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smartchoice: Give an exhaustive explanation for your disappearing acts!

Omoh ! work wan kill me..always on deadlines..i thank God for His Grace. How you dey with your benz's?

My black Benz, sometimes is misconstrued for an s class "sport" by friends though i keep correcting them that it's a c class exprit . You know , exprit has this sporty looks unlike others. It's this looks that attracted me to it, ever since i have been doing crazy things with it

My street boy once said that each time i cruise pass he feels like a president cruising on leisure ride.

thanks dearie

inze: Welcome Back, Mr. Hanson

Just to add to this my Yungboss: Dude, dont change that engine from what it is to another brand, in order not to lose the porsche flavour, rather rebuild it with very close supervision to make sure that the techi get it right especially when it has to do with measurement of the diameter of the bores, slip rings , metals, crank shaft, tulips, valves, gasket, connector rods etc, and their material quality(this is where our techis usually goes wrong when not supervised with keen interest) . This will last you just like a new engine of that nature, if only you can supervise it to the letter. A 350 hp ride of the 80s is no "beans".. and dont be discouraged.

Good luck

CityNG: Without seeing pictures and knowing how some Nigerians have total disregard for vehicle maintenance I will be holding my judgement until you post pics.

Now, the 924 and then the 944 were trend setters when they were released. They were technological powerhouses (as things go maybe even a Kia Sephia has more horsepower than that now) and were the talk of the automotive town back then.

I would restore one but I have already checked off the 924/944 from my bucket list and there are other cars to be sampled.

A good engine candidate is if you can get your hands on a Buick 215 V8, it was used in many British vehicles like the Rovers. This engine can be rebuilt to make huge horsepower (I have a friend with a 750hp). It's all alloy so very lightweight (there may be some steel block though) and should be very cheap in Nigeria (Land Rovers have them). The engine is even lighter than the I4 that Porsche used.

So unless something is totally wrong with this car then it's an automotive buy.

Another thing that I do is to speculate. Buy the car, clean it up, do easy repairs/upgrades and then see if you can flip it. I am sure there's going to be a German in Nigeria that may want it for Sunday cruises. I say this because once you remove the engine and start dismantling it looses value totally until it is completed.

Re sobrique, I know nothing of what you speak of, I'm but an "unknown and faceless Nairalander"

Its doable but over here you would have problem with rewiring the electricals(relays, fuses ignition and so on except done by an expert which you would hardly find here)and brainbox if you had to use w202 engine, but w201 or 230 vboot or higher engine will do, guys readily does it everyday here.

gaussy: Still waiting for your input, where are the benz gurus Smartchoice, Siena, Kuntash, Trac, Au. hanson, Ziccoit etc.....

Me wether manual or auto tranny , whichever enters my hand i "Domic Torreto(fast and furious )" with it; i kickdown , downshift, revolves, burnout and drag race with both of them as no mans biz.

When i drive my auto , guys ask wether it is manual, cos i'm no " D " driver . When i drive my manual, i kept on wondering what is meant by burning of clutch cos it refuses to happen despite the hard drive, abuses and hold ups.

Auto is good and manual as well is gud and far cheaper to maintain over the years with no hassles, wether you Domic Torreto with it or not. I enjoy every minutes of my driving, wether in the city or on the higway, its usually a great fun. If i feel like manual, i give it a shot; if i feel like auto, i give it a shot in much the same way and manner too.

Manual makes u feel kinky on the steering ; Manipulating an auto tranny too into manual is even another form of fun, a wonderful experience on the steering but fuel consuming. So keep what gives you passion and relief from hard days work, make driving a pleasure and fun. see ya

yungboss: ..did you replace your exhaust with the twin pipe of the c220, it may help in some gain in hp...

I think that is good recommendations there. I remembered doing same to my MB 190 when i upgraded, it actually gave a better flowthrough with an extra horsepower.

I need that extra horsepower..feel like doing same to my c180 with an engine swap of 220, whether 230 can enter there without having to change the ECU and wires?

smartchoice: take off is mad....crazy....before blinking I find myself on 120-140 Ilesha Ibadan Express road. However I put a 220 engine not a 180. It idles @ 700rpm unlike the 180 that had to be adjusted to idle at 1000rpm to maintain stability.....though there have been challenges like bad nozzle seals which I had to replace but it runs on Total Quartz 9000 Synthetic which I dared not try on the 180 engine.

