Sportwin:

Evil spirit

Capernum:

Yes sure... If I get your contact... Why not? Meanwhile the one I got after has overheating issues.

Ofemmanu1:


And the problem is??

Sportwin:


I need a mechanic well versed and competent in handling honda products

Michael547:

Oh ok....here is my number 08167469103

Ofemmanu1:


Oga, Ive been driving a Honda DC for sometime now and I've met some really good mechanic likewise the bad ones.

A mechanic cannot do it alone, problems maybe Engine, electricals etc..
One man cannot be a Mech and an electrician at the same time.

So, if the problem with your Honda is Mechanical, I've got someone you can trust and if Electrical, it's definitely another guy.

nedekid:
Make I give una hot gist.
So years back, we had a car dealer from ladipo that supplied us vehicles. He called that he had a shipment of buses comming from uae. So we made a payment of 3.5m for a hummer bus.
The bus came in but was crappy and so we refused it asking for refund.
Ofcourse, how will money enter omo igbos hand and come out? It is like putting hand inside a lions mouth and expecting it to come out intact.
About 3 years later, after our pressure, the dealer calls us he had a tokumbo low milage hummer bus, that due to inflation, we will add 2m and collect the bus as full and final settlement of his debt.
They brought the bus. We paid, got receipt, bought brand new tyres, did body work and painted company colour.
Good bus though, about 30-50k kilometers so still relatively new.
Hmmm. Hmmm. About 3 months later, we de house. Middle of the night security comes that there were men at the gate asking for him to open the gate. Infact, they were trying to scale the fence, brandishing Ak 47 assault rifles. If not that we have about 10 alsatians that made them think twice.
We started calling RRS, police emergency numbers, calling the nearby police stations.
Finally finally, I surmoned courage and went to the gate man hole to talk to them. They insisted I open the gate, that they were police from one Niger delta state, that the drove all they way to Lagos under investigation. No uniform, nothing, in a hiace bus. Haba, I asked they who they wanted and why? Them no gree talk. All threats that when they finally enter, hmm, they will make sure they maim every one in the compound for keeping them out. All this time, they were blowing weed and drinking ogogoro, all in rage!
Finally finally, an officer, I knew from the nearby police station called me and told me in confidence that those were actually SARS from out of state investigating a missing bus. From the most dreaded unit in th niger delta. That they incidented it in their office. Omo, after making some calls to big men including top police officers, retired and serving, they adviced all the men in the compound should japa! Live to fight later. That was how I called my brother in lekki to drive all the way to the mainland to our back street. We sef took Ladder and climbed to the next compound from there to the motor road where my brother picked us to a hotel.
Apperently, a driver was sent to pick someone up from the airport, and instead drove the vehicle to Lagos to sell. He took it to a car dealer who bought it, then sold to our own car dealer!
Anyway, bottomline, those police were on our street the whole day, burtalising people passing, they said the will kill everyone in the house and nothing will happen.
Hmm, from the hotel na so we start to make calls. One CP to CP. Finally the IG back then called us, placed a call to that CP of the state they came from. The CP called the OC Sars on conference call with us. CP called asked us questions. Asked how much we paid for the bus, we told him 5.5m or so, which was even a little more than the current market price of a tokumbo hummer bus.
He said it was a case of innocent buyer. He told us to send someone with a phone to those policemen at our gate, they refused to pick. CP of that state was fumming! He called the oc Sars of that same state on conference call and made him mention a name to those police before they knew it was their boss and they switch on their phones.
Omo, finally when we saw we had control of things, we headed home. By then those police, it was as if they had poured ice cold water on their body.
See them being respectful.
They took statement there and then, took the bus along and left. We did not have to go to Niger delta.
People were charged to court, even oluwole was raided because the customs papers they gave us to register the vehicle was fake! Our car dealer lost his life over the stress of the case. He spent millions trying to solve the problem. He even put his house for sale. Finally died of Hbp.
We lost our 5.5m paid for the vehicle along with monies for spraying, buying accessories, brand new tyres etc.
Many thanks to late Capt Hosa okumbo. (God bless his soul). He pulled through for us.
NB: Sorry for my usuall long gist.

