You have mechanics and parts scattered everywhere and they’re not a nightmare to fix. They have cheap parts compared to the others and also are very reliable compared to the others. They have very good interior spaces and handles the road very well. They have decent fuel economy and have very impressive crash tests scores (they’re very safe)
femarse: Why you did have a valid reason up there , that is not the reason I am planning to point out ....the human use is not my point of reference, the design is what I am pointing out , if Toyota car is running out of oil or doing overheating ....and let's assume u were unable to check from the cluster ....I tell you the engine will keep on running doing fine till it knock on motion ....both of this I have experience, if an honda car is running out of oil or doing overheating ....and u were unable to check from the instrument cluster .... the engine will not knock ....it will simply switch off on you ....this one wonderful design is one of the reason why honda engine is not what u sell everyday compare to corrola engine
You made some valid points there.
For the same year model Volvo cars as the 03 - 08 corolla for eg:
If your water runs low while driving, you get a notification, no way your car is overheating without your knowledge
If your engine oil goes low while driving, you get a notification, no case of driving till oil dries up and knocks engine
If your oil pump is getting weak and oil pressure gets low while driving, you get a notification
If you have a low engine performance (misfires, coils, plugs, etm, fuel pressure), you'll get a notification and a message to either downshift or park safely
You won't get any of these warnings with majority of the Toyotas of same year model hence the higher likelihood of things having gone bad already before you notice.
foryourmindlol: Which car get "strong body"? Rolls-Royce? Bentley? Children talk.
You don't understand how vehicle safety work. Cars can be made with steel but in collision everyone inside it will die once.
This same Landcruiser saved Buhari when he was bombed by Boko Haram in 2014. I know it's a different vehicle and different conditions but don't say what you don't know. Landcruisers/Prado are one of the toughest and safest cars in the world that US military use them in every battlefield.
Look at that crashed vehicle. If you had any knowledge about vehicles, you will see that not even a single airbag deployed. The car must have been in an earlier accident where the airbag system deployed and nobody cared to replace them. Or simply the airbag system needed service and it was not done (it will show you error in the dashboard).
That's what killed them.
See Buhari when his life was saved by a bulletproof Landcruiser:
foryourmindlol: Which car get strong body? Na craze dey worry you. This is the best any car can do. Do you realize this vehicle somasulted many times at top speed?
Another buffom up there is saying bullet-proof wold save him. You people don't know anything. This Toyota Prado performed exceptionally. Another vehicle the casualty could be worse.
Part of the main reason why those men died is lack of airbags. Not even a single airbag deployed. The car must have been in an earlier accident with deployed airbags and the didn't bother to fix/reset the airbags. Just panel-beat the body, repaint and start driving waaa like someone is pursuing them.
JamesbaIIy: Lol, that is normal vaIarinz, he thrives on inserting himself into situations like this, for maximum attention, followed by snide and condescending comments. Best way to make him go away is to ignore him completely.
Take a look at all the comments he's made so far on this thread. No single helpful post, all sarcasm and irrelevant nonsense.
For someone who just registered 2 months ago, you know so much about Valarinz
Quote and talk with your original moniker, did they ban it or you're just a coward?
kolabad: I don’t see where I mentioned my agent as Superman seeing as I don’t even use one agent for all cars I only listed a scenario of car delay and if you believe of those thousands of cars you mentioned experience same delay of 3 months plus in port and . 80 percent or more come out the same the I hear you boss
Keep shifting goal posts
Na him agent bash the car inside Terminal abi,or your super agents go to drive the cars out carefully by themselves?
Majority of the fixes this Bros is lamenting about now is due to the bashing, and you guys are here trying to sound woke
Abeg go and rest,I don't even know why I'm giving you this much attention
amstamon: Stop wasting ur time quoting him, who knows if he's the agent. As if there are no securities in ports to an extent vandals would have enough time to do all those stealings. My car was vandalized during Endsars, battery, coils, brain box, and catalyst was removed. My point? Vandals cannot steals a battery without touching your coils (9k par one)9k * 6 = 54k. And brain box which should cost more than the battery with just 10"bolt holding it lol. Most agents are thieves most especially those that resides in ajegunle and olodi apapa. (personal experience). They sees clients (living abroad) as a soft targets, making sure they exploits them to the best of their abilities
Jon Snow
People like you are always the loudest, you're even insinuating I'm an agent
Go put padlock for your Corolla brain box bro, I've seen a couple of guys do it
kolabad: Let’s leave cotonue boss and do regular ports. I had my experience last year. The Lexus had some documentation problems so it could not be cleared. In total car spent 10 weeks inside the port. I was already expecting the worse. Car came out and not a single thing was stolen from it. Not even the keys or the side mirror. It just had minor dents from offloading and that was it. Hence my believe that to an extent a well grounded agent may know one or two ways to prevent stuffs from being stolen from a car. Doesn’t mean if anything is stolen it is the fault of the agent though. That’s purely a Nigerian problem
If every Lexus that comes to Nigeria gets the same fate as the OPs', then we wouldn't be having this discussion
There are still thousands of people who import Lexus using those useless agents and they get their cars just like you got yours.
Also, you say your agent is Superman therefore nothing can go missing on your cars abi, ok.
You didn't understand my cotonou comment,it means you're still not fully grounded on the way some of these things happen, pls I wasn't referring to importing cars from cotonou, instead I'm talking about that your car which is coming to Lagos on a vessel, while the vessel is in transit, shit could go missing before it even arrives naija, hope you get it now
aljpimp: Just tinted mine 2 weeks ago , one stopped me and asked for tint permit jokingly and answered himself that oh he knew I know that I’ve heard that they should stop requesting tint permit.. since then , no other one has requested though… you can drive out and experiment yourself too
From my understanding of things right now,I think they are not supposed to disturb you if it's factory tint, aftermarket tint is still not allowed
I believe the officers you met were just in a good mood, my opinion o,could be wrong
Jestin: the problem is that the car came immediately the Vin-evaluation issue started so the car was at Lagos port for too long. He did test run the car and he said it is sounding like Turbo Engine and like someone commented, I hope the catalyst was not removed
Ok, if the catalyst has been stolen inside the terminal too,someone will come here and start asking you to hold your agent responsible again.
Nigerians like soft target sha, as they no get the connections to battle the big guys,they pick on the ones wey reach their hand
It's just like how people to go bank for transactions and there's bad network delaying transactions and they start heaping insults on the poor bank teller who's only job is to operate the system in front of him
kolabad: what he probably meant was sometimes if your agent knows way he could prevent boys in port from looting your car.
You know damn sure that's not what they meant...
Besides, can u kindly tell me how his agent could prevent theft at cotonou Port for eg, or how his agent could prevent the mishandling and theft on vehicles inside terminal by the shipping companies workers
They bash person car during loading and offloading and people for NL are saying his agent is responsible, lol
Pls if you have enough cash,ship your car via container and worry about the issues peculiar to container shipping instead, you can put only one car inside container sef,as egbon concerned. Else you ship via roro and hope for the best