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skj1377:
Changed radiator and battery need to change shocks from sports to normal changed all four tyre serviced ac car good to go

What i'm i seeing ..but why do you have to change the sport shocks that many of us are dyeing for, why nna? Do you know that many can bet their testicle for it?

You would have altered the perfect sporty balancing of the car and the sporty beauty we like to see but may now make your car resemble some kind of antelope.
Let me beg you to retain the sport shocks and sport tyres, if they came with that. It plunge some outstanding beauty,especially if you match with low profile tyres with some beautiful rims.. you need to see ma Benz

Also, be careful what you are doing with the electricals of that car, dont mean any offense. If you may have to change battery , make sure you are giving it same or higher capacity battery if the one there is bad.

if i may ask , why do you want to change the radiator?

DGD1:
I nominate you as Benz brand ambassador.

once they appoint you, you can compensate me with a brand new S550, hope am not asking too much?

Are u sure you can keep with that Beast, cos it surely gonna happen? You better ask for pure water if you gonna have peace of mind, cos i would not have u complain in that S550

DGD1:
highlander/RX/exterra etc are all SUVs with good ground clearance. By law of physics(stability) such cars will roll over in abrupt maneuvers.
you get to see more of these cars crash because they sell in large quantity, and mistakes on the part of drivers.
there are some bends a Camry will enter and a highlander dare not to talk of an exterra or 4runner.
from your point of view, u seem to be comparing Benz cars to jap SUV, because in your analysis u never mentioned any of the jap cars roll over.
90% of people who buy Benz in Nigeria, buy it for show off, to show class

Here you are, you got it wrong again..if you had read my earlier post, you would have seen where i made mentioned of swiveling and oversteering into the bush to discover a stream in a camry car.

Also, if you think they bought the Benz for show, then you are barely reading their minds, and you are wrong.. They bought it for the machine,for the stuff they are made of which is lacking in the Jap mobile: the back axle superior driven mechanics, the strong superior suspension, the turning radius,the tireless long distance travels, stability and agility, the hard braking and maneuvering( is it doughnut, is it stunting , is it performance, is it durability, safety and strength?). You can go on with the list. These are reasons we buy them and not just for show as you may think.

@Lomo...

This is the 3rd party things as per electricals of vehicle that can trickers so much . It even happened to my neighbours 2007 Toyota Camry so much that she had to park the car and went back to her v boot

That was Toyota little attempt to go luxury see what they faced, how much more those who have been buried in luxury for yrs.

Ask for the Benz , you would be surprise that without any repair you would be surprised at how those component would start working again on its own without any repairs , so far the owner keeps on using the vehicle and take good care of cleaning it , especially socket wires relays and fuses terminating ends. so its really nothing to worry about. that is electrical for you , its not a Benz thing . it could have been any other car like the example of the spider , if they dare it.. Dirt most time causes those things , especially if the vehicle has been parked for 2 long in a dirty condition

It happen to me when i bought my c class newly from a careless Nigerian, Though the said car has now turn grade. My inner light gauge , etc refuses to work , all i had to do was just to unplug electrical components clean them up and fix them back and use the right or recommended battery amps for my car and the whole wahala stop. Little wonders the unreliability hypes and facade, why people goes to pay fortune to get little issues resolved, that would have just needed little but thorough clean up. These are electricals and dirts and partial contact, and nothing more. You don't need to pay any bills here

DGD1:
mr auhanson, you didnt get the gist, no one is talking about. FWD n RWD cornering etc you are just talking asif its only Japanese cars that crash on the road and I feel its not fair. I don't need to repeat what nurey and lomomike have said.

I got every inch of the gist, but i'm only telling us that, that the reliability thing is a facade. The real issues are these time bombs waiting to explode some days.

If you were to be in an automobility active state like mine, you would be met with enough evidences on the downside of these Toyotans(Rx and Highlander, icluding exterra. i will snap a few shot to show you if am chance) in a daily basis , then you will ask yourself if it is only Toyota that mad men drives. It is not, its just the defect of the car in their bid to cutdown cost at all cost, ignoring vital issues as such.

