ogunvic41:


How many buyers can pay for a clean title, low mileage non accident car? For instance Toyota Camry 1997/1998/1999 aka tiny light for 1.3M, Toyota Camry 2000/2001 aka droplight/envelope for 1.5m, Toyota Corolla 2003/4/5 for 2M, Toyota Camry 2007/8 aka muscle for 3.2M etc
MOST NIGERIAN CAR BUYERS WANT GOOD CARS BUT THEY ARENT READY TO PAY GOOD MONEY. QUALITY PRODUCTS ARE NOT CHEAP
THEY WANT NON ACCIDENT LOW MILEAGE FIRST BODY AT CHEAPER RATE LOLS. DEALERS WILL CONTINUE TO SELL ACCIDENT CARS

ibuola96:
bro wat state is lugbe in

harmbhrosz:
AutoJoshNG

What's the average mileag for foreign used car that you would wanna recommend?

maxtop:
This is a very important post. I almost fell for the antics until I got my money back with 'agidi'. The said car was sold 2 years before to a man in Ondo State and was brought to Lagos State. A friend of mine told me not to buy the car but I went ahead to pay half of the money behind him until he saw it and showed me all the patches and works done to it. Anyway, I have learnt my lesson from that day..

OP ...how can I find out the VIN on my own. Does it required any registration with auto sites. Need an insight into this. Once bitten twice shy my brother.

berniceunice:

can u pls explain as shown in the picture /diagram above what each alphabet and numbers represent .....so that we can know how to spend decode the VIN

reel14:
pls,how do we check check it? thanks

teemy:
AutoJoshNG, where can one do a vin check?

Babateemd:


hese same reasons compelled me to start importing a[b]ll my client’s cars from the USA and Canada[b] in 2011, it has been cheaper and less stressful as the entire process from purchase to delivery is usually done from the comfort of my home. please how do you do that. ? you mean you dont do physical inspection?? thanks for your article.

slimikenna:
This question has been asked three times already without an answer. Please where can I check my car's history with the VIN online? I have tried without success on Google.

ibknaanii:
op 9c info, can u help me with a site to check the details of my VIN car for free. Saw a site like that but it will need me to cough off $10.

AutoJoshNG:


You may not need to do a physical inspection when you know the exact things to look out for. When in doubt, you can employ the service of a professional vehicle inspector for 90 dollars although I have used this service only once because of the year and cost of the car to be purchased.

M17CXi:



Vehicle identification number

AutoJoshNG:
The benefit of doing a VIN check in Nigeria before you purchase a car can never be overestimated. It will help save your hard earned money and most importantly your time amongst others. I have always known that some of us would do anything to sell our cars. However, the extent of this malicious act has grown from unreasonable to unfathomable.

You won’t believe what my eyes have seen as I am currently trying to get a 2007-2010 Camry for a client. The issues vary from flooded cars, rolled back mileage and extreme accidents to jalopy cars that look picture-perfect online. The car that drove me to the brink was a 2009 tokunbo Camry on OLX for N2m which looked good enough coupled with the usual hype from the seller.

Nevertheless, something seemed amiss because the price was too good. As usual, I requested for the car’s VIN to determine its history before going for a physical inspection. The disastrous history report revealed it was sold as scrap/destroyed car in USA and shipped to Nigeria 4 years ago, but the seller misrepresented this car to be a clean tokunbo, despite the fact that it has been registered and used in Nigeria for 3 years.

These same reasons compelled me to start importing all my client’s cars from the USA and Canada in 2011, it has been cheaper and less stressful as the entire process from purchase to delivery is usually done from the comfort of my home. Fast forward to 2016, looking inward has become inevitable due to the sky-high dollar exchange rate. Therefore, clients with constrained budget have to settle for tokunbo cars while some prefer the Nigerian used cars.

Finally, when a deal seems too good to be true, then you need to be more careful e.g when the price is too fanimorous, the low mileage is not commensurate to the age of the car (e.g a 2001 model regular car will hardly have a mileage of 75,000 miles), when the seller wants you to take the car after paying 60% deposit while the balance will be spread over 3-6 months (in this case, the car is probably a Nigeria used car presented as tokunbo and it’s not worth more than your initial deposit so the balance you’ll be paying is extra profit to the seller) etc.

