sharpwriter:

Boss, how has the car been treating you? Has it ever pulled legs/tires?

The car has been excellent. Never pulled legs.

Benoxvals:
I can recommend fee if you are staying in Onitsha.

Please post your number let me talk to you or you can send me a private mail. Thank you so much.

Thank you

nutarious:
I would like to buy this car too. Saw a fairly use for 1milloon


Please is the price justified

Yes please. Go ahead and buy it.

What's your budget?

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I highly recommend Honda CRV. This 2004 model is rugged, climbs Rocky terrains with ease, good fuel economy, superb handling, the seats are comfy and interior is spacious for people who have legs.

I wish I know what I know now about Honda CRV a year or two ago. It's so beautiful.

Abroad pics below. Yet to snap it in since I took delivery of it. Will update the thread when I do.

Please how about the fuel consumption? Good morning.

Aaaaarghmed:
I also use a crv 2004..pay for it if everything is ok.strong car for bad roads.that mechanic needs to be flogged .the parts cannot break your pockets.its a better car than the camry.ask me any other questions about the car

I'm very relieved hearing from a Honda CRV user. Thank you so much sir.

fishvision:
My dear the car is good I have driven one for over 5 years and is still going on strong and fuelling will not tear your pockets besides the parts are relatively cheap just do your routine servicing

I am most grateful for this contribution. Thank you so much and have a blessed week ahead sir.

cdoffx:


I'm sure your mechanic is one of those old school mechanics who learn how to repair cars with Toyota and Datsun. Just make sure if you get it he's not the one you'll be using to maintain the vehicle.

For the radio it's simple.
You need first of all the serial number of the radio. You can do that by holding down 1 and 6 together on the radio then turn the ignition to on. The s/n will display so you can quickly write it down. Then proceed to https://hondaradiocodes.com/ and input the s/n to get the code. That's all

I don't know yet but it's a 2.4L engine.

Kokomo:



How is the fuel consumption?

Good morning wonderful people. Please I need more input. I'll make payment today for the car.

Thank you so much.

Goldbw122:
THE CAR IS GOOD AND STRONG JUST REMEMBER TO SERVICE THE ENGINE OK..

We've not made payment yet. We're slacking because of what the mechanic said.

surrogatesng:
You should have asked this question before buying the car

Good evening car enthusiasts and dealers. I'm in the process of getting a car for my wife. We prefer an SUV because of the terrain of the area where we live so we finally settled for a Tokumbo 2004 Honda CRV instead of a 2001 Camry we had earlier inspected.

I have invited my mechanic to do necessary checks on the car and run a VIN check and everything clicks good, asides the radio which requires a code to come on but he said he will circumvent that code for us. The car is neat and engine and gear are in top condition.

But he's advising me that the parts are a bit pricey compared to the 2001 Camry we wanted to pay for initially, and that it doesn't do well on long distance journeys, especially if we intend to put it on the road regularly, say Lagos to Ibadan and back, as the engine might fail. That it is best for intracity use (short distance commuting) unlike the Toyota which would best any distance and weather without any problem.

So please I need Honda users/dealers/seasoned mechanics to please tell me if this is true.

Is the 2004 Honda CRV Strong and reliable?

Is it easy to maintain?

Is it fuel efficient?

Are the parts easily available?

Please I await your honest advice to guide me and my wife. Thank you.

Naija auto dealers and lies are like cojoint twins. I fear who no fear them.

FantasticJ:
Change that 3 months registered to 1year 3months because that number plate GA was issued between November 2019 and February 2020.

MedicH:
I searched on jiji, saw the guy from Benin selling the Lexus es 300. I went to Benin from owerri with my colleague that lived in Benin and knows the area around August.

We sat at that big eatery mall in Benin city and the car came in looking very sweet. I did my inspection bearing in mind all I've learnt from gazzuzz and nairaland auto section. I checked the fans, they dont turn on when u start engine, I smiled. I checked engine bay, no funny wires.

I already bought my car scanner before then so I plugged it in scanned for errors and saw knock sensor and oxygen sensor errors only. I browsed these errors and saw they're cheap to fix and nothing very serious.


I inspected the papers, car was just imported in February, the guy has a printed copy of the vin report, I glanced through it saw the frontal damage and everything else was cool.

We drove to the guy house, with ac om. Everything was smooth, RPM was steady in hold-up, no jerking or funny noise. We completed the transaction and payment and everything. I got a driver to take me home and I was wowed in the journey. That car was the most powerful car I've been into.

The driver said we should off the AC so we can save fuel consumption I told him never to worry. Everything from steering, brakes, AC, legs, engine, gear was, 100% and I was as happy as I ever been my whole life. Car was speeding on Benin asaba express like a demon and sometimes it will bounce on the highway like a leather ball I was so wowed.

We got to owerri I called my friends to come and drive it they were wowed.

I took it home and started to learn how to drive. Car is as powerful and as excellent today as at then and I have only changed the oil and plugs.
because I used it to learn driving, it's due for shock absorber repairs. Everything is as intact and excellent as ever.

