Lexusgs430: This is like a tv series wrecks to riches, but they inform us how much they paid for the unit + all associated cost and eventually, how much the unit sells for.
Would you ever divulge the cost of this unit to this forum? Or have you and calculus x swore to secrecy?
Don't plead the 5th!!!!

Lexusgs430:

But a guide or range, would be helpful.
We know that no two auction trades can be the same, it is dependent on many variables.

Initially i didn't know whether to assume this as an attack or a request.
Whichever it is, i won't fight cos i know that some things are what we make them to be and not what they really are.
Most people have assumed it to be that used car dealers over price their cars etc. But no one has asked us the gestation period for an import
How we pay for the cost of capital? How we pay govt taxes and union fees, rents and levies and that we have to eat and live a normal life like all business people.
People import wears and sell at nearly 300 percent the cost. People sell spare parts at exorbitant rates, popular, big name dealers sell cars with profits of close to N2m or more. yet we the used car dealers are always singled out. But whichever, we will carry our cross.

I will only reveal the cost of this unit on two grounds; that Lexusgs430 pledges to stop accusing used car dealers on Nairaland
of over pricing car :Ps. . . . . . . . and secondly if my threads makes the Nairaland home page.

Meanwhile, some out of the oven pics

Emperoh:



Initially i didn't know whether to assume this as an attack or a request.
Whichever it is, i won't fight cos i know that some things are what we make them to be and not what they really are.
Most people have assumed it to be that used car dealers over price their cars etc. But no one has asked us the gestation period for an import
How we pay for the cost of capital? How we pay govt taxes and union fees, rents and levies and that we have to eat and live a normal life like all business people.
People import wears and sell at nearly 300 percent the cost. People sell spare parts at exorbitant rates, popular, big name dealers sell cars with profits of close to N2m or more. yet we the used car dealers are always singled out. But whichever, we will carry our cross.

I will only reveal the cost of this unit on two grounds; that Lexusgs430 pledges to stop accusing used car dealers on Nairaland
of over pricing car :Ps. . . . . . . . and secondly if my threads makes the Nairaland home page.

Meanwhile, some out of the oven pics

Emperoh:



Initially i didn't know whether to assume this as an attack or a request.
Whichever it is, i won't fight cos i know that some things are what we make them to be and not what they really are.
Most people have assumed it to be that used car dealers over price their cars etc. But no one has asked us the gestation period for an import
How we pay for the cost of capital? How we pay govt taxes and union fees, rents and levies and that we have to eat and live a normal life like all business people.
People import wears and sell at nearly 300 percent the cost. People sell spare parts at exorbitant rates, popular, big name dealers sell cars with profits of close to N2m or more. yet we the used car dealers are always singled out. But whichever, we will carry our cross.

I will only reveal the cost of this unit on two grounds; that Lexusgs430 pledges to stop accusing used car dealers on Nairaland
of over pricing car :Ps. . . . . . . . and secondly if my threads makes the Nairaland home page.

Meanwhile, some out of the oven pics

Lexusgs430:

In the contrary, I have never knowingly accused car dealers of over - pricing cars for sale.
And my interaction about your latest recruit,was only my way of stating that buying insurance written - off vehicles, is not always bad news if the repairs are carried out properly.
I must commend you on the before and after pictures of this recruit. Is she for sale or personal use ?
I also think this your recruit deserves to be on the front page, you have opened the eyes of many, that the dead, can still be resurrected !!!! (probably @ the fraction of the price )

My brother, it is well.
The accusations we have suffered on this site makes me wonder what we may have done.
No two auto buying circumstances are the same. But we can only quote based on what we know is the range.
Nonetheless, i will as well as a good number of other dealers here, do our best to get the best car at an affordable rate.

Yes this unit is for family use. It is not for sale.
I am sending it down to the east. That is the reason why i revealed the cost of fixing here.
That also validates one of my beliefs; i can't sell to another person what i can't drive.
It also lends credence to a proverb in Igbo land which opines that u don't sell a crippled chicken at home.
I guess u understand what i am driving at.

Meanwhile, more sneak peaks out of the oven

Fhemmmy: Baba Emperor, Keep doing your great work and i am still learning . . . .

Fhemmmy: ^^^ See how the machine sparkles . . .

Emperoh:

Check out that ma request.
If u can do it, we will hit asap

Fhemmmy:

Na You now . . . You just like to dey make me talk and no action, But you are still my Chief . . . .

lol. . . .man pickin dey find am where e good pass.
If u give me a sweet deal, i will grab it with u alongside
Abeg try

Emperoh:

lol. . . .man pickin dey find am where e good pass.
If u give me a sweet deal, i will grab it with u alongside
Abeg try

Emperoh: Fhemmy, dis isn't what client wants.
We are looking for something for school bus.
This Is all luxury. Also budget is on a high sidem I am looking for something to close at N1m that's why I said 97 model is d least I can do.

Pipe me something within dis budget and I hit u cash tomorrow.

cecegorz: Emperoh Okenwa!
Am loving this your DIY move. Having a 2008 CRV on my radar too, I had to read through the lines to be up to speed.

If i may ask, is there any reason why you didn't do the fixing in the US? Reason is that the way our local panel beaters hammer away at auto body here sometimes makes me feel for the metals
And they have a penchant for losing original screws and bolts that were there before you drop the ride with them.(i had a recent painful case where they worked on my fuel guage, the cover that had 8 screws were reduced to 6 by the time they were done, and they were like, 'it's no issue')
I also feel there may be some intricate features they may just cut out and throw away(simply because they don't understand the purpose), and they'll just tell you that it does not change anything (just like their penchant for removing engine thermostat and replacing a single cell radiator with a double cell).

Emperoh: Fhemmo,
That's a tough one!
But if it will come into the budget, I mean d seat fixing, then no wahala. But how will u install glass?

cecegorz: Alright bro.
You are doing well. Saving more cash is your drive and you got it spot on.
Looking at the pix, your guys sure did a good job. Nobody could guess the original state unless you show them old pix.
Shine on.

cecegorz: ^^^
Lol. @Phemmy at the scary part. It could really be scary when you watch these guys work!

From what Emperoh said that the capital gains on the car is 70k from buying a non-dented option, I don't think I will mind if I am the one. I wouldn't even mind 200k!
These local mechanics/rewires/Pbeaters are really not what I can entrust serious job with. I always pray to avoid encounters with them.
But Emperor seems to have the magic wand, and of course, the time to engage them to deliver.

Emperoh: Fhemmy, if u don't mindn if u wanna fix anything in Nigeria, let me know.

Emperoh: Cece

For the price thing, i didn't say the difference is 70k.
What i said is that if i had fixed this car in America, the price difference compared to a non accidented unit will be just like 70k
For this one i fixed in Nigeria, i save almost 400k
Will post the final pics this nite or over the weekend

Emperoh: Not a good rerason not to cash in on any opportunity that comes from that end.

Try it out!