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Car Talk / Re: Support For Other Brands Of Vehicles In Lagos by zaibatsu(m): 7:37pm On Feb 20, 2018
oluwaseunla:


I can, but so sorry, I won't be taking this one. From 2003 models sir.

By the way it's advisable to replace the CTS while at it, so it gets done once.

Thanks. Already did the CTS myself. Your preference is noted. Just FYI, it's the last run of the facelift B5s so pretty similar to the B6 models.

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Car Talk / Re: Support For Other Brands Of Vehicles In Lagos by zaibatsu(m): 3:30pm On Feb 20, 2018
oluwaseunla:
Present location is Ogba, Lagos.
Phone number is 08032370718. Supported vehicles are most brands from year 2003 till date.

Can you do an Audi A4 B5 (1.8l NA) coolant flange replacement?
Autos / Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports Sponsored By Auctionexport.com by zaibatsu(m): 1:02pm On Dec 05, 2013
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2001 Toyota 4Runner SR5
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Class: SUV - Lower Mid Range
Engine: 3.4L V6 EFI
Country of Assembly: Japan
Vehicle Age: 12 year(s)
Calculated Owners: 1
VIN: JT3HN86R410330139
Year : 2001
Make : Toyota
Model: 4Runner SR5
Style/Body: SUV 4D


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Autos / Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports Sponsored By Auctionexport.com by zaibatsu(m): 11:32am On Dec 05, 2013
Kindly assist with this:

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Many thanks in advance.
Autos / Re: Free Vin Checks And Reports by zaibatsu(m): 11:22am On Dec 05, 2013
Kindly assist with this:

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Thanks in advance!
Car Talk / Re: The Audi And Volkswagen Issues Resolution Thread by zaibatsu(m): 8:46pm On Nov 04, 2013
Thanks. I'll do just that. Now to find a tech with a VAG scan tool in Abuja.
Car Talk / Re: The Audi And Volkswagen Issues Resolution Thread by zaibatsu(m): 5:06pm On Nov 04, 2013
Got an Audi A3 1999, 1.8 (AGN) 20v A/T.
All systems work perfectly except the tranny. PRND321 lit up like a Christmas tree yesterday. Transmission seems to be in limp mode and starts in 3rd. Will only shift to 4 th under hard acceleration at about 4000rpm.
Help needed Siena.
Thanks!
Computers / Re: What Is Your Average Download Speed? by zaibatsu(m): 7:43pm On Aug 08, 2013
Fair enough...

Politics / Re: South Africans Chase Nigerians Out Of Their Homes by zaibatsu(m): 12:27am On May 31, 2013
As usual we will keep trying to defend the indefensible. While the mob action by the South Africans was wrong, their greviances are genuine. Why can't we ever tell ourselves the unvarnished truth? A lot of Nigerians in SA are drug dealing scum plain and simple. How people make excuses for such sorry excuses for human beings is frankly beyond me.

At 9:52 minutes of the video below, could someone kindly tell me where that tall drug-dealing lout is from?


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZJ1w9-Umcw

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Crime / Re: Bank Transfer Blues - Real Conversations With A Yahoo Boy by zaibatsu(m): 12:33pm On Nov 14, 2012
I find the idiot's stupidity insulting. Who knows, he might just claim he's Steve Jobs next. Tell you he needs your account details at the pearly gates.

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Religion / Re: An Open Letter To Nigerian Christians by zaibatsu(m): 11:53am On Oct 08, 2012
@OP
Quite sadly, I must say that either you are playing the ostrich, or just being plain deceptive. I have lived in northern Nigeria and occasionally witnessed completely unprovoked attacks against Christians. I have seen my educated Muslim peers salivating over some horrible videos of beheadings in the Middle East and Nigeria. I have seen disagreements over something as trivial as a soccer match result in mob action against an "infidel". Most Christians that have spent some time in the North have been serially traumatised by the perennial crises and their attendant murder sprees over every thing from an eclipse of the moon, to the Danish cartoon issue. I have witnessed thinly veiled hatred that sometimes results in frightening outbursts of religious mania from Muslims whom you claim are against "unprovoked violence". I do have a few Muslim peers whom I'm proud to call my friends, but the "bad eggs" are in the overwhelming majority.

