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Nbote:
Jus imagine.. First off dat barrier must have been out of place and simply waiting for any impact to bring it down. And now these innocent ones have to pay d price with their lives...

I dont know the difference between you and the lorry driver.

A traffic barrier that has been i stalled almost 10yrs ago.

A traffic barrier for all trucks, tippers, lorries etc.

The new one in Yakowa rd in kaduna has suffered the same fate.

No one obeys traffic laws again.

Am addicted to a cup of tea with bread twice a day. The part i dont like is the timing of the second. 10-11pm is the usual time i crave for it. This bad habit has made me overweight.

It started after secondary school when i didnt get admission immediately and developed a late night movie habit. I would always like to eat something while watching the movie, soaked garri, biscuit, popcorn, tea, coffee, pap, fried yam etc

teeboy99:
whenever the oil change is necessary, you can get correct DW1 from Gazzuzz

He is my oga, i will.

Back then, it wasnt so available but these days, its all over Abj. However, the fake still abound.

debanj326:
Mine is EOD 04 model V4, the car is performing perfectly. This is my second gear box in 18 months And the car cannot Still enter reverse gear, but I'm enjoying it Like that.

I have been driving mine for 4 years. Fear no allow me change gear oil. I almost changed oil to DW1 but the person i ordered from supplied a fake, i rejected it and decided to risk not changing the oil till am sure its bad. The gear has been sharp all through.

I had 1 episode of water in ECU that caused the gear to misbehave. I almost had a heart attack but the ecu got a good sun bath and it came to life.

The car is very reliable and comfy at high speed. Acceleration is great even on I4

Daboomb:
There is a 'possible' misconception here, l think.

A million niara is about $2,700.

A Solar Inverter of such range- amount from Sunny Boy is about 9KW (9,000 Watts) and it is a GRID-TIE inverter.
You wont need that in your house if all you need just enough equipment to generte Power for your household usage.

'Grid-Tie' is when you generate enough energy with so much excess that you want toi "sell" the excess to the Utility company, by tieing your own excess generation, to the Public Utility company such that they pay you money for it in return (You are like PHCN, selling Power to the Public).

That Inverter is a special one and different from what the slef-service user need.

Most households dont use more than a 4-5KW Inverters and they are ordinary Inverters as opposed to Grid-Tie ones.

Let me also mention here that we can take advantage of other alternatives aside using Solar Panels.
For example, you can tie your inverter to PHCN if your area gets around 4hrs of elelctricity in 24-36hrs.
All you need is a Digital Fast Charger and you are good to go.

Batteries are actually the most important part of such alternative energy solutions but there are batteries that you can buy in Nigeria that are as good as those you buy in Europe or US (My Batteries are made in Germany but l bought them in Nigeria. Served me for over 4yrs now and l am sure l will draw at least another 4yrs from them...the Guarrantee was for 10yrs)

The problem most people have with batteries (when they say it does not serve them long enough), is over-drawing the batteries.
You need to ensure that your setup has an inbuilt "warning system" that alerts you once you draw your battery to critical level and at that point, you must either recharge it or shutdown.

How long it lasts (duration of operation) depends on what you load (instant Consumption) on it and the combined size/capacity of the batteries you coupled together.

There is a very good book which anyone can buy, read and become a 'champion' on Solar energy and installations. It is so simple that you will wonder why you have not read it before:
Solar Elelctricity Handbook by Micheal Boxwell (cant remember how much l bught it on Amazon, back then).

Buy it, read it and come back here to give testimony


Cost will depend on a few factors like:
What is the Capacity of say, each A.C you want to use and how many will be on, simultaneously
What other equipments will be 'on' concurrently with those A.C?

Basically, you need to do an "intant energy consumption' calculation that would tell you the maximum power you can draw from the setup at any time.
This is what is now used to determine the capacity of the Inverter, the Capacity/number of Baterries required, Number/Capacity of Panels (if Solar), capacity of Charge Controller, e.t.c.
Finally, how long you want it to operate for, at any time, is determined by the installed battery (storage) capacity.