If you saw a Benz roll over, watch out, the mechanic may have played some pranks with the stabilizer linkages, or thyroid, or bowjoint, and that is even very very rare even by the worst careless owners of decades of ownership

praxisnetworks:
full tank for you if you can show me a rusting S Class!
Presidents use that ride not because of fun....but because every trip in it is a VACATION!

Never, because they are handled by responsible people who do good washing down part in and out . A careless person wouldn't afford that. Hence, could never be rendered to any rusty condition. I have owned 2 Benz's that aged over a decade (in an even a salty topography)without any rust because i wash my car myself and kept to the rules. I'm usually amazed when i heard and witness these rust thing in some Benz, i use to wonder how manage? But lo , its no other reason than dirty careless ownership

praxisnetworks:
The Lexus is designed to be on the same level as the Mercedes S class...
Mercedes...Unlike Any Other
Mercedes....Engineered to move the human Spirit!

Buy Mercedes S class(or any other sedan) and Lexus of same model year and subject both under same environmental condition,be it harsh or normal, come back a few yrs to compare the rate of depreciation among the two, both physical and mechanical wise then you would conclude your hypothesis which one is actually a hype- and which you could actually continue owning over years again? Then you will know they are not mate in any circumstance and can never be compared even though claimed to be on the same level.

They get rusted by careless owners who left muddy and salty water settle on hidden parts. From experience, if you wash stuffs clean and rinse out , both under and hidden parts, i bet you you will never find any evidence of rust. Why they get rusted under such careless act is because they are made of certain higher grade pan that is meant to last more than normal. I prefer that to those strip down bournvita pan like used in those jap mobiles to prevent rust and to cut down cost.

lomomike:
I finish my usual prayers then check NL... Next na to crash because I have to be in church tomorrow

Same here, good night ..got to wash my car very early and be in church as early as too

i dey on as usual..u nkor?

To add to that , just make sure you buy what tickles your fancy(you are buying for your leisure not for another mans dream) so that you could spare the time to take good care of it, just learn to understand it and you'll be fine.

Lomo, you worn nothing, its different folks for different strokes. I'll celebrate you with edikanikon & afan when ever u down South in my abode

lomomike:
You mentioned flip-overs roll overs and the likes.
Anyone who drives a tall vehicle either an SUV or a minivan and runs so fast, takes bends at high speed have suicidal tendency. Mercedes or no mercedes. This isn't about brand name this is pure physics at play due to 'high Centre of Gravity'. I've never felt unbalanced in any SUV I've driven. Most folks especially Hilux, Hummer bumber (toyota hiace), prado and landcruisers take abrupt maneuvers sharp turns and sudden hard braking at sharp bends. This is a recipe for lone accidents or roll overs, most folks turn sharply when one tyres have entered deep potholes at high speed. This happens to all cars and any who tries these in any SUV, truck, minivan or tall vehicle irrespective of the brand toyota or benz, will successfully end up rolling that tall vehicle over.
May I remind you toyota and lexus SUVs/CUVs are the safest on the road with the lowest number of fatalities when they are involved in a crash.

As for your friend telling me he experienced brake failure we know some brand of lexus/toyota had flaws in the design of their mats which interfered in their brake pedals. If he's car is one of them, then that's an exclusive case but for his brakes to go un-compliant if its not tampered with, I DON'T believe. In normal operation, toyotas from 2000 till date have some of the best brakes systems which don't fail easily except carelessness, poor handling, or software glitch and that has been proven over and over.
Mind you toyotas/lexus use disc all round too.
You claim toyota don't handle bends well, Benz primarily are RWD setup, toyotas are primarily FWD setups with very soft tuned shocks, its known RWD takes sharper bends than FWD except the FWD is tuned to give slight oversteer or some technologies play at point of turning like Sh-AWD systems in Acura.

May I remind you a Benz FWD is one of the car that failed the moose test whereas I've not read or seen anywhere where a toyota FWD failed a moose test?
Any RWD setup lexus such as GS and IS series would take corners sharp.

Anyone taking a point A-B sedan/suv like RX or camry for sports is a fool they're never designed to be sporty. They're just comfortable safe cruisers.


Finally machines aint 100% trusted, for they're NEVER 100% perfect or efficient.



