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Pearl1910:
Top cylinder was dry, at first examination before we towed to d workshop.
Oil Indictator light didn't come up when ignition was turned to position 2.

At the workshop engine was opened and we discovered oil pump was broken and one piston was bent.
When vehicle was fixed, the oil indicator light still didn't come up when ignition was turned on.

From your description, Yes truly your oil pressure switch was shot but I’m wondering why you believe the oil pump just decided to pack up at that moment? Do you think the oil pump failing was connected to the faulty pressure switch? If the vehicle was not involved in an accident then it was daily driven until parked for sale/auction right?

It’s a fact that wrong/bad engine oil damages the cylinder walls, valve seals, piston rings and THE OIL PUMP of vehicles but I do admit that factory errors can occur but this usually happens on low mileage newer model vehicles especially before their warranty runs out. What year of matrix was this again?

I still say that it was a mistake not changing out the engine oil at the point of purchase/taking charge of that vehicle. Heaven knew how long it had sat in the crankcase before you fired it up and decided to drive it home.

microlincoln:
Please drink enough water and piss fast fast. ..... Be bold and do it quickly with all the unrealistic theories/hypothesis you've been typing. No offense boss. Na people wey dey watch ball dey criticize players more. I thank God for sparing boss Vikings. Bottom line is let's all enjoy what we do while we're at it either e-hailing or otherwise. The grass is not always greener on the other side

Such theories always seem unrealistic to the lazy, visionless and unambitious ones

Select the category that suits you out of the aforementioned groups

And as for pissing . . . Hold hands with me as we drive into December dashboard postings place a simple bet with cheerful if you’re sure you don’t belong to any of the groups I mentioned earlier

Pearl1910:
Lolz...ur lap

I didn't change d oil and to dispel any suspicion about the cause of that engine failure.
The culprit was a failed engine oil pump and defective oil light switch.
So the engine oil light didn't indicate when the oil pump failed and stopped pumping oil to the engine. That is catastrophic at high speed.

Now, this is just one example of engine failure not being a result of bad oil or drivers negligence or owner postponing repairs.

Life just happened.

I understand your opinion on the issues that must have caused your engine in the newly purchased matrix to fail. How did you do a teardown and diagnosis to confirm that your engine failure was indeed due to the engine oil pressure switch and the oil pump? What were the steps you took with your mechanic to arrive at that specific conclusion?

Agboriotejoye:
Oga anybody can claim to be anything. Quote the Bible passage where Jesus asked his disciples to be like him.
Go and read Matthew 10 and Luke 6 and compare both with the admonition of Jesus to to his disciples to "take up your cross and follow me "

Are you a born again Christian?

Pearl1910:
Smiles...I didn't buy it from apapa...I bought it overseas and imported it myself. Buts that's besides d point...the point is car can spoil, engine can knock, gear can pack up anytime even without any sign. They aren't meant to last forever.

Either you don't have enough experience or u aren't exposed enough cos these your concluding and sweeping statements are false.
I have seen Lexus RX 350 and Toyota Corolla engines knock with no sign no symptom. This is apart from my personal experience.
There are many ways or scenarios for a car engine to knock not necessarily having wrong oil or managing long present engine sound.

But did you change the oil in that matrix after you bought it and immediately before driving it off from the place of purchase?

If you say yes, I won’t argue but try to be honest, we are all here to learn from each other’s mistakes (which humans are naturally prone to)

Please . . . resist the urge to pull a ‘gabrinchi’

Itsrm:
Interesting perspective

Let me seek your opinion on something. The vehicle was last serviced in the US on the 14th of December 2021 at 151k miles. The dealership put a sticker on it that says next service is at 155k miles or 14th of March 2022.

Vehicle came into the country in September at 152600 miles and is currently on 154k miles on the original oil that came with it.

What do you think? To change the oil immediately or run till the scheduled 155k miles.

I’d run to the scheduled 155k miles. An oil is only good once it’s been poured into an engine and used regularly for 5k miles or 6 months or it was poured into the engine, seldom used but in the crankcase for up to a year at most

So to answer your question, so far it hasn’t been up to a year since it’s change and storage I’d still use it for the stipulated miles allotted by the dealership.

