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mvphenryeto5:
What do you mean by underpaid, is it possible to clear a car if the custom paper are not fully paid

weyreypey:
Creaking is different from krokrokro sound...that distracts you from concentration in driving.... I'm not speaking but typing...use proper adjectives... kpele epilepsy go heal o

broadstreet:
pls my Toyota corolla 2008 always showing check ABS on the dash board..what's the implications of this have been driving it like this for 2 months now.thanks

Johnsonkeyz2019:
Total quartz 5000 in July or so

Slickleo:
bought the car around July 9ja use, previous owner uses xhp and engine was replaced 2018 tokunbo

sultaan:
Why do you need 2 cars for yourself, If the RX is not a delight to drive anymore the E350 won't fix that feeling. If it's for the wife ask what she wants

iamimonitie:
Hello sir. I am considering purchasing the Lexus es350 2008 version later this year. I also live in benin and will be happy to connect with you for tips for the purchase documentation and checks so I wont enter one-chance as well as a link to a very competent mechanic for the vehicle.. can you kindly send me a message on whatsapp on 07010081081.. thanks again..

walkbylight:
well said..
can I have your number please..
that means I will not need to buy mdx?

PowerGlory:
I was in the said burial a d witnessed everything that happened.
1. The man died mysteriously in the house with wound on his head and the wife and children never told the man's brothers after 24hours but hurried him to the mortuary.
2. The man was a retiree of CBN a d pays the wife N100k and children N50k each every month but they starved him of food. It's his brothers that feeds him.
3. This same daughter asked his out of their house when he came to ask them why they beat up their father.
4. The said girl is in Law School and still behaves stupidly.
5. The man built a house but the wife a d children insisted that he'll be buried behind the house which his immediate brothers and kinsmen object that he be buried in front of his house.
6. Despite the money given to the woman she cooks with firewood upstairs.
7. The woman and children were asking the man's Will to be read while the corpse was still in the mortuary.
8. Anyone that cares should come to Oguta, Imo State to verify for himself or herself.

NoToPile:
So you are saying they killed their father?

How did you know how much they are giving to wife and children

Is it culturally wrong to bury someone at the back of his house as long as its the same compound

sultaan:
Then you are very right in your opinion I do agree with you but not strong enough to recommend Toyota.

OP since you are still open to advice, buy a 2012 Grand Cherokee Limited 4x4 and you will be fine the pentastar engine with the 5 speed transmission works well.

Slickleo:
Engr pl is it advisable to upgrade from Mobil xhp to Mobil super 2000 car Honda Civic 09, engine is in top condition

timenamoney:
1) is this the only technical answer u have towards this trend ?
2)do know what engine oil temperature gauge is, have any car or equipment that has it or don't have any idea about it like eriko deos
3)are we discussing recommended oil here ?
4) did you ever attend a social club or understand communication properly ?
my only answers towards oil viscosity is when told it doesn't matter with out pointing towards multiple question I asked with out any technical explanation, not according to me telling anyone to use 40w oil which you are negatively painting, what I asked is that 5w30 at engine operating temperature (100deg ) is 30w, which oil temperature is supposed to be 100deg too, what happens when engine oil temp gauge exceed 100deg (during hot out side temp) up to 108deg engine oil temp and what viscosity 30w will be then for better protection , if you don't have any technical answer pls arbort

please note

as for me I use 5w or 10w30 in my 1999 Camry because my state ambient temperature (out side temperature) is below +38 deg which is the Max ambient temperature 30w oils can accommodate during engine operating Temp 100deg and will never use 5w30 above >+38 up to +45 ambient (out side temp)
<-3------5w30----->+38 maximum
<-7---------20w40--------------------+45
<-7---------20w50------------------------------50
<-5---------10w30---->+38
<-0---------0w30------>+38
( anticipated ambient temperature) found in most manuals like mine for my model with out mentioning synthetic or mineral oil ,
according to my manual and maybe not all car manual pls note.
it a fuel economy vs better protection vibe and remember oil loss it viscosity after some duration of operation

remember time na money

asamwababy:
You people just like giving advice on issues you have not dealt with before.

Its Abuja plate and not Lagos.

