michlins: at this point ma'am, it's obvious you want to ruin my image here. You requested for 36". Right there with the tape is 33.5. The remaining is 1.5". If that 2" is what will make you squeeze your items, sorry about that.
If I had made it exactly 3ft, you will still complain that I didn't leave enough room for the doors to fit that your mason had to break wall to make it fit.
I thought Nairaland would be the best place to ask this since there are many notable car dealers, and car owners here.
I'm looking to get my first car before the end of the year. But I honestly don't know much about cars except that a V6 engine gulps fuel, and that many Nigerians love Toyota. These are my considerations.
1. Budget 2m to 3m.
2. Something girly and portable.
3. Low cost of maintenance. If I had my way, I would buy brand new so I would almost never have to visit the mechanic save for routine maintenance.
- Low fuel consumption -Availability of spare parts. - Not prone to breakdown
4. Optimal functioning AC
5. It should be in perfect condition for at least 2 years. When I marry, my husband will buy the next one. But right now, it doesn't have to be fancy. Since I'm not a pro-driver like that like that, Lagos road users may bash and scratch it. I don't want to go home and cry that they're scratching an expensive car.
Get a 2003-2006 Toyota Matrix
6. And what's the aversion with Nigerian used cars? People seem not to like buying Nigerian used cars? Can 1.5m get me a good Nigerian used car that meet the aforementioned criteria?
The problem with Nigerian used cars is that most Nigerians have no business owning cars. They cannot afford the cost of ownership and cannot maintain the cars.
What you get is people who keep driving as long as the car starts and drives. The faults pile up and like every other machine, the car eventually breaks down requiring a major fix. They patch it up and sell to an unsuspecting buyer.
This is not to say you cannot get a good Nigerian used cars but its like looking for a needle in a haystack
7. Finally, what about cars assembled in Nigeria? Like Innoson? Kia Rio.
Please advise me and tell me all I need to know. God, Allah, Sango, Oluwa, Chi, bless you!
Just keep it simple. Get a Matrix. If your drive belt cuts on third mainland bridge, you don't need to get to Ladipo to get a replacement or wait for a specialist mechanic to fix it.
yMcy56: How many years could this be? Your Linkage cost price can't be up to 0.90k again......if you consider the bonus and dividends declared so far...... At least, for 2020 FYE, a dividend of 0.05k as well as bonus of 2:5 were declared.......factoring these in should have left you with no loss on your investment @CP if I'm right. In 2019 fye too, I think 1:4 bonus was also declared You can do some findings and go claim your bonuses/dividends if you haven't done so.
Franky826: FBN is 7.5% as at today( from my calculations)
Meanwhile are they not supposed to compound the interest today is 01/04/22 Being the beginning of the 2nd quarter. My dashboard is still same. Interested not yet compounded. What's happening? cc emmasoft
Axa mansard is also yet to compound theirs but I'm sure they will. Just a little patience
nitrogen: Crazy that we gave Bruno a few more years when we’ve not sorted out the system. Also crazy that a player like Bruno is not ambitious. He has not won any major trophy at 27, and there is no assurance that he will win something at Utd in the next 3 years.
fineboynl: If you plan to buy a Nigeria used car. Never try to fix anything in the said car. Ensure that you are going to drive the car like that. The basic reason for this is that it's counterproductive trying to reshape Nigeria used car. The money you will spend trying to put the car in acceptable standard will get you a toks.
Never trying to resprayed a Nigeria use car. If you can't use the car like that don't buy. Never try to replace the engine or gearbox. If you cannot drive the car like that don't buy. Never try to restore the air conditioner in the car. If you cannot use a car without air conditioner don't buy.
Buying Nigeria use car means you don't have money for toks. So therefore you should stand by that not minding how much you are paying for that car. But the problem will be when you plan to restore things that is not right in the car. It would become counterproductive.
I bought a used Nigeria car for 700k but when I ride the car I notice the suspension was terrible. The air conditioner was not chilling well enough. And the body need some panel beating and spray jobs. Couple with other things here and there that needs to be address to taste it was then I realized that the amount had getting closer to direct toks. As I was full of regret calling the seller to atleast fix the suspension and the air conditioner he declined that there is nothing he can do.
Then all of a sunden I woke up from sleep. Thank God it was a dream. I feel like sharing this information here.
Never try to fix Nigeria used call the reason you are buying Nigeria use car is because you are either saving cost or you don't have much for toks. So it should remain like that. Trying to fix and reshape the car will be counterproductive.
I have seen people buying terrible Nigeria looking car. But the good part of it is that they ride the car like that.
You think tokunbo cars are without issues of their own, you'll be surprised.
This is one mistake a lot of people make. They think buying a Tokunbo car automatically means the vehicle is brand new. I have bought quite a number of them and 100% of the time, there is something to fix
The least amount I've spent fixing a toks car is N50,000. There are times I spend as much as N300,000.
What you should advice is that people should factor in the cost of repair into the purchase price. This applies to all vehicles whether its Toks or registered.
deleadej1: Hello House, I use a Toyota highlander 2007... started noticing that whenever in 80-100rev..the vibrates I have done the alignment,balancing and checked the tire to no avail. Please anyone with possible solution to this problem coz i never have plan to replace it now.