I love that car and my seller was as truthful as anything. Even uptil now I've never had reasons to change the tires I wonder if maybe they will never leak. Tires are yet to expire brand new. When we completed the deal, this good ma gave me 10k to use and buy spare tire on my way home because the car has no spare tire. Everything was blessed.

If u want to buy a car, stay away from dealers, normally na lie they will sell to u. Buy from end users, they have numerous accounts on jiji. How u know is end users always put up one car to sell in the entire account unlike a dealer that has dozens.

Also use the custom duty to check level of abuse. If possible, go for cars with less than 6 months use in Nigeria from date of importation.

Lastly, say a prayer for yourself.

Thanks for sharing. I really enjoyed reading this.

weyreypey:


https://www.nairaland.com/6302339/registered-2006-nissan-murano-850k#98612882

No bro. It's not this car that I bought. It's not Skillz that sold the one I bought to me. The exterior of the one I bought was cleaner than this one. Almost as clean as Tokumbo. But I suspect the seller used pictures of when the car came into the country few years ago to post the advert coz when I received the car, a lot of things were broken inside. Dashboard plastic looked ancient. Wire was used to sow a part of it together. Then that lever you pull for the bonnet to open wasn't there anymore. Just a metallic wire hanging down below there that you need to grab a cloth while pulling before the bonnet can open.

There were also lots of unconnected electrical wires hanging down below where the throttle and brakes were located. It was an abused car interiorly and I take the blame for trusting the persuasive words of a dealer and buying without sending a mechanic for thorough inspection. Nigerian Auto dealers shouldn't be given that kind of trust.

The seller that sold the Murano to me deleted the advert and the pictures and his comments in the thread and changed all to sold after I made transfer of funds.

femi4:
This is turning to cliche, as if other brands didn't go through any form of maintenance

Don't mind them. No form of lengthy essay can change the personal experiences of people who will never near a Murano in their lifetime again. We simply don't have enough knowledgeable and competent mechanics for such a car.

May God keep caterpillars and cankerworms far from our finances in future. May we never use our money to buy what will give us headache and sleepless nights again o. Amen.

Someone who knows what I went through with that Murano just sent me this post she saw on Twitter. Title of the thread is WHAT IS THE MOST PROBLEMATIC CAR MAKE/MODEL YOU KNOW?

Go through it and notice live witness accounts of Murano users wailing about how it nearly sent them back to the village. All those users can't be lying. Murano is just a complex and shitty car not fit for our environment yet.

https://twitter.com/GbemiOO/status/1355485878550933508?s=20

weyreypey:


A lot of us don't buy cars for resale

Congratulations. A lot of us resale and add more cash when we wish to upgrade after some years.

Sheikhgeorge:


You 4got to add that I counted good $$$ to buy my audi directly from Yankee and shipped it personally and not 700k. A good car is not automatic. Once not buying brand new, you check very well. Face it man. What exactly do you think that you would buy in luxury car that was sold for 700k? Even my 05 camry i sold North of 1.2m after 2 years. My mdx ppl have price 1m I no gree sell. You bought junk. If you buy a Toyota junk car, it is still junk. That is the point I am making. Its not about the murano. It was about your expectation that a 700k car is a car. Next time, buy tokunbo. Even toyota sef I do not buy 9ja used. Go to ladipo and see how much people spend on these cars at above 100k miles. Every car can be maintained afterall there are after market parts. Just buy and replace and move on. You bought a car you could not afford to maintain also, even if you had bought a tokunbo. Know the price of regular parts. And if you think toyota is cheap to maintain, go to ebay and compare price of the original brand new parts to that of other cars. Go and buy a badly abused toyota camry or corolla and come back with sub stories again. The stories he told you were irrelevant to the fact he sold you a junk car.

Naija used Nissan Murano is dead cheap. Like, ridiculously cheap and there's a reason why.

Buy a Tokumbo Murano at any amount and try putting it up for sale after two years. There's a reason why you'll find it very hard to get buyers in Nigeria. Buying a car with zero second hand value in Nigeria is like shooting yourself in the head. Goggle Nissan Murano for sale here on nairaland and see the prices for yourself, and the prices people are pricing it. Dead cheap price for an SUV. There is a reason why. In fact, when I was looking for a solution, many mechanics even refused to touch it just because it is a Murano. We don't have enough knowledgeable mechanics here in Nigeria to indulge in cars like Murano.

aieromon:
Another "popular car"
https://www.nairaland.com/3237223/congrt-mr-obasi.from-port-harcourt

The premium tears
https://www.nairaland.com/3538667/cityhood-dada-motors-wont-refund

The connecting dots? No physical inspection by the buyer

Quite right. Like I've already stated in the thread, it was the first mistake I made. The second mistake was buying a Murano.

It's unwise to believe what a Nigerian auto dealer tells you about a car he's trying to sell to you. If you can't physically go with a mechanic and inspect the car, just forget it.

vertueptime:
Usually if u buy a clean murano, just change the engine and gear to toyota Sienna, ul enjoy it better.

Someone suggested this but at the time this suggestion was made, I had already lost close to a million naira because of the car.

