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LMAO.
Sorry Mech 101 teaching for dumbers.
Roger that

Arrived from my meeting to see that" I am dumb" ROFL

GAZZUZZ:
Not everything is about scanning . Engine does not crank and you are scanning? Scanning for what exactly?

Please can u explain better,
Firstly I want to scan,
Post code
Then call a rewire/electrician.
To look into it.
Is this the right step to take?

radautoworks:
Starter without seeing it. Don't let a rewire get their hands on it.

Sir,
I shouldn't bother to scan?

Well the coolant compartment has coolant on it filled to maximum.
It's the coolant in radiator I was talking about.
This morning when I firstly wanted to start the car, it was close to starting then made a blitz sound like 2 wire touching.
Then only the regular check light came on just like yesterday.
Cc: radautoworks.

autologic:
I doubt if scanning will pull any code ,look a good electrician to troubleshoot the issue for you and i don't see any relationship between coolant going down and issue of non starting for that model of Corolla.Fix your non starting issue first and address low coolant next .

Ok.sir,
I will get an electrician (rewire) check it .
But radautoworks says I should not let a rewire lay hands on it.
I am kinda confused now.

autologic:
I doubt if scanning will pull any code ,look a good electrician to troubleshoot the issue for you and i don't see any relationship between coolant going down and issue of non starting for that model of Corolla.Fix your non starting issue first and address low coolant next .

No it's not rolling.
My radiator water gone down
I topped it with water to see if it would drain probably there was a leak but suprisingly I wasn't up to a half a pint it filled up.
It had be never been this low(I could see the base of the radiator handle where the water is poured into.
It made a blitz sound this morning (not a click sound but like when 2 wires are touching) when I tried to start.
I will buy a car scanner and post the codes.
I am sourcing for a car I will use temporarily.
Thankfully I am not going to work on Monday.

autologic:
Is it engine rolling but non starting or non rolling of the engine at ( non cranking ). clarify pls

I noticed that the water level in my radiator has gone very low which has never happened b4.
I recall I entered a very bad pothole yesterday night(I was going in very slowly) but it was deep
Could it be my car was overheating due to contact at the base with a bad portion of the road.
Also I noticed water coming out from a small hose which was unusual.
Picture not clear so sorry. I am in a hurry

radautoworks:
So many variables. Fastest check as previously mentioned by others is a scan. Does it make any noise at all and is it a "click"? If it is, you need a new starter.

GD morning

No..it makes no noise.

radautoworks:
So many variables. Fastest check as previously mentioned by others is a scan. Does it make any noise at all and is it a "click"? If it is, you need a new starter.

Not that one.
A bit more of system rate.
Of course those enlightened ab guys know more about it.
The logistics at each point is needed though.
Let me stop here.

cooooooks:
They get foreign currency at CBN/BDC rates and sell to the public. That's how they make money.

I will try,
My wife said she heard a sound like a " cut-sound"-(thats the way she put it) at the time I was to restart the car as she was standing close to the bonnet.
It's late and raining also, I will try that tomorrow.
Thanks sir.

Blackbishop:
Boss good day
Can you reach out to the wiring from the starter motor to the battery and see if there is broken harness or fried wired. And if not since the check engine light is illuminated can you do quick scan. It will make the job easier boss

Abeg, did sanusi say online forex?
Bros I don't do online forex.never done it
As far as I am concerned, it's just rubbish.
Raw forex is the one I know it's good but the logistics for it....is another matter.
With raw forex u sit in ur garden, once all the people do their job, u get ur money.
It's also unstable too and there is also just a time when it is profitable, like at this time.
Once official traded rate and black market rate is the same or very close, there's no profit in it.

Daniel058:
I thought I was quoting a trader not knowing it was a trader wanna be

Dear Gazzuzz and other auto guru
I need your informed inputs.
I drove into my house this evening after visiting a relation.
I parked the car in. Then tried restarting to repark properly.
The car won't start but the check light comes on as if it wants to start.
Pls I need ur 3rd eyes here as I have to attend to an important meeting tomorrow morning
It looks like a rewiring issue if I can suggest but I don't know what to look out for.
Pls kindly assist.
Car is Toyota Corolla sports 2006.
Cc:
radautoworks
Motoguru
Autologic
Blackbishop.

