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Ikenna351: I want to share with everyone my experience with my 505 V6 in September last year, 2011, when i travelled with it to East, to spend 4 days and drive back to Abuja.

I set out for the trip on Saturday, 03/09/2011 & got to my parents house peacefully. I stayed with them for 3 days & decided to visit other people on Tuesday 06/09/2011,before i would return back to Abuja the next day 07/09/2011. I drove out in the morning of Tuesday, 06/09/2011 & drove straight to Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, to visit a relation of mine there, a Staff, who have been looking forward to see my newly acquired 505 V6. I finished with my relation & drove off to visit other relations at Enugu town, which is about 90km, about 1hr drive on a Onitsha - Enugu Expressway. Half way, something terrible, a near death experience, happened to me.


Its a divided 4-lane expressway/highway. But because one side of the road was too bad, ever vehicle was now using 2-lane (face me & face you). There was this on-coming vehicle from afar, a Truck/lorry, & a 18 seater Toyota mini Bus (aka Hummer), full with passengers, was following the truck behind, wanted to overtake the truck. All of a sudden, the Bus driver lost patience in waiting for me to pass before it would overtake the truck. The Bus entered my lane trying to overtake the Truck before i would reach them. But i was already so close to the truck for the Bus driver to have made that move. It was as if it was a joke. We were both facing each other (both our vehicles). we were few meters from colliding/crashing into each other, face to face. He thought he could accelerate fast, overtake the truck and swerve back to his lane before i could reach them. But he was wrong; too late for him to realize his poor judgement. Few feets away in colliding with the Bus, I swereved out of the road & Hell was let loosed! The two tyres on the right side (front & rear) jump onto the side of the road (the tared road was too high from the untared side of the road) which was full with gravels. The car lost control, still at top speed. The car tail shifted by the left, the front end pushed to the right. The car repeatedly was moving sideways and back, to & fro. The right side 2 tryes were still on the untared road while all that was happening, making screeching loud noise, the passengers in that Bus were screeming. I thought the car would somersault. Those same moments, there was an explosion! The car, all of sudden on its own, became stable again. I steered back to the road & the speed by then had started to reduce. All those while, i didnt touch the brake. I allowed the steering wheel to be steering the car itself (no input from me) & the car was steering itself sideways & the car became stale again all by itself. Wonders shall never end! The car came to a halt when i finally applied brake, though the steering wheel was vibrating all those seconds it was happening. I parked & came out. Went round the car. The right front tyre was the cause of that explosion i heard and the source of the steering wheel vibration. It was flat. The edge of the road must have punctured the tyre when it jumped from the road to the untared roads, full with pieces of small stone/gravel and very unlevel ground. All these happened in seconds. In seconds, my car would have somersaulted; in seconds, i would have lost the car; in seconds, i would have been become a History! All, if not for the PEUGEOT 505 V6, would have happened!


I could hear the occupants of the Bus wailing inside the Bus as the Bus was fading, believeing that something terrible must have happened to the 505 & whoever was driving it. The noise from the screeching of the tyres was too loud for any living being around to hear. The Driver of the Bus didnt stopped. He was too scared to face what he caused, if something had happened, I believed.


I waited for my spirit to come back after some mins, jacked the car, removed & put the spare tyre. Continued with the the journey to Enugu, got to my destination, drove straight to Coal camp, bought another brand new tyre & replaced the damaged one with it, since I would be driving back to Abuja the next day. This was one of the 4 brand new Tyres i replaced 3 days before I set out for the trip. Hmm! Anyway, the next day, i drove off again, back to Abuja, which was 7 hrs highspeed highway drive (532 km). Life on the highway!


It was when i got back from the trip, to Abuja, that i reflected on what really happened that day. First, God played a role that day in the event (Gods miracle). Two, 505 miracle! Then 3, my long experience with highway driving (always be ready with quick decision with unexpected/eventuality on a highway). If I wasnt experience enough, I would have touched the brake pedal when the car lost control for a while & that would have made the car to completely lose control. But like I said, God made it possible by taking control of the steering wheel, the tyres, the complete car while it was moving side by side.


That day, that afternoon, it was face to face with death, prevented by God & my 505. I have driven so many cars & knew how they
would
have behaved in such incidence, even on a little incident, with low speed. But this, i couldnt imagine what would have happened if it wasnt 505. I know what i have suffered in the hands of this car since i owned it, trying to fix numerious issues it came with. But that day made me realised its all worth it! I have had accident twice before, with non Peugeots, with just little incidents not even close the deadly one of this nature. One, i was the one driving, the other.That incident on the 06/09/2011 made me realised one thing " i sowed & reaped something valuable".

