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abes:
Search EFCC Port Harcourt on Google map, for a start, observe the roof colour and compare it with the one on the alleged pictures. Don't believe everything you see on the internet.

Detention Centre is not always in the main office complex.

Bad news

luluosas:
Wake up from your sleep. Border closure outshines this policy, though a very correct step in the right direction.

If you think border closure is a good economic policy, then your economics teacher has failed

First good policy of this government

Fieend:
Oga Denn, why did you stop though

I am an ardent follower of your restoration projects, and I've been learning.

Hello.

There has been many behind-the-scene politics playing on Nairaland's Cartalk section that has just quenched the drive.

I was blocked unjustly for opening this thread, I was also blocked in the past for opening other threads.

Once I start posting, an admin will find a reason to lock the thread or delete it outrightly.

So I have dey my dey

Thanks boss

Beauty is truly in the eyes of the beholder.

But when the beholder is yourself and you believe all those your snapchat videos, yawa don dey cook indomie be dat

AutoJoshNG:
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This is completely inaccurate, a beer parlour attempt at investigative journalism and a real disappointment if this is how Auto josh does its reportage.

I don't have time to start going through all the lies but 27m LR3s recalled? How many LR3s were manufactured in total?

How will you say each airmatic ballon in a GL450 costs 900k when i bought mine at 45k?

Engine of a 2009 Mercedes Benz E class 3m naira?

This is like a thesis from an asylum patient and should be disregarded.

PS: Auto josh should not feign ignorance by claiming he was not the author. It is on his blog and for him to have reposted means he has given it credence which it doesn't deserve.

kingreign:
cc: https://www.nairaland.com/greatstephenho

Iyana Itire... Anything VAG is there...

nurey:
If you look at the rear pix you posted, your trim is Td4 that means you have a BMW m47 2.0L diesel engine in that vehicle, I am not sure whether it's a 4x4 but if it is, then you have an advantage in the off-road segment and your fuel consumption would be great.

Your next line of action should be how to take care of a diesel engine, you can also research the M47 engine, it's likes and what to watch out for.

find 9icetoo/ivoryhouse for how to use a diesel car in Nigeria

find Denn an expert in BMW and it's engines maybe he has come across the M47 Engine before.

The diesel engines were of two types and the one in your car is the M47R which was an adaptation of the BMW M47D20.

The M47D20 on its own and in BMW applications was reliable. In the BMW, it was mounted longitudinally (like all BMWs)

However during modification by landrover, they made it transverse and changed the injection to common rail.

Common rail injection depends on very high pressures to injection the diesel. High pressures lead to heat... Now engine is transverse... Plus it has a turbocharger.


Your main concern would be overheating.

Always ensure your cooling system is in top condition and buy diesel from the filling stations with reputation like Mobil, forte, etc

If i were you however, I would ask the giver to sell the car, i would not mind adding 1000 euros of my own money and sending to get a different car like a Mercedes ML or a BMW X5.

Your shipping and clearing costs would be similar to those cars I mentioned and the value would have gone way higher.

Cheers

Lol

So many people with basically no knowledge of firearms commenting.

MILLYWAYS:
good evening, pls people I need help. I bought this VOLKSWAGEN passat 2006 model for my wife, and ever since then the happiness I was looking for totally vanished. electrical faults here and there...the latest 1 now is that the car is discharging every battery that enters it. including a new battery that I bought last week. I have gone to VOLKSWAGEN market several times under 3weeks that I bought the car. please people I need help urgently.... thanks. I have also spent 180,000 that I dnt have, and yet the car is still killing me......

Battery drain after a poorly done electrical job is a possibility on any car brand.

Get a rewire that can troubleshoot using a multimeter to isolate the parasitic drain.

It would be hard due to all these modules that remain awake normally after you shut down the car but it can be done

Start from the recent repairs and work backwards.

Update on discoveries

Cheers

I have an audi b7 and its one of the sweetest cars i have used. VAG is not as bad as the bystanders mean

deathwing:
Ok thanks. To be safe, I think I'll just go for the RWD. I don't really need the extra weight and fuel consumption of AWD since i don't move around so much.

Also, do you have any idea how much these smoked headlights cost?

Around 300 USD before shipping

PS I own this manual and it is needing a new owner for 6 5 0 k

nurey:
yes the AWD parts would be different from RWD or FWD in the wheels/leg section am talking about shocks, transfer case etc. As for the parts been rare I don't know about that never used one b4 personally.

cc Denn

The parts are available...just a little bit more expensive

MotorGuru:
Sighs..