Laughs in spiritual powers.
LMAO.
The price made me like

aizakun:
na 100k wedding dress be this

kodred:
I had a rider like that yesterday. After waiting for more than 15mins, she came and said she wanted to pick up something from the boutique just in front of us. I was looking at her plainly without emotions. I took out my phone and checked the riders app, to get another driver in that location would take another 15-20 mins as drivers were not around the area. I smiled.

I looked at the boutique and saw them removing clothes from the mannequin for her to still check out all these was going to another 5-10 mins of waiting. She later came out and was trying to open the door which I already central locked.

Me- yes hello can I help you?
Rider- oga open your door, I’m late for this trip abeg let’s hurry it’s getting dark.

I just shook my head and jejely canceled the ride because Lord knows that I will most definitely fling her out of my car when we get to 3mb.

I would have wanted to make the ride hellish for her for being insensitive but alas I just shook my head and said this one is not worth the stress. I only stress when you threaten my life/property anything aside that abeg carry your wahala dey go.

Wow, guys are not smiling these days. Will behaving myself these days

I can escrow your money/transaction.
For now it's free.
But large amount will take a fee and I will put a premium on it soon.
Thanks folks

I need all.the track,
Anything reggae from majek fashek to Ras kimono to lucky dube, to Bob Marley.

ikennamadu1:
I can send you some of his tracks... But through whatsapp...

Ok.
What's it sir,
Is it something official?
I travel on Friday.

hammed71:
please who has traveled from Ibadan to Lagos recently, I need to do something urgently in Lagos this weekend

Dear ma'am, if my mention of menopause seem offensive,
I hereby apologize.
However let me state that menopause is not an offensive term, it is a biological term, and it's characterized by " uncertainty" in the life of women and I was using that to explain that women in that bracket age bracket would not be so much " hardened" as u may think.
The rest of the behavior a woman exhibit iat that stage is usually characterized by humility but familiarity which tends to overshadow the humility she display.
My wife did more than this to me ,
But now, she acts it but I know she what she does to get us bonding again.
Peace and one love,

Jullima:
This is going to be my last post on this thread, it’s starting to get ridiculous.

What has menopause got to do with not kowtowing to a an adult male that calls himself the head of a home childish solutions to a marital problem? I believe in communication and that’s how mature adults should handle their affairs.

It’s only a selfish man that will put his feelings above his family. How does not eating food resolve anything??

Why should I worry or care wether a grown man has refused to eat, is he a child?? He put himself in that position. When an adult decides to throw a tantrum like a toddler, the best is to ignore him. Lol we talking about men in their 30s and above, what kind of people are this?

That's what they will tell you,
You think menopause age is just there for nothing.
And hey, I am not trying to take sides,
I am just telling you the truth in average amount.
You can be as hardened as you want to be,
It's ur marriage ma'am.
If your husband doesn't eat and u feel unconcerned,
I am no mediator there,
It's simply you will lie on ur bed as you lay it,
Cheers ma'am

Jullima:
Yea that’s why it’s effective in the beginning, but humans have their breaking point. It’s not a long lasting and effective solution to resolve issues in a marriage.

After a while the wife becomes hardened. Lol na today? Please.

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Jullima:
Lol okay. When you get married and you don’t eat your wife’s food for years and years come back and tell us how you fared?

If Nigerian wives can become hardened to an unrepentant cheating spouse, what is food?

You people think marriage is for small children?

Haha, when I get married?
When all my kids can speak French except the last born.

true but,
when u continue and its get down to when she is 39 to 40,
i can say for certain, she will be worried.
because by then men age better, become more handsome, matured and have more wealth,
she wouldn't want to start having uncertainties at that time especially for a responsible man.
i can say that with 80% level of certainty.

Jullima:
Lol that kind of ‘punishment’ only works maybe in the first year or two. It loses its effect fast, wives become immune to it with time, especially when the wife now has more responsibilities, if he wants to be a child, he can go and dish is food when he’s hungry.