ariesbull:
Nissan is a trashy car

9free:
Still battling with my latest purchase. Bought a 2012 Camry with inspection from Lagos in March. Only to discover that it has hard gear shifting issue especially from gear 4 through 6.
Changed the gear box around July costing about 750K(transmission + labour+ tranny oil) and only enjoyed 2weeks of flawless driving then bam the same issue of hard gear shifting arose again.
Since then I have been managing the car like that but then I now drive it on manual mode having discovered that I can drive it solely on the third gear to anywhere.
Planning on changing the gearbox again in January if money complete sha.

Sadrey1:
Mine is recent though, bought a Toyota Matrix without my Mechanic, I never knew it had chassis issues. The car newly killed me, I sold it off at cheaper price so that I can have peace of mind

FalseProphet1:
A member gave me a car as seed, the first day I took the car out, it fell break, I rang my Bell taya and shouted Jah! Until my voice cracked the car did not gree and stop o, the car then dived into the gutter, I came out and thanked God for saving me from agents of the dark forces.

This I have seen.

AderonkeOlaniyi:
In 2010, I bought a Nigerian used car that almost made me commit suicide. Today, na radiator, tomorrow, na carburetor. I drove the car to an event one day, and that was the end. It never came back home with me.

Sprinklepee:
i nor understand, share your bad experience buying a car, u dey bring tinubu come here, weytin con concern tinubu with this thread now, this one nor be politics thread na, make una dey small small.

chukel:
check ur brainbox or ECU or transmission module if it has one.

Michael547:

Your mechanic was not honest.

ultimateprof:
In summary from my own experiences of car buying, I will say that buying Nigeria used cars and in some cases Tokumbo cars is like inviting Devil into your bank account to destroy it and leave you with high BP. Again, you see those cars that normally have small gallon at the top indicating for sale, my brother fear such cars if you don't want to die Young. As for mechanics, hmmmm.... those guys will not die well and if they mistakenly die well, they will not sleep well.
In conclusion; if you cannot afford a brand new car, go for Tokumbo with an intensive prayers and carefulness. If you decide to go for Nigeria used cars, no it that from that day that you have become an ATM machine for those wicked Nigeria machine. I rest my case!

AderonkeOlaniyi:
In 2010, I bought a Nigerian used car that almost made me commit suicide. Today, na radiator, tomorrow, na carburetor. I drove the car to an event one day, and that was the end. It never came back home with me.

Capernum:
Bought a Mitsubishi Outlander... Very clean interior and exterior, sound engine and gear, ac intact too... It was even fairly cheap.

Later got home to discover that all the underparts are bad and rusty... All metals beneath are very rusty...

To even change the tires, na war to unscrew the nuts. All the beam and chassis are so bad that at a point, I couldn't carry more than 3 passengers.

I sold it at a loss to a gullible buyer like me too.

One of my plenty errors in 2022

flexyrule:
Bought a tokunbo Mercedes Benz here from a very popular and trusted Nairalander.

Due to his reputation here, I just sent my friend who is based in Lagos to go check out the car and bring it down for me.

Before payment, the seller identified some issues such as leaking exhaust and AC. I agreed to fix some and sent money to him to tidy up the ones he could attend to immediately as he had loads of jobs at hand.

Fast forward to 1 year, after battling with the car like I was tending to a cancer patient. I got to discover that I te hnically bought a rotten water melon:

The engine was tampered with, probably from the US where he imported the car from. As in the engine has been opened before.

The AC leakage never got sorted out. Omoh, I spent over 800k on the AC alone, yet no positive result.

The Indomie was tampered with, I had to replace the exhausts - cost me over 200k.

This is outside some other small small issues I was came up almost on a daily basis.

I sold the car after spending a lost the same amount I bought the car, on repairs and replacement of dead parts.