Guy, sure say i no go swap my own engine too with 220 like yours.

That nozzle seal na small problem na, u fit commot from old engine and replace, or buy "belgium" from the market.

What other challenges have you got with it?

Lumyboi: Have you been to Nigeria recently and tripped for how people name cars? - especially honda accord?

Men I dey trip, and people understand those names readily in Nigeria .

Here a some of the ones i know:
For Honda Accord
Bullet
Bulldog
Pure water
Baby boy
Halla
End of discussion
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Some Others
Toyota Camry '07    -   Muscle

orobo
spider
big for nothing
evil spirit
beast

Why dont we decease from swapping engine, but rather rebuild our engine back to standard with oem parts? Does it mean that they will not last this way? Is there anything wrong with doing it this way?

That's correct mr prudence. Also, if your fan is not connected to crank at start up, barely a min of starting your car, you could see it approach 80 degrees mark with speed. and each time you stop and crank, if the temp goes above 90, it will bring it down sharp sharp like magic to about 80+ . saving you a lot of stress..Just try it and see. You see the weather and your cabin heat is on the high side and its duty is to bring it down to manageable level sharp sharp.

I put off the ignition in the traffic expecting a rise as i put it on , definitely it hits 90+ as soon as i crank back, but all of a sudden, it fell back to 82+ immediately, just like magic(that is if your viscous fan clutch and the external fans are in order).

[quote author=prudence.smart]Mr Hanson, your knowledge of Benz is overwhelming by the day, and the manner you pass the message across in respect to the locality, a lame man can understand . Good job keep it up. I have been enjoying all the way, nice hobby though to an IT guru[/quote]Ha ha ha, Prudence you are flattering me here..thanks anyways

You see , when i was in Iowa in 2005/6 pursuing a course in computer hardware maintenance and web development, i was always missing home , i wanted to know how things fare at home , the contrast between home and abroad usually excited me, that is why i always curtail my solution to the particular locality at stake because i know enthusiast abroad would always want to know how it goes over here.They miss the territory. Anyway that is from experience

Back to the topic, i was just wondering this morning , my mind was just driving at this thermostat thing and the season at stake overhere at the moment, then i said to myself, if i had a nightmare(head gasket cracked 2 times) about 2 years ago with 85 degrees thermostat in my MB 190 and had to change it to 71 degrees and the nightmare went off,by analogy, then why don't i try similar thing and see. So this morning i decided to swap the 87 degrees thermostat with 71 degrees both whaler brand in my MB c180 just to observe this crasy temperature rise..just an experiment that could turn into a theory for the locality at stake.

I tested the 71 degrees thermostat on a hot afternoon sun, took out the car for a ride of about 8 miles distance, visiting places i had not visited for so long. In about some few minutes the temp settle at about 82 degrees celsius, as i survive the traffic without having to deploy any management skill like before and came back home the temp hits 90s+ but never exceeded 100 degrees unlike before, where it would have hit 110+ putting my fans in panic mode(and eventually my ECU will shutdown the ride at the middle of the road,what an embarrassment untill the system cools off). see picture below. So i stand to deduce that:

1. Temperature thing is territorial and seasonal
2. In this season, a gain of extra 10 degrees is added to your normal thermostat range.That is if your installed thermostat reading is 71, definitely your overall temp will gauge about 82 degrees;if your installed thermostat reads 87 degrees definitely your overall temp will gauge about 99 degrees and so on...
3. It wouldn't be a bad practice to install 71 degrees thermostat in this season and have peace of mind than managing in panic mode.

Please contrary opinion is welcome

See pictures below of my MB 190 and C class 71 degrees thermostat installed in both cases

ziccoit: Thanks au.hanson, I will look into what you said.


Meanwhile, the CCU is actually faulty. The unit is as good as not functioning. The display is gone. The buttons are not working. When the car came, it was wired to a component the rewire called "flash" to make the ac work. I have to ask them to reverse the wiring "work", knowing fully well the CCU is bad. I don't want them to spoil my AC system.