Am sure OP has a change of ownership certificate issued by the NPF evidencing the new owner and old owner.

radautoworks:
I think the article below will explain my issues with Ford a little more. If you click the link for the original article directly below, at the bottom you will see the same for the Fiesta and Focus. I'm actually a little surprised it was this bad. So when I advice people not to buy certain cars, it's because of what we saw with those vehicles overseas. Note, this is not just a recall or TSB. It's straight up FRAUD. in recent memory the only other manufacturer I recall getting caught for something like this was VW over falsifying diesel engine emissions.


https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2020/10/13/f-series-super-duty-6-0-l-diesel-engine-costs-ford-again/3626782001/

Appeals court: Ford committed fraud by selling defective Super Duty trucks
Phoebe Wall Howard
Detroit Free Press
The owner of a 2006 Ford F-350 argued for years that Ford Motor Co. sold Super Duty trucks with defective 6.0L diesel engines to thousands of unsuspecting buyers and then concealed the known problems, saddling customers with repair bills and exposing them to engine failure.

Now an appeals court has agreed with Charles Brian Margeson, 41, of Torrance, California.

He is the first Super Duty truck owner with a 6.0L diesel engine to have a fraud claim against Ford affirmed on appeal. The California Court of Appeal late last month upheld a lower court's ruling in Margeson's favor. Five other jury awards against Ford in similar cases are pending appeals.


"I bought my truck new. It must've broken down a couple dozen times and the turbo even blew up," Margeson told the Free Press. "I started carrying spare hoses with me and leather gloves because everything was super hot and I had to repair it myself on the side of the freeways. We would lose power. I mentioned it to Ford a couple times, saying, 'Hey, this is a lemon.' They just laughed it off. I just wanted a truck that worked."


He decided to opt out of a class action case involving unhappy Super Duty owners who eventually settled in 2013.

On his own, Margeson filed a lawsuit in June 2014. He was awarded a total of $940,177.74 in June 2017, but the appeals court determined expert testimony about punitive damages was improper and tossed out that piece of his award — about $726,000. But a new jury, in a trial not yet scheduled, will determine how much Ford must pay him in punitive damages, which by definition is designed to punish the defendant.

A top legal expert in the U.S. told the Free Press that Margeson's victory is a powerful example of how a class action case can be used to prevent potentially billions in costs when things go wrong with consumers, in this case for Ford.

"The company dodged a bullet," said Brian Fitzpatrick, a law professor at Vanderbilt University who clerked for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia.

Charles Brian Margeson, his daughter, Alexis, wife, Jaime, and son, Robert, of Torrance, California during a "COVID trip" to Zion National Park during spring break in April. He sued Ford for fraud after the company sold him a 6.0L diesel engine with known defects used in his F-350.
In Margeson's case, the Court of Appeal in California on Sept. 22 upheld the Los Angeles County Superior Court jury verdict that found Ford acted with malice, oppression or fraud by deliberately concealing known defects in its Power Stroke diesel engine. The engine was made by Navistar and used primarily in Super Duty trucks for model years 2003-07.

Margeson, a technician who maintains the electrical grid for Southern California Edison, used internal Ford documents to prove in court the Dearborn automaker knew its diesel engines were bad and put them in the heavy-duty pickups anyway for years.


Owners reported problems including loss of engine power, blown head gasket, warped or disfigured head bolts and oil cooler failure. Frequent breakdowns and decreased resale value dominated pickup discussion groups.

The jury award to Margeson included the maximum amount allowed for Ford’s violation of California’s lemon law, totaling $214,537.34, plus legal fees. That amount is not in dispute and will go to Margeson.

It could've been avoided if Ford had taken his pleas seriously, Margeson said. "Every time I would tow, the thing would break down."

Charles Brian Margeson of Torrance, California, purchased a 2006 Ford F-350 that routinely broke down when he hauled his trailer. He sued Ford Motor Co. for fraud and his case was upheld on appeal in September. This image of his vehicle was taken in California City, California, circa 2008.
Bryan Altman of Los Angeles, Margeson's lawyer, said the new jury will determine how much Ford should be punished monetarily.

"There's no built-in ceiling on this," Altman said. "The jury will be tasked with considering how heinous and repetitive their fraudulent conduct was. They put this 6.0 engine in over 1 million Ford vehicles, with estimates in sales ranging as high as $60 billion."



A Ford spokesman declined to comment on details of the case. Ian Thibodeau told the Free Press in a statement, "We are happy that the appellate court struck down the punitive damage award. Ford looks forward to the opportunity for a retrial.”

Black smoke
Of the nearly $215,000 the jury awarded Margeson under the lemon law, $72,564.04 was in compensatory damages that essentially repay Margeson for his truck, which was among the priciest on the market at the time. The rest was a civil penalty.