Your advice/s is highly welcome
Then drive below 80. You'll still get to your destination
As at 2013 Nigerian universities were short of 13,877 PHD holders.....so if wike sacked the ones on ground that are still short of over 13k where will he see them to replace?
U think academics is a Bank teller job u can sack and replace staff the same week ba? If it was that easy do u think people like Obasanjo that are very strong willed wouldn't have long sacked all lecturers and damn all consequences? El-Rufai sacking incompetent civil servants is quite different from ASUU issue.
ASUU is enjoying a monopoly which bequeats them right to always have upper hand in negotiation with their employer (the government). In fact some prof leave federal institutions for privately owned ones and they don't get to replace them due to their speciality. If a surgeon leaves Lasuth in Lagos and joins Babcock Teaching hospital for better pay and better condition of service, do u think it will be easy for Lasuth to replace him just like that?
I remember you once had this discussion with raumdeuter and he perfectly sums up what would have been my response
raumdeuter: What is unique about the service ASUU provides that cannot be reproduced, Do you know how many people are waiting on the sidelines to replace them? Let FG put adverts asking even for foreign-trained PhD and see how many applications they go get. Someone once said ordinary customer service job advertised at under 200k, enough foreign-trained Masters dey apply never mind Naija Masters
ASUU are just a bunch of entitled people, I remember how many times they cancelled session when I was still in school claiming they were tired and after sending us home for months almost a year, They all resumed to private Universities to teach and get paid double
You are forgetting who the employer and employee is here, and trade union in an environment like Nigeria where many people are jobless, You remember one time Doctors went on strike and Lagos state govt put their roles up for hire, they got thousands of application from many doctors who have been jobless before
I already argued some time back, Public University is becoming a waste of time for many courses especially for Technical course, You are almost certain going to learn more useful stuff online than in those Universities where your lecturer will be teaching you Fortran77
Your employer says they want to pay you by direct deposit, you tell them you prefer to collect cash, and you gave them reasons? Abeg those that are collecting salary through IPPIS are they lesser animals? You see salary you dey claim say you no want it to be paid in one style, You don see where Grace give diggz toto, wey him complain say e no get hair?
How many students did they consult when they changed the payment system of School fees from teller to scratch card and online portals, If students dare protest they immediately expel them
DissTroy: You want to know what Wike is like at the national level? In 2013, Wike was Minister of State for Education then Acting Minister of Education. ASUU had gone on strike and the FG called them for the usual (futile) negotiations.
Instead of negotiating with ASUU leaders (even with bogus promises if you can), Wike commanded ASUU to resume. Commanded and demanded with threats.
ASUU leaders stormed out of that building, and it led to one of the longest strikes in Nigeria: 6 months.
MC Oluomo has more diplomacy and finesse than Wike. An arrogant thug at that.
This is exactly why we need Wike. If he had sacked all of them in 2013 and replaced them, we will not be having ASUU strike today.
El Rufai did the same in Kaduna and heaven did not fall
DissTroy: Wike has the diplomacy and finesse of an Oshodi underbridge thug.
He's the kind of president who would ask a reporter, "So you can't say good morning, Your Excellency, first?" on live TV then proceed to pinch her cheeks as a reprimand.
A kingmaker? Yes. But he shouldn't sit on such a throne.
We have tried the ones with the Diplomacy and finesse of Lekki, this is where we are.
That Oshodi underbridge thug might just be all we need.
AAA593: I don't if Nigerians are voting for talent or for preferred candidates. I don't know if the organizers of this show are handpicking them. Precious performance last week was not bad compared to some members of the current 10 top. I don't trust the votes results at all. Please watch Precious last performance after her eviction. Behind the stage.
I suspect that this is why some people don't like watching football.
The only time they manage to develop interest to watch is when Nigeria has to play. They get treated to that drab and boring nonsense and they start wondering what the rest of us enjoy in it.
If I only watch football when Nigerian plays, I'm never going to enjoy watching football. Sometimes I think African football should be scrapped. I can't remember ever watching any that I actually enjoyed.
ositadima1: I am yet to understand or see were it was stated that the VIN valuation system will triple the clearing fees.
From a few googling I learned that it was introduced by the customs to speedup vehicle clearing. Given the vehicle identification number, the computer will extract several informations like make, make year, region etc and use it to generate clearance fees automatically.
This is how I understand it.
Before now, no one pays full duty on cars. What we pay is compromised duty.
With the E valuation, no more compromised duty. Everyone pays the correct surface duty which is a percentage of a fixed amount of money that customs considers as the value of the car.
I think what the agents are saying is that, customs has not taken into account the depreciation of the cars before arriving at the fixed amount. E.g, If customs values a 2017 car to be $21,000 when it was produced, it should come down to say $15,000 in 2022.
PS: Why do I think all these is connected to the Dangote Peugeot vehicle manufacturing plant? Let's make it more expensive to import cars so they can buy brand new in Nigeria