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DonroxyII:
If the rich are doing what you did ... many would have left the street .... The street is cruel and very cruel but that's home to many .....

Cruel aspect of Capitalism.....

I learnt a lot from your post .....

Kindly check back to see how he is faring ......

You may want help increase his inventory or diversify for him ......

Maybe he will be your next Cubanna Chief Priest !!

Thanks for lifting a soul from the bondage of Slavery, Servitude and Wretchedness in abject Poverty ......

Too many Wickedness in Africa!!

Too much wickedness mehn,especially the rich people we have here.Very wicked and jealous,they hate it when a young man wants to succeed.
I really do wish that boy well,I will look for him and I hope I find him.

HRSweetness:
I currently use the 2014 GLA 250. Never had any issues and doesn't make me cry over my fuel budget.

I got it in 2017, foreign used.

Did I not say it?
Your car is still very new,we would have this talk about durability and reliability again soon,maybe in a few years,so you can gloat about how durable it is by then
Mercedes durable?
Well,I'm sure you will ditch it before then and I strongly advise you do,before repair bills wound you.

HRSweetness:
I sincerely doubt that you've ever owned a Mercedes.

May 2014 was the day I bought my first C class.
2018 I got my E220 CDI 2008 model.
And later same year I got a C300.
I'm sure you were still in school when most of these happened, kindly take a backseat and learn from real experience,not fantasy or fan boyhood.

HRSweetness:
Please save more and buy clean title foreign used. I currently use a Benz, have driven this ride for 3 years and have never regretted my choice. Please note, everything is still on point. People who say a Mercedes is a luxurious ride obviously don't own one. The brand offers durability and optimally maximizes fuel usage.

Before you'd replace any part, it would take ages. Just make sure you get one in excellent condition. Totally worth the save and purchase.

Lol .
How old is your car?(probably not very old)
How much do you drive?(probably daily commute to work and back)
What kind of parts are you getting?since it might still be not very old ,definitely fake parts haven't flooded the markets yet.(mercedes durable?nah...)
Where do you live?(probably you've got paved roads and all...
Mercedes and economy have absolutely nothing in common,nothing!
Give yours time and you'll understand what I am saying,ages indeed!
Mercedes durable? If you want durability buy a hilux as no luxury car can give you that,none!
Coupled with bad naija technicians that will even help the car age faster
We'll have this talk again soon,by that time you might have begin to understand a thing or 2 about luxury cars.I was like you some years back sadly till I saw different and changed goals.
Op better abandon that thing right now,unless you came to this world to achieve repair bills cos it's inevitable.
Coming from someone that has owned a lot of them with a wealth of experience,I'd say if I am going back(which I will) to mercedes,I don't think I will go for anything less than a brand new one or atleast very few years old(not more than 4 yrs.

Grom4ik:
Recently, I bought myself a Mercedes-Benz E-class (W211). For a long time I was looking for such a car. Within a year I had invested 50% of the price. And now it came to the choice of rims. I really wanted to buy black amg rims, but it is very difficult to find good condition rims. That's why I decided to order new rims, because Henry Ford said that the appearance of the car adds exactly the rims. So, I took my order and ordered a new rims. I will be sure to show you when they come, how they will look on my car.

Another OG bites the dust.
Welcome to the world of repair bills
I sha no want hear you cry when it happens.
Old mercs are bullshit bro,regardless what anyone tells you.
Goodluck.

Simran94:
I watched the Instagram live during the presentation.
They first gifted him a duplex last week for his birthday. His fans are rich couples from all over Africa especially Nigeria, these people drive RR and Benz.
His fans also contributed 13million naira to buy him a car but Ozo said when they told him their plans, he decided to add 11million to it so they can get a Prado (his dream car)

A brand new prado cost 35m,not 24 like your post states.
This is nowhere close to a new prado,simply a 2013 upgraded to 2020 and cost nowhere close to that,unless him be mumu weh go dash car dealer money.

Jerryherd:
Upgraded Prado.. nice kit, cool ride

Funny how he was the same person bashing upgraded cars while in the house.
I just looked at it and smh...
Any picture from these celebs of cars you see they don't take the photos of the dash well or partially,just know something fishy is going on.

