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Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by henryobinna(m): 8:11am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Realguyman1:Bro chill, you're using this opportunity to vent your anger on her. You shouldn't be angry or blame her because if you've been paying attention on social media lately you'd notice many people both in Nigeria and outside Nigeria share virtually every detail of their life with people on social media, whatever the reasons are is not what I'm concerned with. But it's actually normal for someone to share such details today on the internet, especially if they've been sharing other similar detail. Another thing to note is that, she likely moved overseas very recently, so she is shocked at the amount she has to pay for such 'minor' fixes on her care. It's the more reason she felt compelled to share. I'm not justifying her actions as I don't care much, I'm just trying to give you an idea of a reason. 2 Likes |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by goodman5(m): 8:11am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Can u change brake pads with 1800 in Nigeria |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by henryobinna(m): 8:12am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Crysallis:Yea, you have a point. While some car faults could be prevented by careful usage of the cars, sometimes the roads are just bad or it could be the fault of other road users. |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by LagbajaTheBEREAN: 8:16am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Jonifi: delzbaba: |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by HardMirror(m): 8:20am On Sep 25, 2022 |
henryobinna:hehehe. imagine the guy saying 15k is the least they earn in a month. Most people are earning about $30,000 to $35,000 some even lower. Except you are in a top profession there is no way you can earn $15,000 in one month. I dont know where people see these figures o. you are right. as for the brake pad, yes it is a lot of money, but i am not surprised she is charged that amount. this is why most Americans are good in DIY they do their own repairs. if you are engaging a profession, then you must be ready to pay 1 Like |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by HardMirror(m): 8:20am On Sep 25, 2022 |
rexchazy:how sure are you it is not a new format yahoo boys are using |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Don27tiky(m): 8:25am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Timatayo1:it does not depends on the car. My friend had to abandon his car when it had gear box issue because he was charged $3000 to get it done. We found out it would cost less than #150,000 to do that here |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by henryobinna(m): 8:28am On Sep 25, 2022 |
HardMirror:Yea, a lot of Nigerians have a poor understanding of how things work outside Nigeria. There are people who think some developers working with any of the FAANG(Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google) companies make $100k per month. I know how I struggled to explain things to one. At a point I started to think maybe I'm the one with poor understanding of the whole thing. So they think it's all flowing with milk and honey over there. Of a truth they typically earn much more than we do over here but people shouldn't blow things out of proportion. It is good that such repair shops charge that much because that is how they are able to pay their workers considerably good amount of money. You hear Nigerians talking about going abroad and earn good money despite doing menial jobs, they don't realize the establishment paying them that considerably good money had to charge their patrons/customers top dollar to be able to pay them. Hope you get where I'm driving at? Yea, DIY is the way to go. You just can't pay out of pocket for everything and remain the same. You just can't unless you earn so much, which many don't. 3 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by drnoel: 8:34am On Sep 25, 2022 |
ryloy: The cost of the brakes itself was probably less than 100 dollars. The other additional cost was the man hours spent to do the repairs. That's what increased to cost to that 1800 |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Boladdsox(m): 8:34am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Aunty Bisola. Where are you? For that amount I will bring breakpads from Ladipo; get tourist visa and one way flight. Fix it free if you tell your friends to bring their cars to wherever I am fixing your so they can pay my return ticket and all. 2 Likes 2 Shares |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by emmaodet: 8:42am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Nigerians... we switch modes when it favors us. A lady complains she used $1,800 dollars = #1,200,000 +/- to change break pads only (of course with workmanship) and some people started giving funny comments like - You will use the break pads for yearsssssssss unlike if broda kamoru the road side mechanic fix it for her in Nigeria at a cheap price - For a start, who wants to use a car for yearssss in the first place? if am going to use a car in Nigeria for 3 years before disposing it, even God know say i know fit spend 100k on break pads alone within that 3 years before disposing. - Another person said she should not convert the dollars, that it is because she is converting the dollars, that is why it is looking big in her eye. - OOOOOOOhhhhh, so now dollar/naira conversion should not be used? when they are boasting the save $2,000 a month and convert it to naira, it sound s good and big but hen we tell them not to because 11 months out of 12 in a year, you will be in abroad, spend, rent, school etc in abroad and should be calculating and relating based on your environment and not what your savings can do in far away Nigeria that you se less than a month in a year, they will say we are hating. ...Okay ooooo |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by emmaodet: 8:46am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by emmaodet: 8:48am On Sep 25, 2022 |
