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apexquest:
I had a hot argument with my guy today, as to which gear is best adviceable for changing the gear let's say from 2 to 3, 3 to 4.... on a manual transmission...
I voted 2000rpm, cos that's when I change...
please share yours, and if u don't mind, tell us why!

For me during spirited driving, the best rpm to change up is 500rpm above rated max torque rpm (anything much higher wastes fuel) while best to change down is 1000rpm below rated max (anything much lower stresses the gears).
Generally, midsize petrol engines have their rated max torque between 3000 & 3500rpm while midsize [passenger car] diesel engines have theirs between 2000 & 2500rpm.
Fuel economic driving is a whole different ball game for which google is your friend, but I would say shifting up 2500rpm for petrol & 1500rpm for diesel is ok.

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nurey:
Awon haters food don land

where was mercedes benz when the 2000GT was busy breaking records , ooo yes, they were still settling their rust issues

Caveat: if my comment is annoying please endeavor to notify me, hating me would only make me love you more

Come on bruh. In the same period, Mercedes was churning out the 142mph 300SEL 6.3 sedan.
Rust issues started in the 90's.

5. You Can Make Your Own Silencers.

A shotgun silencer from SilencerCo retails for $1,440 and even its smallest products, like the 6.5-ounce Rimfire, sell for more than $500. For that price, you can see why some gun enthusiasts prefer to make their own silencers out of common household objects like oil filters and flashlights.

First, it should be said that the only way to legally make and use your own silencer is to fill out ATF Form 1, "Application to Make and Register a Firearm." Again, that comes with a $200 tax and a months-long waiting period.

The Maglite suppressor, made from the industrial-strength flashlight, is one of the most popular DIY silencers on the internet. The key to all DIY silencers is getting an adapter with the right threading to attach to the barrel and whatever you are using as a makeshift suppressor.

Another popular option is to use an oil filter or a fuel filter for a car, otherwise known as a "Tennessee silencer." You can find any number of detailed video tutorials online for assembling a filter-based silencer that won't cost you more than $20 in parts, plus that $200 tax, of course.


One word of warning: If you're determined to make a silencer a DIY project, be sure to stay on the right side of the law and be careful not to physically endanger yourself in the process.

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4. A Silenced Gun May Be a Safer Gun.

The gun industry is positioning silencers as a health issue. In fact, the bill that would eliminate the $200 tax and ATF background check for buying a silencer is called the Hearing Protection Act. There's no doubt that repeated short-range exposure to gun blasts will inflict lasting hearing damage. But why can't hunters and other sportsman simply wear ear plugs?

The American Suppressor Association argues that many hunters don't wear ear protection because they want to be aware of their surroundings. It's hard to hear the call of a migrating duck or the sound of a buck moving stealthily through the underbrush if you're wearing earplugs or noise-reducing earmuffs. With silencers, gun advocates argue, hunters don't have to sacrifice awareness for safety.

Another safety benefit touted by the silencer industry is accuracy. The anticipation of a loud blast causes some shooters to flinch as they pull the trigger. This may lead to inaccurate shots, which could endanger other hunters or result in an injury to the animal.

3. Silencers Are a Pain to Purchase Legally.

Even though silencers are legal in dozens of states, that doesn't mean they're easy to buy. There are thousands of gun shops nationwide selling popular brands like SilencerCo and Liberty Suppressors, but the only way you're going to walk out of the store with a new silencer is if you pass the ATF background check. And that can take up to nine months.

Here's a simplified view of how the process works: You purchase the silencer at the gun dealer and get a serial number for it. You'll need that number when you fill out ATF Form 4, "Application for Tax Paid Transfer and Registration of Firearm." You'll pay the $200 tax required by the National Firearms Act, and also attach a passport photo, fingerprint cards and answer a bunch of background questions — Are you a fugitive of justice? Are you addicted to marijuana or other controlled substance? — that could disqualify you from purchasing a silencer. After the ATF approves your application, you can collect your silencer. If you do buy online, the silencer is shipped to a dealer after you're approved.