The nature of our highways was what made me to change my mind from purchasing quick 505 GTI I4 (ZDJL) & instead, chose a quicker 505 V6 (ZN3J), that will be quicker enough, when needed, to overtake a long queue of trucks on our highways. If the Bus had had a fast accelerating engine, that incident wouldnt have happened. But a driver should be experience enough to know how good the engine of a car he is driving is in acceleration before he makes such move to overtake a long truck or queue of trucks when there is an on-coming vehicle. Patience is what & all it takes for a driver to keep himself alive whenever he or she is on a highway. Not everyone driving a car on a highway knows this. Besides, not everyone on a steering wheel is a Driver.

Not every car , even the modern ones, can handle as good as predictable as 505 in an unpredictable situation. I used to believe in "Always go for a Reliable car". But since that incident with that car, the perception has changed. I love Long distance driving. In fact, ist a hobby to me. For that, all i care about to have is a car that is designed for highway, no matter how unreliable people would claim the car would be. Each time i look at that car; each time i remember that I ownsuch a French car, I would just smile. I couldnt help it but to name it MY BABY!


I dont know about you and your experience with your Lion. Good or bad, lets share it.


Ikenna.

Nice one, Thank God for your life.
We really learn everyday I would definitely have stepped on my brake in that situation.

*lovepeddler* This our spambot sha, some of the replacement terms are so funny.

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Ikenna351: DIY or one knowing how to fix his car is not a big deal. Its called INTEREST. Problem with Nigerians is that they see themselves working on their vehicles as stooping too low. Even the whiteman's world that owns that technology; even the whitemen that used those vehicles for years before they get to our shores intact, were fixing the vehicles themselves. When we start making small money, we start feeling too big to do certain things ourselves, as if we are richer than those that used those vehicles from new and were fixing them theirselves, before they get to us as the 3rd or 5th owners. Check various auto forums online and see how good an average vehicle owner in the whiteman's world is in troubleshooting their vehicles. Am not even close to them, with the little knowledge i have.

Ikenna.

Perfectly said, please can u suggest basic tools I'd need for DIY for basic mechanical things on a car? I've my allen keys and plier already. Since I got my manual & I've been following this forum, it irritates me seeing mechanics trying to confuse me with wrongly placed grammer.

BTW Thanks, I fixed the Power steering issue myself, it was the oil that was finished.

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CHESSBOARD: Imagine an Illiterate like Dangote employing Graduates as Drivers, orishirishi, Money miss road!

Money is meant for graduates alone? No sleep for bike o!

And they would all apply after complaining in public *smh*

I see.... Eyeballs & Artificial Eyelashes... Sometimes Contact lens too..

Now I know I'm not normal, why can't I see what u'all are seeing?

Excelboi: Vogue pay:
* Bad support, absolutely bad.
* 3k limit
* Unable to register, Invalid date-of-birth
* WTH?

As I said before, Afrisoft support can be a nightmare! I always pour libation+say a prayer before contacting them.
I've been using CashEnvoy since 2010 and the support's really decent, which's why I haven't switched my sites to voguepay.
Its stranger's money in question & I really dont want poor 3rd party support ruining my reputation.

dabrake: It was on my birthday when I received a phone call from my girl to breeze in campus which I did. As I got to campus, we walked straight into a hall, were watching a movie, . . . Of recent, my departmental president was beginning to cling to her but I would always turn a blind eye. So on that day while we were watching a movie, she just, all of a sudden, screamed "chei!! presido must have finished his project defense oh. Let's go and watch him". Initially, I refused but she later convinced me in which I followed her up. I happened to be a very popular guy in campus and I've gat that high rep in my department as ogbuefi so while we mere climbing the stairs, my colleagues were packed in one corner checking their released result(s) as school had just resumed . . . as we reached the first floor, she saw my departmental president, screamed "presido!!!", ran towards him, jumped on him and kissed him while all my colleagues(senior, junior and level) watched in a boolean eye movement(from her to me) because they all knew I was dating her . . . presido lamented her refusal to watch his defense and she promised to make it up to him that night. Meanwhile, I don swallow spittle tire everybody dey watch. . .
Fast forward, about a week later, I was swaggering towards the department when I noticed everyone staring at me and I was like "wetin I do again? I wear back of shirt? I wear 'rice and beans' shoe? my kokoro dey show? . . ." As soon as I reached my department, the first thing I noticed was my picture, her pix and that of my president on our notice board. She was the newly crowned queen and our editorial board was interviewing her. During the interview, she was asked and I quote this "Sometime last week, eye witness(es) watched you run into the arms of the departmental president and you also locked a kiss with him with your supposed boyfriend(me) watching. . ." and she cuts "Nsikan and I weren't dating". madam, end am there nah, she no gree. Then she added "we were close because he would always help me with my assignments. You know how difficult calculus, programming, statistics, kirchhoff's rule and others were now? Whenever I call on him to help me with my assignments, he would never disappoint me . . . " . . . Worse still, it took the DOI donkey years to update our notice board. I need not tell you how that semester went on
And my name changed from ogbuefi to assignment boyfriend.



I've tried so hard to summarize it. It was actually longer than that

Im laughing so hard right now!!!!!!!!!!!

