Gadafii:
Actually I would rather type that shit out that use voice notes on Whatsapp, however people have preference and adapt to what's convenience to them, How ever I recently came to realize that using voice not to explain or give instruction, direction, etc is more effective than typing it out, it saves time and easier than typing long words.

Despite this, I found my voice very croaked and hoarse, worse than davido sef over voice note, so I barely do voice note

Meanwhile I know people that have become used to voice note, to even reply with "ok I will call you" Dem go use VN, it can be annoying tho

Do yourself a favor. Don't ever listen to your own voice note. E get why.

What a waste of time.
All of you are not serious. The fact is that anything you chose to chat with me about is not that important and is definitely not urgent. If it were urgent, you will call me. So it means it can wait. That is for those that will cry I took 1hr to respond.
As for how I respond it is my business. If I chat you and you have a lot to say to me, please by all means use a voice note. I really want you to say all you have to say and not give me some shitty summary just because you can't type long. If I can't listen to it, then like I said earlier, it can wait. In our self righteousness, we have forgotten that speech is a much better communication tool that text. The tone of your voice can communicate your feelings and mindset, those things you can not type. There are a lot of things that can be misinterpreted when typed but when said, the intended meaning can not be mistaken.
What would you chose? For someone to type "I lv u", or for the same person to record a voice note saying "I love you" in a romantic way. I will definitely choose the later.
So all of you complaining about VN should rest. If you want formal communication, then call. If you choose the informal route, then let the other person choose how he wants it. It must not be your way.
As for the voice noters, try to understand that the dude chatting you up could be lazying around and bored and just needs the chat to while away time. So he wants the chat to be long and if you use VN, you would be cutting the chat short and he doesn't want that. So indulge him if you can.

234GT:
Good morning car gurus on the house.
I use a 2008 accord 4 cylinder as my daily car.

Last week Wednesday and Thursday, I discovered oil leaks where I parked overnight. I took the car to a ram and we checked under. He said the power steering rack is bad and the leaks came from the driver side rubber boot covering.

He advised that I change the power steering rack. I have bought a tokunbo rack for 55k.

My confusion now is that since last week Friday, the leaking has stopped completely, and the power steering reservoir level has not gone down one bit. The steering system is working perfectly with no noise whatsoever.

I don't feel like changing the rack because of so many things they have to dismantle to remove the bad one. I am always scared of my car being piecesed by mechanics because they tend not to return the components to how they met it.....like one may end up with problem B while trying to fix problem A.

Please advise on what the leak could possibly be, because I have checked the atf and brake oil, they are both at the usual levels. Thank you.

If the leakage has stopped and your PS is working well, then why change it? But have it in mind that if it leaked once, it can leak again. I'll advice you pack the steering rack you already got in your packing store and enjoy your car. Continue enjoying it till whenever the steering rack starts acting obviously. Don't pursue what is not pursuing you just because you can afford it.

theadeola:


My fuel consumption is in the gutter. Barely 200miles on a tank. Radiator fans factory, thermostat intact, etc. only code is the p0011.

Don't know if it can cause such a massive drop in consumption. Did you notice a drop in your fuel consumption when you had the code?

And do you drive with AC constantly?

Well, not constantly. More like occasionally. Only when I can't manage without AC. Economy is not smiling o. Besides, I'm still monitoring and accessing the car to know if I made a good decision by selling my V6 accord to get a 4cyl. My next test will be to know how many miles I can get with regular AC use.

nani667:


Just download the app, register, create a card, fund it and start spending 🫱🏻‍🫲🏼

I haven't had any issues with their service since I started using them last year

nani667:


Grey virtual card

Those grey people na wereh. I've downloaded the app for weeks now and I'm stuck trying to upload an ID, and the stupid app keeps telling me "no face found", despite my face being very clear on the IDs. I've tried voters card and NIN slip and it says the same thing. I've tried with different sources of light and get the same thing. I tried taking the picture from a scanned copy on my laptop and the idiot say "screen detected. It can detect a screen but can not detect my clear face on the cards. I just abandoned it and went back to my klasha.

theadeola:


Good job restraining yourself from burning it

Oh, great. I've thought about this as the genesis of my own P0011 too. So I have to take the car to the seller then?

Pray tell, how much did you get yours?

I actually got mine for next to nothing. I just went to a junkyard cos I didn't want to spend much money on it since I wasn't convinced it was the problem. I got and tested one as described. After confirming it still works, I cleaned it thoroughly and installed it and that was the end of p0011 for more than a mo th now. Car also doesn't seem like it consumes fuel cos I get roughly 400miles of city driving on one tank. Highway driving should be much higher.
I'll also like whoever has same engine (k24) to tell me what they get from o e tank.

theadeola:




I think at this point, the ECU should be looked at.