This is a lot of re-engineering in which cost-wise, is a bummer.

have you considered installing instead the 1.6 L Gamma I4 GDI installed in the US spec of this car?( it seems you have the 1.2L engine in yours?). I think this engine may have a more robust design.

Yes it would also require associated ECU and wiring but would it not be a 'cheaper' option?

My car currently has the 1.4L engine. The US spec 1.6L costs N450,000 for engine alone.

MotorGuru:
Remember you replaced a BMW engine with another BMW engine installed for the same model years

Not same year...BMW E30 3 series from 1987 got a powertrain from a 1995 BMW 5 series E34...and it was not plug and play....

timifakay:
1. The air-conditioning system of the Rio is not gonna remain when the engine is changed to that of another vehicle as the compressor won't fit except s d stand is construct, but I doubt there will be space for that, also thereshigh chance of pipes breaking during the surgery.

2. Get a tape rule to measure the engine bay space avaible for you to play around. You may have to do away with most of the packing and pads in the engine bay.

3. Measure distance between the wheels and choose a donor vehicle that has about the same dimension to avoid trouble in that area.

4. Instrument cluster compatibility

Thanks for these inputs.

As for AC, I think we can still use the compressor from the donor engine, cut the hoses and weld onto the existing pipes

Will take the measurements as advised, thanks

Instrument cluster....hnmmmmm... speedometer and tachometer working based on different ECUs and programs.... another major hurdle to cross. Sir, how do you think we can get this working?

Thanks for your inputs

GAZZUZZ:
denn I am only responding because you are a techincian.

To avoid cuts and joints, pls understudy the hyundai elantra 2007 Dana spec and the 2.0liter from USA.

My suggestion is you find a wrecked Elantra 2.0 cut it in half, and take the front part home. Harvest all you need. It will be an easy instalation. Manual or auto. Where it might become tricky is the electronic power steering. It will see a different engine ecu, and might not work.

Thanks for the input Gazzuzz.

The 2007 Hyundai Elantra is very similar to the 2007/8 Kia Cerato and even shares similar power train and layout.... exhaust manifold in front and intake manifold from the rear of the engine.

The 2013 Kia Rio on the other hand has a completely opposite layout with intake in front and exhaust at the rear.

Vehicles with exhaust manifolds in front have their exhausts modded to flow under the engine around the beam, rack and other components all the way through the bulkhead.

This would involve modifying the steering rack set up, fabricating a lower beam as the Elantra or cerato is wider, and hammering the bulkhead to pave way for the exhaust pipes.

The current set up has the steering rack directly sitting in any space the proposed exhaust might try to snake through and the opening on the body for the exhaust extremely higher than the beam to allow for the default exhaust to just slip out straight to the back without any bends.

Infact, I bought a 2007 Kia Cerato just to do this and saw all these issues.

The 2009 Kia Cerato on the other hand has the first iteration of the same engine in the 2013 Kia Rio with a plastic intake manifold in the front and the exhaust at the rear. Infact, my brief glance tells me it is the same block, save for difference in displacements....the same block I am trying to run away from. The major difference I noticed is that the 2009 is a drive by cable while the 2013 is a drive by wire.

I have been doing some mental practice and I have noticed some points that the new engine must have to be a good fit.

First the engine must be on the right side and the transmission on the left.

Secondly, the intake manifold must be on the front and the exhaust manifold on the rear of the engine.

Any engine that must work must satisfy these requirements.

One engine that passes is the Corolla 1ZZ-FE. It has the same structure as a Kia Rio engine of the 2013 spec.

Which other engine has this same dimensions?

seanfer:
Please if there's any solution.. I will be following this thread kindly post it... I might get myself a Kia Rio with Mazda Engine for daily runs

True ..I am still searching

nurey:
This is not a classic

it's not a limited edition vehicle

it's not a sort after vehicle either

except you have a sentimental attachment if not sell as is.

why don't you rather source for the 1.6L gamma with GDI made for the US market, that would be more solid.

if you are bent on removing the piece of crap engine look at its predecessor alpha engines instead of Toyota engine.

Hi Nurey

Thanks for the comment.

This car unfortunately has been a huge money pit for me.

Apart from the dumb engine, every other part is in great impeccable condition; not a single rust, minimal scratches and the AC is as cold as any AC can get.

At this point, I am just trying to build something reliable that can be used at home or for city trips... giving some value to something almost as valueless as a discarded refrigerator.

Selling as is is not a good option. It implies I am throwing in the towel and not using this chance to learn something new. I don't do that.