Finally, I don't wanna believe your assertion because it lacks credibility, its doctored that even an infant would easily find out and dismiss off at the wave of his hands and you're ascribing super-machines status to a car that is known as the pioneers in automotive business yet can't overcome simple rust issues, electrical issues, reliability issues and the likes. Where I to be in your shoes, I'll not compare a luxury brand of over 100 years to a mid-class brand of less than 80 years.

Well, i dont think i can spare my time again on this , whatever your claims are is left for you, but for me i can't bet my testicle for any TOYO.. nor JAP mobile not after all the heck that i've seen, experience and witness with those shackles of machines. How do i convince myself that the very bad omen i saw and witness and experienced on a daily basis were just an illusion, to hail with these crabs... If i cant afford a Benz, or some German ride that fit my style and tickles my fancy and keep to the rules, then i stay without a ride. No Jupiter of pocket friendly analysis or whatever myths will make me bow to acquire some suicidal setups in the name of motto for point A to B, period.

I dont do front wheels, not even the type that Benz started compromising with for some gains per se.

DGD1:
mr lomomike u did a great job dere,
a senior colleague friend of mine was telling me I like using fake cars from corrola to pencil now added muscle to the cars. He use a baby benz (190) the car is very clean, we now had cause to travel to ado ekiti from Ibadan, I was suppose to go with the muscle but wanted to show him some things, so I went with the pencil, anybody familiar with ado ekiti road will know the sharp bends and hilly road. let me not go into details, but when we returned, he was already planning to buy a Jap, now he is using an accord(09)
when we talk about designs, Toyota might not be good but reliability they have it.
I want to bet most people hyping German cars are mechanics or closer to being one, if Siena starts to talk about Audi one will want to buy but the big question is do I have the technical know how to fix such car here in Nigeria. (am an engineer, I can boldly say no machine has 100% efficiency, new or fairly used)

It is no news to know that your toyota nor any other front wheel drive car cant stand a rear wheel driven car most especially in the category of Benz or any other German car except you want to tell me that your Toyota is an exception than the Toyota that we know.

For you< who maybe much more experience on the wheels with a prepared "plan b" state of mind to outsmart an unsuspicious and unprepared novice in that category doesn't debunk the very well stated fact that your Toyota couldn't have done better in sharp bends than a Benz car nor any other German product whether by trance, dreamland, or in this life. Why not call me to such contest ad lets settle this record once and for all?

If you saw a German car that turns the owner to mechanic, ask him the kind of fuel he uses, if that is the recommended fuel for his car?
if you saw the one that frequent mechanic, ask him if his mechanic do understand his electricals and had been doing justice to it? or he has just been destroying his car.

90 percent of the problems of German cars arose from the fact that her owners have not using the recommended fuel(premium fuel) and or treated fuel. The remaining 10 percent stemmed from improper electrical diagnoses which is common among such loaded vehicle be it German or Japanese, same thing goes.

lomomike:
RX, Rav4, Highlander are pseudo SUVs, they're CUVS or more appropriatrly put, Wagons. What is a wagon? An extended 2 box design car. They're meant to drive like sedans, give high MPG, city practicality and haul families comfortably. They're not really SUVs, if one wants a true SUV, he/she should get a 4Runner truck which comes either in RWD or 4WD.


He bought a fake oil filter. The genuine Toyota oil filter is about 1,500 here, and it doesn't leak even a bit. I bet his own oil filter has the red paper stuff without the metallic mesh. Genuine Toyota oil filter is dark with steel mesh inside. They also comes in different sizes. I've been using Toyota oil filter and I can easily tell just by weighing it with my hands.



I don't know about the hard breaking and loss of braking force. I'll say Toyota's brakes are very good. This isn't a gimmick or marketing thingy. I know what I am talking about. Last week Tuesday, I was driving and coming towards Galadima conoil, on AYA-Kubwa expressway, one car was behind me and another was by my LH side, suddenly, a car ran down the ramp into the expressway at high speed the driver didn't observe and I was very close less than 20 metres. I swerved and brake hard. If you go there, you might still see the ABS brake lines. I still use my HL till date no brake fade or brake failure. Do I tell you I run up to 180km/hr and I brake when cornering or when I see a pothole or an obstruction, yet I still have good brakes. My HL and RX are even better than my previous cars in brake performance.