Who get time?

Please who sang redemption song?
Is it Majek Fashek?

Sir, ma,
This is now unnecessary.
Issue has been settled between customer and client.
Let it now rest please.

Juliearth:
He is clueless about how online businesses work. People these days run checks online. Imagine a prospective client seeing the curses. Na to japa now, knowing that correct curses may follow him if he is not careful.

Sir,
Sir, let's remove tyres cos I could drive the tyres that came with them for 7 months.
I just changed the tyres because I was going to attend a wedding.and I was the one that brought those 2 together and I had money to spare.
I drove the car with the tyres that came with it for 4 months.
It had no faults sir like u said,
It was tokunbo not brand new na.
We talking of tokunbo cars too.
I am just saying fixes on a tokunbo car ( not accidented) should be less than Nigeria used all things being equal.

dgitrader:
If u seek quality over cheap! Going by present economic situation, the things you articulated above are well over 80k. Tires 55k, oil 19k, filter 2k, other repairs 10k+. Now this is a car with no fault o! Bros be considerate. Let's face the fact.

I laughed out loud.
I love your honesty.
Never knew pot belly could be this loved.
Would get one ASAP and then would be coming to "toast". you

Phenomenal16:
Abeg I love pot belly

Lots of sychophants are here.
I can't run my business this way.
If you don't want to listening to customer complaint, you are not ready for business you want to do on a long run.
I went into Zenith Bank along Lagos-Abeokuta way on that long Abule-egba road leading down to tollgate.
I had a complain after using their ATM.
If they just waved me off, I would have gone. I had explained to the security man.
He took me in straight to see a supervisor.
What's my complain?
I went to zenith Bank to withdraw 12k using another bank ATM card.
The machine paid.me 13k. I didn't get an alert, so I thought my mind was playing me, maybe I typed 13k by mistake.
I went in, she she thanked me, we checked the spooled e-journal roll from her system, she said its 12k I typed and called out my ATM PAN number. I gave her 1k. She said she would call me later, she didn't .
Supposing I came with a negative complain, would I also be attended too?
Wouldn't she send a mail of the issue raised.
Take complain to improve your business and do it on time.

Oh please,
We all agree there would be fixes, but how much?
How much enough for the car to be called Nigerian used and no longer a tokunbo?
How much fixes is needed to say a car is a lemon and a write-off.and not worth a tokunbo?
Sir, how much of it?
The first car I bought was in 2008 from.cotonou,
There was no single rust under the car.
There was rust showing on the engine head (the part that gets very hot after car is started and driven a little). It's a Honda engine.
The only thing I did on that car was servicing (oil and filter) and I worked on the pipes in the braking system. (The rubber pipe leading to the brake disc had a leak somewhere and my brake was failing after I had driven the car for over 4 months.
I changed all the tyres because I wanted a standard look.
That's all.
So I ask how much becomes too much to consider the fixes too much for a tokunbo car.
Modified*** there was also a leakage from the roof ( windshield). I had it glued or gumed.

dgitrader:
Except a brand new car, fixes are expected after purchase. Too much fuss on this matter. Amdman too has his faults, very poor communication and Buyers too can be unreasonable at times, u are getting very high milage Canadian cars direct, which cost about 250k less than car dealers', you should expect some touches to be done. And in the process of interstate travels during delivery, the car will be pushed to the extreme. Everything here is simply about realistic expectations and calculated risk.

Hello ma'am,
The issue at hand is not a gender thing you are taking it to be.
I'm in no way down playing how you feel however you and the other man who also dropped a complaint are totally different types of customer.
He's a customer that handles bad service better (differently)than you.
However we are talking of over a million naira worth of product/service.
The time factor and after sales cognitive dissonance reaction makes the issue both of you had a total different matter.

Your time frame of complaint is still within buyer's purchase dissatisfaction with a product,
The other man complaint is more of a review having used the car for sometime.
The reaction from both will therefore be different.

Codyella:
A woman complains of a bad business, she's labeled a liar and a man does the same and he is patted on the back and got an apology. Bunch of misogynists!
Say whatever you want, I made my review because I refused to be bullied into silence because I'm a woman.