Fountainofyouth:
I'd rather you locate the boy's parents and offer to sponsor his schooling up to tertiary education, that would be putting a good use of your seatrade money, don't you think so, my Christian brother

Not really.
Everyone must not make it through school,especially for someone whose case is like this.
There are people in Aba,Onitsha ,lagos ,etc ...who made it from hustles like this.
Ukaonu and sons Aba also started from the streets like this.
Even Cosmas maduka,Innoson and the likes all went through this route.
What I can do is if I meet him again and see he is doing well,I might add up his inventory to show support and stuff.
Success doesn't start and end in classrooms,though its important.
But one has to look at his background early and make the switch in time rather than doing what one's reality cannot support.
That is what I stand for though.

pocohantas:
You are right…

Always

sultaan:
Good to hear,
I was going to tell you to ask your mechanic to write down everything he did and we reverse from there..
starting with the throttle position sensor, and your idle speed.
Sometime when they mess with the throttle body they have to perform a throttle relearn, and some adjust the screw on throttle body cable to make it idle higher, or leave the TPS, vacuum hose unplugged.

Just by looking around the engine you found some of the obvious defect, and learned about how those can affect your car, now you should do a scan and that will tell you if there are other things not so obvious.

A scan in the first place would have detected all those things you saw, and that is why it is important to scan a car first before trying to fix anything, you only fix what the car say is wrong.

I did scan it,it was what led us to the O2 sensor and other related errors.
Thanks mehn,I appreciate your concern.

pocohantas:
If not that Nigeria is a shithole, you won’t be caught between the devil and the deep blue sea. In the process of ensuring you do not encourage career begging, you aided another criminal offence, CHILD LABOUR. I am sure that child is under 18 and has no business selling water (or anything at all) in traffic. You did your best, you are not the government or his parents.

No such thing as child labour for a child that is already in the streets.
It will be better for him to learn the principles of life and money early while he still has time and is in a difficult spot with probable blurry means to reach goals.
All these child labour talks are for people of means.
I know all these because I started working under my parents too very early and I know what it thought me,still reaping the benefits till date.
Way better,more honourable than begging .

CountVersailles:
"Ice cream's high sugar content is similarly bad for your heart health – since consuming too much sugar is associated with a higher risk of contracting cardiovascular disease (CVD)."

https://futureyouhealth.com/knowledge-centre/ice-cream-heart-health

Oh I see,can you please make onugbu soup for me so atleast to clear all the sugar in my system?please?

ethicallyright:
That was a benevolent gesture, Master. "It's better to teach a beggar how to fish than to give him fish", they say.

I had the privilege of having the 200,000 naira+ per term secondary education until 2014. We had domestic workers successively since I was a baby and they all attended public schools.

But I realized, in a little more than one decade, facts regarding "house helps". Their parents send them to cities so they can feed. They inform them before giving them out as juvenile slaves that their bosses will not treat them like their own kids. They know what the reality is and that's where a boundary is drawn.

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My parents would sew new uniforms, buy textbooks and school bags for our house help at the beginning of each session just like they did for us. Her mother usually visited during planting seasons with home-processed garri, maize, pears and other crops harvested through their subsistence agricultural system. She could even stay with her for days in her room. My father would give her reasonable funds for transport and she'd kneel with teary eyes , face the heavens and solicit for God's handsome reward upon my family.

I was so attached to our maid. I was 6 and still bed-wetting and she promised to shield me from my parents who would scold me because my younger siblings stopped the shameful act immediately they could do without diapers. She'd come around 5am in the morning to change the bedsheets and help me bathe. That's how a 14 year-old girl started molesting me.

I wanted her future to be like ours. I offered to teach her basic spelling of English words, and fundamental rules of Concord like noun and verb agreement but she'd rather I wrote love letters which she would give a boy in her class. I was still in primary school and she was in JSS3 during this period.

She cooked excess meals and returned food flasks filled to the brim to gatemen down the street. I heard my parents planning to sponsor her University education because she was " good."

When she got into SS1, she got pregnant. She opened up to my dad because my dad would not even scold her. My dad prevented my mum from giving her a mild slap. My parents arranged with her parents and paid for an abortion so that she'll further her education. After the abortion, she wasn't sent away.

She lived with us and enjoyed much freedom. The straw that broke the camel's back was a call she gave to one of her boyfriends a night we were away. It was an innocent call from her side but would later cause my parents to be ambushed and robbed that night.

Her time was up! She had to leave. Today she's not gone past SS2 and she's roasting corn by the roadside. I identified her when I passed that road.

When she came she was using tissue paper during her menstruation. My mum ensured she used pads. Tissue paper was obviously what females used in her family. The truth remains that these "house helps" become enlightened and exposed to civilization when they are sent to live with middle class families. They get opportunities they'd not ordinarily see if they lived with their parents.