I just decided to cut my losses and move on.

aieromon:


Look at this "popular car"
https://www.nairaland.com/929590/2008-totota-rav4-baby-needs

Read the premium tears
https://www.nairaland.com/938851/make-sure-inspect-vehicles-before

Your premise is faulty.

Crooked Nigerian auto dealers have been giving people premium tears from time immemorial.

I hope those of them who sell lemon to people without telling them the whole truth so as to rip them off get what they deserve while they're still alive.

May they reap what they sow. May their labour turn to dust if they don't repent.

DonnyE:

Bros u didn't add the extra 200k spent on repairs and other miscellaneous things too. The loss plenty. It's well, that's life. We learn everyday, God bless the guy who advised me NOT to buy a "big" Nigerian used car, instead he he said buy a portable clean tokumbo car especially one with less maintenance. That's the best advice u car get when buying your first car. Stick to reliable and trusted brands, it's your first car not the only car u will own in your life.

This is just the honest fact. Sheikhgeorge is just talking persuasively, exactly like the seller that sold the rubbish to me lmao.

Man gave me stories of Audi he used that has lasted more than a Toyota he bought, stories of his neighbor that has been using a Murano for 50 years, etc. I fell for his convincing stories against the advice of every mechanic and friend I talked to about the Murano before I bought it. This car set me back by more than a million.

Every car has issues, from Corolla to Camry to Golf; but sticking to reliable, popular and trusted brands, especially if you don't make millions in a year is how to play safe. Buy the popular cars you see on the roads abeg.

Sheikhgeorge:
lool. an abused toyota camry and honda accord will also show you. nissan murano is a strong car. buy direct tokunbo. the only known issue is the cvt generally but regular changing of fluids and filter will solve it. i have bought tokunbo cars and to just get them up to my taste has cost me close 500k and i am talking toyota camry and i buy the parts and give them to fix. if that same car was 9ja used, it would cost me more. there is nothing like a cheap car. guys who maintain their 9ja used cars well will not sell it so cheap. if its cheap, its problematic. so its on you and the dealer. leave the murano. i know someone who used it in amuwo odofin with terrible bad roads for 5 yeara no issues. even your so called toyota camry, have you heard of oil shorting and transmission solenoid issues that require changing the entire transmission? toyotas are not more reliable. they just take more abuse b4 they finally die.

A bad car is a bad car chief.

One good review out of a thousand unpleasant reviews is not significant.

We don't have enough knowledgeable and specialist mechanics in Nigeria to indulge in cars like Nissan Murano; unless of course you're not earning peanuts like me then you can buy your Benz and your Muranos. Middle class workers should never try it unless they want to shit on their hustle.

A car I exhausted all mechanic recommendations in my state and no one could fix it.

A car I needed to bring in two separate mechanics from two neighboring States based on strong recommendations; house and feed them for days and they both could not fix it.

A car almost every mechanic I finally hawked it to help me sell flatly refused to even take it and sample it in their workshop because people will not price it.


Of what use is a car to me if it has a zero resale value? Even a thoroughly abused Camry Pencil Light can't be sold for 175k. Not even an abused Golf 3 will go for that amount.

How many Nissan Murano do you see on the roads when you step out every day, compared to Toyota?

Of what rubbish use is a car to me in this useless Buhari economy if I can't push it to the nearest mechanic and get it running on the road in hours?

How much do I make in a year to be hiring specialist mechanics?


Thanks but I'll stick to Toyota next time and I advise every middle class earner to do same. I won't even advice my worst enemy to buy a Nissan Murano; even as Tokumbo. It's a rubbish car.

I agree with you and I take the whole blame for it. I gave an unearned trust to a seller.

I wasn't even angry about this whole shit until yesterday night when GTBank debited me for a 200k Quick Credit loan I took on December 28th 2020 to fund the mechanic I hired from Osogbo coz I had run out of money in my spending account.

The lesson here for me is that I must never take the word of any car seller for it. 99% of them are not truthful.

Go with a competent mechanic and physically inspect any car you want to buy.

Of course this is not a guarantee that they won't sell lemon to you if they want to (especially for a Naija Used car) but it helps a lot.

aieromon:


You bought a lemon period.

No bro.

JubrinElSudan:
Bestman2021, is this your Murano?

Thanks bro.

lagusboyyy:
Nissan Murano is a very problematic SUV,guess it was designed by the devil himself to make people go through pains.

Sorry about your ordeal bro.

Lmao. I even forgot to add that the battery died two days after I took delivery of the car. Like, dead dead. Ignition won't come on.

I really suffered man.

DelTel:


You might be right to an extent (with Nissan Murano especially ).

However, any vehicle - especially SUV - of N700k, even a Toyota might have its own challenges.

Most importantly, I would rather advise people should be realistic with themselves and stick to what their budget/pocket can afford; instead of aiming for a Benz with the cash that can't buy more than a Korope or keke marwa.

Customer is King and is always right (remember ).

I agree with you. I beat the price down from 950k though but you're very right. It's a lesson for everyone reading the thread. Thank you.