Sir, kindly take your missive to the place it's needed most. Take it to your people who hold on to hatred as the only crutch in their lives. Take it to those whom always promise Christians things like "By the next crisis, we'll finish all of you". People who premeditate violence and glory in murder and savagery. Our ears are tired of hearing your words while we bury our brothers.

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Phones / Re: Can Iphone 4s 16gb Locked To Verizon Be Unlocked? by zaibatsu(m): 4:50pm On Sep 15, 2012
Verizon=CDMA Figure the rest out for yourself.
Phones / Re: What Really Made Steve Jobs So Angry At Google? by zaibatsu(m): 4:37pm On Sep 10, 2012
I guess it's a good thing that the persuasion of the author is known.
I wonder what he'll say about the Palm Pre and WebOS; an OS I believe had tremendous potential. His article is an unwilling acceptance of the runaway success of the Android OS.

If Palm had succeeded with the Pre. So, so hardware, brilliant OS, all it needed was time to mature. Sighs...
Politics / Re: Gunmen Destroy More Telecom Masts, Kill 16 Inyobe by zaibatsu(m): 9:20am On Sep 07, 2012
Pandora's Box has been opened, and Northern Nigeria is fast heading to the point of no return.
Whatever lame rhetoric the governors of these states are spouting will not solve their problems. They keep wringing their hands and pointing fingers at phantom enemies while their states gradually but surely slip into irredeemable anarchy.
Phones / Re: Nokia Lumia 920...finally A Smartphone From Nokia That Can Compete! by zaibatsu(m): 9:35pm On Sep 05, 2012
@Topic This might just be it for Nokia. The shove from thumb-twiddling indecision to a truly profitable platform. They've always had the potential for greatness, and now the latent potential is becoming visible once again.

Really looking forward to this...
Computers / Re: Help Me Open Up Gov Peter Obi's Laptop. by zaibatsu(m): 9:51am On Aug 27, 2012
@OP What you have there is called an Intel Classmate PC. Intel's answer to the OLPC which was based on hardware from "the " rival manufacturer.
Your Classmate PC should be running either Windows XP, Metasys Classmate 2.0
for the Classmate PC, or Mandriva Linux 2010. Your password issue leads me to conclude it's either of the last two. Try and Google "password recovery" on your OS. Luck!

@Maleeq How you dey?
Phones / Re: Etisalat MB Transfers by zaibatsu(m): 1:26pm On Aug 17, 2012
@OP Call the Customer Care line as someone suggested.

I really wonder at the derision that followed a simple question. For all the laughing jackasses, MTN does have a framework in place for data transfer/sharing. It just hasn't been implemented yet.
Computers / Re: Glo-1 Cable Cut Disrupts Internet Access In Nigeria by zaibatsu(m): 8:22pm On Jul 16, 2012
otokx: How is it that a cable buried thousands of kilometers under water gets cut every other month now? Do people or perhaps aliens go there to cut it?

Could be that a vessel dropped anchor and damaged the cable. My opinion though.

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Car Talk / Re: Does Mercury Villager 1998 - 2000 Use Spare Parts Of Nissan Quest? by zaibatsu(m): 6:44pm On Jul 13, 2012
The Mercury Villager is a rebadged Nissan Quest. To answer your questions, they are basically the same car apart from a few cosmetic differences.

Yes, they do share spare parts.
Phones / Re: Glo Is Compensating For The Lost Days! by zaibatsu(m): 10:39pm On Jul 12, 2012
Compensation is not the issue right now. They should do something about the speed. It's worse than horrible.
Phones / Re: Glo Internet Network Has Stopped Working, Could It Be DNS Changer by zaibatsu(m): 9:08am On Jul 10, 2012
Utter rubbish! When will Glo get serious about offering world class services? Over 20 million subscribers, yet no backup plan in case of fibre issues. And they expect to be taken seriously? Sad....
Computers / Re: Sony VAIO Notebook Debuts In Nigeria by zaibatsu(m): 7:46pm On Jun 26, 2012
Second Generation Intel Core processors? Is that a joke or was this piece taken from a 2011 article? Elsewhere Sony announced the launch of the new s13, s15, etc. All based on the Third Gen Ivy Bridge processors.
Sell that crap somewhere else!

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Phones / Re: No Data Limits On New Mtn Nigeria Simple Surf Internet Subscription Plan by zaibatsu(m): 8:22pm On Apr 03, 2012
@rman, Nicely balanced responses there.

