₦airaland Forum

FreddyH: Thanks for your inputs. number issue is sorted.
It's now another headache of not being able to drive the car until new plate number is issued. this is due to new law in rivers state prohibiting use of temporary plate number to drive prior to when the new plate number which takes more than 2 weeks is processed. Licensing office informed that any attempt to driving with temporary plate number will attract a fine of 30k to the police. I cannot understand where this nation is heading to when unnecessary laws are being created for the corrupt policemen to exploit innocent citizens.

Bro you should have licence d your car in Lagos, I got my wife an SUV and numbered it in Lagos, he drove it herself home from Lagos and she is in PH as well.

AceMiss: My newly purchased Toyota Highlander is making sounds like there are a lot of loose nuts. Whenever am driving on a "not too smooth" road,it starts making loud sounds like I've got stuff in my booth or like there are some loose parts hanging. Pls help,I need a good auto mechanic to solve this for me. Its too new to be causing me such displeasure. All comments and advices are welcomed

For starters if your cars was not made 2013 then it aint new,have you taken it to a good mechanic? try and have a mechanic inside the car sat at the back seat and drive along a very quiet road so he/she can listen and pinpoint the exact location where ur noise is coming from, it might be ur whhel bearings gone or teh axle gears itself

OP
because you ran outta petrol dont mean you gonna have this problems,there is a clever system in place in modern cars to prevent this happening unless You physical drain the fuel out of the car.There could be more reason why you have got this problem, I xpirienced this first hand with my SUV in PH, its being driven by my wife so You know women and thier thing.
Check your water level in your car and also check your Oil level.

ewosk: If you are in Benin and desire to scan your vehicle..you can scanned it free of charge on mon 15th nd Weds 17th (10- 1pm) only @ uniben premises..my project group is carrying out a survey on car diagnostics...

Contact
07039818201

This is realy Good, we should see more like this.

FreddyH: No. Got the right number retrieved directly from the manufacturer.

ok You are sorted now I take it.

TO the OP
DO what I did, look physically on top of the Engine,spend two days doing this to make sure you have covered all parts of the Engine that is open to the naked eye, the drive ur vehicle to any pit, go under and inspect if you can see any stamp, well if you cant the the Engine number should be replaced with the VIN number,if you ever get stopped by police they cant touch ur Engine as it would roast who ever nears it under and ontop they cant losen any of the components, I told a police this and he looked realy stupid,The Engine number is just a part number Nigerian police are a disgrace.DONT JUST PUT ANY NUMBER PLZ,

FreddyH: Found this by the driver`s door and seems to be the one: VG33DE3275CC. WHat do you think?

aint that ur VIN?

Wsdmenpp: Well folks,

I think everyone should do their investigations and choose what's comfortable for them, first, the company I bought the car from, charged me a $130 for what they call documentation before the car was released, that meant that my car had no customs issues at the NJ ports. Normally, all things been equal, your vehicle should spend 7 days at the ports for customs clearing and thereafter be ready for the next available vessel. There are at least 3 vessels to Lagos from Nj ports monthly, one is direct and two via other ports in Africa . Most times the delay is caused by customs clearing and not Grimaldi . Here's where the issues arise, most cars bought from auctions are sent to the ports directly without any proper documentation hence that must be done before customs will release your vehicle to Grimaldii or any other shipping company. Customs clearance sometimes can be an issue not the shipping line.

Secondly , I used a Ghanian shipper in New Jersey, I wasn't ready for too many Nigerians making all sorts of claims and can't deliver at the end. virtually all Nigerians in Nj are either agents or shippers and all these affects your cost ultimately. I spent exactly $1047 to ship a Range Rover to Lagos and another 550,000 Naira for clearing.

I also bought the vehicle directly myself no agent or any third party, I made my investigations, paid through my bank and all went well, Got my vehicle at a very good deal and vehicle is very clean and what you will call Grade 1 Belgium.

I hope this long story will not be misconstrued but to she'd more light that you can do a lot by yourself and be in control of your business and accept what ever happens there after.

God will guide and give you all wisdom in all you do
Shalom

Nice write up, dunno why people do Auctions, its loads of time wasting though you might get a cheap deal but hey do you have time to check the true conditions of the car?

BizBooks: @Calculusx,

When I said that cars arriving on Grimaldi vessels are moved from the Port to their terminal,
you labelled it as false. In the same breath, you said:



That sounds like you are contradicting yourself. Also, when I said that some agents now
intercept their cars at the Port to prevent Grimaldi from moving them to their terminal,
you labelled it as false. What are you talking about? I have known about this practice
for at least 2 years. Currently, I have a car arriving on Grimaldi. The owner calls me
every week to remind me to send the Bill of Lading to him as soon as it is available so
his agent will "step the car down" once it arrives Tin Can.

I can't understand how you can label my statements as false without having the facts to
back up your claim.

P.S: As I mentioned previously, I do not use Grimaldi. I only use them when a client
specifically requests them as happened in this instance.

the watch word is, get ur Bill of Laden ASAP to ur clearing agent via DHL so he has it in hand b4 the vessel arrives, that's what I do

Peacefullife: Thanks Bizbooks. I trust you would respond.