Agboriotejoye:
Then you don't understand English and you should work in your deductive reasoning before posting further.
You said not even Jesus was as loved as Obi is now. May I ask if Obi is the most loved human ever by your estimation? Has he gotten ahead of Ahmadu Bello or Awolowo or Ojukwu in terms of popularity?

To reduce the life of Jesus to a popularity contest with a politician who is known for stating innacurate facts is an insult to Jesus.
It reduces Jesus to just another imperfect mortal with faults.
No!! Jesus was not such

I’m sorry, before I answer this your post . . .

Weren’t you the same person I asked on another comment if you were really a born again Christian? After you asked me to show you a portion of the Bible where it was stated that Jesus Christ said we should be like him? If you were the person then you still haven’t given me an answer to that question yet. I’m waiting . . .

Barbiturate:
This is what I do. Someone mentioned it here early last year and I've bn doing that since then. My recent car isn't up to 18 months since I bought it. I bought it Tokunbo.

Endeavor to use the right specification of oil for your engine this time around. 20w50 is very unforgiving if used in the wrong engine and worse still there are numerous fakes of it in the market.

Itsrm:
If you went to buy a 2005 Matrix and the engine died before you got to your house then maybe you stop buying vehicles yourself.

There's absolutely no way anyone who knows what he's doing will buy a Matrix and the engine will die the same day.

We even buy these vehicles sight unseen no inspection from the US and with enough knowledge we avoid the ones with engine amd transmission issues talk more of the one you actually had physical access to inspect.

If you had said it was a Hyundai Sonata or any of these other cars made from hell I'll understand.

Well built engines don't just knock and you also allude to the fact that sometimes the damage has been done by the previous owner.

While I acknowledge that engines sometimes fail due to design errors and age, the human factor is responsible for a lot of engine failures in this part of the world. That's my point.

Lol brother, you forgot to ask pearl a simple question before you posted this. The question is below :

DID YOU CHANGE THE FLUIDS BEFORE TAKING THE VEHICLE OUT OF THE TERMINAL?

How can you go to buy a tokumbo vehicle and then proceed to drive it off the venue of purchase without first at least changing the engine oil?

Do you know how long that vehicle had sat before purchase? Do you know that the vehicle could have stayed at an auction lot overseas for years before being bought and shipped to Lagos before it sat for even more years before it was finally purchased by the end user?

A 2015 Toyota Corolla could have been involved in an accident or flooding in 2017 and then towed to an auction house garage by the insurance company where it sat for 4 years before one Nigerian man sees it and bids for it, he wins the bid and then trucks it to the port to be containerized and shipped to Nigeria where intensive body, interior and suspension work begins which last an additional 6 months after which it’s ready for the dealership lot to be displayed for sale to the public. They won’t touch the engine or gearbox oh, just other affected visible areas that won’t trigger suspicions.

Then someone who isn’t knowledgeable will proceed to see it and buy it then take the key and turn the ignition hoping to drive it to ikorodu to go and show his friends and family to celebrate his new toy then gbam engine knock

He will then call dealer to complain and the dealer will tell him

‘ahn-ahn . . . But I changed the oil naw, look at the dipstick, isn’t it clear and golden color?’

And you will say it’s true oh, the oil is indeed looking clear and honey color meanwhile every single lubricating and detergent properties contained in the oil has been degraded or expired due to age and humidity while it sat for years in an unused engine in the hottest and coldest of extremes

The above scenario has happened to my dad. He went with his mechanic and bought a cargo van from wharf and on his way home it knocked engine. We later got to find out the van had sat at the wharf for donkey years. Oil was looking clean and all things looking good to go. Since that time I’ve learned a valuable lesson.

ALWAYS CHANGE ALL AVAILABLE FLUIDS IN A VEHICLE IMMEDIATELY AFTER PURCHASE AND BEFORE DRIVING OFF THE SALES LOT


now was my dad careless or ignorant? Or was it a manufacturer error?

I’ll leave you to decide

pope191:
How is something you have no control over ignorance or carelessness.

Give an example of such please

Diligent1:
My brother, with all these you have mentioned about Peter Obi then why Peter Obi and majority of Anambrians abandon Anambra to live in Lagos State? and why Peter Obi cannot find solution to the insecurity happening in Anambra, Nigeria is bigger you know?

