mrphysics:
Before coming back to the country, I already knew I would be spending atleast one year before thinking of leaving the country again. Since I will be spending quite sometime, I need to organize myself. So I got a place rented in the capital city of Abuja and also bought a 2012 Toyota Camry, the latter will become my worst nightmare.

While standing infront of the exit door of the Abuja International Airport waiting for my friend to pick me from the airport with the newly bought car, I received a bad news. The car just turned itself off on their way to the airport. Imagine the first time of seeing your car was on a towing van? It was not my first car, what happened? How did I enter into this mess. That's for a later time, for now, I will use Bolt to leave the airport and to meet the car on the road with my sister and my friend all standing like passengers on the road.

I like to organize myself, I hate to rush things. I try my best to plan everything I do before I do them. I avoid alot of mistakes while doing this, though not in the case of this vehicle.

I have always loved Camry 2012, before leaving the country, I knew it was my next car and I worked towards it. I watched the price move from N3m to 3.5m to 4m to 5m. So while I plan my return, I already knew this was the car of my choice. I told my friends to look out for one so I don't get to spend much money on Uber/Bolt or even struggle in public transport. One of my friend in Lagos saw Tokunbo Toyota Camry, 2012 model (The way I like it) and sent me the pictures. I quickly forwarded it to my guy in Abuja who went to inspect it. He sent me the VIN and I contacted the nairaland ComputerGlobal guy for vehicle history. I ran two checks on it including the one with auction pictures, everything turned green and ready to go.

I still called my former colleague for his engine check device (forgotten the name), told my guy to go pick it, which he did, inserted it in the car and sent some pictures, there was absolutely no issue found. Since everything seem to be looking good, I proceeded to exchange euros for naira in preparation for the purchase. It was N4m and it was bought in Royal Brims Autos Mabushi Abuja (Don't ever go there).

3 days after the purchase of the vehicle, the first issue started the car was packed and unused by anyone, yet it was leaking oil. I recall asking my guy to look out for oil leakage (I later learned he wasn't very thorough, he only depends on the sound of the engine and how smooth it changes gear to make decisions) and there was no issue found. So how did this start? We changed the first oil seal, it was still dripping oil, then the next was the one between the engine and gear box, meaning they have to drop the engine. This is a car that has never been used. The registration was ongoing. They removed the engine, changed the seal and the leakage stopped, but created many problems. It was Paul Shrivastava (1987) who said that "when a triggering event occurs, spontaneous reactions by different stakeholders solve some of the immediate problems, but they also create new problems – thus prolonging the crisis and making it worse."

The new problem that was 'created' by just changing the oil seal was that the new mechanic, call him engineer, didn't only couple everything back, he also forgot to add water to the radiator, so while my friend and my sister were on their way to the airport to pick me, as they never expected anything to happen, they didn't pay attention to the temperature gauge without knowing there is no water in the radiator, the engine over heat itself, burned gasket and and the car turned itself off.

So the first time of seeing the car was on the road, in a vegetative state, hopeless and I used police to arrest the Auto Repair guy and the owner of the place (this was the next biggest mistake of all time).

So in a single day, I was welcomed back to Nigeria, became like a real Nigerian, experiencing all the deceits, fraud, and corruption that exist across the entire country. I entered my house by 11PM the day I came back, after spending the entire day at the police station with the most useless Nigerian police force.

I will go on to experience one of the worst car issues, burning more than N1m within a month, including buying a new engine for the vehicle before deciding to sell it before it takes everything I came back with


Let's continue tomorrow guys.

Wow! You should have contacted the seller when you first noticed the vehicle had issues. A car of over 4 million developing fault within first month of purchase is totally unacceptable.

On the part of the mechanic, he needs to infact he must pay for damages not just arresting him.

Welcome back to Nigeria....

diportivo:



no be only pepper,I'm sure you added tomatoes

funny thing is,all u did was call some of us to tell us not to comment on a post you made on a public forum

if that's what u call pepper,omoh,I agree

all in all,I didn't expect to get everything right.......we appreciate you as a GCD and aswell,you are doing well ....weldone

sha dash me one scanner make JAB continue to dey bless you

but on a serious note,VA autosales na still your baba for this game.......

So TRUE!!!! presegs journey to car sales was inspired by calculusx success...... He learnt from the best, Baba calculusx.....

Presegs don shift goal post after confrontation with facts..

Brand New ps4 console needed..

Just negodu clean cars inside, outside even under.... presegs come and see advert wey get PhD.

One pesin dey present awards, same pesin still dey clap...

Ekpekus:
Mod please take the thread back to Front page

Noticed it disappeared from front page

So this case is now in court, well I believe justice will take it's course.

Resonance - judgement day

JohnBorder:


I did countless withdraws within the week. And alerts. It was yesterday I saw the mgs meanwhile they sent it since last week Wednesday that congratulations u have received 4000 when I was checking my messages yesterday I saw it. But I didn't requested for loan I don't have any loan on my phone.

Straight to the point no longer stories, you just confirmed you got the alert but you did not request for the loan.

Op if truly you spent the money then you are nothing but a thief.

So damn right... noticed that.

Dem wan cash out after realizing that going solo demoted them to the level of upcoming artists thereby making Jude redundant for months.

Wetin Musa no go see for gate... Poor script

Waiting for black Friday deals....

Same reason why some guys hate boxers as gift.

2 sec....

spyder880:
My city

Enugu born and brought up.

Enugu resident forever

Good to know you live in Enugu, my next project in Enugu will be handled by you. I hope your service charge will be affordable.

Welcome back presegs.

2 sec everywhere don burst.

OnePlus 9 pro

She will still defect back to arsenal, just like Nigerian politicians...

Gazzuzz come and see free ride, 2019 model

Skit

Hammer2021:
That's how unbothered you're after scamming Jeff of 180k

spyder880:


Apart from cost, there is no disadvantage to using the 6" pipes. But using it on a single apartment seems like an overkill to me. Except for 1 house in about 45 buildings, I have been using only the 4" pipes in every house and i haven't been called back to service a blockage ever. I have a house that has 8 flats in it, 4" pipes has been serving this whole house since 2015 till date, the soakaway hasn't been evacuated since then, and the property is always full of tenants.

But you can go ahead and do the 6", every house and every terrain is different.

Thanks for your expert opinion, also between nija and blue pipe which one is the best in terms of durability?

spyder880:


Usually, we use 4" pipes. But if the flats are more than 6 using one tank, it might be better to use 6" pipes as the last pipe going into the soakaway system.

My plumber is suggesting i use 6" pipe for my project which is my residential house. His reason is that nothing would ever block the pipe. What is your take on that, any disadvantages of using 6"?

spyder880:


What we do is to bring out all pipes that needs to get to the soakaway system, then we make a chamber where all the pipes converge, the whole waste then travels down to the soakaway system. Ensure you have good gradient, gravity will do the rest.

What is the size of the pipe that goes directly into the soak away?

Doesn't look real.