Aqva: ^^^
It had a peugeot and citreon logo on it.

He probably has no idea how to use it, most of them don't.

If you are in Port Harcourt you can use mine free, visit peugeotforums.com and search for your issue too, someone might have had it before too.

Aqva: My 206 central lock is faulty and as a result i cannot open the boot. I bought a new board located under the steering wheel that contains a host of electrical components including the central lock. The central lock worked when i instaled the new board but the car wouldn't start.

I'm told i need to recode the new box with the original code of the car. I haven't been able to find any mech who can do this.
The elect guy i took the car to kept fumbling with his laptop while trying to recode the new board but couldn't succeed, telling me his scanner can't detect my car info. This car was bought as brand new. Now i'm still using it without the central lock working.

Pls any help?

Can you remember the type of scanner he used?

makeitsoon: A friend posted a business idea that could help alot of jobless and unemployed people, but naijacutee labeled it spam and even banned my friend.50% of the info has not yet even been released and with just one post but you see some suspicious thread smelling scam flying allover the place. Is she doing a good job or is she blocking opportunities that might have helped? Have you had this experience with her? Lets talk about it.

Like they say, Power corrupts, that's all I have to say for Nairaland mods

damola1: available.

Does the wi-fi network it creates work with Blackberries? There are some networks the phone doesn't detect.

I'm interested.

damola1: what about GTB interswitch.. which one come be voguepay?... and the multiple payment issues as highlighted above?

Voguepay and CashEnvoy use GTB interswitch, so they are cheaper (free) ways of getting it on your websites.

CashEnvoy is really good too, if you are/ have a good developer to integrate it, I've used it and voguepay and I already have gotten my developer to start making voguepay-esque integration modules for it.

Voguepay is good but Afrisoft support can be a nightmare at the very wrong times and I really won't enjoy my money stuck up in any kind of situation.

Apart from that too, I'm yet to understand the rationale behind d 3k limit? People make over 50k transactions on my websites regularly with ease on CashEnvoy, transaction fees are more, but my integration scripts pass these to the customer and no yearly fees.

I'vnt and don't think I would be using Eyowo

walesmann: Mr. TopeTope,

You are obviously a fraudster. Just look at the time you posted this issue (5:11am).

If you are not , you can put your account number here and I will forward to my freinds at GTB for them to confirm the status of your account.

This would be pasted here for all to see.

Instead of engaging your bank to find out what could have made them do this , you are busy badmouthing them online.

Fellow Nigerians , let us promote and celebrate all that is good within us , rather than trying to pull dow. This Bank is good and from my experiences with them , they also listen

https://www.nairaland.com/1004877/customers-only-transfer-funds-current


Their COT is outrageous if you ask me.

Nice one, I'd be needing your services soon. would email.

My 307 Power steering just stopped working this evening (it was like driving a trailer home ), I called my mechanic and he's saying my power steering pump has failed and that'd cost me 100k to replace? Is that true? Before I go out and spend unnecessary money money tomorrow.
Thanks a million!

maximum007: 23 is not the normal age to graduate from college, it is due to some delays.

Tell him o, my younger brother graduated at 20 from uniport, a public school.

Prestonvic: Pls what is the cost and procedure for getting a customized plate number for car? Tnx

bump

[quote author=gree-die]Good points raised here but snoring?? Isnt dat an unconscious act? I understand dt it can lead to quarrels, but divorce? Shouldnt d couple resolve it amicably, buy ear plug, use food supplements? Wts d rationale 4 divorceing someone over sometin he/ she has no control over?[/quote]When you sleep next to a bad snorer and realise you have to do that for the rest of your life. You'd understand.

LesbianBoy: May God never give we men on nairaland, women like the poster.........AMEN!!!

AMEN!!!

afrobaby: @bigfat, did Ʊ say A̶̲̥̅̊ mini website, dis product is A̶̲̥̅̊ product from A̶̲̥̅̊ big coy in PH which handles several jobs for big schools in PH, we have 3 websites dedicated to this alone, but the prob is Lagos office is still kind of new and Ʊ know Lag is highly competitive, it is A̶̲̥̅̊ very good product, that I can attest to but most of our youths dis days just prefer the short cut. Shey Ʊ understand. Thanks

Listen to bigfat, mini-website & facebook ads. Get an account with get response or mailchimp to capture non-immediate buyer's contact details.
100$ invested can bring in millions in sales.
I'm talking from experience.

ifihearam: Una dey make me laff here sometimes,nor be who get motor dey get mechanicpeople wey nor get tire sef u dey ask dem whether dem don fool mechanic before??na their yansh the mechanic go repairmumu thread. And it made front page..

Dat reminds me wetin make nairaland dry 2day abi sexkillz don ban everybody?

If you no get tire find another thread please

Africar: Bros, You cannot use GPS navigation in Naija.

Why?

The Genesis of Yet another Old Spinster