Before when it rains the beach will over flow and destroy many properties, when Tinubu became governor of Lagos State, he tackled the challenge by inviting experts internationally without waiting for federal government to solve the problem, but look at what is happening in Anambra now with flood, this is what Obi should have guided against when he was governor of Anambra state.

Chai! Don’t worry, I will mark your moniker. I will be monitoring your posts from today.

It’s clear that no matter what I say you’d never change your opinion concerning governance but I’m sure what can change your mind would be it’s eventual causes in your life.

Have a nice election voting exercise

Agboriotejoye:
Where did Jesus ask us to be like him in the Bible? Quote the scripture pls.
But that's not the import of that guy's statement. He never said Obi is like Jesus in terms of love ppl have for him. He's saying Obi is better than Jesus!!

Wait first . . . For real?

You’re asking me if Jesus never instructed us his followers to ‘be like him’ ?

Like . . . FOR REAL?

are you a Christian? I mean a BORN AGAIN CHRISTIAN?

Toylove:
No, it doesn't
It's just after it engages.
It doesn't shudder nor jerk too

If you’ve not changed your transmission fluid in a while I believe it’s that time. You should buy 4 litres of Honda genuine ATF-DW1and do a drain and refill of your transmission fluid and your issue will be gone.

Do it quickly before it starts affecting your solenoids and lead to greater problems.

Starz825:
I understand you ..
But a lot of people might not...
Though I initially thought that it was just someone who intentionally wanted to aim at Christ....you know how people do here....
S

Yes it’s true. Ignorance is very dangerous especially when it’s mixed with religion.

I hope more people make this realization as you just did. God bless you brother.

Toylove:
Hello sir, good day.
I drive a Honda accord 2007
There is this sound the car makes immediately the gear is engaged to either reverse or drive. It makes this "ke" sound immediately after it engages before I remove my leg from the break, Please, what could it be.

When you switch it from P to R or D, After it makes the ‘ke’ sound, does it keep making the same sound as you drive? When it makes the ‘ke’ sound does the vehicle shudder or jerk?

pope191:
Came back late... Barbiturate has done justice to your question already. Good maintenance will obviously help any device to last longer, does not mean the machine is immune to failure.

And as I said, there are failures due to cases of ignorance or carelessness.

Factory faults are also up there there as well

00FFT00:
Ikonso House. Please!.

Thank you for this important correction brotherly

Agboriotejoye:
Also note that majority of those who are going to vote for Obi are Christians.
If you start denigrating Jesus for him, you're going to cost him massively.
Learn politics from notherners.
I just hope this foolishness does not get into mainstream SM because it will easily be used against Obi.

I didn’t denigrate Jesus for anyone, I only said that when it came to popularity during their time of being alive Peter Obi is seemingly more popular than Jesus as at them.

Isn’t it simple to understand.

Diligent1:
I am not voting for party, I am voting for personality even Buhari did not follow the party policies, Buhari used tribalism to destroy his administration.
I have seen the performance of Tinubu, it really outway Obi in everything.

Please, when Tinubu was the governor of Lagos State he created:
1. LAWMA solving waste problems
2. RRS solving insecurity.
3. LAMATA solving transport problems
4. LASTMA solving traffic etc
to mention a vew, despite stoppage of revenue from federal government.
I know that if Tinubu win, I will get a better job and all my suffering will end.

Please can you mention at least 4 agencies which Peter Obi created when he was governor of Anambra state maybe you can convince me.

So you believe good governance is by imposing multiple taxation on the populace both the rich and poor?

I pay lawma their fee for clearing dustbin on my street meanwhile in anambra their own state waste management does it for free.

2. rapid response squad is still the same thing as operation sweep which was working in Lagos for years before tinubu became governor and changed their name. Do you want to attribute their existence to tinubu now? Because he gave them a new name?

3. Lamata I don’t know about this one but all I know is that transportation in Lagos is the costliest I’ve ever seen in this country and for the shortest distance too. Transportation fare in anambra is cheaper than Lagos and the road networks is far better and free from excessive traffic. If you have never traveled you will never see.