However, the question being asked by most prospective users of the service is a very simple one. Are the time-based bundles truly unlimited? The answer to that is an unqualified NO. Fair usage policies still apply to these plans. Simple case would be the 2 hour bundle which is throttled once you get to 100mb usage.

As to all the other "my Mercedes is bigger than yours" arguments, choose what works for you.
Phones / Re: Mtn New Time Data Bundle. by zaibatsu(m): 9:46am On Mar 22, 2012
The time-based plans are throttled after a certain amount of data has been used. For the 250 naira 2 hour package, this happens once you hit 100mb. I'm not quite sure of the rest though. Once this threshold is reached, the speed will NEVER exceed 140kpbs.
Romance / Re: I Love My Boyfriend, But He Is Too Fat... by zaibatsu(m): 1:24pm On Mar 14, 2012
@OP

I admire your honesty. I'd much prefer to have someone around me who makes me a better person. Not someone who insists on lying to my face while agonizing about my looks in her heart.
Literature / Re: Name Your Favourite Sci-fi And Fantasy Writers! by zaibatsu(m): 12:41pm On May 25, 2011
Frank Herbert. The Dune novels had me quoting Mu'ad Dib gibberish for a while.
Autos / Re: Deposit Refunded. by zaibatsu(m): 12:42am On Apr 09, 2011
Mum's the word for now. Got a call from the dealer and everything should be sorted out by Monday.
Autos / Re: Deposit Refunded. by zaibatsu(m): 6:27pm On Apr 08, 2011
@Ryan Known cases right?

Really wish i'd seen all this much earlier. I would've been saved a lot of unnecessary grief.

@All Sometimes, this preorder thing really isn't worth it. It's not the cash really, just the harrowing nightmare of endless excuses. Best of luck to y'all, and please look very carefully before you leap. Don't make the same mistake i made.
Phones / Re: Blackberry: A Different View. Whats Your Take On This Post by zaibatsu(m): 6:23pm On Dec 17, 2010
Pretty similar to the reasons why Symbian-Guru.com was discontinued. Baffling resistance to change from leading tech players.
Autos / Re: Mercedes Benz E-200(2001 model) Naija Used 4 Sale @ 600k by zaibatsu(m): 1:50am On Sep 09, 2010
Do people intentionally advertise their car's model year wrongly? I'm at a loss as to how the vehicle advertised here could be marked as a 2001 e-class when it's not.
You have someone advertising a late '90s model Mercedes as a 2001 model. What happened to the revised tail lamps or the multifunction steering wheel or any of the other numerous visual changes Mercedes made from the 2000 model year?
The responsibility is first on the buyer to know what he's selling and be honest about it.
Autos / The Chinese Ownership Of Volvo: An Owner's Diatribe by zaibatsu(m): 11:25am On Aug 02, 2010
"Does anyone else share my sense of irony now that China, a country renown for manufacturing the most shoddily constructed and downright deadly crap ever seen on this planet, suddenly owns Volvo, the poster child for quality and automotive safety? From exploding baby food to producing vehicles that would embarass a trabant dealer.

To add insult to industrial-design injury, the Chinese also seem incapable of hiring anyone who actually speaks some English in order to produce the owner's instruction documents. I can just see the owner's manual for the 2012 Volvo-Geely Windblown Monkey Happiness model and the introduction: "Placing the turn key device in the vehicle orifice will produce much delight and excitement for all payment customers, " I've bought my last Volvo."


Taken from C/D Letters (July)

My humble self couldn't have put it any better!
Phones / Re: Iphone 4 Finally Out by zaibatsu(m): 2:53pm On Jun 08, 2010
toladop:

If u compare the Iphone 4 with d N8. The N8 is still very fantastic. If I should change my fone, it should be an N8

The N8 does have a droolworthy spec-sheet but I think the design is a bit garish. Maybe they should have taken the minimalist design route (my opinion).
Symbian has a got a whole lot of new gloss splashed on it in the form of Symbian^3. Yet, massage it all you want, the OS is showing its age and should be retired. Look at what Samsung have done with the Bada OS in such a short time and you'll know Nokia's just playing catchup.

After all's said and done, the much abused cliche is still true; "one man's meat, ".

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