So I forgot to update this page.
I didn't burn my car.
So I figured out how to test a VTC solenoid while buying one.
You unplug the connector from the one in your engine and plug it to the new one you want to buy. And have someone start the engine and rev it a couple of times. As the engine is reved, watch the plunger in the solenoid as it lifts and drop smoothly. The movement must be smooth and move with the revving. If it's not moving, moves with jerks, hangs at any point, etc, so not buy.
So after buy a certified functional one, no more p0011 code for months now.

Conner44:


Okay, in my opinion for personal/family use

For Good roads and small family
powerful car = accord, acura TL/TLX
Fuel efficient car = City, civic

For BAD roads and small family
Powerful car = pilot, mdx, crosstour, zdx
Fuel efficient car = crv, crosstour(4cyl),



Bad roads and small family

I've always wondered how a 2.4l engine will perform on such big car as the crosstour. Can that engine actually move that car well? Abi the thing go de run like pregnant woman?

Dahniyel:


Hello boss, I got this code on My Honda Accord 2009. I also observed the fuel consumption is a bit high, aside that the engine runs sommthly. What could be the solution please? P0011 - “Camshaft Position A - Timing Over-Advanced or System Performance (Bank 1)”

Change your VTC solenoid and thank me later.
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If you want to learn more, go to this thread.
https://www.nairaland.com/7813571/2012-honda-accord-p0011-killing

Lookmore50:
please cancel the dispute and reopen it. Reason: The buyer no longer needs it. A full refund will be issued so that I can process the refund for you as soon as possible....

A seller begging me, on aliexpress after selling bad product to me...

Please I don't understand this oooo

Cancel it and shed tears. Those guys are criminals. Listen to them at your own risk.

raystar96:
Honda cars are difficult to maintain, especially when you get the wrong mechanic,the first mechanic I was introduced to showed me hell ,but the second mechanic I met ,wow...he his God sent "Isaac @ agbara"..he has brought me laughter.He attends to your car like his own car ,even when he notice any fault,he swiftly calls your attention to it, Honda cars can be really complicated most times...But I'm grateful to God for some one like him.

Are Honda cars really difficult to maintain? I doubt that. A couple of factors make Hondas seem problematic in this country Nigeria.
1. Unavailability of genuine parts. This includes unavailability of genuine oils. Some of these products are only available in Lagos which is a big challenge if you are not in Lagos.
2. Cost of these genuine products. Yes, most of us are just managing life and can not comfortably afford these parts and products.
3. Unwillingness to spend money on the car. Yes, nobody likes throwing money away, but Nigerians have A1 in economy. An average Nigerian can comfortably buy a 10m car but find it difficult to buy a 50k part, even when they have millions chilling in their accounts. We just want a car we will buy and drive it for 10yrs without even changing engine oil. Honda is definitely not that car. Our maintenance culture is very low. That's why a 20yr old car imported from abroad is still basically brand new,but come and see that same car after 3yrs in Nigeria.
4. Lack of technical know-how. Most of our so-called mechanics are kazeem's at best. They think Hondas are peugoet 504 or our grandparents. Imagine someone telling you a blinking CEL doesn't mean anything.
5. Unavailability of standard equipments to fix the cars to standard. As common as ball joint issues are on Hondas, how many people here has seen a ball joint puller? Extremely few, if any. Many equipments needed to appropriately fix our cars are simply not available.
6. Most car users in Nigeria don't know jack about cars and don't even care to know. It is difficult to maintain what you know absolutely nothing about. 98% of car users in Nigeria don't even know the correct engine oil for their car. A prominent car dealer in my area warned me that the correct oil for my accord is 20w50 and warned that if I use 5w30 and anything happens to my car, that I will have myself to blame. That is a Honda parts seller. So that is what he tells every customer that wants to buy anything from him.
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Now cars are coming with turbo engines, gasoline direct injection, cvt gearbox, 10-speed automatic gearbox, etc, how do we cope with the maintenance of these new technologies if we can't even fix VTEC in 1999 accord?
It is well with us.

sholamat:


I will have scanned sir, thanks sir

And please, if you love your car and your pocket, change your mechanic.

lexrichy:
As of today

Which app is this?

Grupo:


That car uses only one fan.

