.

Everyone is speakg in favor of gazzuzz yet no one has condemned his attitude. That u a solution provider does nt make u treat people wit such indignation.

Coldplay007:

OP is a clown..
You are busy forming chairman and asking mechanic to come and pick your car to repair for you...
So why are you crying? No be u dey form dangote?
You just start! That mechanic has opened a shop in your pocket

My rule is never to leave my car with a mechanic alone... I must be there while you are touching my car..

Are u in Lagos? If Yes call Gazzuzz..
Are U in UK? If yes, call Siena

lol

robedu:
I drive toyota avensis 2007.

And my mechanic is making life a living hell for me, when the car has issue, most times i cannot be repaired once, he will repair the first, bring it and the same thing will happen and he will do it again, sometimes it takes up to 3 to 4 times to get one issue resolved.

The one that happen now is so annoying, last week the car accelerator at some point will not move fast even if you press with all your power and finally it will stop. and then i will start it again.

My Mechanic came to pick it up, fix it and bring it for me on Sunday and on Monday the same thing happen.

Will i ever be able to get a good mechanic to help me out on a low budget. i am so tired, im even crying

Oga, I just threatened to arrest my Range Rover mechanic yesterday if he fails to fix the problem this time after spending like 700k in the last one month fixing gear only!

I have had too many bad experiences with these artisans.

Does he repair the car for free and you pay him later ? If Yes, then you are dealing with a trainee mechanic here. Rule number 1: Do not make friends with a mechanic.

"Kazeem" and ur villa people at work !! Go get a better mechanic who handles all work taking standard procedures

Avensis is a hopeless car, anything beyond 100,000 kms it burns the top cylinder, dont ever race an Avensis, drive it slugisshly. Sell it and buy another car after good research. You must change the top if you havent done that already

Jarus:


Oga, I just threatened to arrest my Range Rover mechanic yesterday if he fails to fix the problem this time after spending like 700k in the last one month fixing gear only!

I have had too many bad experiences with these artisans.

How can you give Range Rover to artisan, na wa for you oh. I use Coscharis for your some months then I had to lobby a mechanic from the outlet to always come service mine independently at my home. Stay away from these road side mechanics.

pack the car.sell the car and trustGOD for a brand new car.

Are you in any blood covenant with that mechanic?

Some of you dont have cars buh your giving advice... der is God sha.... it is well!!!

Your mechanic is using your car for trial and error. Join a Toyota forum where you can share your problem and get advice on how to solve it as some of this problems can be fixed by owners if only we have the time, right tools and do a bit of research. Il advise change mechanic of you no get time and don't pay him for one issue 4 times else you become a maga

Take him out of ur steering wheel if he's driving u crazy

if u don go borrow ur frnd car spoil am..abeg go find solution for baba haus...we re nt into dat here