What matters is how they take advantage of their exposure. My grandparents' male housemaid served them for 8 years and they included his name in a scholarship slot to a foreign country. The maid got a good job there and even invited my uncle who was a baby when he left to work in the country immediately my uncle completed his NYSC. The maid is one of the prominent men from my mother's village today.

Halita is an Africa Magic series I'll recommend if you want to understand perspectives about domestic servants. It's intriguing and captivating.

Kudos to your parents for treating domestic staff well,I can see where your shapening came from.
But a lot of people treat maids so bad here and it is annoying most times,especially women.

Ulunne777:
Nwanneni my bro, I know beyond that tough exterior is a good man.

This is the best religion. Love your neighbour. Any other thing they are preaching to you na you sabi.

Haha you can't be so sure,can you?
Besides I think tough is a wrong word to use to describe me sha.
Blunt,yes I agree.

CountVersailles:
Ice cream is not good for you. Stay away from food that poisons you.

Why do you say so?

All is well ladies and gentlemen,

Saynoomore:
As far as I'm concerned, what you have just done is practical Christianity!

Being a Christian does not begin & end with going to church.

Forget whatever turns out as the outcome. You have played your part. The little lad might make some mistakes in the line if his new-found business, but he will learn and improve, and hopefully tell his story someday. I'm sure he won't forget your gesture.

If he is in Lagos, and you can give a vivid description of where you found him, pls pm me.

Cheers bro!


Edited,

Yeah,well this happened in Port harcourt.
Me too will keep an eye out there for his progress and surprise him even more.
I wish him well honestly and want and is willing to help him succeed in my own little way I can.
Make we just dey see.

Have been very busy all through today trying to fix some things,

So after all that ,decided to go to coldstone to grab some ice cream to calm my head.
Seated inside,wasn't so pleased while I was having it because I saw a lot of things I don't like.

1) Parents pampering unruly children. If you carry that behaviour come close to me I will give you a stern warning infront of your parents regardless the outcome.

2) Treating maids like subhumans. Nigerians are very fond of this, like it's so easy to spot the maid amongst them because usually they cloth them in rags,their hair always turn to baobab tree under their watch whereas their kids always look fly and fresh,they are being talked to so rudely and with so much authority whereas their kids who might probably amount to nothing in life are always spoon-fed and get the best treatments,seated at different tables even though they came together, atleast the one I see today them try buy am ice cream sha

Anyways,got uncomfortable with the whole environment and left.

Got to my car,a kid (10-12yrs)approached me and asked me for food money or something ,didn't respond as I usually never do cos I really don't like begging ,but then as I was about to leave ,I asked the boy why he doesn't get a small job instead rather than beg?
His response shocked me till now.
He told me if I could buy him a box of pure water to sell,that I will not see him there again begging.

Was dumbfounded as I didn't expect that kind of a response from him considering his age and also I thought he was one of those career beggars.

I wanted to give him cash but didn’t have any,I told him I will come back,and left.
Now I wanted to go and withdraw and give him cash but on a second thought, I said why don't I go and get him those wares instead rather than hand him cash?Atleast he will have to work to sell them off to generate cash from it ,which will teach him some principles of money atleast.

Went to the closest store, bought Ten 12bottles/pack bottled water ,load up and head back there.

Looked for him a bit around and later found him sitting helplessly,hopelessly,aimlessly on a culvert looking very frustrated mehn,probably thought I won't come back.That thought still never commot from my head like this.
Anyways,handed them over to him,advised and encouraged him a little,asked how he was gonna refrigerate them?

He said there are some abokis in his street that can do that for him and he will pay them small money.
Asked how he was gonna sell?He said he will take them to pleasure park tomorrow to sell.Was impressed at his sharpness tbh..he had answers to all I was asking even though he was shivering a bit cos he was intimidated or something.

Wished him well,help carry them close to the road,before I could turn to head home ,he had already moved them to the median of the road and I think I saw him counting the bottles or so ,couldn't figure as I passed fast,
Reached a turn,turned again to go add his inventory but dude was already gone.Damn!
Anyways make we dey see...just make we dey see.

I think Nigerian Parents, the church and religion are the reason why children are still experiencing this kind of suffering at this point in humanity.

Felt really bad today mehn,really bad.
It's to be selecting the ones that want to hustle from them and help and leave the career beggars alone .

Children only,no old person.

quentin06:
The ranger is known to consume fuel more than the hilux, the 2015 is huge with big tyres.
Scan for codes, but don't expect fuel economy from the ranger.
Should have gone for the hilux instead.