But I hear that other shipping lines like 5 star, sallaum group stop in other african countries before coming to Nigeria, and that at the port of those countries, vehicles are mostly vandalized and things stolen from the vehicle. This I learnt does not happen on grimaldi. Have you had such an experience on sallaum? Also, from your experience, how long do you think it would take a vehicle to get to Naija if given to Sallaum tomorrow Monday?

They all do same, even Grimaldi

chidindufrank: Good for them. But nobe by harvard o

Nah by harvard oh, the people who have the says in world economics and Acts come from that school

I was wondering how he managed to get at the prize, the total logistic to get that car from teh US to Lagos would be 450K minimum so he is telling us the car cost 200K? buyers beware these guy flaunting cheap cars might just be robbers waiting to collect your monies at Gunpoint.

solomon111: And you know this because?
I wonder why people like you have not been sued by the FG.

Guy be wise and divert ur Energy into something useful, did you bother to check the addresses of the said companies? MKO Abiola Gdns is a residential Estate, so def something fishy is going on.Most of these companies are dormant and they where means of swindling monies.

Rudebwoy: According to my dictionary:

Bross to cancel ur argument Jeep do have 2 wheel drivevs ie the Jeep Liberty 2.5 KJ and also the FORD EDGE has a front wheel drive and its a 2WD and its an SUV hozzzzat?

Siena: Station Wagon.

Aint that station wagon samething as Estate, ie BMW estate? or rather ur brand Audi A6 Estate

PearlyJay: SUV means JEEP. Americans call it SUV while the British says JEEP. The two terms refer to the same vehicle.

O dear O dear, SUV dont mean Jeep,Plz try n read fru this topic again or do some research, in the UK we call SUV 4x4s, or in London, Chelsea tractors

rodeo0070: Jeep is a brand name. They make
several different models of SUVs. A Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) is a
class of vehicle.
A sport utility vehicle
(SUV) is a generic marketing term
for a vehicle similar to a station
wagon, but built on a light-truck
chassis.
However, A Jeep is a SUV... it's the original SUV. A Sport Utility Vehicle exactly describes what a Jeep is designed for. It's great for outdoor type sports and is very
utilitarian...
FYI, we now have SAV's (Sport Activity Vehicles)...

Bross, Jeep is just a brand of vehicle, they now share same parts as Dodge,Chrysler etc
Jeep has many models, ie wrangler, patriot,Liberty, chirokee and grand chirokee etc

Kenny4lyfe: A sport utility vehicle (SUV) is a vehicle similar
to a station wagon or estate car, usually equipped
with four-wheel drive for on- or off-road ability.
Some SUVs include the towing capacity of a
pickup truck with the passenger-carrying space of
a minivan or large sedan.

The term is not used in all countries, and outside
North America the terms "off-road vehicle", "four-
wheel drive" or "four-by-four" (abbreviated to
"4WD" or "4×4" or simply use of the brand name
to describe the vehicle like " Jeep" or "Land Rover"
are more common. In Europe the term SUV has a
similar meaning, but being newer than in the US it
only applies to the newer street oriented one,
where-as " Jeep", "Land Rover" or 4x4 are used for
the off-roader oriented ones. Not all SUVs have
four-wheel drive capabilities, and not all four-
wheel-drive passenger vehicles are SUVs.

V wrong, the off road capability in all vehicles are options this is relative to 4x4, I think you are getting confused with the term mini-vans or MPVs ie Toyota sianna

scholes23: CRV is not an SUV. I stand to be corrected on that.

what is it then Estate?

Kennyblues: Origin of the name

Many explanations of the origin of the word jeep have proven difficult to verify. The most widely-held theory is that the military designation GP (for Government Purposes or General Purpose) was slurred into the word Jeep in the same way that the contemporary HMMWV (for High-Mobility Multi-purpose Wheeled Vehicle) has become known as the humvee.

An alternative view launched by R. Lee Ermey, on his television series Mail Call, disputes this, saying that the vehicle was designed for specific duties, and was never referred to as "General Purpose" and it is highly unlikely that the average jeep-driving GI would have been familiar with this designation. The Ford GPW abbreviation actually meant G for government use, P to designate its 80-inch (2,000 mm) wheelbase and W to indicate its Willys-Overland designed engine. Ermey suggests that soldiers at the time were so impressed with the new vehicles that they informally named it after Eugene the Jeep, a character in the Popeye comic strip and cartoons created by E. C. Segar, as early as mid-March of 1936. Eugene the Jeep was Popeye's "jungle pet" and was "small, able to move between dimensions and could solve seemingly impossible problems."[7]

Words of the Fighting Forces by Clinton A. Sanders, a dictionary of military slang, published in 1942, in the library at The Pentagon gives this definition:

Jeep: A four-wheel drive vehicle of one-half- to one-and-one-half-ton capacity for reconnaissance or other army duty. A term applied to the bantam-cars, and occasionally to other motor vehicles (U.S.A.) in the Air Corps, the Link Trainer; in the armored forces, the ½-ton command vehicle. Also referred to as "any small plane, helicopter, or gadget."[citation needed]

This definition is supported by the use of the term "jeep carrier" to refer to the Navy's small escort carriers.