Issue of hard turning and removal of shaft, I still haven't seen any, if they're I haven't seen but I don't think it won't make headlines if Toyota/lexus shafts pull away during hard cornering. I however know Toyota induce slight under steer in their AWD and FWD vehicles so you don't run down a steep corner at high speed. They configured it that way to keep the driver in control and prevent loss of steering power or traction.

As for Honda's shaft pulling off, why don't it happen in Europe, Asia, USA, Australia? Nigerian drivers and kazeems alike patronize fake, substandard, worn out beljium parts instead if brand new OEM parts.

I have no doubt that you of all men absolutely know what i'm talking about, but dont mislead others. I'll give you life scenarious:

Just come to Mgbouba Area and stand for like 3 hours at any car stand there while just watching the road, you will be shocked at the number of highlander and Lexus Rx that will be towed by as a result of uncontrollable outlandish flip overs, then "fever go catch you".

My friend just left his infinity fx 35 cross over for a Lexus rx330 because he taught the later was cheaper on pocket than the former, but he only lost his 3m but got his life spared miraculously by air bags when he summersaulted 8 times on Delta Warri express Road on his way to Benin . When asked he said he taught he was driving his infity fx 35, not knowing he was driving a time bomb waiting to explode someday

My colleagues nephew whose been driving his Benz c280 on similar errands, just took his wife highlander and got carried away as if he was crusing a German beast, he ended up discovering a new stream for the native of Isokko, after he oversteered and somersaulted into the bush and lost the million naira wagon or what ever name you call it.

My senior colleague beg me for a ride to town because he wasn't conversant with the area (and did not want to get stocked up by holdup), i oblige and gave him a treat in my usual freaky pleasurable driving style trowing and wagging my tail here and there while sweeping through and avoiding the traffic with daring breaking and forward acceleration and some kind of "doughnut" approach on my steering (else no need to be on the road). When we finally return in shorter than expected time he asked, "Do you so much trust your brakes as like that?" I responded hundred percent for over a decade now. he shook his head and told me how his brand new Toyota corolla brakes fail him about twice in what was suppose to be an emergency braking. He was coming on top speed on the airport road, only to see a man open the door of his car and just lean by it on the road discussing on phone, and a 7 tonne vehicle was coming in the opposite direction with the speed of a wild whirl wind too . He suddenly match his brakes to stop for the 7 tonne to pass before he will maneuver and continue, but the brake went flat, he shouted and struggle with the steering and manage to pass with 2 broken side mirrors and a little scratch from the "911" but the the faulted was ok though he felt down out of shock and would have almost been unconscious.This is just one of the occasions. I told him that i wasn't surprise because their car uses brake pad on 2 out of the 4 wheels while the rest are brake lining that can fail at any time just to minimise cost, where as my GERMAN MACHINE USES BRAKE PAD on ALL 4 WHEELS else i wouldnt be wagging my tail the way i did with confidence.

A woman was driving along the east west road, she suddenly hit a low bavement stone that was still under construction, the Lxus Rx just flip and fall 3 times and stood back on it wheels while subjecting the clean ride to a wreck of its own, leaving the woman unconscious. She wasn't on any speed that could have resulted into such unnecessary flip over and wreckage...

honmusa:
Alot of research and development is ongoing on miniaturizing and increasing the communication speeds between control modules,sensors etc which paves ways to LIN ,CAN and others technology in automobiles communication protocol .
Vendors especially BWM are now thinking along side of introducing wireless with fibre along the communication Bus in order to do away with physical wires which eventually goes a long way in reducing the fuel economy(due to reduced weight factor ) and give extremely superfast ultra speed communication protocol ,however inherent wireless security concern has been a limiting factor .
So if u can research on along the line of unbreakable wireless security communication protocol within the modular bus highway ,i think it can really explode more than u can imagine .
But dont forget to pay my title wen its become real sha o

Nice concept..Very interesting

lomomike:
Bro, I understand where you coming from. The benz experience and German cars. Well, let's get this straight. Most cars coming from Britain is nothing but trouble and big trouble at that.
Especially when they bear the suffix 'ROVER'

MG Rover brand, Range Rover, Freelander et al.

Do British make good cars?
Yes they make very good cars such as Bentley, Rolls Royce, et al.