I see

lawmanlala:
Hello house, I realised Mt 07 accord had thermostat removed by former naija user.i got a new thermostat to install, but mechanic kicked against, saying it will cause overheating n whole lot of problem.i really want to install it as I don't like always-on fan working. My car doesn't have ac working for now. Please what's your opinion? Mileage is 148k

Run from that olodo you call mechanic.
Note that reinstalling the thermostat alone will not stop the "always on fan". You have to also locate the wiring abuse and revert it. Check the ECT sensor at the base of the radiator. That is most likely the location of the abuse.

olaboyeh:
Please help me here..
car is matrix 07

i experience overheating in very traffic on very hot days..
after a while.. my mechanic said The fan isn't spinning as it should so he flushed radiator and changed fan... however the overheating continued on very hot days and traffic but temperature goes to normal once i put off AC...

now i observed later that i started losing coolant.. so he pressured check and we saw radiator has started leaking now... so he suggested we replaced the radiator and change gasket that the gasket may be the reason why the overheating persisted after we fixed the fan back then ...

now my question is hope changing this gasket won't affect engine performance because right now the car drives really fine and responds well...
and I'm shocked he's saying we change gasket... especially when i don't have white smoke in exhaust or oil mixed with water or anything... even performance is fine...

just the overheating in intense traffic or when parked in the sun for long with AC ..

please help me please

This might sound silly, but are you sure the two fans work when you turn on the AC?

remi4ever:
Hello guys. I noticed that my car's horn were changed, but this new born has no port for the socket so the wires from each socket was tapped and passed to the horn.

My issue now is if I plug in a fuse to the horn fuse, my dash light comes on.

If I remove the horn relay the horn doesn't work.

I think this issue is why I have a p0685 code. I do not like seeing the check engine light and this is the only code I have. Meanwhile, the horn works perfectly and my car has no issue whatsoever.

But the horn works without the fuse and plugging in the fuse turns on the dash light. This is a wrong behaviour.

I have attached an image.

This is typical of rewire abuse. One rewire has sexually abused your car. Find the wrong connection and save yourself from tears down the road.

challyy2k3:
I just bought a Honda Accord 2009, everything seems fine, but I noticed the oil life was at 50% when I bought it, the oil life dropped to 40 within a few days of driving.

I drove from Abuja to Akure from 40%, it dropped to 15 on that single trip. I decided to change the oil, I used Total quarts 7000. I drove the car for two weeks after the oil change, the oil life dropped to 80%.

House Please enlighten me, what do I do? Thank you.

This is interesting. I will love to know what the gurus in the house will say.
You didn't mention if the oil level is reducing or not. Is the care smoking?

venabili:
Oga Gazzuzz,

Abeg i get an mdx 013 with tpms and battery sensor light on. The tires are well inflated and the battery works fine. There is also a sound coming from the front driver wheel. Is there a good mechanic (that does home pickup) you can recommend? Or one around Magboro/Arepo axis

Cc nurey
Cardoctor

"Well inflated" can also mean overinflated.
Check your tire pressure with a good gauge and be sure the pressure is within specification. Don't just say it is well inflated.

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josephsm823:
Good day my bosses.

My Lexus RX 350 2014 is bringing out 3 codes when I scanned.

(1) P0037 H02S heater control 1 circuit low bank 1 sensor 2.

(2) P0128 Coolant Thermostat.


(3) P057 H02S heater control circuit low bank 2 sensor 2.

Those are three code I got when I scanned the car. Any advice please🙏🙏

Easy fix.
(1) Replace your bank 1 O2 sensor.
(2) Return that thermostat your kazeem removed if you want your engine to last.
(3) Replace your bank 2 O2 sensor.

The4thKey:
Do public holidays affect customs clearance?

Actually, yes.

Nafizzey:
Thanks does that mean if I revert back to smaller Tyres I will get more fuel economy? Thanks God bless..

Not going to be that noticable. I'd say use the tires you have already.

Dpzeewonder:
NB:I don't know much about auto terminologies
Please i drive a Nissan Sunny ex saloon 2004 manual transmission.It happened that i was driving recently then i stopped in traffic,but i noticed my car was doing as if it was going to go off which prompted me to keep pressing the throttle just to keep the engine working.Thinking it was fuel,i bought more fuel then hit the road,this time around the car started jerking which i managed to drive it home.Later i took it to a mechanic's place to maybe increase what i understood as "SLOW",a move that got my car system destabilized completely because he first asked me to change my spark plugs,which i did,yet the problem persists,he loosen what he called Airflow meter,he loosen throttle cable.Once he starts the car,it will start normally and immediately the sound will reduce like the car will go off then picks up again.Since he did not get what's wrong,he disconnected a sensor telling me it the airflow meters that are beginning to go bad,immediately he disconnected the airflow meter above the compressor,the check engine sign came up.
To shorten the whole story,another mechanic looked at it yesterday who asked me to change fuel pump,buy injector cleaner,i did all these,yet no changes,he checked the sensors.While trying to check the crankshaft sensor located in a very difficult part of the engine,the car would not start again,when he tried to key in the sensor back as he was unable to remove it,the sensor broke,Now the sensor has been removed by a panel beater and i sent money for another one,when the car would not start he scanned it and he got a Crankshaft sensor error,Please what can you suggest with this whole story and experience of mine because this car is one car that does not give me issue but unfortunately am experiencing this at the moment.
Kindly help,thanks.

