₦airaland Forum

valarinz:
Exactly, i buy engines and trannys and ecu and whatever you can think of, i don't try to pass on an unhealthy car to an unsuspecting client.

You are a wicked man sha, whatever the person who bought the car from you goes through, you don't care no more, you've collected your stipends.

To imagine you even have the effrontery to brag about it on a public forum, you should hide your head in shame

valarinz:
I'm telling you, not shocked though, any attempt at doing anything with the guy and you'll easily sniff the condescending attitude with which he treats his subordinates, you'll understand this is a core corrupt entitled naija man to the core, all the rottenness can't be wiped out of the system until he stay 70yrs for yankee

valarinz:
Who sold to who?

If it were you selling, hope you told him about the cars faults as opposed to hiding it and dumping it on the poor man


Nigerians sha, i bet you let this slip out, you must be hitting your head on the wall now for that costly slip of fingers

valarinz:
You can imagine the all-knowing self righteous Americana, how long can a chameleon hide its true colors

Smh

Kingdemu:
Do business with Dru23 at your own peril. This kind of guy can dilute the so called synthetic oil he sells with roadside oil before resealing and selling to unsuspecting buyers. Be warned.

Laplace429:
Who uses Hyundai Sonata 2010-012 here?

I'd like to know what oil is best for servicing!

Thanks!

mejai:
Omo!!! Cruise everywhere....


BAZ001, are you not missing Dru23?
We need him here.

Phargbemmy:
It actually came with a changed tokunbo engine that was not properly cleaned but was just installed. I and my Mechanic actually clean up the sludge and dirt.

Thanks baba

xperiencelove:
Chai! This is evil. That was how one guy was arguing with me few days ago about using 20W 50 for Camry 05 and change it every 2k miles. 20W 50 is a silent killer for any Camry from 03 upward. Also I do advice people to never buy ANY Nigeria used car that the owner doesn't use factory recommended oil.

Timblogga:
hmm.. are you sure it’s not even ur camry I bought in 2018, cos I ended up changing the engine, after it kept shutting oil.

Timblogga:
why didn’t you buy half engine before selling it or atleast ring the engine? Na Una kind de scare people from buying Naija used.

ayomilore:
Auto gurus in the house please help me out with this, i checked wify car this morning because its been some days i drove it last only to discover that the dip stick is not showing oil traces when i dip it inside the engine, i tried it like 2 more times i went to start the engine so that i can check on the dash board for any strange sign, i bent down to look for any leakages no traces,but couldn't get any only the top iol sign that briefly showed and dissappeared. Though it's up to 3 months we did the last servicing and we are planning another one this weekend but im worried that no traces of oil on the dip stick until i start the car and checked again before i could see sign on one side of the stick..

Thanks as i await your useful response

Phargbemmy:
Thanks @Dru23, so should I just stick to this one he has been using or I change the oil next service? The gear oil though looks a very clean as it was recently serviced.


I am still open to more opinions, thanks.

@luvinhubby

@komomo

@Gazzuz

Phargbemmy:
Good morning house.

Please house, I just got a Naija used civic 2008 from Phase 1 and instead of using the oil specification of 5w20, guy man has been using Mobil XHP and he said its what he has been using to service the engine.

Please kindly advise:

1. if I can continue with this trend,

2. If I should buy an engine flusher and revert back to the 5w20.

And on transmission, guy man has been using the one that I will post it photo here. Your candid advise. Bought the car from Lekki Phase 1
Thanks in anticipation


@luvinhubby

@kokomo

@Rumundele

adanny01:
MSRP

Does less than $500 sound expensive to you? Will 200k difference stop you from buying a brand new car if the price is N20m.

Imagine N20m vs N20.2m. Meanwhile you call one expensive and the other one is what then?

Why do you think they are in the same class? Even in price (brand new), they are perfectly in the same class. Please take notes.

Team Toyota no wan hear anything.

CheerfulGiver:
Yup. Experience talks, bullshit walks.

For example, never, and I repeat, never ever, will I buy a RHD vehicle for any price out of Experience, which you lack, due to your dumbfuckery.

adanny01:
The word you used, cheap, is an adjective.

The word I used, cheaper, is a relative adjective.