Early in 1941, Willys-Overland demonstrated the vehicle's off-road capability by having it drive up the steps of the United States Capitol, driven by Willys test driver Irving "Red" Haussman, who had recently heard soldiers at Fort Holabird calling it a "jeep." When asked by syndicated columnist Katherine Hillyer for the Washington Daily News (or by a bystander, according to another account) what it was called, Irving answered, "It's a jeep."

Katherine Hillyer's article was published nationally on February 20, 1941, and included a picture of the vehicle with the caption:

LAWMAKERS TAKE A RIDE- With Senator Meade, of New York, at the wheel, and Representative Thomas, of New Jersey, sitting beside him, one of the Army's new scout cars, known as "jeeps" or "quads", climbs up the Capitol steps in a demonstration yesterday. Soldiers in the rear seat for gunners were unperturbed.

Although the term was also military slang for vehicles that were untried or untested, this exposure caused all other jeep references to fade, leaving the 4x4 with the name.

Trade name

The original trademark brand-name application was filed in February 1943 by Willys-Overland.[8] It is also used as a generic term with a lowercase (jeep) for vehicles inspired by the Jeep that are suitable for use on rough terrain.[9]

As the only company that continually produced Jeep vehicles after the war, in June 1950 Willys-Overland was granted the privilege of owning the name "Jeep" as a registered trademark






http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep

this is true as the JEEP Engine was innitialy built for the military

sampitts: I'm new in this auto section. Please what could possibly be the prob with an automatic car for the tortle to stop working while u'r on the road. I'm experiencing dat with my jeep. No matter how I tortle, the car keeps slowing down until it finally stops and goes off even in the middle of the road. I'll have to restart again and it works after restarting.

what model of jeep, is it liberty?

Salym: from where did you get Buhari's name as a sponsor of BH?

Bro read ur Newspapers everyday.
http://www.republicreport.com/exclusive-ibb-buharitop-cbn-officials-are-boko-haram-sponsors-sheik-sani-haliru/
even more links
http://ynaija.com/politico/its-all-you-presidency-says-buhari-is-boko-harams-major-sponsor/

franchizy: I ve said it over and over dat d only solution to dis Boko Haram menace is 4 GEJ to suspend the state of emergency, appologise to the Northern Elders forum, dialogue and grant Boko Haram Amnesty, rebuild all mosque. The military can't win d war cos 80% of Boko Haram are from d SS, SE and SW and are christians who are used to tannish d image of d North and kill our people but Allah will fight 4 d North and vindicate us.
Many of d Boko Haram sponsors are from d SS, SE and SW all in d name of Power but the North must complete there remaining 4yrs come 2015.
I urge Nigerians to support Buhari 4 a change and better Nigeria.

Cant you name one of the people from the SS/SE/and SW that support and sponsor BH, at least we have names from the North IE Buhari, and some others have been arrested?seriously ur state of mind is disturbing.

Its 2013, so people still use the term COURT MARRIAGE ,Plz who here had gone to a court for a wedding??

dare2think: Ofcouse not. Why would you jump up a list when people are on the list already?

Explain to me why they are collecting the health insurance money if they are not going to give the health services?

If the brits will be ahead, then they should not collect the money, that would be fraud.

you are on aque if you need specialist care or operation

People just wanna talk cos they can,now have any of you seen a Pakistani passport, its exactly same as the Nigerian one except for the writing on it, now if two people hold the green P how do you know what country they come from if you don't physically inspect it in a close range?I'm referring here to the flaunting and hiding bit, here in the Uk, we all have our Bio metrics on our Passport as well as on our Visas or is this just a US thing?

Don Carlos: God bless your lineage! That is why I will respect the Hausa guy when it comes to accent. Dangote speaks with an Hausa accent and no white man has ever asked him to repeat himself. If you have problem understanding my accent, same here.

how do you know no white man has ever asked him to repeat himself?

delors: Measure
Pleasure
Treasure
Pressure
Commission
Television
Station
well, I just did, so what's next?

Edinburgh
ILLEGAL
LISTEN

[quote author=Nuzo']People can be funny o.

Why should I take pride in speaking another man's language with a heavy Nigerian accent? That's ridiculous to say the least.

First, the so called "fake" accent was a survival tactics for me, but it later grew on me with time. Besides, Nigerian accent has a way of distorting the real pronunciations of some English words. One can only notice this when you communicate with native English speakers.

I speak fluent central Igbo and numerous Igbo dialects, a bit of Yoruba and Hausa....and of course pigeon. And I never fail to communicate with them whenever I have the opportunity to. Isn't these enough to show how much Nigerian I am?
Thats an adult reasoning, leave ignorant people to argue about stuff they know nothing about

Imagine someone speaking Igbo to me with American accent. I would never take such person serious.

There's nothing unpatriotic, unAfrican/unNigerian or self hating about speaking American/British accented English. English lang is not Nigerian Language to start with.[/quote]