NewStats: 3,265,128 , 8,185,745 topics. Date: Friday, 13 June 2025 at 03:06 PM 4a2q4j

Good thread.
I welcome myself to this thread, grabs a chair to sitdown, brings out a bag of pop corn and a can of chilled pepsi Pepsi to chill while watching the progress of this build project.

charliechyke:



I am in Lagos. Can you recommend someone?

DM 07034581213

charliechyke:
Please I drive a Toyota Camry 2010 2AR-FE Engine. I got it Nigerian used. I noticed it burns oil. Please what do you advise. I buy 1 liter oil every 3weeks.

Replace your PCV valve, if it doesn't stop, rebuild that engine or replac it.

If you're in Abuja, feel free to me.

Chidimercy:


Everyone is telling me to be afraid of overheating. What does it mean?

Ignore them. Do not by your fan. It will be fine.

Chidimercy:


I just got an RX350 2010 and noticed that premuim fuel is required. Please do I need anything to be afraid of?

Fear not! for my rod and staff, they comfort thee .

lekzy007:


I don't know the proper way of bleeding but his own process is that, someone will be pressing the break pedal while he will be under the car doing something I don't know. The ABS light is not on.
He told me that he will run the break piston, calipers and other break components which I don't know if after that the break will be hard.
Kindly give your own advice on what can be done for the break to be hard.
Thank you.

When the car is off and has rested for a couple of hours, when you press the brakes, do they feel hard or they still sink in. Do the brake make a spongy squishy sound or feel spongy?

lekzy007:
My Honda Accord 2003 V6 break is always soft though sharp when applied but I expect it to be hard when applied based on past experiences, that is little press but in this case it almost touch the body. I have changed master break and break pads, kindly adviced what could be the issue.
Thank you

Have you bled it the proper way?
Is the ABS light on?

stokfrick:
Pls where can I get a very good rewire to check my car for parasitic drain. I was driving my car and parked to ease myself. After that, When I tried restarting the car it refused to start. But the dashboard screen light on the driver's side would come on.
The red battery icon light was showing steady. I called my mechanic and he said the alternator is faulty and not charging the battery. We changed alternator and the battery light disappeared and the car started.

After a few days, one morning I dove to work, parked it. After close of work wanted to drive home and it refused to start, called a battery charger, he said battery was down we jump started the car, I got home, parked, then the following day car refuses to start. Called my mechanic he said could be the battery is bad or a drain on the battery while car is parked.
But I also noticed that if I restarted the car 5 minutes after parking, it would start except when left for long hours before restarting.

What could be the problem.
Secondly I have heard of how rewire guys turn simple electrical faults onto complex ones, so, I am scared.
If it's a parasitic drain is it a simple problem that the average rewire guy can handle?

Finally if I am to get a new battery what best brands should I go for

No location, no make or model of car in question. How do you expect a quality response or a referral?

lanrezy:


He has concluded we get a new brainbox

Did he trace the cause of the problem before getting a replacement ECM?

ECM may be fried or the ground wire to engine from the main harness is not connected or some wires have been chewed by rodents.


Ask your kazeem to trace ground wires and then check ECM if it's fried or if rodents have chewed wires.

Slimyoung1991:

For how long will it take to revise because it have been up to six months now.
Not even from the front but back hair

Alopecia is a permanent irreversible hairless situation, the earlier you embrace it, the better.
I'm bald headed too.

Slimyoung1991:
Am losing my hair slowly not feeling any pain up to some months now

Immune system attack on your hair, Alopecia areata. Start going bald already. Don't feel sad or bad wear your bald head with pride.

oluwatishey:
I have a honda baby boy. Check engine light comes on and the car stalls and jerks. Nozzles , plugs, coils and injector has been changed. Changed fuel pump. Changed cylinders. Nothing wey i never change. Still the problem persists. Any help would be appreciated

Sell the car buy scanner.

Bola4boy:
una no dey hear word. Always SCAN your car before buying any part. Oya go and scan the car now!

Why you dey quote me when no be me post complain?

b3llo:
lol... the op na hungry opportunist.

No be lie. See one in Kaduna, just posted on 2nd June. It's a 2016 and it's very very clean.

gasparpisciotta:
Op,

Go to Peugeot line, Red gate at Ladipo for brain box, otherwise aPeugeot car without brain box is as good as a scrap…

To find that brain box and programme it to match and work well with the car no be beans. Normal pijo with brainbox no even cost like that sef. Op don put his family financial palava ontop the scrap.

Kaymaxi2222:
like so if someone is to consider this car even at the slightest, you don't expect them to ask a billion questions?
8m for a Naija used car without brain box. Gud dammit!!

I'm not the one selling a scrap without brain box, why quote me to cry all these crocodile tears wey fit burn thru rhinoceros skin? 🙄🙄🙄

Sola321:
@Trustme2 can you just call and book an inspection with your mechanic instead of typing this unnecessary epistle

A very șílly and unnecessary response.

Valtteri:


If you want to ask for more information, do so without being condescending.