Thanks.

Ok, then change the bad component first before touching any other thing,who knows if the system just needed that alone to function well. You are welcome

matson: Noticed I didn't respond on the outcome. I did as instructed, i.e had tank washed and it fixed the problem till the tank got to reserve mark, had to take it to Alhaji Kehinde. Apparently the gauge was the problem, he fixed it but worked a few days too. I had to get the pump replaced and all has been well since then. Bought the pump at N27,000.

Thanks for the feedback at last. it is always good to give a feedback so for others to learn too. But you didn't tell us what he did to the gauge?

Sometimes the problem may not look like it sound not until you are on site, then would you see a different thing you never really thought of . It has happen to me on few occasions.

inze: I used to think leaving the ac on helps keeps the car from overheating. I noticed once when I had a gas-leak on my ac-system, that day I decided to turn off ac while I head for a seal and refill immediately but encountered a bit of traffic. There and then, I noticed the temp. rising while the engine was idling. I proceeded to turn on the ac(as I saw the rise) and it started going down gradually while still idling in traffic.

In your own case your electrical(external fans) did not come in full blast yet, it was your ac that trickers them to full blast, thats why your engine became cooler, that means you hadn't reach your maximum temperature for the fans to have come up or you fan module has a little fault

Your ac adds a great deal of load on your car, but the fans in full blast helped in cooling the system, but idling for a very long time in a very hot weather will compel you to shutdown the ac, or your system will shut them down on its own if it is still within the factory settings controlled by your ECU

Also the load from your ac becomes less as your refrigerants leaks

smartchoice: thanks, I have done some of the things listed here already.

In that case, then your guess is as good as mine. Its either you manage it the way it is like i did until the season is over, or you do the otherwise..its a matter of decision taking.

How to manage:

1.At hold up you could just be disengaging the gears and do little reving now and then just to boost the fans to cool the system while the engine is on no load, and only engage the gear as you are about to move

2.Putting off the ac

3.Intermittently putting off the car while idling and turn it on again almost immediately just before the fan goes off to further cool off the system

4.Flip the climate controls to vent, turn on the heater to maximum, turn the fan to maximum. Point the vents out the window to reduce the heats on you if the weather is hot cos the temperature inside could be very hot, that will make you sweat like a hegoat.

Surprisingly, running your heater at full blast takes away the heat significantly from your engine keeping it cool because that very heat is what is usually trapped to heat up your engine to its operational temperature

smartchoice: not referring to the car.....real baby!

Oh! Oh! Oh! my honey? She is doing real fine , they are enjoying daddy seriously..i take them out and make them feel the love of their Daddy...

smartchoice: the over heating has not stopped any small hold up sees my temp @ 100 Celsius. And serious malfunction of the car.

It may likely be the season here at the moment, it is worst than the summer in Indonesia,Texas, hot European countries and the North America. The atmospheric temperature could be as high as 28 to 32 degrees celcius..That is why you see some cars coming from there carrying 71 degrees celcius thermostat. Mine with 87degrees celsius does same too in this season but only in a heavy long stop and go holdup. Infact at two occasions my ECU had to shutdown my fuel pump to save the car from damages when it got to 110. So mostly i use my MB 190 now, the one with 71 degrees celsius thermostat. More on this is found here:"https://www.nairaland.com/1087033/reliability-c180-w202s-general/9#20485143" . But let us not conclude matters yet in your own case.

First, start by checking your radiator cover for leakages, and replace that if it leaks or suspect leakage. I did this in my case and it improved a little.

Then check your radiator itself too for leakages and the radiator core plugs in the engine block or near the cylinder head for leaks and for dirt.

Oxidation, dirts and sludge can clog your radiator core. It can even be the result of adding too much stop leak to the system. Inshort, do a steam wash and flush your radiator very well to clear any clogging in the cells. This may help, but probably you are headed for a radiator replacement because this may be as the result that the radiator is too old or has high mileage.

You can as well ask your mechanic to pressure test the cooling system , that equipment is not expensive. It can even be done free for you.

Check your radiator cooling fan and be sure they are all working fine.