The American Suppressor Association, a silencer industry advocacy group, estimates that an ATF background check typically takes between four and nine months. This is the main obstacle to legal ownership that the silencer industry wants to see abolished.

2. Silencers Are Perfectly Legal — Almost Everywhere in the U.S.

There are currently 42 states in the U.S. where it's legal to own a silencer, and 40 of these states have legalized silencers for hunting. The main states where silencers are illegal to own or use for any purpose are California, New York, Illinois, New Jersey and Massachusetts.

Silencers are regulated under a 1934 law called the National Firearms Act (NFA). Although many people think that silencers were banned in the 1930s to fight a rash of Mafia-style killings, The Washington Post reports that authorities were more afraid that poachers would use silencers during Depression-era food shortages to hunt out of season.

In fact, the NFA never made silencers illegal. It simply included them among other exotic firearms and accessories — machine guns, most notably — that require a special tax to purchase. If you want to buy a silencer in any of those 42 states today, you have to pay a $200 tax to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF).

1. Silencers Don't 'Silence' a Gun.

Gunshots are loud because superheated gases expand rapidly and produce shockwaves as they escape the gun's chamber. Silencers contain a series of expansion chambers that cool and dissipate the gases before they leave the barrel.

A silencer is a lot like the muffler on your car (in fact, both were invented by the same guy). Screwing a silencer onto the barrel of a gun doesn't "silence" the explosive bang, it just muffles the noise. That's why folks in the gun industry call them suppressors instead of silencers.

The decibel level of an un-suppressed 12-gauge shotgun is 160 decibels, louder than standing on the runway when a jet is taking off (150 decibels). The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) sets 140 decibels as the threshold of pain, although it takes far less than 140 decibels to inflict long-term hearing damage with repeated exposure.

According to a fact sheet from SilencerCo, a Utah-based silencer manufacturer, a 12-gauge shotgun equipped with a silencer registers 137 decibels and a silenced .22 rifle is muffled to 116 decibels, slightly louder than an ambulance siren. Still loud, just not eardrum-busting loud.

That may explain why, contrary to popular belief, silencers are seldom used in criminal acts. One study looked at federal court cases involving silencers reported in the Lexis/Westlaw database between 1995 and 2005. Of the 153 cases reported, just two cases involved a silencer being used in a murder case, and overall, only 12 involved the use of a silencer in the commission of a crime. Gun control advocates, however, point out that silencers have been used in some high-profile crimes.

As decades of Hollywood action movies have taught us, a silencer slowly screwed onto the end of a pistol is shorthand for "somebody's about to get murdered." But as The Washington Post reported recently, the gun industry is trying to clean up the silencer's image by arguing that silencers are a health issue. Hunters can suffer noise-induced hearing loss (NIHL) from repeated exposure, and none other than President-elect Donald J. Trump's oldest son, Donald Trump, Jr., has joined the cause to #fightthenoise.

If you're not a gun-owner, you might be surprised to learn that silencers are legal or that most people in the gun industry don't call them "silencers." More surprises below.

Redo the test "all things being equal", and your first port of call should be weight.
The ML, W203 & W210 are all heavier than the W202. Surely you don't expect to get same mpg.
Then there's the matter of state of health of those cars, driving style, weather, just to name a few.

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Mournday

Happy new month (in arrears).

suzan404:
3. This 1980’s Mercedes


Everyone’s daddy had this!

Research the year before posting.

Enyimbamercedes:
Please anyone who has this item or knows where i can procure this tonneau cover should please contact me. Thank you

Ask Briscoe, Elizade & co.

ogorben:
Please does anybody know of any insurance company or any company that want to either auction or sell Hilux van / pickup. Please I am very much interested and need it asap. Once I confirm that engine is fine I will pay right away. Please let me know if you know of any company, I need it asap. Thanks.