Now, Do lomomike use any cheap Japmobile?
I can't tell, that's more of peoples opinion. One man's definition of cheap is another man's definition of expensive.

Would I buy the Range Rover brand new? Yes!
What if its used? No!

I feel you brother..The almost recent models of rover are nightmares to any careless person. I for one would not go near it. Do mistake once the car is gone forever. I have a friend who abandoned his 2007 Rover and kiss it good bye at his mechanic for a 2006 Lexus Rx330, after spending an almost equivalent amount he bought the car for nothing.

The whole episode started with a gearbox failure whom every effort to tackle was to no avail, it further lead to engine, brain box and gearbox replacement and some sensors, but all to no avail. The real truth behind her component is that once you miss the part number to any components replacement, that may be the beginning of an endless nightmare-and can be very unforgiving no matter the heaven and earth that your mech would promise you. But all that not withstanding, our boys have a good grasping of the earlier models and they are not that so unforgiving. Outside, they are very sweet driving machine, and very practical too.

N/B: What i meant by cheap Jap wasnt in any way to slide, but for the fact that these cars uses less than modest materials, cheap technology and budget components to fabricate their ride and have so much fake, substandard, but affordable spares in our market and for the fact that they have completely done away with the rear driven technology that was practical in the earlier models like Toyota supra, Toyota crown,Toyota Cresida, Mitsubishi Eclipse,Hyundae etc, etc.

I'm amazed to see an suv being front wheel driven, what a mock. In his newly bought 2006 lexus rx330, he came running to me with an almost completely drained engine oil that would have almost knock the engine if he had thrown caution to air, and if not for the new tech mechanism that wouldn't let you crank it at that condition. To cut the long story short, i was even thinking that the sum protector was broken , if not on a more serious examination did i found out that it was the oil filter that was the culprit here(oil filter of barely three weeks in a car that only moves few meters to and fro work).Commonest thing like oil filter, fake ones unbelievably flood our market. If you happen to see the original one, "you couldn't afford it". if you happen to do a sudden emergency hard braking in corolla,etc the brake fails. You do a little under-steering in a bend the shaft pull. You do a little doughnut or burnout in a competitive driving/drag race, it swivels such that the rear end feels like pulling away. I mean what a budgeted risk with human life? This what i mean by being cheap.

praxisnetworks:
au long tyme...

Indeed my bros

Eyop:
au.hanson,where have you been all these while? How's Madam and the children?

My dear i have been following oyibo in their infotech till i got lost ..They are fine thankyou

leTrizzle:
My oga, it's going to be my first, after reading all the posts about kompressor, am kind of scared of getting one.. (cost of maintenance n availability of reliable auto techs).

That use to be in the past. i repeat Kompressor is a little thing overhere now, it cost nothing to fix.. absolutely nothing.. I dont need to write any extensive essay on it again.

I didnt see the other partas per the "not responsive"....Its a fuel trim issue . Like my brother rightly said , just scan to have peace of mind

But i can quickly tell you that its a fuel trim issue.You've been using the wrong fuel extensively over time , cleaning/changing the plugs alone will not help. You have already got some build up in your engine as a result of predominant use of unleaded fuel in your Benz. Secondary, you may need to clean the nuzzles and the merge/little filter valve that connect to it too and blow your fuel line, if dirt should contribute too, as well as treating your fuel extensively then will your car be normal again . That is, if you fuel sending unit in the tank have not started misbehaving too when you are low on fuel.

lomomike:
Are you sure?

Go read range rover reviews online ask folks you know who own such vehicle. That vehicle is almost always having romantic moments with mechanics. The price of the side mirror na near double 15K, meaning 20K above approx.

The truth is that any of these high end or premium vehicle and formula one are expensive to maintain. If you follow that, you will never buy them but end up with cheap Japanese and korean cars. People buy them for the love of it and found out that they aint so expensive as thought to maintain in Naija soil, because the locals have come to understand them(the earlier models as such) and are now doing great wonders with them in naija price range tag

grafixdon:
Can I get a clean car for 400k....