Your cooling system may have trapped air. Usually in a new system like this when you pour in your coolant, you do not close the other end of the waste pipe while idling your vehicle and pouring in coolant untill there is a steady flow of water escaping through the waste pipe, local way of doing it.

Some cars have a bleeder on the thermostat housing that can be opened to release the trapped air. Most of the time trapped air is the problem when the car overheats within a short time of a major cooling system repair.

You may have a defective Fan Clutch. On rear wheel drive vehicles with belt-driven cooling fan, a "fan clutch" is often used to improve fuel economy. The clutch is a viscous-coupling filled with silicone oil. The clutch allows the fan to slip at high speed, which reduces the parasitic horsepower drag on the engine. If the clutch slips too much, however, the fan may not turn fast enough to keep the engine cool.

The silicone fluid inside the clutch breaks down over time and can leak out due to wear, too. If you see oily streaks radiating outward on the clutch (and/or the fan can be spun by hand with little or no resistance when the engine is off), it means the clutch is bad and needs to be replaced. Any play or wobble in the fan due to wear in the clutch also signals the need for a new clutch.

Thermostat too can be the culprit, we have already covered so much on that.

Your cooling/external fans may not be working well. You can test this by putting your ac on at the highest speed after starting your car, if your fans doesn't come up after a very short while or immediately then something is wrong somewhere; you may have a blown fuse, or fail fan relay or the fan itself.

The last but not the least, Your head gasket may have started failing, you may have a crack there or a blown head gasket.

In extreme case, this can show itself with plumes of white smoke billowing from your exhaust pipe telling you that coolant is pouring into your car's cylinders. If it leaks to the outside, you will see puddles of coolant under your car that are not located near anything that should leak.The car simply will not start after you have turned it off when it is hot. This may not pertain to you, as you have just fix a new engine but if it does then you may have to replace your head gasket-dont be in a hurry to do that yet. Start from the least things from above.

ziccoit: Thank you Au.hanson for the extensive write up. I definitely got and understood the message. I will keep to the factory installed thermostat. I don't think the one presently in there has failed yet. The electric radiator fan that stay on at high speed as soon as engine starts may have something to do with CCU which I am going to change as soon as I get one. It has to do with the faulty CCU because I noticed the fan didn't kick on with the engine on three occasions. This shouldn't have happened; had it been the wiring had been tampered with. The faulty CCU could not be recognized by ECU making the fan runs in emergency mode.

I think so too, else you should be hitting above 80 in a normal day after driving despite the fact that you have 71 degrees thermostat in there. Its abnormal for the fan at factory level to just kick in as soon as your vehicle is crank. Have you scan to see if you could have any info to that, you should have something like P0481 or p0493 or thereabout..cant really remember, but i have scan this for a close friend in his honda accord. You will need a good electrical person to have a look at it probably the type you could contact from an MB service centre under a private arrangement.

Alternatively, you could test the wires linking to and from the cooling fan and to the fan module with a multimeter to test for their resistances and also to check for any bridging, and rewire same as appropriate..that was what i did for prudence around the messy coil wires, the resistances actually fail below 0.03 threshold and i suspected bridging somewhere too, with that i had to rewire the entire units neatly..so it may not be the ccu that is faulty. So after doing that, if things dosen't still work well you could then replace the ccu. A good logical thinking and sensible electrician should know how to go about this, dont take someone that will want to by pass the system and rewire what he knows. Pick from a service centre or you could do it alone if you know how to handle a multimeter and couple ends of wire connectors

ziccoit: @Prudence.smart, you are telling me something here. You are, through Au.hanson, giving answer to one of my curiosities about this car. When I got my car, I checked through every parts I could locate making sure I know what each of them is called and how it functions. I also take note of every sticker and stamp all around the car. One of the sticker/stamp on the frame in the hood actually shows a thermometer with temperature ranging between 60-80*celcius! That got me thinking and curious. Now with what you stated above, I can say my car engine working temperature is between 60-80 degree Celsius.

The coolant temp gauge is always a little below 80 degree (around 78) with or without AC. I have been contemplating about changing my thermostat thinking the engine is running cold. Can we now say 78 is actually within the normal average for my car?

Ok, Ziccoit, i see, your car must have come from one of the hot zone like Indonesia, Texas, North American countries etc.

