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I stepped out from the popular metropolitan supermarket in Uyo. I started the car and was about to leave then this man knock on my window.

Holding his folder he introduced himself as Edidiong Ekanem from Eket. He said he just attended a meeting in Uyo but got stranded going back as he is short of funds.

I handed him the whole change i had which was exactly N350. He look at the money in disgust and guess what will come our his mouth.

"Is that all, this will not take me to Eket now".

I said give me bck so i can give you N500 with the expectation of denying him when he gives me. He said bring it, i just rollled up my glass and swore i will never be kind to anyone in need again.

I know it is expensive as an average Nigerian to properly service a car according to owners manual with oem parts. We can still attempt to do it but in a Nigerian way avoiding some major cost.

I serviced my 2003 Honda accord I4 yesterday with very good results. Items required;

1 5litre gallon of milemaster 5W20 engine oil N6,000
Oil filter N1,000
Set of 4 unused Tokumbo NGK 6994 IZFR6K-11 Laser Iridium Spark Plugs N1,000
1 can of Carb cleaner

The list should have been more than this or better than these but that was what is affordable.

Change of oil went through the usual process. Plugs were removed and the tokumbo unused plugs was brushed with iron brush, regapped to 11mm with a gapping tool then sprayed with carb cleaner and installed.

Air filter was removed and blown by a vulcanizer.

The result was obviously positive.

I plan to in the next service;
-Change the air filter which according to the manual be replaced after every 30,000miles.

-Inspect and adjust valves which the manual states 110kmiles as the due time and my car is at 118kmiles at the moment. Valve adjustment specs for 2003 accord K24A1
Intake: 0.21-0.25mm (0.008-0.010in)
Exhaust: 0.28-0.32mm (0.011-0.013in)

-Change gear oil with Genuine Honda DW1 ATF found in Konga for N1,800 for 1litre. I will buy 3 which will cost N5,400 plus 1k shipping making 6.4k. According to manual its due at 120kmiles.

-Change engine coolant which is at Konga too and due at 120kmiles and subsequently every 60kmiles.

The ones i have not planned are brake fluid replacement (every 3years) and power steering oil replacement. I do rotate my tires every 10kmiles.

Mind you, that check engine light is due to Air/fuel ratio sensor which i have been looking for for months now.

What are your car's recommendation and how close arw you to doing service according to the manual?

Totfulguy:
I recently bought a Honda Accord 2003 (I mean in the last 3 weeks). Its a 4 cylinder (or so I think) and has a 2.4 liter engine. I have noticed that the fuel consumption is very high. I fill my tank on Sunday Evening, drive to work from Alapere where I stay to the Island and by Wednesday the tank is empty.
Can someone please advise on what I should do? And can someone suggest a very good Honda Mechanic. The performance of the car is superb, but the fuel consumption is astronomical.

1.You will have to start from the Check engine light by scanning the car and fixing associated sensors or parts.

2. Remove air filter and blow out dust or replace entire.

3. Remove, inspect, clean, regap or replace all spark plugs.

4. I really dont know what to tell you about the last one but something needs to be done on your injectors.

It should be better by the time you go through the list.

Mogidi:
Foot soldiers sent by GEJ arrived at SR office with loads of cash but mysteriously all saharareporters cameras stopped working when GEJ's men arrived. Only ed.iots would believe this APC mouthpiece masquerading as News outlet.

If you were sent by GEJ with loads of cash, will you wallk into their office with probably security and spy cameras to set urself up as the most foolish bribe emissary.

Was it not the same thing Farouk Lawan did that Nigerians called him the most foolish public holder with so many assistants that could take the money on his behalf.

If you have nothing intelligent to say, just keep quiet.

Mogidi:
Foot soldiers sent by GEJ arrived at SR office with loads of cash but mysteriously all saharareporters cameras stopped working when GEJ's men arrived. Only ed.iots would believe this APC mouthpiece masquerading as News outlet.

