989900:


It burnt my infiniti's engine too (exactly, "Before I could cough the mechanic had yanked off the thermostat. ". And he was damn so convinced.

I was so livid, 'cause the SUV was gulf specs! If the thermostat wasn't yanked off in Dubai, I wondered why he will have to go do something that st00.pid

The engine 'fried' while a dumb friend of mine was taking it to Sagamu.

I had to replace the engine entirely, after first being wrongly advised it could be repaired (wasted 70k on that). Then had to go buy a replacement at Ladipo.

Learnt the hard way . . . 10 years on, it still hurts.

10 years on? Eeya, Pele. Must have hurt real bad.

proxillin:


wHAT happens to new cars over-heating? Leaner!

WHere have you ever seen a BRand New Car Over Heat ?

Learnee.

ElFenomeno1:


Dumb!

You are dumber.

Only a faulty car over heat.

In the case of themostat. A simple removal does.

dammytosh:


You are dumber.

Only a faulty car over heat.

In the case of themostat. A simple removal does.

No. Not necessarily, you dimwit.

Dingbat

ElFenomeno1:


No. Not necessarily, you dimwit.

Dingbat

@Abatically just answered your wrong assertion.

Keep removing thermostat. Get a good car okay and don't get mad at me for driving a car i never had to remove the thermostat.

abatically:


Wrong.

A car with thermostat removed and fan running steadily but with a bad water pump will still overheat. A car with bad radiator cap will overheat even with quadruple cell radiator and quadruple fans spinning non stop.

Mess with your cooling system at your own risk. Nigerians that know better than the white man himself. Siena kindly set him straight.

dammytosh:


WHere have you ever seen a BRand New Car Over Heat ?

Learnee.

I have seen a 2 years old brand new car over heat. i.e. A car bought as tear rubber, but over heated after 2 years.

I have seen 3 year old over heating...

Yes Brand new cars over heat but not in the first year (Maybe)

no all tokunbo cars overheat, you must identify the cause of overheating, cos the world tropicalized in misleading.

sunshine's on most parts of the world, whether u live in an area that has 4 seasons or 2 seasons.

I think cars that over heat have a fundamental defect which should be investigated, its wrong to just conclude that tropicalization is the cause of overheating in car.

How Car Cooling System Works


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7inC4lOpGs

Engine Overheating? - 9 Steps to Solve

1 - Clean Coolant?
2 - Radiator Debris?
3 - Leaks?
4 - Air Burp?
5 - Lower Radiator Hose Spring?
6 - Electric Fan?
7 - Thermostat?
8 - Water Pump?
9 - Fan Clutch?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrBI1hRTgx4

dammytosh:


@Abatically just answered your wrong assertion.

Keep removing thermostat. Get a good car okay and don't get mad at me for driving a car i never had to remove the thermostat.

Of course I saw that you drongo!

The genesis of this is that you claimed it happened because a good tokunboh car was not purchased. Maybe you can shed more light on what you mean by good tokunboh car.
Plus don't lie... you don't have a bloody car!

femi4:
Seems you don't understand the slang "You are Kazeem"

He is the only sensible person on this thread, others are arguing blindly just to boost their ego.

proxillin:


I have seen a 2 years old brand new car over heat. i.e. A car bought as tear rubber, but over heated after 2 years.

I have seen 3 year old over heating...

Yes Brand new cars over heat but not in the first year (Maybe)

Thank you.

After two years, a brand new car is no longer brand new and what it simply means is that it is faulty for it to over heat and trust me, i can't remember seeing any of such cars over heat in recent times..

No matter how you look at it , Over heating is a sign showing that there is a problem with the car. (Fan, Radiator etc)

proxillin:


I have seen a 2 years old brand new car over heat. i.e. A car bought as tear rubber, but over heated after 2 years.

I have seen 3 year old over heating...

Yes Brand new cars over heat but not in the first year (Maybe)

A lot can happen to a car withing 1 day of purchase. 2 years is a long time. In fact if u buy a brand new car, take it to ur home and the next day u open the hood ro check ur radiator, then forgot to tighten the cover, and drove off. Tell me won't it overheat? So then is it possible for a day old brand new car to overheat? The answer is YES.

