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Haba!! Why so much bile for the '05 Freelander, I also want it bad, baby looks good, drives well - please give me statistics that this baby is not good value for money

In all this chatter I have not seen our popularNL ACN (Tinubu) Sycophants come to Fashola's rescue, @Seant, @Ekt_bear, @Gbawe how can you leave your brother ti die like this  

Too Bad Fashola has his hands tied by a greedy God-father and a Dumb State Assembly eager to follow Tinubu's fart however it sounds. A State of Emergency should be declared on our Police and Mallams

This guy should be arrested and shot, buried, exhumed and burned with petrol and buried again.

Viaguru:
Why is this a news? All the citizens of Nigeria are kidnapped people.

My ransom has not been paid - it is nowused to fight Boko-Haram

dare2think:
Men will never be free until The last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest.

Subtitute king and priest with "corrupt politician" and "self-accliamed Man of God" respectively, and there you have the problem.

Fela said it all.

Spot-on!~

Thanks all, you have been immensely helpful with your insights. The most important criteria that goes into buying a car is not the mileage on its own but a host of other factors in order of importance
1: Production Year: No use buying a cheap used 1987 Nissan Blue-bird in 2011 and expect it to live long on Nigerian Roads with heavy usage
2: Maintenance History: If the car has been treated well and the engine runs fine, there is a good chance it will do another 3-4 years even on Nigerian roads, that all depends on how well you keep the maintenance running. I just learned from a friend in Wisconsin that only Nigerians top-oil, he gets a total oil change when due
3: Taste: Fancy the new FULL-OPTIONS!, 2008 ML450? make sure your pocket matches your taste. no need holding out N980k (almost a million) and expect to get lucky with a used car that ranks in the N2m-N3m range - but miracles do happen in Nairaland Yahoo-yahoo land
4: Running Condition: A car in good shape (Engine/Tyres/Shocks) is far more important than a car with neat body-work, 10-disc player and chilling Air-Conditioning. You can measure how much you are willing to do without to get a car that matches your pocket
5: Mileage: The Almighty Mileage - a very important selling point for most NL Dealers. You can discount its importance after considering the other factors above
6: Price: Everything is negotiable - There is a Balance between how much a dealer wants to make from a Sale - 200% usually   (excluding duties/cost of shipment) and how well you know where that balance lies, do a lot of research using other car used dealers online and on the street and from friends to gauge this balance. with that you can negotiate your way to a good buy. No car Dealer wants to hold onto a car that long  - It keeps loosing value one-way or the other.

@poster I don't get it, by implications pagans are just base animals with no civility is that it?

Has this money-tree HYIP started yet I need to join early

this charade is still on?

Me Love You Long Time - ME So H0rny

it simply means we are all no better than when we began - we make to think we know everything but really we know nothing. Man's Wisdom be it inspired or learned or revealed (in pastor joes case)

pleep:
Nland is filled to the brim with fools.
This is probably one of the most important topics on here and all we have are 3 idiotic responses.

The story of the z600 makes me want to weep.


Now Tara moters has created the cheapest car for 2000$
who knows if they copied izeogu designs.

Sad but true, unfortunately there is strength in numbers and Nigeria has well over 140 million retard5 who sit by and watch 79% of the nation's budget get spent on re-current expenditure leaving very little that will still be frittered away in failed white elephant projects and flying satellites to space to show how pictures they would never put to good use anywayz. History will accuse us every decade, 50 yrs on and we have turned from Oil-Producing to Fuel-Importing, Agro-based to Crayfish-importing

Nice to have a good laugh once in a while

@Fhemmmy, you truly know your business. 

1: Yes a good Carfax report is important (so no accident or flood vehicles) . I am on my 3rd used car and i would like to get a car that i do not sell just because I have spent more money on repairs than I actually bought the car.  which is why I will continue to hate Nigerian Mechanics (Road-side and Dealerships)
2: I have seen this particular model with a good friend of mine and he bought it brand new in 2006 for N5.37M (company car) and has been using till date as we speak  (he has just driven home with it). It has just 58,000km over a 5yr+ period. He is not willing to sell but if he was it would go for N2M

If I am looking for such a spec with at least anywhere between 60,000km to 80,000km then I am sure it will still be going strong for another 2-3yrs [/b]and [b]going for between N1.7M to N2M. instead I am seeing far much older Accords 2004 going for N1.8M Haba Dealers take am easy na

Yes the sad thing with Japan is US imports of used-newer models will be scarce but prices should not be crazy-high like I see on NL.
You do not have to search far, you will see 2-3 different NL ads for the Accord with higher than 100,000k mileage going nothing less than N2.5 even a Nigerian used is doing similar prices.

I think if Dealers are selling cars that have high mileage that can ordinarily affect its price if it was to be sold in the US, why not the same rule when selling to Naija peeps who have to contend with very high USD-Naira Exchange Rate, high import duties. Yes you must make a profit, that is why you are in business but there is a limit where it becomes plain shafting. 