For years, he and other owners of the heavy-duty pickups reported the engines would break down and emit black smoke.

Margeson decided to sue, he said, after the truck stranded him on the side of a highway with his wife and baby as semis roared past. He broke down in tears on the stand while testifying under examination.


"It was really scary," said Margeson, who declined an offer from Ford for a few hundred dollars after he had spent thousands in repairs. "I understand they're a business and they care about their shareholders. But, at some point, they need to be worried about their customers."


Ford initially denied a problem existed, then claimed there was insufficient evidence to prove the claim and finally maintained the company wasn't aware of the extent of the diesel engine problem. Internal emails written by upper level management shattered the Ford defense.


One email presented during trial was dated five months before Margeson purchased his truck. John Koszewnik, Ford's North American diesel division director, wrote on Feb. 5, 2006, that warranty repairs on the 6.0L engine were running "as high as $5 million a month" and added Ford would not invest in an engine upgrade. Two hours later, according to court records, Koszewnik warned people not to forward his email.

Mike Frommann, the Ford warranty manager, emailed his colleagues warning that the diesel engine could lead to a class action lawsuit if its cylinder pressure specifications went public.

He wrote in an email to colleagues dated July 13, 2006, "I recommend we delete all these emails."

By February 2007, warranty repair costs on the engine exceeded $400 million, including more than $227 million to fix fuel injectors and more than $182 million on turbochargers, which was the largest repair rate ever seen for any Ford engine. This information was taken from an affidavit by one of Ford's own officials in a lawsuit it filed against Navistar. Despite this testimony, Ford later denied engine problems when it was being sued over the Navistar engine.


The appeals court affirmed there was "adequate evidence of intentional concealment of these problems by Ford to the detriment of consumers."

Not alone
Super Duty trucks, which are purchased for both personal and commercial work, are bigger and more powerful than their bestselling F-150 little brother. The F-250 and F-350 are marketed as being capable of pulling more weight and carrying heavier loads.

Ford Super Duty owners have claimed since it came out that the Navistar engine was troubled. At the same time, the faulty engine was touted as best in class by Ford with the most horsepower, most torque and other high-performance claims. The Free Press was unable to confirm how many of the vehicles remain on the road today.

Class action settlement
While the young father sued Ford himself, other truck owners chose a different route.


Dozens of class-action lawsuits involving the 6.0L diesel engine were consolidated and settled in 2013 by Ford. It entitled F-250 and F-350 owners to claim between $50 and $825 in reimbursement for post-warranty repairs.

Ford agreed to pay the 16 truck owners who brought the class action lawsuit on behalf of Super Duty owners nationally a total of $150,000, which is separate from the relief money provided to all people included in the class group, Automotive News reported.

Compare $150,000 total for 16 plaintiffs with nearly $215,000 for one plaintiff, not including punitive damages.

Super Duty owners were included in the class action and qualified for limited repair reimbursement unless they opted out.

Win for Ford

The Super Duty class action settlement was a huge win for Ford, especially in light of the recent court ruling, said Fitzpatrick, author of "The Conservative Case for Class Actions."


"That opens up the question, could every single class member have gotten the price of their car back?" he said. "If they had to pay every class member the price of their car back, it would be like the Volkswagen situation and Volkswagen paid billions of dollars. They ended up paying every class member the price of their car — 500,000 people."

The case against Ford appears to have been a lot more valuable than the Super Duty class members knew at the time, FItzpatrick said.

Brian Fitzpatrick, a law professor at Vanderbilt University and author of "The Conservative Case for Class Actions," said Ford Motor Co. contained huge costs by settling a case involving the 6.0L diesel engine used in Super Duty models 2003-2007.
"One of the virtues of class action, from the defendant's perspective, is 'global peace,' ” Fitzpatrick said. “You can wipe something off your balance sheet in one fell swoop. That's why a lot of companies like class action. But every once in a while, someone will opt out. So the loose ends weren't quite tied up this time. But pretty close. One got away, but that's OK. The company still got a lot of global peace for the settlement."


Meanwhile, the F-350 case involving Margeson is the first of six Super Duty cases led by Altman and the Knight Law Group, laying the groundwork for potential issues for Ford in the future.

In addition to Margeson, five other consumers who owned Super Duty trucks with 6.0L diesel engines collectively have been awarded more than $10 million by juries. Ford is appealing all of these cases.