4. Lastma lol this must be a joke. Haven’t you seen the way lastma impounds vehicle for minor offenses and imposes heavy amounts for fines up to the point of even auctioning the vehicles they seized? Is this what you want for yourself when you finally buy a car and are unfortunate to take a wrong turn at an intersection? To be told to pay a fine of N100k or forfeit your vehicle?

You see, the problem is that you yorubas seldom travel and that’s why you myopically see things from a narrow point of view. Tinubu has vowed to continue from where the same nepotistic buhari stopped but it’s not an issue to you because he’s your tribesman abi? The same buhari that is making things so hard for you and your family right now?

You ask for what Peter Obi did in his state as a governor and there are numerous, what he never did was to create agencies and avenues to impose heavy taxation on his people like tinubu did which to you is a sign of good governance.

You need to step back and look at the bigger picture here, if we vote for the wrong choices it’s all of us that will suffer it together. Haven’t you seen how people started committing suicide in Nigeria immediately apc and buhari assumed power? Even you yourself have considered suicide as an option before. Why do you want the status quo to continue?

Agboriotejoye:
Guy, I'm telling you that what you guys are doing is wrong comparing Jesus with a politician or even a mortal at all.
Let me give you an analogy. Imagine you're the Faber guy and I post this: "Wow. This dog is so brilliant. He was able to know who defecated on the ground simply by sniffing everyone's cloth. I've never seen the whole city appreciate anyone the way the dog was appreciated. Even Faber has never been that appreciated."
Now, would you clap for me and say I just gave a fact? Two things.
The biblical quote you gave was Jesus referring to the people of Nazareth his hometown and not all Israelites. There are three instances where Jesus was shown "love" by multitudes in the Bible. First, when he fed five thousand, second when he fed four thousand, and third during the triumphant entry to Jerusalem. So your claim that Jesus was not loved by 10% is not factual.

Secondly, the love they had for Jesus as I explained above was transitional and transactional just like that of Obi is. You all love Obi because of what he's saying and what he represents now not because you love him for who he is and what he is.
If Obi comes out today to say he drops his ambition for say Tinubu, y'all will curse him out. Jesus did not have a need to be loved to complete his mission unlike Obi who needs to be loved to complete his mission of becoming president. So, Obi must pander to public opinion, or at least say what his followers wish to hear while Jesus does not need to.
I'm making this comparisons not because I want to but because that's what that guy started.
It's very wrong to compare any mortal who is running his personal race with that of Jesus .

Yes it’s true as to your last sentence, you shouldn’t compare a person to be like Jesus Christ due to political reasons I agree.

But don’t tell me I can’t compare a man to be like Jesus Christ, if you are a true Christian then you should be like Jesus Christ. That is what he instructed us to be before he ascended into heaven.

Read your bible with an open mind and learn. We are all spiritual beings before being physical.

Starz825:
Guy...you shouldn't have mentioned Jesus Christ for any reason whatsoever....even if your reason is innocent.....
Mention the prophet of the other religion..and see them roast you like corn...

Now this is exactly where you’re getting it wrong, our religion and theirs are not the same at all.

Jesus Christ whom I worship and serve as my God instructed his followers BE LIKE HIM AND WALK IN HIS WAYS, what does Christian mean? It means ‘Christ like’

So pray tell me, why can’t I compare myself to Jesus Christ when I am a Christian? Didn’t the disciples receive the holy ghost and heal the sick, perform miracles, signs and wonders like Jesus Christ did?

Why are you scared to be like Jesus Christ and compare yourself to him, Jesus Christ said he is in every single one of us, that if we only believe in him we can move mountains . . . Do you think he told us a lie?

Are you a Christian? Ask yourself this question at night before you sleep. Maybe you’d get a revelation.

Diligent1:
My brother, I cannot vote for someone which when he was governor, doctors went on strike for 13 months risking the lives of people living in his state. I am not a zombie.

Oh is that the only reason you can’t vote for him? Because of a Doctors strike that was caused by the Federal Government (Obasanjo)?

Today ASUU is on strike and has been on strike for over 8 long months, why haven’t people shifted blames to the governors of each state where universities are? Why is it only buhari’s fault?

Do you know how many businesses and companies crumbled and folded up because of the bad economic policies that this APC government enacted on the economy in their first tenure?