These engines were not built to be repaired. They are powertrains meant to be discarded after usage...you can read online comments about them. How Kia would design such monstrosity still baffles me. One critical component of an engine that we all fail to even remember are the thread holes. Thread holes for the bolts and the threads themselves. If the Kia Rio engine should overheat just once, the thread holes start degrading to the point where camshafts can't sit in one place, the tappets get loosened etc....

Now, the alpha engine you mentioned is a very good choice. It is cheap, strong, built like normal engines and repairable too. I even have a 2008 Kia Cerato I can use as a donor.

Have you seen or heard of this engine been used as a swap? Would really appreciate more information.

Sorry for my long epistle.

Thanks

diportivo:
my red Kia rio chronicles has been laid bare

oga denn....i dey this ur table...shake it vigorously

I will follow u in this quest.....my binoculars military standard as u blaze the trail

Let's shake it o, maybe a resolution to this debacle would be gotten.

Thanks for the comment

Hello

The subject refers.

I want to swap the complete power train in a 2013 Kia Rio to any other engine that can work seamlessly. I need information and guidance from people who have seen it done before for this model or who knows technicians that can do it within Lagos.

Prior Information
The current engine is stock but it is on its final leg of life.

The engines used for these models were not designed to be repaired (as I unfortunately found out the hard way). Bolts strip for no reason and the metal clearance after just 100,000 km sounds like afrobeat infused with weed. I do not intend to spend 500k on replacing the engine with a toks so I want to do a custom build using cheaper but more reliable powertrains (a Toyota Corolla 1ZZ comes into mind)

Please dont advise that I retain the stock form. I hate that block with a passion.

I have done engine swaps and conversions in the past for FR configurations (BMW mostly) but this is a FWD set up in a small space.

current specs
2013 Kia Rio with full OEM powertrain
4 cylinders
6 speed Manual transmission

future specs
2013 Kia Rio with a different powertrain (possibly any reliable one)
4 cylinders
Automatic transmission preferred


Advice and experiences can please be shared via comments here.

Thanks

PS: image is just an example of a 2013 Kia Rio and not mine. Source is Google

Mrjo:
so you believe presidential election got below 2m votes while gubernatorial election produced over 2m votes

It is not about beliefs but facts.

It's an election and there are results. The veracity of how the results were arrived at are for another discourse.

She is epic.

Her comments on how Kano PDP duped Atiku seems to hit the nail on the head.

You cannot have a house burning and decide to quench only a part of the fire. You simply cannot vote APC in the presidential and think PDP will have a walk over in the gubernatorial.

If the movement had been fully pro PDP all along, this gandollar mess would have been extinguished at the first trial.

hammedkola:
But what are they transiting?... Are they not the same people

First logical thinking on this thread.

If you renew your rent to your landlord, do you pack out and repack into the same house?

Nice specs

Shawnnn01:
If all you liars were sitted in front of me the only thing that can happen is for you to lose another 2 million of your tribesmen like Ojukwu did in the Biafra war.

You are dumb as a donkey for assuming every contrary opinion must be due to tribal differences. Even a local hen would not reason like you.

[quote author=Shawnnn01 post=74837604][/quote]Your strength is online.

You can only talk and say things just because the internet is anonymous.

That is why you unleash insults at any opportunity you are given to argue your points.

If all of us were seated in front of you, would your response have been different?

Now this is the height.

There were threads opened on Nairaland about these schemes most especially youwin

In case he wants to know one of beneficiaries, he should call my number

Political dementia of the highest order

The car is not being properly maintained despite its unique history.

It is showing signs of serious rust. I doubt if the engine is in good shape at the moment.

The car should be restored urgently to prevent it going into a rusty end in few decades.

INDUSTRIALFAN:
Contact Denn autos on +234 805 558 6999

He can get you a car from cars45 on that budget. I don't know his Nairaland handle though but I know he can help you.

Thanks for the recommendation.

I have cars starting from N250,000 available for inspection and purchase.

Detailed inspection reports are available and you can bring a technician to access the car before payment.

If you don't like my own car, there are hundreds of other options available within our different locations.

There is a car for everyone.

Contact me on Whatsapp and state that you are from Nairaland and you get an instant 5% discount on any choice you make.

Cheers

berbs:
LIARRRRRRR!!!!! >:

I ignore scums like you.

Your strength is on-line and like a free game character, you accumulate points based on how harsh you think you are.

Come and tell me that I am a liar to my face and see if you would leave the spot with a face on. Ragó!