You can get a car at any price depending on your taste..but you must get ready to do some fixes to soot your taste. Ask those mechanics how much they buy their , and you will be shocked

leTrizzle:
Thanks, am thinking of getting one of those w202s with the w203 kind of key n swag. Don't know which of them that has those.
Then, my friend's 2003 w203 just goes becomes unresponsive when driving, it happened again this evening when I took it out for a spin, she has changed fuel pump, plugs, pedal sensor(twice), all to no avail. Can someone pls help out here?

2000 model w202 Konpressor does, even with engine and steptronic gearbox swag and sunroof

1stola:
#SouthAfricansfreeforeignersNOW!
Jona!!!
Losing an election is not supposed to make you to continue to be loose.
You have been very insensitive to what is currently
happening in South Africa.
It is very barbaric.
This is a very serious issue and we ought to take a very drastic step.
Zimbabweans have been protesting.
They have stopped playing all South African music on their radio.
Kenyans have been protesting, Somalians too.
What has Nigerians been doing? Mind you, Nigerian have the most population there, esp the Ibos. I, personally know two Ibo men and one has been seriously affected. They have big investments there and these bastards are just stealing from them and killing them in barbaric manner.
This is Genocide. It's not just now it started. South Africans are bittered xenophobias.
Can't we just rejected this senselessness?
>Issue an ultimatum.
>Send planes to bring back the Nigerians there safely.
>Close all their embassies.
>Stop all their businesses here (MTN, DSTV, SHOPRITE, SPAR, STANBIC BANK E.T.C)
What has jona been doing

How i wish you could make a little sense , and not just finding GEJ to blame, or send waves of wrong advice over the web.

Every country of the world now grabs good quality gigantic investment from anyone irrespective of where you come from that comes to their country to boost their economy, and Nigerian politicians from looting our country has such world class welcome huge investment in South Africa which they readily accepted from the thief thief politicians and gold diggers with open mind(world class - Hospitals; Schools; Refineries; Industries and other huge investment that could have been better established here at home to render employment and boost our economy

Now the few South African companies that dare to come to our soil to invest of all countries of the world, defiling the harsh climatic structures rendered by your greedy politicians over years, to offer a little employment and add a little value to your economy, you are advising them out?

Where as south Africa is sending away the menial labourers, useless and the not so rewarding investment out of their country(though in a very unkind, unethical, barbaric and insane uncivilized ingratitude manner) to give them a space, you are now trying to do the opposite by sending away the rewarding ones and leaving the lunatics,useless and beggers from Niger etc etc in our country to continue to constitute nuisances here. When will we grow up in thoughts and wisdom?

ITbomb:
NL auto mechanics will swarm around and start condemning Honda

No matter how reliable it is, those legs scares in naija roads. There is never a day i dont see one accord or aka "EOD" leg pull on our roads. I'm usually scared and asked myself, what if this were to be on a fast lane on the highway?

Also, their gearbox in naija is a case study. My friend change his 2 years ago for a lot more than 250 thousand naira,barely 3 months he bought the car, after consecutive repairs of about 45 thousand naira each, afterwards he started looking for a buyer and sold it for a w202 kompressor Benz before he had peace of mind..I have never repaired my Benz to sum that amount ever since i bought it 3 years ago.

You could drive a benz a whole year without changing a breakpad. if you obey rules of abuse, you could drive the engine of a benz forever. If you use the right fuel or treat your fuel properly, your benz can remain like new for more than a dacade. So , that research has k leg, certain things like poor maintenance culture should have been factored into it. I dont even give a dame about it, i remain with Benz or Beemer

popcykaylah:
this man should please keep quiet and face moving of things out of aso rock..is he the one to dictate to the world leaders..after he has failed us ..he is looking for sympathy ..medicine after death..

Do not insult him for being sincere, cos u could have performed worst.. given the kind of condition(country ungovernable) he found himself

hmmm!

greatkamala:
from d pictures posted.....u guyz av had 2 push ur RPM as high as 6 -7 to get to 200km/h........my 2003 Camry v6 gets to 180 -200 with just 3000RPM or a little over 3000...by the time I push d RPM to 4000 am already over 220km

Guy , if you are driving a car hard, and changing from lower gears to upper gears the RPM has to go up and get settle to lower rpm at higher stable cruising to like 3000rpm or thereabout, so it isnt a toyota camry thing. Whether be it Porsche or lambo or beetle, it does the same thing.

heryyy:
Can You Seriously Beat This Speed ??