You’re searching for better jobs now right? How many jobs have buhari and APC created since they assumed leadership of this country in 2015? Remember it’s tinubu that gave us this regime in the first place.

Why are you like this to yourself? Remember you were once contemplating suicide because of how life is hard for you, do you want life to become worse for you and your family for the next 8 years?

You’ve practically opened up numerous threads to beg for help concerning the hardships here on nairaland already, why do you want to open some more of those kind of threads?

Do you think anybody will take you seriously when the bad governance starts to bite you and your family?

cliqtips:
-- "you claim to read"

With that line, I don't think you are worthy of my reply to your message.

Enjoy the rest of you day...

I understand you don’t have any reply. Have a wonderful day as well.

Agboriotejoye:
Look at what you're saying too. Obi's popularity is not yet measured in a presidential contest to see how deep it is.
You can't even compare him to the political popularity of Buhari who kept getting 12m votes every election cycle in the North.
Yet I've never seen a northerner compare Buhari with Muhammad.
A lot of you guys in the East need to learn to play politics and imbibe the right temperament that gives ultimate victory. You're too flippant.
That guy is doing Obi more harm than even the Muslim Muslim ticket is doing to Tinubu.
If you denigrate Jesus did Obi, can you expect votes from his followers?

Look, try to see the first post on front page that caused this ruckus and read to comprehend it.

That guy was talking about the love shown to Peter Obi now versus the love shown to our lord Jesus Christ when he was alive.

Now tell me your own opinion, in the whole of Nazareth and Israel, was Jesus Christ loved by more than 10% of their population throughout his holistic evangelism and good news preaching travels?

Have you not seen a passage in your own bible that the words “a prophet is not recognized in his own homeland” was written? It was somewhere in the Old Testament concerning Prophet Ezekiel or so.

Diligent1:
Your eyes will clear in February, 2023.

My eyes have been clear siiiince buhari and apc started dealing with us in 2016

I went through your profile and posts, I can see you’re struggling. Why do you want to still go ahead and vote someone who will make things worse for you and your family?

Diligent1 if your children knew you want to vote for tinubu to increase tax and pocket the revenue it generates while making businesses crumble around you how will they feel about their mother? Do you want to go ahead and commit suicide? Remember if you vote wrong it’s for another 8 solid long years oh.

Why?

Treasure17:
Lmao. Vilify? How na?

Sorry typo, I meant to write deify

Treasure17:
Yeah he was persecuted but that doesn't invalidate the fact that he was also loved. Might not be in form of great magnitude though and besides that was not a perfect illustration because he has a mission to fulfil and those persecutions were part of his ''story lines".

So what stops Peter Obi from having his own story line? Isn’t he also loved by most and hated by few too?

I understand your zeal to vilify our Lord and Savior but at times let’s be objective in our comprehensive ability concerning posts and opinions.

See the empty stadium lol

These ones are the wives and daughters of the apc politicians in imo state see their asoebi

Let them enjoy their largesse from Tinubu’s bullion van now while their Supreme Court governor is still in Douglas house

cliqtips:
Some of you go just type without thinking...
And this how you put some people into problems without them knowing where the problem comes from....

@ Treasure17, Starz825, themes009, doneback04, SIMONEKPA7, tishbite41, boldtruthalways, abokikhalifa, princeactionx

But in reality, according to the Bible you claim to read, when Jesus was alive did he receive such love from his people?

Wasn’t he prosecuted all through his adult life? from as an infant when king herod was looking to kill him that made his family flee to Egypt to when he was old that pontius Pilate washed his hands off his case before crucifixion?

Or isn’t it the same version of the Bible we read?

groovie:
Thanks. Do i have to do any more scanning or just go straight to changing both sensors?

If that’s the only code you got then go ahead to change just the one sensor under your vehicle near the catalyst, drive for a few kilometers/miles and check if the malfunction light comes on again. If it does, then you’d need another scan.

gidgiddy:
And I guess you dont really care that you're government engaged in years of unjust killings of peaceful agitators?

Nah, he doesn’t care about that at all one single bit

Ipob was never a terrorist group right from its inception. It’s just because nnamdi kanu was using his big bad mouth to pepper buhari and his administration that made them designate the group with the alleged terrorist tag.