But not to worry, you can start "small", and increase the capacity in small bits, as the Lord provides.
Start with a PHCN-charging Inverter type.
If you outlay Batteries at say 600K, other materials at 400K, you can get a system that will carry all your household equipments, (AC for just a few hours, if you want it to last long) for about 2days non-stop, no-charging.

Add Solar Panels afterwards, when your pocket gets bigger. (Some people l know cant use Solar because they dont have their own building so for such people, the PHCN-Charging option is their only solution and they make it work well for them!)

If anyone is serious about their intention, l recommend they get the book and do a little research.
Everything in that book is for beginners like me and you, in simplified English with very easy diagrams and calculation.

NB: An inverter is just an equipment that converts D.C current, to A.C current (or vice versa) and it doesnot have to be an expensive Sunny Boy.
There are cheaper but less aesthetic alternatives

I need clarification.

I thought Grid tie inverter is an either way inverter. Meaning you can draw from the grid and can also inject to the grid. That means the term grid tie is not exclusive to injecting to the grid. Which ever way you use it, drawing or injecting, it is still a grid tie inverter even if the inverter cant do both.

The onus is matching the frequency and waveform of the grid and secondary is the injection capabilities. Draw you pay, inject and get paid if that option is available by the grid. In our case, its not available to get paid for injecting.

Correct me if am wrong.

I want to add to this

The problem most people have with batteries (when they say it does not serve them long enough), is over-drawing the batteries.

Overcharging is also a major problem for batteries. Most chargers are not intelligent enough to appropriately determine battery type and chargeing it accordingly. Different battery types require different charging voltages and current but when a charger has no user or intelligent control, it treats all batteries the same. What could be good for AGM battery may not be good for flooded or GEL batteries damaging it in the process.

I know 1st hand because my battery died as a result of this. Check the picture below, you will notice the label section isnt straight. If you were to see it physically, the bulge is very obvious. It's a classic sign of overcharging.

This happened because my area has good PHCN supply.

I almost wanted to say my last time was in secondary school but remembered i did last year. It was an embarrassment for both of us but i was just being defensive while he was unnecessarily provocative.

As my best friend and uni roomate for several years, we still live in the same house though i have my family which i travel to at weekends. His cousin has been with us most of the time. Infact, i and his coz are very good friends. He even visited with me for sometime when i was down south. We blend very well.

This fateful day, we didnt go to work so we got a bottle of whiskey around 4pm. I wasn't up to whiskey that day so i took less than the duo. My friend got a call from his uncle, a security man in Abj, that he had been indetention for over a week in a police station due to a robbery incident in the house he was working. He was allowed to make a call for help to get bailed out. We took off in my friends car. Got the guy out, on the way back home we stopped at a joint for beer.

Drank our beer till we paid bills and trying to round up our last bottle when we started joking with my friend's coz (note that he was a cultist in school so had violent tendencies). I used a comment to describe his fiancee who we called mama. I said "mama has stolen your heart".

A brief about mama; they met in school and she was one of the baddest girl in class. She is like 4 yrs older and much much too exposed and unrepentant too. I am 100% sure she does sugar daddies. Naturally, every one has advised against their marriage plans but the guy will get provoked on such advise. He had provoked on me already for my advice.

Back to the beer palour gist, the comment i made was harmless meaning he was in love. The whiskey+beer probably told him something else. So he stood up threatening to pour beer on me if i repeated the comment. I was sure the comment is harmless gesturing to his coz, my friend, if i said anything wrong. My friend didnt want to get involved so he said nothing but told his coz to sit. I repeat my comment and he threatened once again. At that point the condensation from his cold beer was dripping on me so i told him to back off as he is getting me wet. The guy no gree just dey holla on top of his voice, as people were begining to notice a brawl. I got provoked with more splashes of beer and condensation on me so i picked my glass of beer and stood up threatening to spill it on him if he does not back off from my personal space. I had one finger poking him in the chest and my glass lifted above his head daring him. In an attempt to step back, he tripped on a stone, being drunk and had little balance, he struggled to keep himself upright by holding his plastic chair but wasn't enough. He knocked his chair and kicked some empty chairs and tables before getting balance.

