seanfer:



Now you see reason why it is good to get salvage here.... I insured my car with less than 60k a year... The remaining funds went to other Important issues... Money scarce in Nigeria and what most people want is just something that will move Us from Point A to B.... Reason Corolla is like Pure water in the Country..... Don't blame Us.. It's the condition we found ourselves

OfficialSam:


Well articulated bro.
My Honda Accord has been giving me issues of late. Hence, i'm planning on getting the corolla too. But honestly i don't think i can spend more than 1.8m including customs papers. I don't mind a salvage, as long as the frame is not damaged and it was not flooded.

seanfer:


To them in a country where everything is working they can call it Salvage. But for Us here it’s a good car. Just a min3or dent and we will use it for years

timifakay:
This Cotonou car getting genuine customs duty is impossible!
What will be done is editing VIN on the duty of another car to that of Ops car. So, if one day the person with the original duty is stopped his VIN won't be found in the database, such once happened to someone here, it was an Avalon and car was impounded for about 2 weeks because the VIN of a car which had genuine duty had disappeared from customs database... Thanks to those getting genuine duty documents for Cotonou car I guess.

Then to the cost issue. If the car was imported into Cotonou from North America chances of single owner and no accident ever are slim; and there's a reason for the sale. It was a sale to an exporter, so someone exporting it to anywhere in the world could have bought it. Therefore a lesser or same mileage car with about the same level of damage since OP admitted having impact history could have gotten to his house in Lagos with genuine custom papers for the same or lesser cost.

OfficialSam:


Well articulated bro.
My Honda Accord has been giving me issues of late. Hence, i'm planning on getting the corolla too. But honestly i don't think i can spend more than 1.8m including customs papers. I don't mind a salvage, as long as the frame is not damaged and it was not flooded.

PuZZyNegro:


If you want to tow a safer path, import the car from copart yourself so that you will know the true condition of the car.

If you are looking at buying 2003-2005, then you might be lucky to get a good salvage at that rate.

2006-2008 selling at 1.8 million?

Brother, Corolla is an expensive small economy car.

PuZZyNegro:


I don't know about this but people have been importing and are still importing cars from Cotonou.

Go there and see tons of cars being taken to Lagos

PuZZyNegro:


The only way that you can get a good salvage car is when you import it yourself.

Sadly, most naija auto dealers go for the worst salvage with high mileage just so they can make excessive profit.

diportivo:


there's no need to

oviecardealer gives us updates whenever he goes there so we know..

but then it means the govt knows too

and that's why there are customs checkpoints everywhere

a cotonou bought car owner shld not bother travelling,and ahldnt bother paying for duty

just be a local champion........simple

PuZZyNegro:


I don't know about this but people have been importing and are still importing cars from Cotonou.

Go there and see tons of cars being taken to Lagos.

timifakay:


Baba customs dey challo neat ride inside Ibadan oh. Them go just corner person for road like SARS.

diportivo:


chaii
shii just got realer
if dem start this thing for lagos ehn

timifakay:


Baba customs dey challo neat ride inside Ibadan oh. Them go just corner person for road like SARS.

obekediamondfuto:


omo I tot that viral video would calm them a Lil....

on the highway yesterday twas like 1officer 1ride..... no smiling oh....

no pidgin just English (in their own way).... trying to be professional but if e get as the paper be, dem go call immediately..... hu do they always call sef? is there a hotline steady for them?

PuZZyNegro:


I already have an offer of 250k. I am not clearing the car. It's already in my compound. Just to pay to get ordinary paper

hakimi1974:
make I give you correct ogbonge advise if you like take if you like no take am, if you want to use the car within lagos and I mean Lagos alone just go cut customs paper with 20k if the vehicle will travel to any part of the country just follow the guy that charged you 500k. as for the guy that charged you 250k the chance of your car getting siezed by customs is 50%. the choice is yours.

texasbullet:
By now the OP will be thinking which kind Wahala be this.
After buying for 2mill custom will shop 500
2.5
One yellow bus will still be dragging road with you.
You see anything custom color on the road your BP rise immediately.
You park that mini economy car somewhere Bois target am move the brain box, control switch etc.
becos no better car security from factory. Toyota Corolla nonsense

obekediamondfuto:


and this has entered church oh....
someone parked the corolla in the church, they tried removing the recently installed bendable side mirror.... fortune didn't smile anyway... he was only able to remove the back cover.

corollas are really giving people headache

PuZZyNegro:


What you guys are missing is that car models affect the durability.

Give me 1999-2002 Camry Pencil-Light and I will pick it over 2003-2006 big daddy.

Toyota Corolla 2003-2007 is more reliable than the 2009-2012 models. Let's face the fact.

I didn't buy 2006 because I cannot afford the later
models, I am only looking at the models that are reliable.

Ceeholdings:


You are part of the problem of this country. When you become politician now that’s how you will never bring development in this country. Always taking us back. Please remove that mentality and learn how to upgrade and see some new features most new model possess.

seanfer:



You’re right. But there are still few dealers that are not desperate about their gains.

Dereformer:


I have read your submission patiently and you seem to know a lot about fairly used cars sold abroad.

Please what millage will you consider very high for a 2008 corolla?


I bought one through a dealer and the car is expected to land in lagos next week. But the worry is that the car has a millage of 201,367.

Again from the vin check by carfax, it hand an accident and only the rear bumper was affected, air bag did not deploy.

Everything, all in, cost N1.8m

Dereformer:


I have read your submission patiently and you seem to know a lot about fairly used cars sold abroad.

Please what millage will you consider very high for a 2008 corolla?


I bought one through a dealer and the car is expected to land in lagos next week. But the worry is that the car has a millage of 201,367.

Again from the vin check by carfax, it hand an accident and only the rear bumper was affected, air bag did not deploy.

Everything, all in, cost N1.8m

OfficialSam:


How much did you get it in Cotonou. I want to decide between 05 or 06 model. Just wanna know if it's relatively cheaper there than Lagos. Thanks!

PuZZyNegro:
I just brought in a 2006 Toyota Corolla from Cotonou. I need someone that can help me process the original custom papers.

Please let me know the cost and time that it will take to get it.

NB: I need genuine people as I will verify the papers

PuZZyNegro:


Chances of getting a clean titled car in Lagos is very slim. Chances of getting a car that the mileage has not been tampered with is more slimmer.

Cotonou provides you with the true meaning of Tokumbo. What you see is what you are getting not some refurbished salvage/lemon brand cars.

I got mine at 2M without custom papers.
Bros it’s too much
Mileage is 139k original
Title is clean
Number of calculated owner = 1.
Service history is clean.

I will have to drive mine 5 years before it will get to the level/grade of the ones they sell at Berger

greenhulk:


Actually, the average price of a clean title 06 corolla with less than 130k miles, 1 or not more than 2 owners is around $4-5,000 excluding shipping (Some can even be as high as $6,000 trust me). This is why it is not a good business strategy for dealers to bring in clean title cars because they are going to stay long on the stand without someone buying them. It is only a few that understand the goodness of clean title cars and those ones are better off making the pre order themselves. Imagine 06 corolla for $5k, thats around 1.8m excluding shipping and clearing and by the time u add profile how much dealer want come sell am?

PuZZyNegro:


Please where did you see one.

I tried importing this car from US through a popular Nairaland car dealer but the cost was even higher.

The prices range from 2.5-2.9 million.