I am going to be very practical here with the locality concern rather than following industry theory blindly.

Many would tell you that even if the temperature rises through 87 to 120 etc , there's no problem..that is even written all over internet, but i will tell you that there is a problem. Definitely if my car rises to 110, the ecu will shutdown my engine to prevent damage and it will not start untill the temperature false below 98 degrees celcius(it has happen to me recently for like 2 times in this season in a go and stop traffic) this same car will behave differently in the temperate zone,or during wet season and morning hrs. That is to say that the atmospheric temperature of a place has a lot to play too..it has a lot of effect on the car as well. I have to be very logical here.

In Ph, now a days, it is common to have as high as28 to 32 degrees Celsius of temp for several days, and is very common for your fan to be blasting at full swing in the go and stop traffic full time and with your temp to be over 100 degrees. Even if you had a 71 degrees thermostat installed, in this situation, it wouldn't take up to 1hr in a go and stop traffic for it to rise to 100, and not up to 20 min for it to reach 100 too with an 87degrees installed thermostat. If the vehicle is run this way on a daily basis, you would start frying your head gasket gradually , it will only take a matter of time for the result to appear(i am talking from experience, my benz 190 is the experimental scape goat here, i use to go to and from work from GRA to Choba daily and that is about 8 miles distance if i am not mistaken). Two times i have blown the head gasket untill i switch over to 71 degrees thermostat and installed a bigger fan, since then , no more blowing of head gasket. But that wouldn't have happen if it were not a daily affair, and i would have still believe this popular theory till date. Atmospheric temperature of the place and traffic too matters in this aspect of thermostat choice in relation to your radiator size, electrical fans and the thermostat range. I welcome any contrary view, but i wont shy away from this practical experience to impress anybody.

Alternatively, you could still overcome this with this same 87 degrees thermostat if you have bigger stronger fans and radiator installed other than the one the came with the car, then you will still protect and preserve this theory.

The range of 60 to 80 you saw is the recommended range for your car, if you go below it you will have thick carbon blown through your exhaust pipe(wasting fuel and clogging your catalytic converters and 02 sensors), meaning your car is running rich and might be shaking too.

If you stay within that range , your car will run normal(it wouldn't run rich and would not shake), try it and see. It will mix proper proportionate amount of fuel and air for burning and protect your head gasket too as well,because there is always the tendency for it to run higher than that at a stop and go traffic in our territory. If your range fall within these (60-80),running 78, isn't bad, definitely if you are in for some times in a go and stop traffic you would always run above 80, no doubt about that, but it wouldn't be so bad as to expose your head gasket to danger. But if you are always running above this range in this kind of weather then sorry because over time the result will come to play, you wont escape it, unless you dont drive that much.

I believe what i have stated here is well understood and not to contradict.. i didnt want to bring it here, if not for the request, because some people might misunderstood it all. Infact, my benz c180 carries 87 degrees, this is one of the reason why i dnt like driving it that much around this season(this hot harmattan, because the temperature rise in stop and go traffic in the day in PH always keep me worried) but my 190 that is installed 71 degrees

smartchoice: okay, how is the baby?

Oh! She is doing fine and hearty ..she kicks all the way with good handling and good food to keep at optimal condition.. though recently i'm more of my Benz 190 love as my daily ride, because of the near total deplorable state of the roads..still under heavy construction.

I believe you must be enjoying your new engine? and the over heat has stopped? else we can discuss it a little more with suggested solutions

ziccoit: @au.hanson, Prudence said something relating to engine working temperature on W202 thread. Can you kindly go in there and voice your opinion and understanding? Thanks as you are doing so.

Ok! you mean c180 thread? I'll go and check it up.

ziccoit: @au.hanson you are welcome back on board. Hope you are staying on this time around. Thanks for your efforts. The one that has gone bad in my car is digital climate control unit, ther automatic one. I saw it on ebay with price ranging between $50-$250 excluding transportation fees.