Fitzpatrick said Ford would be wise to settle with remaining Super Duty owners suing over the Navistar engine. He said the company could cut its losses and reduce time and money by closing the books.

Auto critics knew
"The dark times began in 2003," wrote Chris Riley in an historical overview of engines posted on autowise.com in early 2018.

"Faced with more stringent emissions standards, Ford introduced its least reputable diesel engine to date —the 6.0L Power Stroke. This engine was so bad that Ford and Navistar eventually went to court over it," Riley wrote. "It featured a glut of emissions equipment never before used, such as an exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) valve."

$1B on repairs
By January 2009, Mike Levine wrote as then-editor of PickupTrucks.com, "Ford said it had spent $1 billion on repairs and recalls to fix problems with legacy 6.0-liter Power Stroke diesel engines."

Bryan Altman and his son, Michael, at a restaurant in Santa Monica, California in fall 2018. Altman represents owners of Ford F-350 trucks suing Ford for defective 6.0L diesel engines used in model years 2003-2007.
Loss of power steering and power brakes because of engine problems resonated with jurors in multiple cases, not just Margeson's, Altman said. "Ford would deny the problem" but their internal emails indicated the company concealed what it knew.

"They were even keeping repair people at Ford facilities in the dark so information never got out to the public, according to testimony," he said.


Bob Fascetti, who oversaw diesel engine products as director of V-engine and diesel engineering for Ford North America, said in a Feb. 28, 2007, affidavit: "Ford has experienced unprecedented repair rates with the 6.0L engines. The 6.0L has had the largest R/1000 (repairs per thousand) rate ever experienced by Ford for an engine in widespread production. In fact, the 6.0L, which represents only 10% of Ford's total engine volume, accounts for approximately 80% of all of Ford's warranty spending on engines. Additionally, warranty spending on the 6.0L accounts for approximately 25% of Ford's overall warranty spending."


Future business
Jon Gabrielsen, a market analyst who has interviewed hundreds of commercial truck buyers in North America on how they rank factors that influence their purchase, said these Navistar cases may be more sensitive than casual observers realize.

This is not just about individual Super Duty owners who have suffered financially but the situation has the potential to affect future business targeted by new CEO Jim Farley.


“It is a new day at Ford with new leadership and a more focused strategy, specifically including significant focus on the commercial end of the truck business," Gabrielsen said. "These F-250 and F-350 trucks are the volume leaders within the business-to-business commercial vehicle offering for Ford. And commercial business buyers are intensively focused on quality, reliability, durability and total cost of ownership of their fleets.

"So it would seem to be in Ford’s best interest to clean up and close out this unfortunate chapter in history on any last open lawsuits in this area so that they can focus purely on growing this mission critical segment without the lingering taint on the Super Duty brand.”

More:Ford knew Focus, Fiesta models had flawed transmission, sold them anyway
https://www.freep.com/in-depth/money/cars/ford/2019/07/11/ford-focus-fiesta-transmission-defect/1671198001/

More:US fraud prosecutors demand Ford Focus, Fiesta documents
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2019/11/06/ford-fiesta-focus-transmission-lawsuit-dps-6/2506025001/

More:Ford to pay millions to Focus, Fiesta owners in transmission settlement
https://www.freep.com/story/money/cars/ford/2020/01/25/ford-fiesta-focus-transmission-settlement-deal/4554381002/

radautoworks:
Thanks for the insight.. is have never thought of Uyo. We are thinking 2 more locations in Lagos State, one each in Ibadan, Abuja, PH, Enugu and the rest up in the air.

diportivo:
until u jam ur paddy nissan

or

ur babe vw

u go sabi say YouTube is just youtube

Eddee:
We wasted a ton shit of money on a club last year (haven't still recovered from that financial loss). I'll make a case for Calabar and Uyo (leaning heavily towards the latter), assuming the cost for franchising falls between 10m - 15m? Not even looked at equity and or working capital? Wahala dey!

TheNewAgeFarmer:
We are yet to fix the problem. The part cost 38k. We are going to buy that now. I wasted money buying oil 5litres of ws for 20k and I will have to buy extra 4litres of oil to complete the job. The problem is I don’t know if this will solve the problem!.

Inception:
impressive...


Benz or nothing crew...


Food don done

BarrSly:
Thank you all for your moral support and assistance eventually we changed the ECU and that was what solved it all.