₦airaland Forum

radautoworks:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mx3ptYFrJWw

2012 Toyota Land Cruiser SLUDGE!

Maintain your vehicle every 3,000 miles/3 months (conventional oil), 5,000 miles/6 months (synthetic oil) WHICHEVER COMES FIRST.

Oh, and use the manufacturer recommended weight of oil for your car. No 20w50�

chillex8:
I avoid any mechanic or electrician that recommends removal of coolant thermostat and direct wiring of cooling fans.

melviniyke2002:
wud need oil n filter ending of Feb.don't knw if u can source for original denso SK20HR11 or NGK IFR6A11 iridium plug for me......d 2 service I hv done I used Mobil 1 extended... Can I switch to Pennzoil 5w 30.

melviniyke2002:
Baba dru23 never disappoint....happy sales

Odewaleadesoye:
Somebody should enlighten me ooo.

Impeachment trial after expiration of his tenure.. Does that make any sense?

izzou:
[color=royalblue]I stand to be corrected. Hybrids are not a good car for ehailing in Lagos

Please don't misinform people abeg. The simple reason is because there are very few technicians that can handle it.

Cars are machines and their efficiency is below a 100%. If your hybrid car stops at Alakuko, or a bus stop at Shangisha, are you advising the driver to just call anyone to look at it?

And please stop talking about fuel. The number cost in this business is maintenance.

I can net 20k driving on batteries alone, and a bad shock absorber would take it all away[/color]

Wartsnigeria:
I have actually never driven it beyond LUTH premises and that's just one time. I drive a hybrid Lexus against all odds as set by Mr dru23.

Pearl1910:
The hustle can be boring/discouraging atimes, we need some challenge to keep man motivated and going.

Baker77:
how far about the gear?i installed mine last week and it has been working fine.

GAZZUZZ:
Google can be misleading , owners manual might not be available.

Nairaland is free.

GAZZUZZ:
Google can be misleading , owners manual might not be available.

Nairaland is free.

shollywendy1:
Lol. Reason why I don't want to comment about it until its necessary to do so. But I'm also a driver

shollywendy1:
It is possible too for hp drivers if the car is not injury prone.
Where drivers stays and God's grace says alot on how much you earn.
Have never made less than 11k a day and close 2pm daily during this winter.
At least , I have 9/8k left after expenses everyday.
If I'm to be on rental or hp, I will conviniently remit 25k still left 15k weekly.
But we can't deny the fact that the winter is real this year

chillex8:
I agree too.
A driver on rentals will drive the car anywhere; flood, bad roads, dangerous destinations e.t.c.

But a driver on HP will weigh all these. Cos it's his car indirectly. So why damage it or increase maintenance cost ?

NobleEngineer:
Hi gurus, how many litres of engine oil is used to service the Accord (EOD) 2.4L engine. thanks.

Pearl1910:
Let the "its not possible" and "its a fat lie" gang come and learn from the gurus.

Truth is rentals and HP guys even make more than car owners cos they have more drive and motivation to go on and on

Victoraguwa:
I will do that tomorrow engine never opened and serviced with 5w20 fully synthetic oil

OJURONGBE1:
When I see Ford Pathfinder, Explorer, Edge, Focus, Fusion, Taurus & F150 on the road, I wonder what the owners would go through when the motor start its madness.
Funny enough, some of these Ford brands i see on the road looks new/chacha tokunbo.
Is it the interior & the build they fancied or the series of headache the car would subject them to that lured them?

OJURONGBE1:
I no abuse am o.
I followed all the necessary maintenance procedures. Engine oil was Mobil1 5w-30
Transmission oil :Motorcraft Mercron Lv used immediately the car came in .
But as I dey sort one issue, na hin another dey resurface... Na fuel pump use me suffer pass.
I changed 4 for ojuelegba before e work. Engine seat nko? AC Nko? Many electrical problem nko?
Make person thank God for Life sha.

shollywendy1:
Finally received the diffuser today. Dru23, thank so much for everything. God bless you

emmancecute:
you shouldn't comment on this cos they said you don't know how to drive

davit:
Guys, which is the best way to handle steering while driving? Gazzuzz, radautoworks, Blackbishop, izzou your input will be helpful.

pope191:
I speak regarding that Honda evil spirit and not in general, like I pointed out about the guy that just gained engine problem from get go of buying a toks across water. On d 31st I pick a rider with his wife and they some wot make it clear to me, about going to buy a car, if I can help them to check, told them no, but I can call a mechanic around the area. The guy test drive four cars and it's just one problem or the other (Toks). I hope we can see this as an understanding chat and probably a room for me to learn.