Lomomike and Abatically una just dey call this guy kazeem upon say the dude dey right (aside the removal of thermostat advice), tropicalization is a global thing.
For those of you saying Dubai is tropic, our weather patterns are different, as are our climates. The level of economic development also differs: you cannot compare Dubai’s infrastructure to ours. As such, their roads are different, as is the type of fuel they are
supplied with by oil giants like Shell and BP. This
means their cars are built to certain
specifications: their engines are built to operate
within certain atmospheric conditions, while
burning certain types of fuel, their suspensions
have been set up to withstand certain road
conditions, and yes, even the paint has been
applied with a certain intensity of sunlight in
mind.
I'm not in support of removing thermostat , manufacturers build suspension and cooling system with climatic condition of the region in mind.
Adjusting a first-world car’s setup to handle third world conditions like what we have in Nigeria is called tropicalization, and it usually making certain changes to enable the car adjust to its new environment.
Tonychristopher was right though failed to explain in details the procedures and processes of tropicalizing a car.

Femi4 you have unfinished home work

chucky234:
Lomomike and Abatically una just dey call this guy kazeem upon say the dude dey right (aside the removal of thermostat advice), tropicalization is a global thing.
For those of you saying Dubai is tropic, our weather patterns are different, as are our climates. The level of economic development also differs: you cannot compare Dubai’s infrastructure to ours. As such, their roads are different, as is the type of fuel they are
supplied with by oil giants like Shell and BP. This
means their cars are built to certain
specifications: their engines are built to operate
within certain atmospheric conditions, while
burning certain types of fuel, their suspensions
have been set up to withstand certain road
conditions, and yes, even the paint has been
applied with a certain intensity of sunlight in
mind.
I'm not in support of removing thermostat , manufacturers build suspension and cooling system with climatic condition of the region in mind.
Adjusting a first-world car’s setup to handle third world conditions like what we have in Nigeria is called tropicalization, and it usually making certain changes to enable the car adjust to its new environment.
Tonychristopher was right though failed to explain in details the procedures and processes of tropicalizing a car.

My brother how can I explain to people that refused to think out of box ..how can I explain to self acclaim guru of auto yet they have not designed a common 4 stroke engine ..how can I explain to people that have refused to understand adaptable conditions. How can i. explain to people that refused to believe that there are local ways to solve local issues

In my place we call them
Eze onye agwana m.

Tropicalization is just common sensical yet common sense ain't common afterall

chucky234:
Lomomike and Abatically una just dey call this guy kazeem upon say the dude dey right (aside the removal of thermostat advice), tropicalization is a global thing.
For those of you saying Dubai is tropic, our weather patterns are different, as are our climates. The level of economic development also differs: you cannot compare Dubai’s infrastructure to ours. As such, their roads are different, as is the type of fuel they are
supplied with by oil giants like Shell and BP. This
means their cars are built to certain
specifications: their engines are built to operate
within certain atmospheric conditions, while
burning certain types of fuel, their suspensions
have been set up to withstand certain road
conditions, and yes, even the paint has been
applied with a certain intensity of sunlight in
mind.
I'm not in support of removing thermostat , manufacturers build suspension and cooling system with climatic condition of the region in mind.
Adjusting a first-world car’s setup to handle third world conditions like what we have in Nigeria is called tropicalization, and it usually making certain changes to enable the car adjust to its new environment.
Tonychristopher was right though failed to explain in details the procedures and processes of tropicalizing a car.

Chucky234, there's a lot of reasons why I won't reply you on this topic. So you're being quiet or commenting is not noticed by me!

If a so called 'tropicalized' carina ii liftback could bring me so much headache and ache when I owned it, and a manufacturers spec maintained temperate weather Infiniti QX4, RX330 and Highlander could bring me so much joy and pleasant surprises, there's no amount of preaching and advert on 'tropicalization' that would change my mind. Team

#NO MORE KAZEEMIZATION

lomomike:


Chucky234, there's a lot of reasons why I won't reply you on this topic. So you're being quiet or commenting is not noticed by me!

hmmm

lomomike:
If a so called 'tropicalized' carina ii liftback could bring me so much headache and ache when I owned it, and a manufacturers spec maintained temperate weather Infiniti QX4, RX330 and Highlander could bring me so much joy and pleasant surprises, there's no amount of preaching and advert on 'tropicalization' that would change my mind. Team

#NO MORE KAZEEMIZATION

I have been following this thread from the onset but didn't want to comment but post like this one made me to post my comment and mentioned you in it, you still don't get what the dude is/was trying to say.

I wonder how the so called guru will say new cars don't OVERHEAT ....my friend bought a brand new Ford ecscort suv that one that looks like rav4 it overheated like crazy the car was ameriacn spec..he had to order new engine

He bought the car at elizade motors Maryland


So ..this is a man with almost 35 yrs driving experience

Chucky234, lemme believe your account has bin hacked, diz could have not come out from you.