Amdman, you have done your own. I trusted you with my money and you didn't give me what I asked. And you still feel that you are right in what you did. I only wish you well. What goes around comes around. Its indeed a small world. Farewell.

This is a comprehensive review.
I am in no way saying amdman is bad but I have been calling on him to improve even b4 any negative issue like this could prop up.
Like I said earlier some can manage others can't,
Business is a learning curve.

Jesterfly:
Baba I'll try to respond to your bulleted reply as much as I can. Mind you, I didn't call you out for a deal I'd since moved on of, but cos Codyella was taken by most peeps here as a killjoy and someone hired or bought over to come spoil your business, I don't know her from Adam, just not happy with 90% of peeps here who are ready not to listen to both parties.

1.In the video review of the car you sent to me, you clearly said there was no rust, and I took your word for it, even when I showed a friend and he pointed out a rust to me, you waved it off as nothing serious. Here's a link to the video on your YouTube page
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jonz5CkObWY (I might get banned by the spam bot for this), listen to your words at the 38 - 40s timeline.
As per the mechanic and panel beater you recommended which I later used, do you know it took almost 5 days for the panel beater to weld the rusted underneath, he didn't even finish all the rust work, i had to use another welder who use electric welding to do more of the rust work. I visit the mechanic every week for one issue or the other, one noise or the other. Some of the noises were linked to one broken part underneath the vehicle, and that would have to be welded. At a point, the mechanic advised me to sell the vehicle and ease my self of its numerous problems. I don't need to come back to you to say I've discovered another rust or another problem, when it is my cross to bear already, afterall you were not assisting in the bills.

2.I remember making and sending a video of the wet interior to you, until a panel beater discovered it to be from the moon roof months down the line, I don't need to bug you months after.

3. You clearly said the kickstarter was why it was not starting, and you also asked me not to get one till the vehicle arrives. I trusted in your words and went to the port with the kickstarter, just so I could drive the car home after fixing it, why would I not be prepared when you already told me confidently what the issue with the car was? Don't blame me for buying a kickstarter baba.

4. Being scammed on the highway was my fault, little wonder I didn't mention it in my first post. I also didn't mentioned where I changed all the 4 tyres cos they were worn and also didn't say I had to change the car battery. I also didn't mention where customs stopped me cos of underpayed duty, and I had to give them a good sum of money to free me. The overheating and changing of top Gasket could also be my fault.
I never used only water in the radiator, right even until I sold the car. I also never used any other oil in the engine besides Castrol 5w-30 synthetic oil. So you can never say I didn't maintain the vehicle properly.

5. I recommended alot of peeps to you, but they all got disappointed with your response to them, it's either you snub them or you ignore them when they request a particular type of car. I contacted you last in March when I sold off the pontiac and requested another from you, but you laughed (don't know what that meant) first before you asked I send you a chat so it comes on top of everyother chat. I didn't continue the deal cos you didn't respond further after you said the one you first showed me has been sold.

The way you claimed a car has no issue is just misleading, we all buy in trust from you, but when we see something that is off what we were expecting, we get unhappy. You can't say "No known Issue" and the car comes with barrage of issues.

Ma'am I would have to disagree with you (partially) on this.
And it seem you are overreacting too.

@radautoworks, you are very knowledgeable about cars and anything automobile.
Others have their own field where they are an expert.
You cannot compare her level of knowledge of cars to yours.
Her first home work (though it's actually not the first : the first should be the most reliable brand for Nigerian road and economy) which she got right was to go with buying car from a RELIABLE and trustworthy car dealer. That's why I said partially above.
Amdman as far as I am concerned based in nairaland is.
Even if car is sold at a price u feel.is rock-bottom, you still need to consider the end-user effect and provide solution.
He may not own the cars but as far as business is concerned , he owns the process, he own the brand, he possesses the cars.
As far as business is, it's amdman cars.
Maybe the lady customer expectations were too high, (don't be surprised a lot of people have same expectations but some can manage it, others can't.
A different/better approach could have been used to handle matter.
Ma'am I strongly believe that if it were your own business, you probably wouldn't let it get to this point but u would have charged her more.