When something is cheaper, it means in comparison to another.

When i mentioned "could", I made my statement open , that means it could be cheaper but may not be correct everytime. If i intended to say Toyota is cheap, i will not waste my time to say "could be cheaper".

You didnt read the red words from me. You got me totally wrong.

If i said Toyota is cheap, i will be the one to tell myself i am "100% very wrong" before you had the opportunity to.

adanny01:
This resale value of a thing is a misplacement of priorities.

First, every Toyota car is always more expensive to buy used than any other brand in its class. However, the Toyota could be even cheaper to buy brand new.

What does that tell you, the only people who cash in on resale value are the people who bought the Toyota brand new.

In buying a used car, the depreciation is same. For example; buy the Camry at N6m and sell it after 2yrs for N4m and you lost N2m. On the other hand, buy the Accord at N5.5m and sell it after 2yrs for N3.5m and you lost exactly the same amount of N2m.

Resale price is not an advantage with a Toyota, the only thing i will admit in resale is not the value, its the demand which enables the resale quicker.

adanny01:
This resale value of a thing is a misplacement of priorities.

First, every Toyota car is always more expensive to buy used than any other brand in its class. However, the Toyota could be even cheaper to buy brand new.

What does that tell you, the only people who cash in on resale value are the people who bought the Toyota brand new.

In buying a used car, the depreciation is same. For example; buy the Camry at N6m and sell it after 2yrs for N4m and you lost N2m. On the other hand, buy the Accord at N5.5m and sell it after 2yrs for N3.5m and you lost exactly the same amount of N2m.

Resale price is not an advantage with a Toyota, the only thing i will admit in resale is not the value, its the demand which enables the resale quicker.

Gentlelife50:
What about converted ones Sir?

Felicity001:
That's because I have people I usually refer to buy and I buy myself... Some of my previous partners I preach how mobil1 would make their engine last longer and why they should use coolant instead of just water... I bought some product from him just last week so I know everything. so to me I don't have any bad blood for the guy but its seems there's something he's still not saying... He's probably frustrated that I left him and he can't find a good, competent, faithful and honest person like me and the most frustrating one to add salt on his wounds is I'm doing great than he'd anticipated remember he set a target for himself(not me) for August to add a car to his fleet and up till this very moment he's yet to land an ordinary 2003 civic that cost less than 500usd but look at me I'm doing just fine.

Is God not wonderful?

Now see purchase receipt fpr the oil I bought few days ago. He said we shouldn't believe everything we read online but he's always the first to Google how super tech is better than his darling Mobil 1 simply because he can't afford it anymore for his cars yet small me Nigeria povertirized base that has never even climb aeroplane b4 can afford the same Mobil 1 the American citizen can to not. He will post fr9m google how solenoid compressor is better than manual and how convention is this and that but he said we should not believe everything we read online...

Abeg help me tell oga to practice what he preaches. Mbok

Pearl1910:
?Million Dollar Question?

Pearl1910:
Lols...Bazoo

xperiencelove:
Is your engine still run quietly as it was when it was bought as Tokunbo?
Why changing oil every 2k miles when you can buy an advance synthetic oil that will last 6k-8k miles even when manufacturers prescribed 10k or 15k miles on them?
Also with 20W 50, your oil pump will be getting weaker by the day and this is what will degrade your bearings and/or crankshaft.

I have the same Camry 06 which I uses 5W 30 advanced full synthetic since mid 2019 I bought it as toks and if I'm coming behind you, I have to make use of horn for you to know a car is at your back.
Even cars brought in from Qatar uses same factory recommended 5W 30.
That is why cars imported with over 250k miles still runs quietly and the one with 135k miles in Nigeria already sounding like grounding machine.

Grupo:
Lol.

My car is a 2007 Toyota corolla sport. May not be a "dream car" but it drives with no issues. Current price is around 2.7 million.

As for My engine bay. Leave it that way. I don't like allowing car wash people to wash it. Because those people can be careless.

Your write up above is incoherent. So I couldn't pick out many things.

So. No thanks.

Grupo:
Lol.

My car is a 2007 Toyota corolla sport. May not be a "dream car" but it drives with no issues. Current price is around 2.7 million.