Go to major oil companies (Shell & co) and make enquiries.

Take it

Aye Cap'n!

kizitokings2018:
please ,does any one have idea on the price of new 18 seat hiace bus ??

Full size Toyota Hiace - N15mill (and it's even 16 seats), full size Joylong - N9.2mill (an excellent Hiace copy, 19 seats with DVD for passengers, airbags, ABS), full size Kinglong - N7mill (a good Hiace copy, also 16 seats, ABS).

trustoceans:
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well it depends on the car the friend is driving, i don't think a reasonable fellow will purposefully and deliberately smash his Ferrari with a rough car.its for real and i have helped my clients to recover claims up to 1million naira.you just have to channel your insurance through a broker/agent

What if the Ferrari needed, maybe say, a new radiator, and the owner couldn't afford one, couldn't he go that route? Just tell the friend to reverse a little & bash the grille, then blame the radiators damage on the accident.

pattybf:
from my understanding of vehicle documentation, its just ur 5k
annual renewal, there is no monthly premium.
remember it covers d damage done to d 3rd party, not d
insured!

I still find it hard to believe. N1,000,000 for a N5,000 renewal? Anyone with a faulty hard-to-repair car could just simply beg a friend with kabukabu to smash into his car so that their respective insurance companies take of the mess.

Listen up!

GAZZUZZ:
poor quality brake pads. Check all wheels to see the abount of braking material left

It could also be that his discs are wearing out instead of the pads.

Haaa!!

herrlekan:
Your N5,000.00 Third party only insurance is worth N1,000,000.00 less excess. It covers the following:
Third party property damage upto N1,000,000.00
Third party bodily injury or death
We are talking about genuine insurance cover not the roadside insurance certificate. To confirm if your motor insurance policy is genuine check it on www.askniid.org

My question was, does this apply to a N5000-once-a-year renewal or there's a monthly premium?

trustoceans:
Accidents are unavoidable. Everyday in Lagos, you see myriads of car accidents resulting to punches between motorists.while an informed and knowledgeable driver avoids such scenario and immediately calls his insurance company once he has a genuine insurance cover even if it is the minimum cover under law which is the third party insurance cover[color=#000000][/color] ,and is quite common among motorists because of its affordability and costs 5,000 naira
Third party motor insurance cover covers your liability to third party.i.e Driving to work,thinking about the harsh economy and you re lost in thought and accidentally hit a vehicle,the insurance company will pay the cost of repairing the damaged vehicle up to a limit of 1,000,000,so pray you don't [color=#000000]hit a range rover sport[/color] driven by a colonel and the cost of the inner light is 2,000,000,because,the insurance company will only pay 1,000,000 and leave you with the colonel so you can settle the outstanding 1,000,000 ,and am sure you know the outcome.,
kindly note that the insurance company is not responsible for repairing your vehicle if it is affected by the accident, unless you get comprehensive insurance cover.so when such claim arises , walk up to your insurance company[color=#000000](the address and name of the insurance company[/color] is on your certificate of insurance) with the angry colonel, i pray you still have enough strength to walk after some multifarious slaps.make sure you take the pictures of the affected vehicle and your own vehicle and receive your instant claim up to 1,000,000 naira.am sure the insurance company will pity you, mere sighting your swollen face
so that insurance paper you bought for 5000 is worth a million naira.ask me questions in case you need further clarification on motor insurance cover.

Are you now saying that by renewing my 3rd party insurance papers once a year with just N5000, in the advent of an accident, the insurance company would repair the other person's car to the tune of N1,000,000 (ONE MILLION NAIRA)?!

Yeah!

okikiosibodu:
Op, when you board some commercial vehicles, your eyes will be "peppering" you. What's the cause of that one?

That should be unburnt fuel fumes and/or a leaky exhaust.

princecemo:
How about that odd smell that comes out from the AC vent when you are on top speed...

That may mean your cabin filter is bad.

Will they still include air suspension in the 2-litre variant?