I sat down immediately, while he bent downwards. He called me by my nickname "fatboi, you pushed and embarrassed me"? I didnt reply, but what he did next put me in a high alert and defensive mode.

He took 2 empty beer bottles, smashed them agaisnt each other. The sound was like a bomb and war was declared. My friend and their uncle rushed to him to stop him from doing anything rash while i didnt want to turn my back at him. I walked out of the joint to the car leaving them to calm him. I got there waited for 2 mins. We were asked to leave immediately before the military guy owner of the joint hears about the brawl. My friend was trying to get the change and pay for broken bottles when the guy approach me again threatening on top of his voice. I wasnt sure if he still had the broken bottles with him so it was either i flee or we die. I never turn my back to danger so i attacked first. Rather unfortunate as it turn out he had nothing, and wasnt expecting an attack. I took him completely off the ground and like in a wrestling match, threw him straight into the gutter. I was in a fit of rage and fear. I was lucky he missed a short metal post that could have been fatal. He was hurt and limping. I knew i overreacted but it was too late. His outburst continued, i asked for keys to drive but my friend refused thinking i was too angry to drive. I wanted to drive for my safety incase the guy descides to attack from the back seat.

I later apologised that night. I did for fear because he had a habit of sleeping with a machete at arms reach. We have been good except for a near brawl we almost had again.

write2obi:
Not outrageous for 190sqm depending on how good the tiler is and the location of the build. But you should be aiming to pay 300--350 per sqm

Sorry, i didnt add wall tiles. 4 bathrooms plus kitchen. Total is about 280m².

Talking about labour costing, how good is N80,000 for floor screeding/tiling and N40,000 for PVC or cement fibre ceiling for a 190sqm house?

TheJuryMustDie:
How many square metres is a bundle of PVC please? Many thanks.

Nigerian pvc is 6sqm
China pvc is 9sqm

IkpuMmadu:
If you have driven komoressor series especially the C class the one jet Lee used in Romeo must die.....you will know German cars produce one of the best cars....o drive one and the only major problem I had was airflow meter ..this was about two years ago....since then no single problem....always service your car


Japanese cars are whacked....this front wheelers are messed

No one said Benz or German cars are not sweet to drive.

I can open my bonnet this night, pour 1000liters of water on the engine bay without thinking of the repercussions, would you?

pafek:
location is jos.
most commercial vehicles going to bauchi-jos-abuja are opel Vectra..., so if it were that problematic, I don't think it will be that many on that road

When a mechanic handles your car away from home, it will never be the same.

Even Golf 3 has serious electrical problems which if not handled we becomes a nightmare to the car owner. But it's widely used for commercial purposes.

pafek:
pls remove opel from that list.
I ve been using opel vectra B since 2010 with no or little manageable issues and the parts are very cheap compare to other cars in it league

I agree to the fact that it's parts are cheap, probably your electrical issues have not started.

sexybbstar:
Please tell me more about that nissan murano jeep.Is it that bad?

Not bad o, it's evil!

Cuteamigo1:
that sucks. am leaning more towards toyota,honda and Peugeot. my mums Pontiac is heavely abused but the car is still strong. the engine and gearbox all sound with very minute fauls here and there but overall i think its good value for money and the car is almost two years old.

Peugeot is not exempted from the electrical wahala.

teeboy99:
2003 Honda accord. the car get hiv

You gave that particular one HIV.

As far as am concerned, no issues with EOD

Cuteamigo1:
my dads golf 4 was terrible, always had one electrical fault or the other and the gearbox ( automatic ) dont even get me started. and this was a car that was only used by him to go to work and back. he got tired of it and sold it, the person who bought it tried to travel with the car from kaduna to i think it was kano and the car caught fire and that was the end of it.

All German cars have electrical problems. VW, Benz, BMW, Audi, Opel...

cheekcee:
Hello All,

This thread seem old but nevertheless.

I have had my share of bad alignment and I know how frustrating it can be.
For those in Lagos, I will recommend you use the TOTAL Service centers in most TOTAL fuel stations.

They are always well equipped (with the whole laser thingy for the alignment. tyre repairs and replacements. original parts. etc) and I have sampled at least 5 different depots. (3 on the mainland, 2 around lekki).

