GAZZUZZ:

your evaporator (pic below) has a drain hose, it might be blocked, jack the vehicle up and poke it with a long screw driver or any long metal object to ensure the passage is not clogged.

I have had a similar experience before in my Honda Accord and the issue was that the drain hose wasn't pointing well to the ground.

So when the car is on motion and the A/C is on, the wind blows the water discharging from the pipe into the car. Hence the car floor would be wet(passenger side, beside the driver).

You could check that out also.

nurey:


I would advice 5W20 or 5W30. As written in the manual 0W20 is the best in terms of fuel economy but my brother in law had to run away from it when the price didn't correlate with buhariconomics.

I would advice against 20w50 or 15W50. Even the manual says if you use 10W50 make sure the next oil change you switch to 5W series.

I don't think 20W series engine oil are good at all, after a month they become black and loss viscosity and people only use it for 3k km besides they are sold for 3xxx for the major filling station (total, Mobil, Oando etc) let's say you use it for 3months and change that's 3x4=12k

Now I use my 5W40 for 6months or 8k km but my 6months is always complete sometimes it runs to the 7th month that's 7kx2=14k

The difference is 2k abi, multiply it by 6yrs that's 12k abi. It's possible in 6yrs the 20W would have damage the car engine and a new engine loading now tell me, does a tokunbo engine sell for 12k?

The decision is yours

Great post. It is unfortunate that most mechanics recommend 20W-50.
We need to study these manuals diligently and teach these Kazeems.

When you have a price list from your mechanic, www.autopartz.com should be used at least to verify the fairness of the quotation.

There, verified and registered auto parts suppliers in the various market associations where they conduct business in Nigeria, would give you the prices for the various auto parts when they are contacted.

This was dealt with extensively in the thread below:

https://www.nairaland.com/3173018/how-verify-prices-when-mech/2

Auto parts suppliers and the price at which they sell them can be found in[b] www.autopartz.com.[/b]
These are registered and verified (business addresses and phone numbers)sellers in the market associations they belong to.
Whether they are in Ladipo, Oyingbo, Clegg, Olowu, Berger etc.

Select the Make of the vehicle(e.g Toyota, Honda), Model (e.g Camry, Accord )

Subsequently, click the particular auto part under the 'browse categories' column

All the suppliers of would be displayed.

You can fine tune your search by selecting the Model and Year of the vehicle also.

www.autopartz.com(Nigeria's premier auto parts marketplace)

Hmm. Ok

Auto parts suppliers and the price at which they sell them can be found in www.autopartz.com.
These are registered and verified (business addresses and phone numbers)sellers in the market associations they belong to.
Whether Ladipo, Oyingbo, Clegg, Olowu, Berger etc.

Select the Make of the vehicle(e.g Toyota, Honda), Model (e.g Camry, Accord )

Subsequently, click the particular auto part under the 'browse categories' column

All the suppliers of would be displayed.

You can fine tune your search by selecting the Model and Year of the vehicle also.

www.autopartz.com(Nigeria's premier auto parts marketplace)

Engine Brain box/ECU suppliers and the price at which they sell them can also be found in www.autopartz.com. These are also registered and verified sellers in the market associations they belong to.

Select the Make of the vehicle(e.g Toyota, Honda)

Subsequently, visit the "Brain box/ECU" category under the 'browse categories' column and click on Engine Brain box/ECU

All the suppliers of Engine Brain box would be displayed.

You can fine tune your search by selecting the Model and Year of the vehicle also.

One area I have tried to reduce the effects of auto technician's (mechanics, rewires etc) tricks is to cross check the prices of
the 'faulty' parts they give me with that of other suppliers of such parts registered in www.autopartz.com.
I have discovered that the mechanic's usually collude a lot with the auto parts suppliers in order to quote and sell auto parts
at higher prices unsuspecting car owners.
Hence, I first verify the prices in autopartz.com by calling authorized suppliers before I now contest the over bloated prices from
the mechanics and rewires.

I am neither a mechanic nor a spare parts dealer. I actually have a white collar job.

I happened to have mastered a lot about the auto parts industry because of the antics of most of our mechanics, by going to the spare parts

markets myself either to confirm that I was not being cheated, or to purchase the spare parts by myself.

Sometimes when I purchased the parts by myself, I was dealt with by my mechanic. It is either he tells me that the part I bought did not fit

my vehicle and I would have to go a second time, or he will purposely delay fixing my vehicle because his anticipated gains on the vehicle

repair has reduced.

So, I learnt the hard way as it paid off in the long run. It was much better than 'contracting' the vehicle out to a cheating automotive

technician. They will cut your throat without mercy. I was not lucky to experience many trustworthy mechanics, rewrite etc.

If you have trustworthy ones, keep them and let them handle everything for you.

Also, if you have the money send your vehicle to a modern automotive workshop like Honda place, Germaine motors workshop etc and have

rest of mind and stress.

For me, na condition make crayfish bend; the economic times are challenging. Albeit, it made me understand an industry I never studied in

university.

kaeforum:
The list is just a guide, you re not under obligation to swallow it, most car owners are just too lazy to do price check.

Apart from saving some cash goin out to do price checks on car parts helps u become better acquanted withh the car parts.

Helps u know what they look like, it also gives u an idea as to how affordable or available the parts are.

Eg a 2005 camry owner ought to know how the brake pads for the car looks like, or a 1995 jetta owner should know what type of clutch the car uses.

If u can't check prices for ur car, don't complain when the mechanic charges u extra for doing it.

Doing a price check is definitely the only way out of all this 'high' mechanic charges even though it may be tedious.

However, I have discovered one site www.autopartz.com where I can compare the prices of various auto parts suppliers in Ladipo before I tell

my mechanic what I think about his 'expensive' price list. This eliminates all the stress of physically going to Ladipo, thus making it more

convenient.

By the time I confront my mechanic with the average price from my enquires on www.autopartz.com, he is forced to be truthful.

Although, his initial reaction would be that the price I was given for the auto parts he recommended for purchase was for an inferior auto

part,I will still stand my ground that I enquired about the right specifications of the auto part(new/toks; Taiwan/China/America/Japan;

2.4L/3.5L; Make/Model/Year; Bosch/Starlite etc)

Even though, one supplier I contact by phone tell me a lie, enquires from one or two other auto parts suppliers registered on the same site

would not be far from the truth.

I only wish the suppliers registered on the site have started populating the prices of their auto parts on the site.

This would have saved the time spent in calling them. However, that time is nothing compared to the time spent in going to the market and

also the fuel and stress saved.

It seems they cover Oyingbo and Clegg auto parts markets too.

This is very innovative .

This is a great innovation. Keep it up guys!

http://www.autopartz.com/supplier-oxygen/lambda/catalyst-sensors-.html

The link above could assist.