Mehn! time has changed , this is small speed for me even in naija, roads are getting better..its no big deal anymore for me so far my stabilizers , shocks, arms and bushings are in order(including alignment and proper wheel balancing with my wider wheels and low profile tires). Just going to work daily on a normal day within city,on the east/west road i hit 120/140km/h as in normal driving.

But for your car to stand it, that means your ride is in order . kudos
May i ask, what car is that?

MadCow1:
You better pack out now to safety o!

Your name already tells the idiot you are so i reserve my comment

Stylz69:
O

You made a lot of valid points but messed it all up with your chemical equation. How does water react with oxygen to give sulphuric acid? Oxidation has nothing to do with sulphuric acid so refresh your chemistry and correct yourself sharp sharp ...but what do I know.

Fixed:
Oga please don't mislead young Chemistry students.
H₂O +O₂ is not equal to H₂SO₄ PLEASE. That is an acid!

THANKS YARE FOR SPOTTING THAT OUT, I THINK I NEED TO VISIT MY PRIMARY CHEMISTRY AGAIN. YOU CAN DO THE CORRECTION FOR ME IF YOU DONT MIND... THIS CHEMISTRY SEF DE THINK NO DEY GREE STAY FOR HEAD OH!!! CORRECTED THOUGH.

Ordinary water could work well when it comes to flushing out the dirts/sand and also in the event that you have finished washing your car and got it dirty somehow , you could use ordinary water to flush and wash out the dust,drts and sand particles before coming to mop out your car as earlier described either with or without hydrate with a wet microfiber clothe. Make sure you constantly rinse out sand particles from this clothe so that you do not use it to constantly scratch you clear coat.

Outside this, ordinary water is not good enough as a conventional washing method. Reason is that atmospheric oxygen will always react with water to form oxidation (CO2+H2 = C0+H2O) on you paint work. This often changes the color of your paint as well as causing it to lose its shiny lustre property. But a well formulated car wash rather forms a protective shiny cover ontop of your paint work glossing it out to shine, aside washing out the dirts which are carried away by the surd, that is why you must rinse out the surd with enough clean water and avoid washing under direct sunlight, except you have enough clean water handily to rinse out immediately as you wash each portion

Waoh!! interesting topic.

If i hadn't been there i would have been confused a lot more. But thank God i have 2 experiences, I bought my w202 c class Nigerian use , the painting work was scratched so i decided and gave it a neat spraying job but not a very expensive type like the amount mentioned here. I spotted a dude who does it well over here and he did it for me . This is the 3rd year and i bet you it will still remain like that for the next 10 years, my car is only looking finer by the day. Out of gratitude, i introduce 4 more guys to him a jaguar guy amongst them who inherited from his Dad, the guy did his and the jaquar turns new and he was able to sell at a very good price and went for a car he could maintain.

Out of the four of us, my car still stands out as the best amongst them. People keep on asking me if i respray it every now and then. So the other 3 guys came to me for advice and i put them through , now they are very happy with their cars still looking good except one of them who had already mess his with all sort of lines and scratches here and there, an honda EOD, and i kept on wondering how he did such a mess.

The bottom line is, some guys knows their onions , they may not even be expensive like this dude, but make sure you delibrately allow them room to make some profit for themselves , a craft man deserve this. Don't drag price with an honest painter.

There are ways to maintain your car paint, don't use dry dusty/sandy rag to mess the paint work (the clear coat) . Is either you wash it with a soft clothe(microfiber clothe) or you leave it untill you have time to do so with plenty of water . Use mild liquid soap, preferably car wash but not detergent nor toilet/key soap except for the tyres.

Always mop up the water from the clear coat with a clean wet microfiber clothe to dry after rinsing out the surd, and preferably with an hydrate spayed on the microfiber clothe if you have one , it help protect the paint and maintains the clear coat from harsh conditions and extreme sunlight.

Once in a while(every 6 month) you could wax it to bring out the painting. Never wake up in the morning and just decide to use any rag to rub off the morning dew in the name of cleaning the car. Nothing kills and scratches paint work than this kind of habit. Leave it if you don't have the time to wash, then wash it later.