Just yesterday i went to Oando (At the 4th roundabout) to do alignment only for me to leave with a worst condition. Then i decided no to go back there and made my way same day to TOTAL (the one beside The palms) and i was skeptical about the young lad that i met because his boss wasnt around and I was surprised he did it in less than 4 attempted. (Meaning he adjusted, drove it, repeated this 3times) and then handed over my keys to me.

I told him i was gonna come back if i am not satisfied and he just smiled and said I will come back for sure but not for alignment issues.

So once again the guys at the TOTAL station saved the day.

I will encourage you to try them out and please do share your experience with us.

I still don't like the laser.

The best for me is the computerized alignment. It sets and four tires plus steering perfectly at a single operation. You cannot do it and find a fault except if your suspension is bad.

GAZZUZZ:
NO not yet, e needs to get a shock first

Lol

Besides, is "shock" not an ecu-sensors thingy?

Modified:

Some people have no doubt in them that certain mechanics can make them cough out all they can.

Once a mechanic refused to follow my instructions, the engine was almost removed before I asked him to chose either my instruction or put everything back everything the way he saw it. He was adamant enough to refuse my instructions and put back everything wasting half of his day with no pay.

Segelu67:
I have a tempered with (half engine was bought and fix into the old engine) 4zz engine that refuse to shock and was advised to buy another engine. I bought a good 1zz engine and again it refuse to shock and am really frustrated...what can I do as have paid for the engine already. my old half engine is no where to be found. Am now advised to buy another engine again. also Problem with cam sensor with my 4zz has 3 pins whereas 1zz has 2 pins. No spark with my sensor.

Na wa o!!!

Dont you think its time to cut your loses and get a guaranteed second opinion?

Ikenna351:
It's easy to pass blames to mechanics or auto electricians for damaging or abusing cars, but owners seem to exonerate themselves when they stood there, watching the abuse been done on their cars, most cases, in their presence. You can't tell me you felt comfortable when he was cutting, butchering and bypassing the radiator fan factory connection, only to complain later.

If your Peugeot 406 is the model with VAN-bus or CAN-bus, note that the Engine ECU controls the radiator fan. So any wrong connection in that fan relay chamber can crash the ECU or fry it instantly.

You can bring the Lion to me, since you are in Abuja, to reverse the connection back to factory for a fee, hopefully it has not harmed the ECU already. You can reach me on 08095721703.

Words don't teach. Only life experience does. But if you really love your Lion, words would be enough, for it may cost you dearly to experience before learning. Stop abusing your Peugeots.

Ikenna351.

I dont believe it.

So Ikenna still dey.

abidemidare:
Have bn using OANDO dextron 2 on my Accord 2010 V6 since last year and on issue at all.

No wahala, your day will come.

However, Dexron 2 is not as bad as Abro or those ATF that has no branding.

When your seals start leaking, you would say had i known. Its possible your shifts are bad at the moment but just because you dont remember how smooth it was in the first place, you would think everything is fine.

Daboomb:
I am trying to reconcile the two posts above.
@Oyb said the solution to the A.C fires is to use single strand/core 4mm cables, which he bought from Coleman.
@Alcopacetic said Coleman has stooped selling such single strand/core 4mm cables since late 2016 (almost one year ago).

Questions:
1. Is the above claim by @oyb true, in your own understanding?
2. Since Coleman does not sell single stran/core 4mm cables anymore, does that means that you also only sell stranded 4mm to your customers?
3. If that is also true, do you consider the safety implications of such sale if used for A.C install, going by the claims made by @oyb?

Flexible/stranded cable, stranded cable and solid cable are different types of cables.

4mm flex cable and 4mm stranded cable are not the same thing even though both are stranded. The size and number of strands differeciates them.

The flex has very high number of strands making the strands very tiny. This gives the cable flexibility.

thebigkendo:
I get your arguement.. Maybe i am mixing up the honda bullet with academy.. whether it is converted or not. I don't know, But i know a neighbor at the previous compound i stayed, had a honda accord(the generation before baby boy) with 2.0L badge at the back, He told me it has a 2.0L engine

Thats Honda Bullet not Honda Academy.