Please for the sake of Goodwill , please keep your offer open at least till end of today. Please.

radautoworks:
You must have missed where I called them on blanket statements about women. Or where I and several others acknowledged his communication lapses.

What is tasteless is not doing your homework

What is tasteless is buying a used car and expecting it to be like new when op has repeated over and over he owns none of these cars and simply helps the purchase process at rock bottom prices

What is tasteless is making unsubstantiated claims and hyperbole

What is tasteless is whining endlessly when you obviously don't want a solution to your problem

What is tasteless is YOU

Thanks for your input but no thanks. Offer rescinded. No need to engage in former communication with me.

inspiredbelieve:
Be objective! Stop using poor choice of words! Why say that people's objective reviews mean that they have no souls? She used the exact same words that got people mad!

As intellectuals, people asked her to substantiate everything she said but she couldn't!

The only common issue that has been corroborated by everyone is Amdman's late response and it seems true. He's probably working on it.

But the grouse people have with her her inability to SUBSTANTIATE EVERYTHING SHE SAID!

100k with no receipts of payment as proof!
Her expectation of a tokunbo car as new!
Her unwillingness to spend to fix one thing or two on a tokunbo car that's on sea for two months!


Oga, please always be objective when you make comments! Don't take sides!

.
For over 10 months, he's "probably" working on it.
I sought alternatives because of these poor communication, which I mentioned long enough b4 taking the decision to look elsewhere and here we are , still working on it,
Please stop being sentimental here,
A lot of people will be having negative imagination having over 1Million naira in someone's else's hand and the person does not response to message even under 2 hours.
That's a sign of unseriousness in business and he feels he is doing the person a favour.
Why not it this way, amdman delivers the car to you and then waits for his money,
Let's see how gentle his "assistant" will be if no response in 2 days.

Dear folks, I have read all through and here is my submission.

The car should be fine but you need to understand your customers better and I clearly see 3 majors issues and 2 other ones from that episode.
1. Poor communication.
I mentioned much earlier than now that for a business, timely and proper communication is very key. This was ignored and truth is with the advent of social media customers will take their complaint "globally" and will tell others about how " bad "your business is
If there was proper communication via your agreed channels (in the case of amdman being WHATSAPP), this matter may not have come here on nairaland.
2. Poor choice of words.
Still on communication, while you have a business to protect, your business is a business because of the customer's you have,
The " tone" of your communication to that lady customer has an undertone that you really don't care about her complain.
Apologizing is usually the first step which I didn't CLEARLY see in your response.
You must see business as an exchange,
Exchange of money for a service or a product. It is not a favor.
No service or product will give 100% satisfaction EVERYTIME but when that occurs you should provide ways to resolve it. It shouldn't come from a third party
It is important to understand that today she is your customer seeking a service from you, tomorrow is may be your turn to seek service/product from her or someone closely related to her.(I would narrate a story on this latter).
3. Understanding your customer.
You are going to have different types of customer. You need to find a way to understand them. The moment that lady customer was willing to part with 22k to have her car serviced, it should tell you that you are dealing with a customer who dies not like to do after sales work or adjustment.
You should have taken care (extra care) that the servicing was done to utmost satisfaction even if u would charge more.
You could offer to get those other things sorted for a fee.( Based on the type of customer you are dealing with.

4. Terms and conditions ( reasonable ones) should be spelt out but this does not mean you should ignore your customer because of these.
You will loose business on the long run if you do.
If customer have waited so long to get their car with extra delay due to covid-19 virus and lengthened port processing time, you cannot expect a reasonable person to take a total refund as a way to manage a complaint. Repairs for a fee are still your best option and apologize to the customer even after it has been fixed.
It takes nothing away from you.


5. Business model operations modification.
Have a general checklist forms of things that are okay with the car, things that are bad and things that need some care and submit well ahead to the customer before the car arrives.
With this you would have communicated with the customer that some repairs would be needed at some point. (It's a tokunbo car not brand new, nothing wrong in this being displayed).