If you were sent by GEJ with loads of cash, will you wallk into their office with probably security and spy cameras to set urself up as the most foolish bribe emissary.

Was it not the same thing Farouk Lawan did that Nigerians called him the most foolish public holder with so many assistants that could take the money on his behalf.

If you have nothing intelligent to say, just keep quiet.

anneki:
Bros. You are the man! I change mine @ 4000 miles / 6400 kilometres. Not sure I would be courageous to do what you have especially as all my miles are covered within the city. If I travel with my car every now and then perhaps i would stretch it.

I agree, if you do more of city driving, then you may need to change sooner. Its stated like that in thw manual.

Our office cars were last service with Mobil xhp 20w50 exactly a year ago. The suv has done up to 20,000km now and the greedy men would not drop a kobo for some reason i wont say. Those engines are still moving fine. Anyways, i dont feel that extended usage beyond recommended quality grade of oil will have an immediate negetive effect. It will have to be some thing more critical like wrong engine oil grade to no engine oil at all switch gives you a negative result almost immediately. In my case, I have been topping with new oil and so may not be that bad.

Dont fret my guy. Infact you scared me into changing now when there is no money around.

anneki:
@adanny01

Chairman. A semi-synthetic / synthetic blend going all the way to 10,000 miles ? Would strongly advise against it. Can the additive pack last that long? Better to be safe than sorry.

I have just crossed the 7.5k miles 2 days ago and the 'Maintenance required' light started flashing but not steady yet. I have decided to change and have purchased a gallon yesterday.

If you want Milemaster in Abj check this link https://www.nairaland.com/1970453/pls-where-buy-5w-30-oil#27597883

I have been buying from Crystal Express Resources – LIFECAMP. Samuel 0805 205 0840, 0806 313 0991

Piyke:
I am not a distributor for Milemaster but had experience of this in 2 cars. I would detail them here:

1. 2003 Honda Accord LX 4cyl 190K+ miles

Good: More MPGs on highway driving (no gains were observed in-city driving), better acceleration and the car moved like it never had in years.
Bad: Oil shorts - This didn't start immediately as I monitored for it but stopped along the line since I didn't observe any shorting. Only for me to have a CEL one afternoon, I instinctively checked the dipstick and it was just at the low mark!!!
Worsened leaks -Prior to switching to milemaster 5W-20 I just had some negligible wetness. I noticed that this got worse after the switch. It didn't get to the point of dropping on the floor though. Maybe the milemaster cleared some sludge...

2. 2008 Toyota Corrolla 4cyl 89k miles

Good: I didn't observe any change seeing that we just got the car and only serviced it once with 20W-50 prior to using Milemaster.
Bad: None. No oil shorts or leakage.

My advice

If you have any form of wetness or leakage of oil in your engine, I advice you look for conventional oil instead as it would get worse with semi-synthetic. Also oil burning may be related to higher mileage cars. I discontinued it on the Honda but would have continued if not for the leaks.

I have the same honda @117kmiles and have been using Milemaster with exactly the same results. However, i have been experiencing the shortage before the 5w20 and not any better or worst. So, i continued with the Milemaster for its obvious benefits while dealing with the shortage with an extra gallon just for that purpose.

It seems she is not keeping it for long if she is actually bothered that sex was their reason for leaving. Right from the day she decided she was going to keep it, she should have decided that she would boyfriend full or boyfriend less.

What she is experiencing is expect and worst of it is yet to come. Its either she sadly gives it or happily keep it. She cannot sadly keep it or happily give it since she happily decided to keep it.

nairacountry:
Yeah I will. My question is, does it affect the sharpness of the braking system?

Sorry didn't try to respond to that.

Unfortunately, NO!

That is the responsibility of you brake pads and rotors. The brake pad may not be of good quality or the break-in has not been achieved.The break-in procedure is critical to brake performance. The reason for a proper break in is to establish an even layer of friction material deposited on the rotors from the brake pads. It is very important that this initial layer of friction material is evenly distributed.