I have a hilux already,
I wasn't expecting it to consume like a corolla or so,rather what I said was it was consuming way more than it use to.
Anyways ,problem has been fixed today,was too tired to update the thread.
Culprits?
1)Water in the coil chamber in the top,all four of them.
2)Disconnected O2 sensor from its socket,I don't know how,maybe all the times I go offroad and speed on those terrains it yanked off.
3)Broken airflow meter wire,like wire cut complete.
I guess this happened the day my former mechanic and his boys brought down the nozzle ,probably broke the wire while loosing or coupling the manifold.
I think I spent like 20k to resolve the whole problem and all is very well now,lime very very good!

Cc MrFord I can fix a meeting tomorrow between us if you don't mind oo baba.

nurey:
Default settings tampered with. But just to be sure check for black smoke from the exhaust tail pipe

Check for external leaks Also. If all checks out, then the default settings has been messed up visit your nearest technical shop

Default settings as in how?
Yeah I noticed black smoke comes out for like 2 seconds and dissapears,
So by removing the nozzles and manifold default settings can be messed up?

Hello house,

I have a 2015 ford ranger truck and discovered yesterday that after taking it to the mechanic to fix it(little,intermittent rough idle),it has been consuming a lot of fuel.

Like I just jeep seeing the range on the screen go down so fast without actually covering an inch close to that distance it displays.

He losed the nozzle,claim he took it for "servicing" and this is what I get.

And funny enough the intermittent rough idle is still there.
Please advise me how I can fix this.

I am part of the value chain which brings happiness to your table in a bottle.
LiquorTrade.

DubaiLandLord1:
There is no where in my post did I say BDC will be run out of business. But on the long run, most will run out of business. I've never have any problem getting dollars from my bank. So far I get evidence of wetin I wan use am do.

Because you are a small time player and maybe what you need isn't in the fx ban list.
There are people scattered in Onitsha,trade fair,Aba,PH that are huge importers whose weekly need of forex might surpass $3m.
These are the type of demands the bank cannot meet and this demand goes straight to the BDCs.
Speak about what you know,
And yes,you actually said they will run out of business which will never happen unless they are banned!
Just that they only lost the free money CBN was giving them weekly,end of discussion.

DubaiLandLord1:
You're wrong about this. On the long run, most of them will run out of business.

Not true,
You think it is easy to get fx from the bank?
What of those importing things in the CBN fx ban list?
Where do you think they will be getting forex from?
Nothing will happen to BDCs,price might drop but trading will continue.

RedEnergy:
Another tax evasion + corruption opportunity. Let's assume:
Actual costs to fix road = 3 billion
MTN declares costs as = 16 billion

Corrupt govt officials get kickbacks of = 4 billion
MTN gets tax credit profit of = 9 billion

Business continues...

Smartest comment so far.

Limassol:
Rural area? You think op is some modest villager? we both know that is not what he is projecting here. Look, his whole story dosent add up and you of all people should know better.

I didn't say villager.Don't out words in my mouth to achieve your sinister ideas.
Ikorodu for instance can be said to be a rural area in lagos,
That is the type of scenario I was trying to paint.

Limassol:
Source of your wealth and income, care to share? modified; 450k monthly, less than 3 years and you were able to amass these riches? How about rent and other expenses? Or do you save your whole salary? Sure, there is something you are not telling us.

Maybe he built his house in a rural area,with rural standards and probably drives a 03 corolla.
Maybe why he thinks he is "rich" might be dependent solely on where he comes from and his kind of ambition.

weyreypey:
... Ako iba dey worry you. Male fever

Not really,

kingbee90:
Oga did I hear you say old cars? Nigerians dey drive new cars? All the Japanese corolla, avalon, muscle, Eod & evil spirit you are referring to, are they not old cars? How many Nigerians dey drive 2019/2020 Toyota or Honda cars? Meanwhile all these Japanese cars have their own respective issues oh!

Better to buy an old Japanese car than an old Mercedes,especially Nigerian used.

RANGO23:
Good morning...I need your advice please... I'm about paying for Benz c240.... issues detected..A/C leakage,left windscreen wiper is broken... How much will it cost me to fix all these....?Thanks for your response

Flee from old cars,
See your colleague for up there dey lament untop SBC or what?
If you no want follow am better find your way to japanese before e red for you
Ordinary wiper you don dey shalaye,not to talk of complex issues for benz weh don make people sell house join like weyreypey

Halal chasing
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