I just pity those you are misleading, lomomike enjoy your cars jawe..... m enjoying my pencil and muscle without *tropicalization*.
d pencil is 5yrs counting, d paint is intact just bumper bruises from okada n Micra... aside DAT nothing, recommended tyre size, oil everything, I bought it from UK 95k miles.... now on 230k miles, so tell me more.
d muscle is still recent, but its also serving.

Readonee35L:

The sun no be Joke...

My pilot gives me 18mpg...
Infact i gt more mpg in accra Than lagos
I dont know why....

If urs is a 2.0l engine as u say u shud get at least 24-25
...
But i dont believe Default mpg figures its actually different in real life

They are almost always different in real life but then the grade of petrol sold in Ghana is higher than that in Nigeria, for some reason.

hmmm...to think you get roughly the same mpg in your Pilot i get in my Focus? I'd be better off with a larger, non-tropicalized vehicle!

lomomike:
If a so called 'tropicalized' carina ii liftback could bring me so much headache and ache when I owned it, and a manufacturers spec maintained temperate weather Infiniti QX4, RX330 and Highlander could bring me so much joy and pleasant surprises, there's no amount of preaching and advert on 'tropicalization' that would change my mind. Team

#NO MORE KAZEEMIZATION

Correkt guy

DGD1:
Chucky234, lemme believe your account has bin hacked, diz could have not come out from you.

I just pity those you are misleading, lomomike enjoy your cars jawe..... m enjoying my pencil and muscle without *tropicalization*.
d pencil is 5yrs counting, d paint is intact just bumper bruises from okada n Micra... aside DAT nothing, recommended tyre size, oil everything, I bought it from UK 95k miles.... now on 230k miles, so tell me more.
d muscle is still recent, but its also serving.

LMAO
biko I didn't recommend that you or Lomomike tropicalize your car ooooo.
I only said the dude was right, people were casting him as if the word do not exist in automotive world.

[color=#770077][/color] The weather is not thesame.

lomomike:
If a so called 'tropicalized' carina ii liftback could bring me so much headache and ache when I owned it, and a manufacturers spec maintained temperate weather Infiniti QX4, RX330 and Highlander could bring me so much joy and pleasant surprises, there's no amount of preaching and advert on 'tropicalization' that would change my mind. Team

#NO MORE KAZEEMIZATION

lol

Since they said we in the tropics should tropicalize our cars those in the Antarctic should antarcticalise their cars too.

Since we in hotter climates according to tonychristopher should remove our thermostat cos our country is hot those in the very cold region should add more thermostats to their cars to heat it up.

^^^ you can do it first, when you're done, give your report here. Lead by example

Specialist900:
lol

Since they said we in the tropics should tropicalize our cars those in the Antarctic should antarcticalise their cars too.

Since we in hotter climates according to tonychristopher should remove our thermostat cos our country is hot those in the very cold region should add more thermostats to their cars to heat it up.

this cracked me up big time. Chuky234, like i said in my earlier post, that word was applicable probably in the 70s. I am not against changing tire sizes or some other modifications to suit what purpose a car was purchased for without risking an accident, however I am against the removal of thermostat and direct connection of the cooling fan. I don't know of any car made after the 90's that needs that level of abuse. The dude that has been driving for 35 years might not even know his tire size not to talk of how many cylinders his engine has got. If you give a brand new car to an idiot, he will still find a way to wreck it. My cousin caused an overheat on her tokunbo lexus rx300 just two days after she bought it. She failed to close the radiator cap properly. She called me to say the dealer sold her a bad car. When i inspected her car, i showed her her error and she has since learnt her lesson.

Specialist900:
lol

Since they said we in the tropics should tropicalize our cars those in the Antarctic should antarcticalise their cars too.

Since we in hotter climates according to tonychristopher should remove our thermostat cos our country is hot those in the very cold region should add more thermostats

to their cars to heat it up.

Have you ever heard the word ..winterization. if you havent pls research ....

kaeforum:
no all tokunbo cars overheat, you must identify the cause of overheating, cos the world tropicalized in misleading.

sunshine's on most parts of the world, whether u live in an area that has 4 seasons or 2 seasons.

I think cars that over heat have a fundamental defect which should be investigated, its wrong to just conclude that tropicalization is the cause of overheating in car.

Bro do you know that some cars are prone to overheat due to engine design .....

Just like Honda cars tyres pulling out in middle of know where