APCnaPDP: That is still quite high. The highest i will do my break pad with Sir K. (my roadside mechanic) is 20/25k max compared to $600=400k |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by onilanre(m): 8:55am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Online begging has taken over nairaland. 1 Like |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Realguyman1(m): 8:56am On Sep 25, 2022 |
henryobinna:At the bolded bro, for her to just get there and buy a car, means she was doing extremely well in Nigeria before she went there. So why going to stay in another's man country and start complaining, when u were already doing well in ur country that the bills are very cheap? At least the internet have helped us all know that cost of living are very high over there in the west, so she knows what she was putting her into from day one. Then why now trying to create attention and trying to discourage others from going? If u checked, u will see that she wasn't sharing any details about herself with her tweet there. She was only seeking attention and as well trying to discourage others that have the intentions of going there too. If she was only trying to share details about herself, then why will she start with japa nation how far, with a laughing emoji on it? 1 Like |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by puplin(f): 9:14am On Sep 25, 2022 |
I don't know what is wrong with us in diaspora. Stop converting your expenses from Pounds or Dollars to Naira, you don't earn in Naira so what is the issue! If it $1800 is convenient for you to pay it simply means you earn well enough in $. You should then show us how much you earn daily/weekly after converting to Naira. 1 Like |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by bfn1: 9:15am On Sep 25, 2022 |
EgunMogaji2:Thank you chief. I can trust your opinion for reality check. There's more to that cost than just brake pads. 2 Likes |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Codes151(m): 9:16am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Is this to make us feel bad? Are you sure it was just brake pad. What does she know about her car? She should post the receipt. |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Enyimbamercedes: 9:18am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Thing is when boda Sulaimon and Kazeem check your brakes, they cost you more in the long run. They put on fake brake pads that eventually leave grooves in your brake rotors. They don’t torque the wheel nuts evenly or in the correct sequence which end up warping your rotors then you start having a car that wobbles when you hit the brakes… boda sulaimon doesn’t have a torque wrench |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by NOETHNICITY(m): 9:19am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Jonifi:Did you see where she mentioned Naira there? Abi them tell you say e dey easy to earn the dollars sef |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by emmaodet: 9:19am On Sep 25, 2022 |
inoki247: Bro pls stop this vavulence |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Tunagee(m): 9:22am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Focusmind: Bros, na becos you never travel out to those countries they make you think they are discouraging you. The truth is that they are very correct. It's not easy over there whether you believe it or not. 1 Like |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Jonifi(m): 9:22am On Sep 25, 2022 |
NOETHNICITY:u need common sense. She from Nigeria that why she complaining 1 Like |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by NOETHNICITY(m): 9:24am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Realguyman1:But why the thing dey pain you? Must you comment on the issue? Did she bring to matter to your page? |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by Ashirioluwa: 9:25am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Nollywood joke |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by emmaodet: 9:36am On Sep 25, 2022 |
phemocheee: $750 is about 500k now. If I buy tokunbo car, infact if I buy Nigerian used car and decide to use it for 3 years, I won’t change my break pads with Sir K. More than 30k per year assuming I am using fake pads here in nigeria. That is about 100k in 3 years but the truth is, since have been using cars all my life, have never changed break pads more than once in 2 years. |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by emmaodet: 9:40am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Headachetoigboh: But abroad people are fun of converting their saving in naira to feel good and better than those at home now. |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by emmaodet: 9:53am On Sep 25, 2022 |
alcuin: Please enlighten me. Let’s use the average job salary as a reference - $60k/year. What will be the tax? House rent on average for the year? Possible average savings per year? Are you based in abroad also or just hearsay? So as know the validity of your information. |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by BigBashiru: 9:57am On Sep 25, 2022 |
delzbaba: You glorify the western European savages.... the only reason the average white man buys Ford r truck is due to their poverty 1 Like |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by einsteine(m): 10:05am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Why put naira in the post title? Do they spend naira abroad? |
Re: I Was Charged $1840 (₦800,000) To Change Brake Pads - Lady Cries Out by DeOTR: 10:35am On Sep 25, 2022 |
Crysallis:No be only. She dey work for Google? |
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