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Dealership wanted $2500 (N900k) but he fixed it for $20 (N7200).

Yep. Keep running to the manufacturers and dealerships (aka stealerships) for recommendations/fix and continue to get hosed. After all, it is your money. Na oyibo talk am, it must be true. Right? SMH


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QmHwLF0_P3g

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radautoworks:
A tune up on the average car is about $250 and ac jobs (especially compressor related) are typically about $600 up. Those are not minor maintenance. Repos were part of my JOB twice and I heard the reasons why both when I worked in Auto finance and owned a repair shop so unless you have more experience than that, I'm not sure why you insist on arguing.

https://roadloans.com/blog/car-repossession-how-it-works

I have provided facts to back up what I'm saying but you've only provided your opinion and insults.

You do know that insults are a sign of ignorance right?

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You are treating symptoms instead of the ailments.

That is your problem.

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I don't care if you sell moi moi, bread or become mama put. It beats going to anywhere in the Middle East to be a maid. You are talking about misogynists backed by religion. Some people only whip out their calculators to compute with the exchange rate forgetting that one has to be alive to enjoy the money.

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resurgent2019:
Enough is Enough.

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On top say you wan go person house and he refused?

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Immanuels7:
He might not necessarily lose, as APC might find one appointment to give him

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The same way APC rewarded Fr. Mbaka in Aso Rock?

Kenneth Okonkwo will not get anything from Abuja.

He is in a PDP-controlled state. If it were APC state, the governor may "dash" him something. Can he win his ward? That's the litmus test.

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A lady that belongs to many little committees, associations, organizations in a church must be avoided at all costs. You may think she is a good Christian. Nope. That's the first sign of someone who could easily be manipulated. Your money ain't going to be safe. Your marriage ain't going to be safe. Pastors prey on weaklings like her.

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LOL.

Just reading part of it explains why car owners and mechanics in Nigeria killed the impressive technology called automobile. It tells more than Gazzuzz meant to reveal. If I have a car problem and take it to a mechanic, the main push will be to replace the faulty part. No patch. No glue. Radiator leak? Put a new one. Then there are jobs like top gasket, transmission fluid flush, oil change, etc. Other than these, fixing/servicing cars in my garage is a hobby on slow Saturdays as I can't deal with appointments at the mechanic shops.

Gazzuzz: Your story is full of "Try your luck" approach to fixing cars which is very sad indeed. Something that should have been fixed with N5000 ends up wasting owner's N50k. Like I always say, mechanics in Nigeria kill cars more than bad roads. There is this mad rush to be rich that nobody is patient enough to learn some skills. Mechanics, construction artisans, etc it is the same sad tales.

Side note: Gazzuzz, for a mechanic who is always too busy with work to pick calls from customers, I am surprised that you have time to be writing Epistles on nairaland. . God don catch you.
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ihatesycophant:
Those cursing him owe him apology because cursing is libelous and is against the letter of constitution. So, those cursing him owe him apology because no law says curse when someone expresses his view. It's not today individuals in South east has been urging Igbo nation to vote for a particular party.

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How do you extract the apologies?

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radautoworks:
That is not a common scenario and again, that statement is not correct. The factory warranty on new vehicles only covers engine and drivetrain and only when not abused and maintenance schedule was adhered to religiously. Miss one and your factory warranty is no good. Everything else is your responsibility. Very few brands come with maintenance schedule so yes, maintenance is a big cost especially when purchasing pre-owned

The TV example is not appropriate because TV's typically have zero maintenance costs. A generator perhaps would be a better comparison.

Again, we are talking about majority of the time. There are always exceptions.

On a brand new vehicle, you would have insurance, oil changes, tires, battery, brakes, tune-up and if you're unlucky ac expenses in those first five years. That's what people don't factor into TCO and when some of these come up, you get the 'I'll let it go back' guy especially when they were already stretched by their monthly payments.

Hyundai has the longest warranty out there. Here is a link for you to see exactly what I'm talking about. I included an excerpt if you don't feel like clicking over. Warranty does not equal maintenance free. I had to explain that to each customer that bought a car back in the day.

https://www.hyundaiofcoolsprings.com/hyundai-warranty.htm

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Entertain yourself.