Usually you have to drive with caution after installing new brake pads without a break-in procedure. There is a procedure for advance car users i have read called Pad Bedding Procedure which involves intermittently driving and braking at controlled speeds to heat the pad and rotors and imprint rotor surface pattern on the pad surface achieving maximum contact for effective friction.

poiZon:
lack of will, I will help u keep, fit in fact fitted.

I will love that only if your are f. Thats where i have the will to do as much push ups.

mozee:
[quote luvinhubby HELP)Hello people, I have pain stakingly read through the tips and guidlines in this useful and very informative thread.

I tried reading through to know wther, some peeps on here would have experienced a similar trouble I am having with my 2003 honda LX. Fortunately, some have had similar problems, but mine has almost finished frying my pocket financially speaking.

About few months back, I noticed the shaking of the car whenever I accelerate at about 40km or when the gear is changing from gear 2 to 3. It shakes for just about few seconds and it stops. Then whenever I get to a halt or a traffic stop and I accelerate it shakes again for the same few seconds and stops. Though, it looked as if I had a wobbly tyre but I have changed the tyres and its still shaking.
Now, I complained to my mecho and he said its the inner cups. I changed it right there and then, it cost me about 8k for both sides. After about a week, the car started shaking again, the same problem, took the car back and had a little fight with the Igbo boy that sold the spare part to me, that he sold fake spare part. After the whole argument he gve me another one. This same inner cups where changed and about the same one week again,the same problem started again. Whew. I went furious.
I chnaged to another mechanic and he said it was the same inner cups. Bought another one, and it worked fine, until about 7 days later, same thing came up again. Now am going crazy. To cut the long story short. I have changed the inner cups about 5 times now and presently the car is still the same. ( no savings, this car has finiahed my small money).
Hmmmmmm, now I don't understand what exactly is damaging the inner cups, coz whenever the innercups where removed and checked by the mecho we noticed a kinda circular engraving on that inner sides where the rings are. ( I hope you guys understand my description).
I have changed almost everything but no difference.
Except that I was once using DEXRON1 OANDO as the ATF.
Just today I drained it and bought the DW1-ATF. Though, my gear shifts normally and perfect but something spoils the edges in the inner cups.


Pls somebody help before this car kills me financially.
@luvinhubby. I also need your candid advice pls. Biko.
I welcome any good opinions and suggestions. And I will be glad to clarify if u do not understand my outlined complaint.

You didnt mention whether the part you bought was new or tokumbo.

CircleOfWilis:
thanx

Welcome.

The pix by billy187 is also a valid difference between the American and European.

Thirdly, in the instrument cluster, the American will definately have speedometer calibrations in miles and in bold with smaller case kilometers but European will only be in Kilometers with no presence of miles.

nairacountry:
@ Gazzuzz, the vehicle is Honda baby boy (1998) 3.0L v6.
The reservoir has been gauge even above d max level after d new brake pad "Green Life"(pics attached) is fixed.
Oga Adanny01, d brake lights will be checked for burnt bulb & will be changed BUT willthat affect d brake sharpness if it illuminate d brakeLamp?
Thanks my ogas

There are two things i know that are related to that light
1. Low level of brake fluid/its broken harness
2. Blown brake bulb/its broken harness

Since you dont have a shortage in brake fluid, my guess is the brake lights or its wiring. Have some depress the brake pedal while you look for the blown one.

