pocohantas:
Myth: Car in excellent condition, used by beautiful female banker.

Fact: It wasn’t used by any female banker. Do all your checks, make you no buy wahala.

weyreypey:
Myth: Hyundai vehicles are fuel and cost efficient.

False.

Fact: heavens help you if your Hyundai vehicles develop transmission or engine issues.... Sorry will be your middle name. Devil at work

kingreign:
Myth: Mercedes Benz produces some of the most complex cars.


Toyota & Lexus Hybrid vehicles looking at them with ancestral side eyes.

pocohantas:
Myth: Car in excellent condition, used by beautiful female banker.

Fact: It wasn’t used by any female banker. Do all your checks, make you no buy wahala.

olumzzz:

False.
I use a 2008 elantra. The engine and transmission are far cheaper than a Toyota or Honda or same year.

Kashif:
Toyotas are built to last much more than Hyundais. They are a little over-priced, yes, but you have much less failures. The price of 2007 Rav4 full option will get you a Kia Sorento 2011 fully loaded. But when the parts start falling off, and electricals malfunction, you will understand. A colleague drives a brand new ix35, and after four years, he has the phone number of most of Hyundai techs at Gbagada.

I have taken time to personally compare Toyota to many other brands that are 15 years or more. My finding is that they are more durable, compared to other Japs/Koreans. Older European cars (15 to 20 years hold together), but newer ones send their owners to the mechanic workshop more often. Compare engine, transmission, AC, body work/paint, finishing, etc. The 'brand new' in Nigeria are even worse!

Are Toyotas bland? Oh yes! But, I have seen more Bleep to Toyota switches by users than the other way. The resale value is also higher than any other brand. A friend has been trying to sell his Isuzu for months, and nobody has even priced it.



Toyota does not use the very latest technological innovation, because it has not been tested and proven. They wait out the teething period, and that works for me too.

weyreypey:
Myth: Toyota Camry muscle is very reliable

Fact: Toyota Camry muscle is plagued with a factory defect of oil burning on the 4 cylinder engines...

The dashboard melts on all the models and releases a noxious gas odour that could be carcinogenic.... Toyota has refused to fix this....

weyreypey:
Myth: thermostat causes overheating.... And fans should be running at all times



Fact: all engine thermostats are designed to keep the engines at a specific temperature which from Billions of dollars spent on research specified. The cooling fans are also designed to run at specific times not at all times



This system also influences the fuel economy of the car in question.

Gaggii:


Please enlighten me more on this, my rewire adviced that my fan should run at all time because the weather abroad is cold. While here is hot. But I want to know if the running of fan all time gulps more fuel. Because I observed that my corrola consumes fuel than expected

weyreypey:


He's useless. The car's factory settings should be retained. If thermostat is bad..buy a new one for replacement.
Cc sultaan kingreign...nurey

weyreypey:
Myth: The landrover Freelander....is a reliable off-roader.... False!!

Fact: The Land Rover Freelander was released
onto the market with over 132 serious faults, all
of which were known to management as the vehicles rolled out the door.

You’d think that the people who produced this car
would be in prison. But that’s not how it works in
the motor industry.

In fact Rover 1.8 and 2.5 V6 petrol engines were
designed by Satan and assembled by monkeys.
Many Freelander owners needed new petrol en-
gines from as little as 10,000km from new. Few
engines made it to 50,000km; almost none made
it to 70,000km.

Gaggii:


Does it affect the fuel consumption?

justiniyke29:
Myth: All toyota car are cheap to maintain and fuel efficient.

Fact: Toyota has some fuel efficient cars eg corolla, yaris and some fuel guzzlers eg sequioa and v8 4runner

weyreypey:


Yes it does both positively and negatively

Gaggii:


How do you mean positively and negatively, does make it consume more or it reduces the consumption

pocohantas:
Myth: Car in excellent condition, used by beautiful female banker.

Fact: It wasn’t used by any female banker. Do all your checks, make you no buy wahala.

weyreypey:


Yes it does both positively and negatively

KnightsTemplar:


Which one is positively and negatively, you need to be specific and try to elaborate, because alot of people are learning from this your thread.

weyreypey:
Mercedes Benz are fuel guzzlers....

There are versions of Mercedes Benz cars that'll beat even the Toyota Corolla in fuel efficiency.... One of them is the Mercedes Benz A klasse...

KnightsTemplar:


Which one is positively and negatively, you need to be specific and try to elaborate, because alot of people are learning from this your thread.

weyreypey:

Ok.. I have answered appropriately.

weyreypey:
Myth Camry pencillight is the next best thing you can buy with your money as a daily driver

False!

Fact: no one tells you that owning it predisposes you to serious accidents due to factory defects on the headlights like vespa light.

No one tells you that carrying three adults at the back ruins the back suspension with the krokrokro sound.

No one tells you that it has an exhaust that is always hitting the ground....

If you can live with the uninspiring interior.... can you live with others

KingAzubuike:
Someone was arguing with me the other day that Mercedes Benz is a better brand than Audi and BMW. I just couldn't bring myself low to argue with such fellow.

Fact: same owner different names

Model for model, year for year, I'll pick a Hyundai Genesis over a Mercedes Benz ( S klasse, A klasse and other sedan category).

Hyundai try for their Genesis Series abeg. Damn!

maxiuc:
sienna should be among

weyreypey:

Yes... when you have slowed down...