As for My engine bay. Leave it that way. I don't like allowing car wash people to wash it. Because those people can be careless.

Your write up above is incoherent. So I couldn't pick out many things.

So. No thanks.

Grupo:
Do the analysis for Mobil full synthetic.

Hope you know it's advisable to change full synthetic oil after six months whether you reached 5k miles or not?

So let's say I do oil change two times in a year with full synthetic oil, I'd be looking at around 70k naira for the oil alone in one year.

I have not added filter and service charge.

Also, your claim that my engine is clean because I do short trips is false.

If anything, short trips are more detrimental to an engine and should cause more harm and sludge even.

Highway driving doesn't negatively affect engine more.


You have only shown that you are ignorant and only want to sell your synthetic oil.

I'm not de-campaigning synthetic oil. They are great.

But saying that normal mineral oil will damage engine with regular changes is false and fear mongering just to sell your products.

Grupo:
I do mostly city driving and occasional high way.

I live in a small town, that point A to B is always less than 10 miles.

I do cover 2k miles in three months. And sometimes, I don't get to 2k in three months, but I still change the oil.

Works for me. May sound penny wise, pounds foolish to you.

Grupo:
Thank you.

I use Mobil 20W 50. And I change the oil at 2k miles and below sometimes. My engine is still clean, no sludge.

I believe that once your engine still has the thermostat which helps the engine reach operating temperature and you change oil regularly, then you won't have sludge.

See my engine when I opened it some months back.

Felicity001:
Forgive who? I don't have anything to forgive neither did i offend anybody ooh... Me I was only trying to have an enlightened and matured conversation with him so that everyone including I can learn but from his words we can all see he's still pained and frustrated, onoy God knows why he's so frustrated lioe this.

I don't have anything in mind against dru23 at all if I do I won't patronize him last week neither will I always be referring customers to him so his business will flourish but its clear now to me the guy has evil intentions towards me but he won't succeed, so maybe I'll look else where for my business needs because I don't want somebody to go seal up Mobil XHP inside Mobil 1 can and sell to me. After all he's not the only one that ships in genuine products to sell I have a lot of other reliable contacts.

The heart of man can be very wicked no one can imagine the evil that is conceived in it.

Felicity001:
[s]Mr Man stop saying things you nothing about please. 40% cars in nigeria are originally RHD even the once that were converted to LHD by some quack like that of the case of ur friend hasn't lost control on highway let alone the one done by an engineer with experience of over 20yrs in the job.

Steering rack being welded... Lol... C as u just make me laugh like mumu dis kind night... Can one weld cast? Or Don't you know most car component are cast. Oga follow who know road u no gree. Even b4 ur brother innosin started building cars many Nigerians in the east and north have been building cars let alone to convert ordinary RHD to LHD.

What are they changing? Only steering rack, evaporator and dashboard? How is that a rocket science? Don't people change steering rack on their car due to leakage? So what's strange about changing steering rack again. Oga stop talking ignorantly talk like one that is expose and educated biko.

Don't people change dahboard? Or you haven't seen car owners change evaporator b4 for their cars? So why are you talking like these things are rocket science.

What wiring are you talking about here? Haven't you seen a car gone through total re-wiring due to fire accident or something else? Besides, there is no need for rewiring even because electrical wiring is already designed with extra length should one needs extension. So all that is needed is just to re-sucket back to its normal position simple!

When ever you're in the country let me know I'll take you around so dealer's stands and car owner's lots to identify a converted car then you'll see how clueless you'll become

Even some cars you guys ship into Nigeria are converted, oyinbo do it as well, convention is a common thing all over the World because right road driving is more common in the world than left road driving but if they don't tell you, you won't know?

Somebody that usually upgrade and convert hybrid cars to petrol na ordinary change of dashboard, rack and evaporator go come be problem to am. Oga abeg pack well if you need contact let me know I'll freely connect you not trying to get it through the back door

You and I know very well Nigerians are talented people (you excluded because you're not a Nigerian you know that) but one bad and foolish government are the problem.

So stop spreading lies and falsehood around, ask questions if you're not clear about something. You write a book doesn't mean I must agree to everything you say.