IdaraCHODB:
Routes I have driven!
Abuja Lokoja (extended)

Abuja Kaduna (extended)

Benin Asaba (extended) if you want to try out your BMWs here's a place to go, it has also got some very sweet, smooth and twisty roads ( shall
I say I fell in love with the road which I traveled on the very time at night, but I did see one BMW that was destroyed entirely when its owner exceeded his limits and the cars limits, from the look of things, am not sure he survived. Matter of fact, Delta beats many southern states hands down in terms of number of kilometers of very very good roads in several directions!

Don't know the name of the roads - but Enugu and Ebonyi have some very sweet, smooth and twisty roads ( briefly), if you want to try out your
BMWs here's a place to go

Some sections of East West Road in Delta State ( briefly)

Abuja Minna ( very briefly)

Port Harcourt Expressway ( briefly)

Enugu and Abia state ( brief sections of that expressway)

Routes I have heard friends perform speed miracles
Kaduna
Kano
Sokoto
Jigawa


Come to think of it, should the constitutional amendment on road safety work, then it is time we abolish one speed limit for all of nigeria and replace it with varied speed limits like it exists in the US, and since states are complaining of lack of cash, they should build autobahn type roads and tax those who wanna use them, like i read Germany is about to do: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28199383 and http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-06/autobahn-thrills-to-cost-foreigners-under-german-plan.html and http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-12-06/autobahn-thrills-to-cost-foreigners-under-german-plan.html and http://www.justlanded.com/english/Germany/Articles/Travel-Leisure/The-Autobahn

I would gladly pay the bill to be able to drive between Abuja and Delta at 200km instead of 100km if all the states in between would work out an arrangement to build and toll such a road, same goes for abuja lagos

Jigawa

Disclaimer: I do not recommend exceeding speed limits, this was posted to illustrate what is possible, this is no incitement or encouragement to break the law and neither should it be taken as such!

Also Port Harcourt /Ikot Abasi Road and Akwa- Ibom freeways, you can do the maga here. Smooth, sweet, silent roads, even on your tyres..just like sliding ontop of water.

You wont regret buying the rear wheel drive BMW 325i 2006 model, because it will give you what you want in a car,including prestige, respect enthusiast and driveability(fun to drive).Better leverage than the 2006 Audi a4. You may not really need the quattro, all wheel drive Audi, cos it sucks fuel(except from 2014 upward where the fuel economy really improves dramatically for the quattro),the extra component you dont really need that will be sucking your pocket.

In Nigeria,in quote, the BMW is much more cheaper to maintain and more reliable than the Audi a4

Brimmie:
[b]Dear Nairalanders, we all need to understand the concept of Greatness and Heroism. I have been reading Revisionist pieces and White-Washing of Sepulchres on several Social Media Platforms with different people calling GEJ a Hero for conceding to Buhari.

So he is now a hero because he conceded? Did he have a choice?

GEJ has played Politics with the Lives of thousands of our Countrymen for too long. History will never be kind to him. Note that He wasn't magnanimous by accepting defeat, the circumstances and factors were all against him. He didn't concede, he was compelled to. He didn't give us democracy, we demanded it and we got it. He is not a hero by any standard.

We should separate sentiments from matters of National Interest, all those who made hate speeches should be prosecuted. All those who stole our collective wealth must be jailed and made to refund the money.

Sending congratulatory messages to Buhari should not confer automatic Immunity to these Wicked Criminals.

The true Heroes are those who stood up in the rain to vote and stayed to make sure their votes count. Not GEJ who allowed impuntiy unchecked, to whom "Stealing is not corruption".

GEJ's concession of defeat is commendable, but not admirable. He must answer for embezzled funds.[/b]

- Brimmie (2015)

Why would you spoil such a wonderful moment by these kind of thoughtless speeches?

GEJ deserves it right..If he were mean he could have used Banbangida's style as in during june 12 and claim it to be in the best interest of the nation , so be wise and be a little sensible, purify your heart.

Congratulations GMB and Congratulations GEJ for being a thoughtful sportman, may God help Buhary and strenghten him to get us there soonest and may all our yearnings/expectations for a true and prosperous democracy with diligent distribution of wealth to kick out poverty from the land be met. May God bless Nigeria