My friend who drives that same car has that light on, checked his and the bulb was replaced and the light went off. However, that same bulb has burnt out so many times now that he has been ignoring it for long now. You better look for a belgium replacement.

nairacountry:
Oga Gazzuzz, I hv an issue wit my BreakLight on. It all started about 3weeks ago. It came on, I know it indicated brake fluid going down coz d brake pad is worn. I hweva kip driving d car with d intension of getting good money to buy original brake pad unlike d one worned-out just after 4months in use.
Hweva, I had cause to travel out of town, leaving d car in care of my cousin. He, after finding out that d brake pad is worn, changed it.
The challenge now is that I'm not feeling d sharpness of d brake and d light (brake light) is still ON.
Is it that d pad is fake or d 'resurface' work done b4 putting d pad has damaged d brake discs bcoz it used to b sharper even wit worn-out pads.
Pls help

Atleast one of your brake lights is burnt out. Check and replace the bad bulb and it should go off.

poiZon:
see as una plenty, na una dey chhop awa money abi? Even goodluck wey dey chop 1billion naira food no plenty as una. see as four persons resemble 30 people.

LOL
Na God, nature and lack of will to keep fit.

What i think the op is asking is in physical difference.

To answer that i will upload two pictures of the same car with a red circle and an arrow pointing to what i have always noticed as a difference between the American and the European Golf models.

Notice the side amber reflectors/lights in the first pix which is the American model. The same difference exist in all Golf models i have seen.

Personally, i prefer the European model to the American.

drhappy:
@utuphbe: the recommended engine oil for the RX300 according to the manual is the synthetic blend not the semisynthetic variant(milemaster's 5w-30). You might just be frying your engine gradually without knowing it. Even the konga site is silent on the Rx despite recommending the oil for V6 of Camry, Highlander & Solara.

drhappy:
my initial submission was based specifically on the Rx300.
@colossus2: I think your oil should be okay if you get it from accredited Toyota dealers because of adulteration as earlier stated on this thread. As for the service interval, it is said that 5000km or 3months(whichever comes first) should suffice to guard against sludge which the RX is prone to.
However, I use the oil specified by my engine cap.Please note the SAE and API directives.These and many others tallied with the manufacturer's instructions.

From the picture you posted, it is primary to use oil that is designed for gasoline engines, minimum API rating of SJ, SAE 5w30 and energy conserving. Using synthetic, synthetic blend or dyno oil is secondary and a user choice. However, your choice of oil will change your recommended service interval, thats all.

Please Note that the latest API Rate is SN (2011) which which is well above the older SM (2004), SL (2001) and SJ (1997). These ratings are backwards compatible but with exceptions. So, it means you can use SN, SM, SL, SJ but not SH, SG, SF etc

Collynzo29:
When will northerners say enough is enough?

Whats your thought on the killling of Hausa men by supposedly a hausa man.

Does that in anyway benefit the hausa man even if his cause is to Islamatise the whole country? He carries out his cause by killing his muslem brothers.

I dont see any sense in all these killings but i smell conspiracy.

If he can afford two cars, that means he can afford to present you a car key as a wedding present but not before.

Do you live under his roof at the moment? If no, you have no right to even think of that. You can make him your personal driver and thats the limit.

You need to check the car for the brake binding.

Google the symptoms.

Its simple.

The police probably stopped you and asked for papers. You handed to them papers of the car you recently purchased which bears the seller's name. You also handed them your drivers license showing your name which has no relationship with the owner. They asked you who the owner is, you probably said 'i just bought it'. They ask you for proof and you gave them a transaction receipt. The receipt does not show that the seller willingly agreed on the sale so police assume the worst, ITS A STOLEN CAR UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE.

A change of ownership agreement with the sellers name and signature is the closest convincing document you should have had. In this condition the seller must show up with his ID showing his name that corresponds to the car's document for the car's release.

You are lucky the did'nt throw you in the cell with the allegation. Get the seller (real owner) to the police station fast. After that, you get an agreement and get a change of ownership certificate (N2,000) with which you can change the name on all the other documents will be change on expiry.

Is this to counter the picture of Tambuwal driving himself?

The two pictures cant be compared, its a lame one from Jonas people.

Does the President have to wait for his flight or what?

aljharem:
Like he has a choice. All escort has been remove from him.

He actually has a choice. He could hire thugs to escort him just like Fayose and many PDP stalwarts do!

bhobhot:
What if I cover the O2 sensor with something which has high heat resistance like exhaust sealer so that no air will be read through? or completely remove the sensor what will happen??