If I have to go through this length to explain the little concept of reposession of vehicles (which you can easily learn on Google), it means you are in it for the attention.

I said ' no major out-of-pocket" expenses and you are listing minor maintenances in a car. Knock yourself out. I refuse to believe that you are this daft. Take care.

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Sometimes the thought about having a disease kills quicker than the disease itself.

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Kenneth Okonkwo owes nobody an apology just as those cursing him out owes him no apologies.

Kenneth and his haters are exercising their rights to freedom of speech. It is simple. He talks rubbish; we curse him out.

There is no need to make it complicated and complex.

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radautoworks:
I'm not sure that disagrees with what I said. You can barely afford it, how do you maintain it. I've had recently bought cars abandoned at our shop because maintenance/repair costs. They will literally tell you "oh, I ain't finna pay that. Imma just let it go back".

Totally agree with you but I had a feeling that's where you were headed that's why I asked you to consider the entire paragraph. If you notice, I said most. That's also part of violating the golden rule. You should have six months of expenses in your savings for situations like that or you're living beyond your means.

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If you have a windfall and buy a new car with 5 years factory warranty and maintenance schedule, there is no major out-of-pocket cost to maintain the car. You just cannot afford the monthly payments. That's all. People don't think 5 years contract at $500/month is a lot until it comes down to payments. Financial situations do change.

If you sell your TV to your neighbour for N40k and he gives you N10k with the promise to pay N2k/ month for the next 15months. After 6 months, he refuses to pay (either bc he has no money or just loves to owe money), and you decide to take your TV back. That's reposession(repo) of your property. Whether he is able to repair the TV or not is not the primary issue. The main issue is inability to pay. There are many factors responsible for the inability to pay which creditors couldn't care less to know.
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I will only offer my advice after you marry her and the marriage crashes after 2 years like the other guy in the previous thread.


I love people that see traps and walk into them. They make life more interesting.

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radautoworks:
By all means, please do. I'm just speaking from experience. Before you do though, don't stop at the bold because it is coupled with an entire paragraph.

Let me take one more stab at it.

You walk into a dealership with stellar credit report. You put some money as down payment and sign some documents for $500/month for 5 years. 15 months down the line, you lose your job or some unplanned circumstances happen and you are unable to keep up the payments. The car dealership needs their money and do not care about the "story of your life". Every attempt to collect from you fails because you don't have enough disposable income to meet your obligations. They call on the REPO man to get the car back to cut on their losses from the bad deal they made with you. That's how repossession happens. Have you noticed that there is no discussion about maintenance here. My argument is that whoever has his/her back against the wall against car note may not be in the best position to maintain the same car knowing that it will be taken back anytime.

Repo happens because of the customer's inability or unwillingness to meet the payment obligations on a vehicle.

Side note: They do reposses yatchs, private planes, helicopters too. And don't forget default on mortgage, there goes your house. Some American celebrities have had their high-end vehicles repossessed in recent times.

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Everything he mentioned that happened before Buhari was true.


But then, Buhari promised "change"...

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This must be the Senate President's house.

If not, why not?

You need Coat of Arms in the middle.

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spyder880:
Obosi, Anambra state. .......

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Pictorial views of Onitsha/Obosi/Nkpor always elicit nostalgia and pride in the heart of every true Igbo man/woman.

A lot of people are beginning to pay attention. When Igbo folks gather in Los Angeles, it is all about projects and projects in Ala Igbo.

I hear more of Asaba, Onitsha, Awka, Owerri, Aba, Enugu and a lot less about Lagos or Abuja these days.

Perhaps, Buhari and his herdmen are blessings in disguise.

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See the road Almighty Sarki dey use enter his village after many years as a moneybag, Governor and Senate President.

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radautoworks:


Repo happens not because people can't afford cars. It's that they don't factor in maintenance and full cost of car ownership and once something goes bad, they let the car go back rather than fix it. I know because I've worked in all three industries. Car sales, car finance and Auto repair.

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Anyone else can educate this fella?