Most Nigerians don't know about vehicles and we have this mindset mechanics are debious. Are they right? An average Nigerian is debious and anyone living in Lagos or Port Harcourt is expected not to have certain sluggishness or drag attitude in them, so need to check and balance on handling an average Nigerian seem important. On issues of using engine to 250k or 400k, most cars coming into Nigeria are almost DOA (most). Some have already done 280/300, Bishop and d geng will now fine tune it to 83k ( my father is watching them). Secondly, almost every new thing in this country outside cable wires are fake, courtesy of us going to China to demand for low quality as per the strength of our money. It is so bad that one is not sure of the beer or beverage one is consuming again as we have some folks producing these products in their sitting room, from mobile 1 to conventional mobile or any kind of oil moving the market is been refill somewhere in this country, conventional mobile practically dry up in cars now and if one does not carry out proper check before leaving home, that's how pearl1910 will b blowing reserve oil on 3rd mainland bridge to island So! in a nutshell, to maintain cars and trust the process in this country? it's either one is buying oil from Dru direct when its due for service or just forget about 100% accuracy, when it comes to taking care off cars with our local products.

As I can't tell d condition of the Honda presently I rest my case... But it won't b advisable to make a profit of 200k after 3 months and use 150k to solve problems, that is hustling backward. I know what my first car use my eyes to see, Just the door handle, I can't get it else where unless Ladipo, even with that "Go ask Obi, u don check Ugo place, if nah Toyota now, I get", the stress just doesn't worth it.

Please I'll like to know, do the vulcanizer's over there use fufu to fix tyre? Just wondering

OJURONGBE1:
Baba, am still nursing the pain that Evil Mondeo inflicted on me. May God help me.

shollywendy1:
Reason why I sticked to buying my oil from him (Dru) "gangan leleyi"

Ratedgang:
I see a different USA under Biden.... and it isn’t a good one. Mark it somewhere.

Felicity0001:
This is called constructive critism... Good way to criticize and not the other way of always using the sledge hammer at every slight opportunity at your disposal whereas you still go back to seek the help of the same person/people you just condemn.

There is no ideal state on earth here unless in heaven, reason I dont like advising people on the choices instead I tell them the prons and cons but not discouraging them.

If you wanna buy a car for the job do your feasibility study and if the hybrid supersedes the petrol car in profit margin why not? Go for it. After all both cars are not meant to serve a life time.

The world is advancing and in 15-20yrs to come I seriously doubt if 40% of the world's population would still be using petrol cars. Many countries are already giving free tax and insurance to people using electric cars, world leaders are thinking of saving the world trying hard towards the green house effect. I think The vice president joined other world leaders by signing Nigeria into the use of electric cars. So why discourage people from advancement? I dont get!

Or have we forgotten that Nigerians are wired to jumping into any skill or business thats selling? I can bet you that a lot of schoolers are already acquiring a skill on the latest technology wrt electric cars. So with time things will fall in place. But as for me I'll join the train from it starting point because I dont have all the life to live till when it g9nna get to it final destination.

Drop Mic

Felicity0001:
This is called constructive critism... Good way to criticize and not the other way of always using the sledge hammer at every slight opportunity at your disposal whereas you still go back to seek the help of the same person/people you just condemn.

There is no ideal state on earth here unless in heaven, reason I dont like advising people on the choices instead I tell them the prons and cons but not discouraging them.

If you wanna buy a car for the job do your feasibility study and if the hybrid supersedes the petrol car in profit margin why not? Go for it. After all both cars are not meant to serve a life time.

The world is advancing and in 15-20yrs to come I seriously doubt if 40% of the world's population would still be using petrol cars. Many countries are already giving free tax and insurance to people using electric cars, world leaders are thinking of saving the world trying hard towards the green house effect. I think The vice president joined other world leaders by signing Nigeria into the use of electric cars. So why discourage people from advancement? I dont get!

Or have we forgotten that Nigerians are wired to jumping into any skill or business thats selling? I can bet you that a lot of schoolers are already acquiring a skill on the latest technology wrt electric cars. So with time things will fall in place. But as for me I'll join the train from it starting point because I dont have all the life to live till when it g9nna get to it final destination.

Drop Mic

kanuisagoat:
The truth is, our mechanics are really trying. Go to edmunds and other car review websites and you'll see hundreds of car problems that still remain unresolved despite countless visits to the dealership.

I have even seen someone say Acura or Lexus(can't remember which) had to fly in their engineer to his city to disgnose and resolve the issue with his vehicle when the dealership he bought the vehicle from couldn't resolve it.

Even the engineer that was sent could not resolve the issue so Acura had to replace the vehicle for the guy.

Those were engineers with modern tools, scanners, and tens of years of experience. How much more our own local mechanics. While it can be argued that quite a number of them incompetent, cconsidering what is available for them to work with, they are really trying.