Oh sorry! My understanding was the 'automatic ac control unit' as you quite stated..That not withstanding, can you rephrase the name well as it pertain to your car, your pictures are not very clear. I cant pick the detail to really understand what its is like

However, forget ebay, their "shakara" with Nigeria is unnecessarily unbecoming , and is annoying..I dont have to beg them to be partronised. You can source from elsewhere like aliexpress and they will deliver staright to your doorstep with UPS or DHL. Infact, anything you could buy from ebay can be bought elsewhere like aliexpress, cnautotools etc and delivered straight to your home. i have bought a lot of items from abroad and delivered to me at my doorstep from other merchant site at even better prices than ebay, i dont have to narrow my world to their mercy, no , not at all.

Is this what you meant?

Hello smart choice, I don't have it for sale, but that's d market price I enquire here. They hardly know it by name, unless accompany with a picture

@ Prudence, Eyop, Ziccoit,yungbos, Aikerism and lots of you, i must say i'm oblige by your kind words.

Honestly i didn't expect Prudence to publish this here, But his kind heart did. Honestly i was even trying to protect his privacy by doing that discreetly, else i would have pictured the whole thing for your digest in this thread. If i have to fix the remaining aspect, the bad valves on bank2 cylinder 2, with his permission, i'll feature some aspect here for your digest.

Once again, thanks and Merry Christmas to you all.

At Ziccoit, i'm sorry for this late response, i had a long day, the item you requested is sold here for 10,000.00 at the after market, i dont know if this is still relevant to you, but i believe it should be a lot cheaper, even half of that price in Lagos and Onitsha

Onyenna: 235-50-18 and 245-50-18 will have same height..the only difference is the width(ie 235 & 245)...255-40-18 will still be of same height but shorter-stomach-area(by the side) and it will probably have the largest width compared to 235 and 245...they all have a difference of 10(width-wise) ie 235,245 and 255...... Summary: they all have same height which means your car is Balanced..... You're not in any Danger sir.....

just to correct a little error there, 245/40/ 18 is a little bit higher than 235/40/18, also 250/40/18 is higher than 245/40/18:because of their percentage of the width. Hence, 235/40/18 is equivalent in height to 225/45/17, 215/60/15, 205/65/15 and 245/35/18. etc. Its simple math, u can do the calculation yourself.
Yes, they may be beautiful, but you would only gain insignificant mpg on d highway but lose insignificantly too in the city.

funky medina: There is a level of poverty in Nigeria that should be unacceptable. I cannot understand why Nigerians are not more angry than they are...

Food for thought..Come to think of it, the same old politicians 30 years ago, are still the same persons dragging away 1/3 of the nations resources to themselves and yet no one has done anything to correct this abnormally. It has even become a norm; laws are set to justify and legalise these feats, but look at , this is the height of corruption in the land

Where are we leading to where 3/4 of our budget are on recurrent expenditure and just 1/4 on capital expenditure? Where are we leading to when the gains of Abacha loots and the likes of it cannot be use to solve one or two peculiar problem's' in the land but shared among the various arms of government as bonuses meant to be spent?

Who is going to be brave enough to correct such abnormallies that has even been accepted as normal?

[quote author=prudence.smart]Please house, permit my unusual approach, all protocol observe.

I have a benz c180 94 model far back home in Nigeria, to be precise in PH with my mum, just yesterday she told me that the car entered a limb mode while she was driving. She narrated that she entered one unusual road that was so terrible, in some instances she had to put off the ac as the car would attempt to enter a limb mode under hard maneuvering, then at a point she couldnt bear the heat and dust than to just keep the ac life throughout the rough terrain , but unfortunately the car finally entered a limb mode and nothing she did could revive the vehicle, it had to be finally towed back home after having run down the battery and affected the kick badly.

Initially the car would crank but remains very powerless, could not accelerate when engaged the gear, now it cant even remain in idling anymore

Someone is coming to install a new key and bendit, and i have caution her not to stress the new kick untill i come home at christmas hols if solution could not be offered.

House please help. Thanks in advance.

Also,according to her initially before this incidence, the engine use to have a little noticeable shaking when first crank in the morning as though the engine sitting were bad or the water pump, where you have the hydrualic fan was making some unusual sound as in rattling.[/quote]Dont change anything just yet, though as you have said it may have overstressed the kick(i could still fix that for you , its only the appendix that could wear out in this case, and that cost just 1k5)the primary issue is a minor problem, first of all scan the vehicle.