I'm done.

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Most Importantly....


It is not by force.

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radautoworks:
Agree to disagree

Understandable. Ever heard of OEM? There are some parts that you want from a dealership and they tell you that the company doesn't make that anymore. Once the five years warranty on a vehicle runs out, an average American car owner dreads going to the dealership for parts/repairs.

Do you expect the cost of changing brake pads to be the same at Coscharis when compared to Gazzuz? You may end up getting the same quality of service. Don't let the banners and fancy waiting rooms fool you.

Repo (repossession for inability to pay) is a very big business in US. Do you think anyone who is unable to afford to pay for a vehicle can afford top-notch maintenance on the same vehicle? Oyibo people are humans too.

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musa234:
I just pity the poor masses in this country, they must make do with the dilapidated government hospitals we have here in Nigeria whilst the leaders and their entire families make use of foreign world class hospitals and also send their kids to the best schools around the globe.. These are the same leaders the youths fight over because of some meagre stipends.

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Whose fault?

When their wards graduate from best schools abroad, guess who bombard their pages with "Congratulations!"? Yes. You guessed right. The same hapless citizens whose future were stolen to train the wards.

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The entitlement mentality of Nigerians/blacks baffle me a lot of times.

They refuse to fight for their rights in their own country and turn around to blame others for not accommodating them. If citizens of every country run away from the problems in their respective countries, where will be the final destination?

Any little push, only the flight response will be activated. A country may elect to evict anyone they want. Nigerians' penchant for worshipping foreigners is not a guarantee that such gestures would be reciprocated.

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LOL. Discriminatory laws against the rich and poor is not by politicians. Of course, politicians are the products of their society.

Everyone is gawking at Miss Ikeji because of her pregnancy. Everyone forgets about the baby's daddy or the phantom engagement.

Had it been one struggling actress, the hatred and venom per these pictures will be out of this world.


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Sorry but these do not qualify as "deplorable" by Nigerian standard.

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opera1:
The price is too exorbitant considering our poor electricity supply.

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When you cannot build or maintain anything by yourselves, you have no right to complain about foreigners who take the risk of providing for you those things you could not provide for yourselves. The same goes for the ones that complain about the attitude of foreign airlines operating in Nigeria.

Intellectual laziness comes with a price.

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peterphd:
Nice piece with facts but I don't think it will work in Nigeria. Too many divisions in the Nigerian system e.g the Yoruba Muslims and middle belt Muslims. These two groups will face sokoto no matter what.

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The worst thing about democracy that nobody wants to address is that when moronic, misinformed, gullible voters outnumber intelligent and informed ones, everyone suffers.

Democracy is only good for civilized societies. Nigeria needs a patriotic tyrant.

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They are being owed 18years arrears and they think they can dance their way to payment.

Let them keep dancing...

There are times one need to show seriousness in life. It reminds one of the image of Governors taking smiley photos with Buhari in Aso Rock after massacres in their respective states.

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//Something to think about.

...culled from inbox mail.
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*THE POWERLESSNESS OF PVCs*


To all PVC proponents and propagandists, KNOW THIS:

Paul Biya took over in Cameroun as president in November of 1982. In spite of his high-handedness, Camerounians have gone to the polls 7 times, equipped with their PVCs to remove him. They failed woefully! It's 36 years now!

For 38 years, Togolese struggled with their PVCs to remove President Gnassingbe Eyadema. The more they tried, the more they failed. Until his death in 2005, Gnassingbe ruled Togo in spite of the fact that he was rejected by the people. PVCs could not help them. At his death however, his son, Faure Gnassingbe, took over power! Up till date and for a period of 50 years and counting, 2 men ruled a country! A father and his son, just because the people are politically correct, waiting for election year to remove them with their PVCs. What a miserable life?

Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu Wa Za Banga took over power in Zaire in 1965 as a dictator after killing Patrice Lumumba. He later became a democrat and instead of open democracy, he unified all political parties under himself. People had PVCs but it was just another useless pieces of paper. It took a combined military revolution by the Rwandan Tutsi and the Ugandan Army to topple his government in 1997! 32 years on!