Bullet is Europe model while Academy/Bulldog is American

thebigkendo:
sir I have seen 2.0L with my korokoro eye.. You can verify on google

Modified
I just found it even has 1.8L option.. Op can use the 1.8L for better economy..Hehehe

That 2.0 is meant for European models fits manual gearbox only while 1.8 for Japanese models.

I dont know for the Europe model, but the American model has an ECU, to get another engine working it it requires not just an engine.

thebigkendo:
sir I have seen 2.0L with my korokoro eye.. You can verify on google

Modified
I just found it even has 1.8L option.. Op can use the 1.8L for better economy..Hehehe

Let me go broather.

1994-95 Honda Accord aka Bulldog and facelift 1996-97 Honda Accord aka Honda Academy.

To summarise Wikipedia, they were sold in America, Japan and Philippines.

Japanese spec had 1.8, 2.0, 2.2VTEC and 2.2DOHC
American spec had 2.2 and 2.7

Dont forget that Japanese models are right hand drive so they would be very rare in Nigeria.

That leaves us mainly with American models. The v6 were very few, i have seen it but the 2.2 was in SOHC and VTEC. Dont forget they never wrote its cubic capacity on the car or engine so seeing it is virtually impossible. The engines had 2 types of valve cover black or silver. Black is VTEC silver is SOHC.

Most mechanics refer to the silver engine as Hala engine (Honda Hala engine). Some mechanics are not even aware that even though the valve cover is the same, the engine is not same.

My family owned one from 2010 to a week ago that i sold it.

Modified: Honda Bullet is the Europe model of the same year, but that is not what we are talking about.

thebigkendo:
Keywords: Change and 2.0L instead of Factory 2.4L.
Honda Academy engine is 2.0L and we know kazeem can do and undo.. No be nairaland we see Kazeem put 5S-FE into any car? murano, outlander, Kia etc. Am just guessing the honda academy engine is the nearest replacement
https://www.nairaland.com/4024419/registered-kia-cerato-2007-ac#59997677

Academy engine is 2.2L I4 and 2.7L V6

Ojehakeem:
I bought a Nigerian used EOD 2004 2.4L 4plugs, I serviced immediately after the purchase but after two weeks I discovered engine oil shortage and also the car consumes more fuel than an average eod. I took the car to my regular mechanic and he said I'll need to ring the engine that some parts are old or worn out already & thats the reason for the colored exhaust fumes when I start the car in the morning , he said there's no need to change the whole engine because the car still moves as fast as any other eod, ac is working perfectly and other features are cool.. But I want a professional advance and also cost of ringing and cost of fixing another engine.
I also want to know if is possible when changing the car engine to a 2.0L instead of the factory 2.4L engine.

Thank you.

Don't rush to repair.

twinskenny:
the thing is that they were not 100 percent sure.. the sales guy keep saying this is close to our cable thats is close to our cable i dont understand.. the sample they have in there office look the same with the one i brought.. and they confirmed from imprint label that they actually signed those cable out.. is there somthing i am missing here>>>??

They should have checked weight as well.

An immitation could have same diameter, original label and packaging but will never be same weight if its not 100% copper. It will be pointless for anybody to immitate a product with the same quality. Weight is the best quality confirmation test for copper wire.

shukuokukobambi:
I never saw the lions during the times i was there some 8 years ago but our safari driver and guide (on my last trip) showed us their tracks explaining they just left that area before we came. I gently pulled my babe inside the truck while leaving the oyinbo men and their wives with whom we went to be scanning for them from the open back of the truck. I don't like rough play biko

In fact, we were driving into Yakari (student excursion) and we met a worker trekking. His bike had broken down and time was running out. The road was deserted until we arrived. As we let him in and started moving, a boy shouted, i can see a lion. The cubs were the closest to us playing, females behind them watching and others pacing. It was much later we spotted the male a little far behind. It was faint but only those with good sight could see it. We were told how lucky we were to behold such a sight.

My dad before retirement planned severally for a family vacation but it never happened.

If only Wike knew.

Of course, the only thing he knew was violence and power. Now he has both and suddenly realised is not the main ish.