Bad experie ce I would say, but I learnt never to trust anyone, no matter the name you have made for yourself.

Sportwin:


It's mechanical
Raising switch abi rising switch
Little Oil leak

Need to change it

FalseProphet1:
A member gave me a car as seed, the first day I took the car out, it fell break, I rang my Bell taya and shouted Jah! Until my voice cracked the car did not gree and stop o, the car then dived into the gutter, I came out and thanked God for saving me from agents of the dark forces.

This I have seen.

nedekid:
Make I give una hot gist.
So years back, we had a car dealer from ladipo that supplied us vehicles. He called that he had a shipment of buses comming from uae. So we made a payment of 3.5m for a hummer bus.
The bus came in but was crappy and so we refused it asking for refund.
Ofcourse, how will money enter omo igbos hand and come out? It is like putting hand inside a lions mouth and expecting it to come out intact.
About 3 years later, after our pressure, the dealer calls us he had a tokumbo low milage hummer bus, that due to inflation, we will add 2m and collect the bus as full and final settlement of his debt.
They brought the bus. We paid, got receipt, bought brand new tyres, did body work and painted company colour.
Good bus though, about 30-50k kilometers so still relatively new.
Hmmm. Hmmm. About 3 months later, we de house. Middle of the night security comes that there were men at the gate asking for him to open the gate. Infact, they were trying to scale the fence, brandishing Ak 47 assault rifles. If not that we have about 10 alsatians that made them think twice.
We started calling RRS, police emergency numbers, calling the nearby police stations.
Finally finally, I surmoned courage and went to the gate man hole to talk to them. They insisted I open the gate, that they were police from one Niger delta state, that the drove all they way to Lagos under investigation. No uniform, nothing, in a hiace bus. Haba, I asked they who they wanted and why? Them no gree talk. All threats that when they finally enter, hmm, they will make sure they maim every one in the compound for keeping them out. All this time, they were blowing weed and drinking ogogoro, all in rage!
Finally finally, an officer, I knew from the nearby police station called me and told me in confidence that those were actually SARS from out of state investigating a missing bus. From the most dreaded unit in th niger delta. That they incidented it in their office. Omo, after making some calls to big men including top police officers, retired and serving, they adviced all the men in the compound should japa! Live to fight later. That was how I called my brother in lekki to drive all the way to the mainland to our back street. We sef took Ladder and climbed to the next compound from there to the motor road where my brother picked us to a hotel.
Apperently, a driver was sent to pick someone up from the airport, and instead drove the vehicle to Lagos to sell. He took it to a car dealer who bought it, then sold to our own car dealer!
Anyway, bottomline, those police were on our street the whole day, burtalising people passing, they said the will kill everyone in the house and nothing will happen.
Hmm, from the hotel na so we start to make calls. One CP to CP. Finally the IG back then called us, placed a call to that CP of the state they came from. The CP called the OC Sars on conference call with us. CP called asked us questions. Asked how much we paid for the bus, we told him 5.5m or so, which was even a little more than the current market price of a tokumbo hummer bus.
He said it was a case of innocent buyer. He told us to send someone with a phone to those policemen at our gate, they refused to pick. CP of that state was fumming! He called the oc Sars of that same state on conference call and made him mention a name to those police before they knew it was their boss and they switch on their phones.
Omo, finally when we saw we had control of things, we headed home. By then those police, it was as if they had poured ice cold water on their body.
See them being respectful.
They took statement there and then, took the bus along and left. We did not have to go to Niger delta.
People were charged to court, even oluwole was raided because the customs papers they gave us to register the vehicle was fake! Our car dealer lost his life over the stress of the case. He spent millions trying to solve the problem. He even put his house for sale. Finally died of Hbp.
We lost our 5.5m paid for the vehicle along with monies for spraying, buying accessories, brand new tyres etc.
Many thanks to late Capt Hosa okumbo. (God bless his soul). He pulled through for us.
NB: Sorry for my usuall long gist.