If you're on my thread and expecting that I'd bow and greet you, after spending sleepless nightd researching and taking decade old experience plus my data to assist you for free, to you just to help you find solution to your car problems when you didnt post complete information on that said car, you're in for a long thing.

Valtteri:
My RPM keeps fluctuating. When idle, it falls below 1, sometimes it goes off, even in motion.

The injector mouth has been changed, but it keeps doing the same thing.

Can someone please recommend a mechanic who specializes in Nissan/Infiniti?

Thanks in advance.

No location, no model, no info on engine type how do you expect proper assistance?
Besides, you keep parts blindly, it's not right.

sunny3:
My 08 Corolla speedometer and RPM is not reading, the gear handle only shifts when shift lock bottom is pressed. It does not communicate with scanner

You need a highly skilled electrician to check your electrical systems. It's not a remote job.

Royle2014:


Yes. It was. So I shld get a mech to check the timing?

Yes have another competent mechanic check its timing and correct it.

Ps. Replace the timing chain tensioner. It can fail if mishandled or if not retracted properly, so change it all together. Check the cam sprockets, if it's welded, replace it.

Royle2014:



Herre are the codes

Your scanner says it's got 7 codes. Get a better scanner and run the scan again pls.


But from the little info you posted, the cylinder 2 coil is bad and needs replacement. Before replacing it, swap coils, clear codes, and drive then rescan again.


Your engine is nit properly timed. Was thus engine timing opened and worked upon at anytime previously?

Royle2014:
Recently, my Toyota matrix 2005 drives fine when cold, idles well, exactly at 1. But immediately the engine warms up, it always stalls and rpm drops and dies when I'm at a check point or in traffic. I have to put it in neutral so it doesn't die on me. No hard starts, it accelerates well etc but just dies in traffic when hot. On rainy days when the engine doesn't really heat up, it drives so well you'll think theres no problems. Please what could be wrong. Someone suggested i change my fuel pump assembly but its sold for 90k and i cant blindly gamble that amount without knowing if it would fix the problem

Have you scanned the car?
If no, pls scan it and post codes here to assist this diagnosis.

macuwon:
My Lexus rx300 is having issues, the car would just go off sometimes when I'm not in full motion, and it drags a few seconds to move after a cold start. I parked the vehicle for some weeks and today I took it to the mechanic. He immediately said it's fuel pump, bought fuel pump, same thing, he said it's plug, i bought new plugs and cleaned the nozzles, same thing. He used his scanner and said the scanner saw nothing, that we would continue tomorrow.. I feel it's a small issue but I'm tired of the trial and error. Please who has an idea what could cause it? After firing the car for a while, it's less noticeable.. Location is egbeda lagos

Did you scan that car?
I bet it's the throttle position sensor that is misaligned or failing.

Ojukwu4real:
Mercedes Benz ml350 2008 model runs down the battery after parking for 3 hours

Ojukwu4real:


Battery has been replaced two times and still the same issue
My alternator is charging bcuz it keeps starting until I park it for a while but if I remove the battery terminal and come back after hours and fix it back,the vehicle will start up immediately
So I don't know what is running down the battery when I don't remove the terminal

Using a digital multimeter, check battery voltage, then revert back.


You may also wish to check and clean the ground cable and the location where it mounts to the body of the car with a sandpaper. W164 are also known for degrading the wires of the battery and alternator for reasons I don't know. I've had to fix these in over 7 units of W164 over the years.

curiobling:
Hi guys,

I did oil change service when my car mileage was at 142,158 KM and currently at 144,201 KM. I got a dash notice that oil change service required. I did oil life reset the last time I carried out the last service though.

This is just less than 1500 Miles na, abi the brain box deh whyne me ni. Some people own even deh do over 5500 miles

Ford edge 2011. The slap on my butt is that my engine oil check dipstick is stucked, I just believe this is not true, abi synthetic oil get life grade ni. This was my first Naija oil change I bought and this is happening so fast

It's nor.al with 1994 opel omega.

descartes400:


How many planes has crashed in Nigeria you people like to call zoo and jungle Republic since 2015 compare to US if we are to count from same period.

I put it to you we have better agency running our Airways and looking after our aircrafts than US....oya start fingerings your keyboard to counter back my last paragraph

The number of flight US handles in 3 months is what Nigeria handles in 5 years. Do the math.

Jonjam269:

The recent aviation crashes in the U.S. suggest that Nigeria's aviation sector is safer. Statistics don't lie. How many aviation accidents have occurred in Nigeria in this period?

Your stats are flawed by a wide margin.

Try compare the number of flight per day in US vs that of Nigeria, now, swap same scenario of US daily flight handling to Nigeria for 1 month and observe.

looseweight:
The US aviation sector is far worse than Nigeria.

Not true. US aviation sector is far safer and better than Nigeria's aviation sector. On the average, over 45,000 aircrafts are flying over the US airspace er day versus a 2022 report that states that MMIA (Nigerias most busy airport) experiences 220-260 flights per day.

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