It is designed to test for specific range of oxygen in the exhaust gases, if you remove entirely, the sensor will not be fooled since the oxygen level will be above the specific range and will almost certainly throw you a different code.

cretin:
as THE PRESIDENT of FRIENDS OF THE EARTH, NIGERIA BRANCH...I SAY THIS UR MOD IS increasing the emission/pollution level of ur car...pls stop it..the catalytic converter was placed in the car to help cut down on exhaust gas/emissions.........removing is contributing to green house gases n pollution...imagine what wud happen if 30% of all car owners in lagos copied this mod?

It is important to note that almost or if not all brand new cars sold in Nigeria do not have emission control systems installed. Same with tokunbo cars from europe. Mostly tokumbo cars from North America are the ones with emission control due to their laws. We dont have such laws in Africa.

I do not mean its a good thing to perform the tweak, if you care for the environment and can afford to maintain you emission control system, please do. If you cant afford to keep the system intact, do what the op says to have a better mileage if there is a CEL due to the system.

andre82:
In addition to what lomomike and Gazzuzz had said, .............I gat nothing, man. Carry on...

LOL

In addition to all, if your wheel bearing is bad and completely dry of grease, it will run hotter than usual. You will have to identify and separate brake binding first.

I thought this is the American model Toyota Corolla. Its already in Nigeria, i have seen it so many times. This one looks probably like the sports version which i have not yet seen.

anneki:
@adanny01

Chairman. A semi-synthetic / synthetic blend going all the way to 10,000 miles ? Would strongly advise against it. Can the additive pack last that long? Better to be safe than sorry.

I said am considering. I am considering that for economical reasons and also that i have since the initial switch topped with almost 3 litres of the same new milemaster. In other words i have a mixture of good and bad oil with the old one almost totally replaced (4.2 less 3litres). My initial target was 7500miles being half way between recommended 10kmiles with synthetic and 5kmiles with dino.

If there is anything am scared of is the filter.

In my office car, Mobil xhp was used to service and has been on for a yr now which has done almost 20k kilometres and still counting. Their choice not mine.

I have been using milemaster 5w20 on 2003 Honda accord and have since done 7000miles and still going. I lost my Bosch filter early at 2000miles or there about to a mechanic puncture which i replaced with the conventional blue honda filter.

My engine oil has been shortening before the milemaster so i have no regrets due to shortage. I experienced better performance with it. The oil on dipstick still looks good tempting me to go all the way to 10,000miles. I have since bought a whole extra 5litre gallon for topping the shortage which has gone just beyond half way. Probably thats why the oil still looks good. I add a quarter of a litre every 600miles.

yousee:
Tell the guy with you in that pic that someone from his wusasa days says hi

Lol. Will tell him. Small world. Saint Bath abi?

Atouke:
which minister did you host and on which project? If you are telling the truth, bare it all out so we can all hear!Otherwise stop making unsubstantiated claims.
Ibeno is a nice peaceful communities that is welcoming to any legal investment that will benefit its communities. If your investment is legitimate and does not involve infringing on the locals who are very aware of their rights you should have no objections in getting approvals.
FYI its not the place for govt to do everything.

Ufan mi, like i said before, i owe you no explanation or further details. If you wish, call me a liar. What i have seen, heard and the threats to my life were personal or official experiences which i am not willing to share on this forum.

Just like you said, Ibeno is a nice place, i visited it so many times to catch fun with friends and family. Like any other place, there are downsides and that is what i have mentioned. In several occasions, i found it hard to walk bare footed from where i parked without feeling like am walking on dirt. You talk about getting approvals like its the only thing you have to do to invest in a community. Once again, if you have no experience you need to keep quiet.

Your last line is way off. That beach if you don't know is a public natural recreational site which the government must maintain or develop. Our government is blinded by oil money that's why these little tourist sites are not converted to revenue generating source of the government.