Your cat has been kazeemised.
Find a better technician and start undoing all the things they destroyed.
The first step to fixing any engine problem is to get it scanned. It might do you good to get your own scanner.

Lekan239:
I took the car to another technician today. We cleaned the rocker arm pressure switch, and also the oil pressure switch... and the problem was solved..

The initial mechanic I was using insisted on changing the rocker arm pressure without him even checking too see what might be wrong

So I was right.

CharleyBright:


My fuel pump is okay. I had changed it sometime last year

1yr is enough time for a lot to go wrong.

CharleyBright:


A mechanic recently said the pressure from the pump is okay.

How did he know? Did he use a pressure gauge? What value did he get? What is the normal value?

CharleyBright:


You mentioned OIL PUMP.

That was an error. I meant fuel pump.

CharleyBright:


You also mention Fuel Filter. The filter was cleaned recently. So that rules it out .
The Fuel Pressure regulator is what I don't know about.

The fuel filter in my Honda is sealed. You really can't clean it. I don't know about peugoet. But I doubt any filter can really be cleaned.
I still suggest you change your fuel sending unit as one, not just the pump.

Lekan239:
I rescan again this morning using my obd2 scanner, and I got this code

I'm not comfortable with the technician changing the whole rocker arm, that's why I'm asking questions here on what too do and rescanning again... it's show rocker arm Pressure on his scanner but it's not showing on mine..

I want too take it too another technician today to check his inpute too

The problem you described is classical of Honda VTEC malfunction. I don't know why you didn't get the code on your own scan, but I'm sure your kazeem's code reader wasn't lying. The other codes you got can be other coexisting problems.
At this point, just take your car to a good technician.

Fatbam005:
My blood ask me to sell my 2010 corolla car that is full of problems, he added about 70% of cash for me to get another tokunbo 2008 corolla. I sent my part of the money to him and he got it for me. I was using it for bolt but the car dey drain fuel, I took it to rewire it was discovered the catalyst has been removed. I told my blood he said he always buy cars from the same dealer and has not seen any issue. Now I am confused as I am only working for passenger and bolt no profit

The bold part is the only relevant part of this post. The rest is just stories that touch the kidneys. Only God knows what you mean by "my blood".

Your cat has been removed. If you need it back, then buy another one and put. But believe it or not, your catalyst has little or nothing to do with fuel economy. It is specifically for emissions control (reducing the bad gases released into the atmosphere).
Find out what is wrong with your car and have peace. Start by scanning the car cos I know there must be multiple errors codes.

quinSonia:




013 RX 350

The steering gets locked
🔐
Multiple things appearing on the dashboard

What is "multiple things"?

CharleyBright:
Good evening All,
Pls I need help with my 2004 Peugeut 406.
Recently, it doesn't accelerate enough especially when u switch gear from Gear 1 to 2 or 3.
Infact, on gear 3, it stalls as if I want it want to go off.
Worse still it struggles bad to climb small hills.
But if I switch off the engine for a few seconds and restart the car, it moves well and then starts same process of dragging after a few meters. And when you off engine and restart the car, it moves well for like 100 meters and drags when u change gear to 3.
Even if you press hard on the throttle, the car drags badly.
It is not fuel issue, cos there is enough fuel of over 20 litres in the car.

Pls I will be glad if I can get meaningful ideas as to the problem and solutions.
Thanks in advance.

I had a very similar experience on my Honda V6. Like exactly what you described. At first I thought my gear has packed since the thing will move well on gear one but starts misbehaving in gear 5 and eventually can not overtake a tortoise.
It ended up being the oil pump. Maybe you should check that first.

Note: it is always adviceable to change the fuel pump as a complete assembly, not just extracting the actual fuel pump. A couple of things in that assembly helps the pump work well and last long. Things like fuel pressure regulator, fuel filter, etc. If you don't change them, what happened to the first pump might happen to the new pump. I'm talking from Honda experience.

Lekan239:
Good evening bosses in the house. My honda civic 2007 jerks while pressing the accelerator down. We have clean the plugs and injectors and the problem still persist...

I took the car for scanning and it read rocker arm pressure.... I saw it here from a guru on nairaland that only the rocker arm pressure switch should be change, but the technician said we should change the whole rocker arm.

The problem is he hasn't even check the problematic part too know if we can still use it or change the switch alone. He insisted on changing all the rocker arm pressure...

Any idea on what too do please

What is "rocker arm pressure"?
What codes are you getting?
Your kazeem wants to start by changing the whole rocker arm? What exactly do you mean by " whole rocker arm?

Anyways, your problem might have nothing to do with your spark plugs or injectors.
Check these in this order.

Oil level
Oil thickness
Vtec solenoid screen (filter)
Vtec solenoid

Picture is of k24 rocker arm.