Let’s all make Nigeria great again.

http://autojosh.com/1-step-you-must-never-skip-before-you-buy-any-car-in-nigeria/

InvertedHammer:

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VIN number is only as good as what was reported to insurance companies or DMV. But it is better than nothing in some cases. Also you need to know that the term "salvage" as used by insurance companies is a mere technical jargon.

I rely on 2 things: OBD II scanner and my eyes.


OBD II for internal problems. Eyes for external issues (if you know exactly what to look for). In Nigeria, some people take their mechanics. Sorry to say, a lot of mechanics do not even know how to inspect a vehicle

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kgr8mike:


How will it tell the history of the vehicle?

berniceunice:
can u pls explain as shown in the picture /diagram above what each alphabet and numbers represent .....so that we can know how to spend decode the VIN

gohzieh:
AutoJoshNG nice one. Anyway a good car is a good car regardless of the 'name the whites' tag it.
I deal on cars and the first day I tried to verify a flooded or accident free vehicle, it cost me about 7 dollars which is not cheap comparing exchange rates. When buying a car, there are some major stuffs you look out for especially body and chassis wise. Others are secondary.
Bros I bought a Camry 2011 XLE 3m at 2013 When the dealer checked the vin, oyibo say Na faulty airbag. But it was branded as scrap.
I had to call 4 mechanics to check for accidents but none but till now my client is still flexing his car. In other words a good car is a good car

Babateemd:


Thanks. Which auction sites do you use and have best experience with? Do you ship to Lagos directly or through Cotonou?

kgr8mike:


How will it tell the history of the vehicle?

AutoJoshNG:
The benefit of doing a VIN check in Nigeria before you purchase a car can never be overestimated. It will help save your hard earned money and most importantly your time amongst others. I have always known that some of us would do anything to sell our cars. However, the extent of this malicious act has grown from unreasonable to unfathomable.

You won’t believe what my eyes have seen as I am currently trying to get a 2007-2010 Camry for a client. The issues vary from flooded cars, rolled back mileage and extreme accidents to jalopy cars that look picture-perfect online. The car that drove me to the brink was a 2009 tokunbo Camry on OLX for N2m which looked good enough coupled with the usual hype from the seller.

Nevertheless, something seemed amiss because the price was too good. As usual, I requested for the car’s VIN to determine its history before going for a physical inspection. The disastrous history report revealed it was sold as scrap/destroyed car in USA and shipped to Nigeria 4 years ago, but the seller misrepresented this car to be a clean tokunbo, despite the fact that it has been registered and used in Nigeria for 3 years.

These same reasons compelled me to start importing all my client’s cars from the USA and Canada in 2011, it has been cheaper and less stressful as the entire process from purchase to delivery is usually done from the comfort of my home. Fast forward to 2016, looking inward has become inevitable due to the sky-high dollar exchange rate. Therefore, clients with constrained budget have to settle for tokunbo cars while some prefer the Nigerian used cars.

Finally, when a deal seems too good to be true, then you need to be more careful e.g when the price is too fanimorous, the low mileage is not commensurate to the age of the car (e.g a 2001 model regular car will hardly have a mileage of 75,000 miles), when the seller wants you to take the car after paying 60% deposit while the balance will be spread over 3-6 months (in this case, the car is probably a Nigeria used car presented as tokunbo and it’s not worth more than your initial deposit so the balance you’ll be paying is extra profit to the seller) etc.

Let’s all make Nigeria great again.

http://autojosh.com/1-step-you-must-never-skip-before-you-buy-any-car-in-nigeria/

savio07:


Hello AutojoshNg, please how can I run a VIN check on a car. Procedures pls.

AutoJoshNG:


I can run a free check for you. You can drop your VIN and email address here or on my website. The other option is to sign up to carfax or autocheck at a premium.

NwaNimo1:
VIN numbers can be cloned/changed......Best going for an Innoson vehicle.