nedekid:
Make I give una hot gist.
So years back, we had a car dealer from ladipo that supplied us vehicles. He called that he had a shipment of buses comming from uae. So we made a payment of 3.5m for a hummer bus.
The bus came in but was crappy and so we refused it asking for refund.
Ofcourse, how will money enter omo igbos hand and come out? It is like putting hand inside a lions mouth and expecting it to come out intact.
About 3 years later, after our pressure, the dealer calls us he had a tokumbo low milage hummer bus, that due to inflation, we will add 2m and collect the bus as full and final settlement of his debt.
They brought the bus. We paid, got receipt, bought brand new tyres, did body work and painted company colour.
Good bus though, about 30-50k kilometers so still relatively new.
Hmmm. Hmmm. About 3 months later, we de house. Middle of the night security comes that there were men at the gate asking for him to open the gate. Infact, they were trying to scale the fence, brandishing Ak 47 assault rifles. If not that we have about 10 alsatians that made them think twice.
We started calling RRS, police emergency numbers, calling the nearby police stations.
Finally finally, I surmoned courage and went to the gate man hole to talk to them. They insisted I open the gate, that they were police from one Niger delta state, that the drove all they way to Lagos under investigation. No uniform, nothing, in a hiace bus. Haba, I asked they who they wanted and why? Them no gree talk. All threats that when they finally enter, hmm, they will make sure they maim every one in the compound for keeping them out. All this time, they were blowing weed and drinking ogogoro, all in rage!
Finally finally, an officer, I knew from the nearby police station called me and told me in confidence that those were actually SARS from out of state investigating a missing bus. From the most dreaded unit in th niger delta. That they incidented it in their office. Omo, after making some calls to big men including top police officers, retired and serving, they adviced all the men in the compound should japa! Live to fight later. That was how I called my brother in lekki to drive all the way to the mainland to our back street. We sef took Ladder and climbed to the next compound from there to the motor road where my brother picked us to a hotel.
Apperently, a driver was sent to pick someone up from the airport, and instead drove the vehicle to Lagos to sell. He took it to a car dealer who bought it, then sold to our own car dealer!
Anyway, bottomline, those police were on our street the whole day, burtalising people passing, they said the will kill everyone in the house and nothing will happen.
Hmm, from the hotel na so we start to make calls. One CP to CP. Finally the IG back then called us, placed a call to that CP of the state they came from. The CP called the OC Sars on conference call with us. CP called asked us questions. Asked how much we paid for the bus, we told him 5.5m or so, which was even a little more than the current market price of a tokumbo hummer bus.
He said it was a case of innocent buyer. He told us to send someone with a phone to those policemen at our gate, they refused to pick. CP of that state was fumming! He called the oc Sars of that same state on conference call and made him mention a name to those police before they knew it was their boss and they switch on their phones.
Omo, finally when we saw we had control of things, we headed home. By then those police, it was as if they had poured ice cold water on their body.
See them being respectful.
They took statement there and then, took the bus along and left. We did not have to go to Niger delta.
People were charged to court, even oluwole was raided because the customs papers they gave us to register the vehicle was fake! Our car dealer lost his life over the stress of the case. He spent millions trying to solve the problem. He even put his house for sale. Finally died of Hbp.
We lost our 5.5m paid for the vehicle along with monies for spraying, buying accessories, brand new tyres etc.
Many thanks to late Capt Hosa okumbo. (God bless his soul). He pulled through for us.
NB: Sorry for my usuall long gist.

nymphomaniac:
the worst type of car to buy. Thank God you were properly identified as innocent purchasers without notice.

nairalee:
My own experience is that I wanted to buy the car without proper inspection of my pocket.

When I heard the price, I now inspected my life and decided to remain humble and Trek as a true follower of Christ.

Remember heaven is only for those who WALK with the Lord

dalass:


Wow... This is terrible..

Thank God for your life Those SARS are horrible. If not for your dogs, dey for enter and kill everybody o. Hmmmm God help us from wahala