Thanks for your response but before I carry on let mention i will not past NL dealers I have met over the past week. I will however give you an idea of what I am looking for and the price range NL dealers are offering

Honda Accord 2006 LX SE - Full-Options! to use dealer parlance 
Mileage: between 50,000km - 60,000km
Power Windows
5-Speed Transmission
Alloy-Wheels
Leather Seats
Power Seats
Sun-Roof -NO

I have seen Honda Accord 2006 from dealers - Toks and Nigerian used well above 100,000km for nothing less than N2.5M. Non-negotiable. I saw a Nigerian-used for N1.6 and Man it was well-used but still looked clean

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My Chairman Uche

Price:
Mileage:

I am a serious buyer if the price is right and the mileage is good

I wonder where atheists past are now  I wonder how well the theists are doing since then  - we are all like butterflies dancing around a night camp-fire no matter how attractive, mysterious and  awe-inspiring we find the affair, we would never hazard the thought of settling down. Ultimately; "Man's reach exceeds his grasp"

I have been trying to land a sweet car purchase deal on Nairaland but have been discouraged for the following reason, Toks cars shipped from abroad are way too expensive (especially when they carry a valid VIN with a Clean title) it seems better to get a Nigerian-used that you have checked yourself.

I have noticed most car adverts that do not carry mileages are actually between 60,000km to 150,000km when i come for inspection and the dealer is not willing to reduce pricing based on mileage. I usually get the argument that it was neatly used and has no problem whatsoever as long as i maintain it well.


I recently went online to calculate the distance between Lagos and Kaduna by road - it is an impressive 729.62 km to 802.06 km if you start from Toll-gate -> Sagamu -> Ibadan -> Oyo -> Ogbomosho -> Illorin -> Jebba -> Bida ->Abuja FCT -> Kaduna

http://distancecalculator.himmera.com/driving_distance_from-kaduna_to_lagos_between_road_direction-8387.html

A car with mileage of 70,000km will need to have travel 88 trips (44 times back and forth) between Lagos and Kaduna  Imagine how many trips a car with 150,000km has done and yet the price from the dealer will refuse to move from N2.2M.

I disagree that the inner and outer neat appearance of a car is not enough to justify a high mileage+high price on a car. Mileage will definitely have negative impact on the car's engine which is the most important part of the car.

I need to know why some dealers do not consider a high mileage a good enough reason to drop their (High) price. are there any other factors that reveal why one should accept a car with very high mileage?

Please I am interested in your views
Thank you

^^^ Worth the read - but most people will chalk it up to cowardice, disloyalty, lack of spiritual will (no be me talk am ooh)

OMG!! I am here suffering as a Self-Employed Technologist, when i should have dropped out of school and headed to Oshodi when it was still alive and kicking, Kai!! see Good Opportunity missed. - Please somebody point me to the nearest Motor-Park sharp-sharp 

@EzeUche [/b]you are right,  if not for the fading-away of the MASSOB and the Biafra cause. they would be here also

[b][size=14pt]MEND[/size]
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[li]Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger-Delta has its cause emblazoned in its name.[/li]
[li]They are fighting for the right to enjoy the benefits of crude that has built bridges, hospitals, schools and businesses across other non-oil producing regions in Nigeria [/li]
[li]They are fighting for Economic Empowerment and Equal representation in Socio-Political landscape of Nigeria[/li]
[li]They want to be part of the largess (over 80% revenue this country is from Niger-Delta Crude). Senators, Ministers, Governors and the Presidency enjoy year-in year-out,[/li]
[li]They are asking for the right to belong to Nigeria not just as an ethnic group but as a member of the family at the dinner-table[/li]
[li]Their Ideaological Leader Ken Saro-Wiwa was executed under questionable trial judgment. therefore,[/li]
[li]They will ensure that Nigeria listens to them by squeezing her (Oil-Rich) Monkey balls -blowing pipelines and escorting Oil-bunkering ships[/li]
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[size=14pt]BOKO HARAM
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[li]"No Western Education" are also clearly represented by the name they bear. [/li]
[li]They wish to be buffoons, stark illiterates and retard5 like their nomadic desert-roaming, A55-scratching brothers in Yemen and Afghanistan[/li]
[li]They are contented with economic impoverishment handed down to them by the Northern Elite in the name of Religion[/li]
[li]They want no part of Nigeria, they want to be left alone to practice the art of buffoonery in the peace of the impoverished red sand of Madugarri [/li]
[li]Their Ideaological Leader Mo. Yusuf was executed under watchful eyes of the Police  and Military Task force therefore,[/li]
[li]They will ensure that the Police and the Military gets what is coming to them by blowing up Police/Military property and lives as well as Northern  Infidel Co-conspirators who watched in jubilation as their leader was murdered in cuffs in cold-blood without a trial[/li]
[/list]

in terms of hostility, Christians will abuse you with prayers of ill-omen, but Muslims on the other hand, he ehehe   they will straight-up Kill you!!   for even looking at them pee (Strictly directed to the 0.0099% of violent northern Muslims that see themselves as Allah's hand of vengeance)

Between Tonye Cole and Ezebunwo Wike, who has the most experience of the industry to better provide vision and innovation it requires

Foolish boy - Ekatte's curse is following you- how dare you impregnate your calabar house-girl

[quote author=alj_harem link=topic=704403.msg8646268#msg8646268 date=1309778283]u are very silly for that statement

rubbish, ah the day they arrest tinubu, u all will go to 3rd mainland brigbe and hang urselves[/quote]And I thought you were an enemy of democracy

@poster - I know you are serious about selling this car. It has been here for 25days now.

Give me the mileage - and number of the owner

You have to be really careful with facebook and making friends especially pretty girls - i became fb friends with some chick i did not even know - she came up my fb wall one morning (as early as 4AM) and wrote - I want you to be my sugar daddy - I have nice homely girlfriends you can hook up with your own friends

Unfortunately Boko Haram by ideology are not open to "Western" Education they would rather go back in time to learn to live in the present.