President Teodore Obiang Nguema Mbasongo of Malabo is still very much in power since 1979! Is it that Equatorial Guineans do no have their PVCs? By all means they do, but the yoke upon their necks cannot be broken by a piece of paper!

For 42 years, 175 days, El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondinba ruled Gabon! PVCs or not, he won election after election till his death in 2009! Even after death, his Biafran adopted son, Ali Bongo Ondinba, took over power till date!

What was I supposed to say concerning the famous Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe? If not for military revolution, even at 93 years he would have been in power still.
Over 40 years of rulership!

We could go on and on to cite examples, but one thing remains outstanding in the case of Cameroun.

Haven tried all they could with their PVCs, the southern part of Cameroun knew and understand the power of boycott! Led by President Sisiku Ayuk Tabe, who was later arrested by the brutish Nigeria Army, the Republic of Ambazonia embarked on a total boycott in November 2017. No election, no schools, no office, no banks and no nothing! They declared a ghost town in the whole of their region and by the first quarter of 2018, UN-led peacekeeping forces landed in Cameroun! As I write now, serious plans are on-going for a UN-monitored referendum for the Ambazonian Republic!

What they could not achieve with 32 years of voting and PVCs, they have achieved with 6 months of boycott!

It is left for you to decide whether the power of PVCs is limited or not.

When next you are confronted by the PVC/Vote advocates, ask them why has voting failed Africa since 1960?

It is civil disobedience and resistance that weaken despots and tyrants, not votes and PVCs! Tyrants are even more afraid of boycott than they are of a revolution. They can crush revolutions, arrest the ring-leaders, tag them treasonable felons and eliminate them, but they have no antidote to a successful boycott.

Do you want to shake tables? Boycott is the fastest, cheapest, safest, painless and loudest route. You need your voice to be heard? Then embrace a boycott!

Think freedom, think boycott!

Don't be fooled or coerced into mistaking a tyrant for a democrat, or a Buhari for a Jonathan. Do not look at 2019 through the prism of 2015. Your votes DID NOT COUNT in 2015 and DEFINITELY WILL NOT COUNT in 2019, 2023, ...! You didn't vote out Jonathan and certainly cannot vote out Buhari.

Do not mistake countries where institutions are strong for this British political shithole. Voting works where institutions are strong and independent of the central government, not in evil forests like Nigger-area. What you do every time you go out to vote, is to endorse your slavery and oil the chains that bind you! While a boycott will bring all stakeholders to the conference table, voting validates the charade of elections.

"Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery, none but ourselves can free our own mind", Robert Nesta Rastaman Marley.

Nice time pals, as you think towards freeing yourself from all kinds of slavery

*RESTRUCTURE NOW OR NO 2019 ELECTION!. YORUBA KOYA.*

Eking:
I bought the car as tokunbo.. Came with green coolant. I read its not good to mix green and pink coolants. At the same time I don't know any good Mech in Warri that can flush the whole green coolant from my car, that's why I wanted to continue with the green coolant

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Tokunbo vehicles were driven by humans who might not be knowledgeable about cars. Folks to go Walmart/Autozone/PEP Boys and pick the cheapest brand they can afford (mostly greenish). There are "mom and pops" mechanic shops as well as DIYers abroad. 95% of the time, I have used the green coolant in just about every vehicle I had driven without issues. You do not necessarily have to follow every recommendation by the manufacturer (especially Japanese cars) which are not usually high maintenance. More often than not, proprietary auto parts are rip-offs.

It may be that what they are selling in Nigeria may be adulterated or something else. Who knows?

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Dennis3D:
You said it all. Also what was a major constraint is space. All my 4 other projects this year has Malam steps. But they aren't built up environment like this one.

Also looking at time and cost. This method in fact rocks. Can't you see how neat the staircase looks

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Ever considered concrete and materials lift. It pays for itself overtime. I try to bypass waste.

You are trying o! Rain in PH is on another level. I had to abandon ship in June after rain no gree make we progress.

No rain on Fridays because of Ikwerre burials ( ) that's what I heard and it seemed to work.

Well...Kudos!

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