You mention PH, thats my area. If i had seen this earlier on maybe i could have offered to squeeze out time to go there and sort out the issue for you free of charge on a saturday/sunday like this, tho i'm not a mechanic, i have done it for close friends before. Anyways , its not too late , you can send me pms against next weekend if that will be ok by you?

Sorry to disappoint you Trac, i'm not in for this protracted illness with you, wasn't born and brought up this way . Maybe you could find some one else to feud with; there may be many readily available to do just that with you,but not me. You may have succeeded in luring me to it in the first instance, being your nature not mine, but that was the last, i'm too busy for such inconsequentials at the moment.

So these whole bitterness was about Hanson, all the gigs and symphony? Oh mehn! that 's serious..was just curious and decided to throw in the game at the slightest opportunity that presented itself just to prove a point budd. Dont worry i wont publish the result here but bury within me, only the discerning mind can get these.

Now that i have prove my points, and i've drawn the conclusions of my experiment with you, now i know who you are..but why the lies about not holding grudges against Hanson?

One more thing, dont work up yourself just yet, cos i have deleted the post that got you so upset surprisingly(a rational plain minded woundn't). If there is anything else you want me to do so that you could be at peace with Hanson just let me know budd. or should i leave the thread for you if the name Hanson causes you nausea? you dont need to answer straight so that other buddies would know , you may do it codedly or send me pms, i will understand and do just that for you- I can sacrifice that for you, atleast let your mind be at peace with Hanson


[quote author=prudence.smart]Please house, permit my unusual approach, all protocol observe.

I have a benz c180 94 model far back home in Nigeria, to be precise in PH with my mum, just yesterday she told me that the car entered a limb mode while she was driving. She narrated that she entered one unusual road that was so terrible, in some instances she had to put off the ac as the car would attempt to enter a limb mode under hard maneuvering, then at a point she couldnt bear the heat and dust than to just keep the ac life throughout the rough terrain , but unfortunately the car finally entered a limb mode and nothing she did could revive the vehicle, it had to be finally towed back home after having run down the battery and affected the kick badly.

Initially the car would crank but remains very powerless, could not accelerate when engaged the gear, now it cant even remain in idling anymore

Someone is coming to install a new key and bendit, and i have caution her not to stress the new kick untill i come home at christmas hols if solution could not be offered.

House please help: au.hanson, Ikenna, Trac and all others your input and wonderful expertrate is welcome here. Thanks in advance.

Also,according to her initially before this incidence, the engine use to have a little noticeable shaking when first crank in the morning as though the engine sitting were bad or the water pump, where you have the hydrualic fan was making some unusual sound as in rattling.[/quote]@ Prudence.smart, wht you narrated there could be narrowed down to your fuel system , or electrical issues(issues to do with fuel pump, plugs etc). I wont be surprise if the result of a scan test reads p0300 trouble code(a ramdon cylinder misfire , may have series of other codes in chain).

Dont change anything just yet, though as you have said it may have overstressed the kick(i could still fix that for you , its only the bendix that could wear out in this case, and that cost just 1k5)the primary issue is a minor problem, first of all scan the vehicle.

You mention PH, thats my area. If i had seen this earlier on maybe i could have offered to squeeze out time to go there and sort out the issue for you free of charge on a saturday/sunday like this, tho i'm not a mechanic, i have done it for close friends before. Anyways , its not too late , you can send me pms against next weekend if that will be ok by you?

Gone

malpigi: hi, au.hanson, please kindly help me out on this thread, please

www.nairaland.com/1531592/serious-need-very-good-nissan.

thanks in advance

ok, no fears!!

Mr Trac, welcome back.

I'm very pleased to welcome you back, though you haven't been responding to my referral, it's understood. It's difficult to resist nairaland, and MB thread in particular if you have Nigeria at heart; this is the mirror of naija people residing both home and abroad.

Once again,sincerely, you are welcome

michfab: One of the coils gone bad; check if ur car engine spill on, not necessarily dripping on the floor. Just check if there is oil spill on the engine body

@ Michfab, can you throw more light on this? the engine oil spill thing in relation to the coil?