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dru23:


The time nairaland dey shout 20w50 up and down . I come Google am. Google talk say 20w50 na for old old cars and motorcycles generators and heavy equipment machines.

I come dey more confuse . The time I wan service my fireman generator. Na 20w50 oil dey come bring. I come think ha say na this oyel dey service motor with

Since than I dey avoid naija used cars. If customers call me say dey buy oil from me. I go ask sha the motor na tokunbo or naija used. If they talk say na naija I go tell them to use wetin the previous owner was using. I no dey sell market to them o

what about people wey don use same oil for same car over 10years plus?

radautoworks:


Just need a good franchisee is all. We haven't found one yet

What's the cost of taking up your franchise?

dru23:


The time nairaland dey shout 20w50 up and down . I come Google am. Google talk say 20w50 na for old old cars and motorcycles generators and heavy equipment machines.

I come dey more confuse . The time I wan service my fireman generator. Na 20w50 oil dey come bring. I come think ha say na this oyel dey service motor with

Since than I dey avoid naija used cars. If customers call me say dey buy oil from me. I go ask sha the motor na tokunbo or naija used. If they talk say na naija I go tell them to use wetin the previous owner was using. I no dey sell market to them o

ahahahah

StillDtruth:


It is school that taught me that using an extreme situation to make an argument is unreasonable and invalid.

which school did you go to? You need a refund oo. Internal combustion engines are the same everywhere whether BMW, Jaguar, Volkswagen or any other brand, nothing like extreme example.

RichIgboBoy:
what about people wey don use same oil for same car over 10years plus?

Faid enough... A naija used car for 10yrs no be motor be dat bro. The car is just managing itself, if na Toyota the car will survive small until it can't survive no matter More. And also you are burning more fuel coz of thickness of the oil...

And in that 10yrs how many times have they changed spark plugs, coil and fuel injector. Plus mind you that 10yrs period they would have change gasket and rebuilt engine. Radiator would have been changed many times. Instead of using coolant they use water. They would have spent money on repairs.....

To top it off say with your full chest can your car travel outside Lagos to Abuja at night and feel confident that car no go break down.... Cars driven in Lagos tend to suffer wear and tear compare to Abuja or places that have better roads .. Due to the abuse that car will not make it on long journey outside Lagos and it will chop more fuel and over heating....

You can't comfortably tell me that you fit drive that car for night go Abuja .

Let us not received ourselves. That 10yr period that car would have been rigged gasket changed fuel pump replaced etc.

dru23:


Faid enough... A naija used car for 10yrs no be motor be dat bro. The car is just managing itself, if na Toyota the car will survive small until it can't survive no matter More. And also you are burning more fuel coz of thickness of the oil...

And in that 10yrs how many times have they changed spark plugs, coil and fuel injector. Plus mind you that 10yrs period they would have change gasket and rebuilt engine. Radiator would have been changed many times. Instead of using coolant they use water. They would have spent money on repairs.....

To top it off say with your full chest can your car travel outside Lagos to Abuja at night and feel confident that car no go break down.... Cars driven in Lagos tend to suffer wear and tear compare to Abuja or places that have better roads .. Due to the abuse that car will not make it on long journey outside Lagos and it will chop more fuel and over heating....

You can't comfortably tell me that you fit drive that car for night go Abuja .

Let us not received ourselves. That 10yr period that car would have been rigged gasket changed fuel pump replaced etc.

say what you know o bro, I can comfortably travel with my car to Abuja at night, no check engine light. My bro was using same oil and was frequently traveling to east with his car. Even for over heating, people that has suffered it more in Nigeria are those using thin oils, you can do your research. I sha understand that you are a business man
My thermostat and every other factory fittings still intact tho. Na just the oil dey fear me on how to revert back to factory recommendation. My point is you can’t completely downplay the 20w50 oil which has been serving people over the years without issue.

dru23:


Faid enough... A naija used car for 10yrs no be motor be dat bro. The car is just managing itself, if na Toyota the car will survive small until it can't survive no matter More. And also you are burning more fuel coz of thickness of the oil...

And in that 10yrs how many times have they changed spark plugs, coil and fuel injector. Plus mind you that 10yrs period they would have change gasket and rebuilt engine. Radiator would have been changed many times. Instead of using coolant they use water. They would have spent money on repairs.....

To top it off say with your full chest can your car travel outside Lagos to Abuja at night and feel confident that car no go break down.... Cars driven in Lagos tend to suffer wear and tear compare to Abuja or places that have better roads .. Due to the abuse that car will not make it on long journey outside Lagos and it will chop more fuel and over heating....

You can't comfortably tell me that you fit drive that car for night go Abuja .

Let us not received ourselves. That 10yr period that car would have been rigged gasket changed fuel pump replaced etc.

you dey look down on my TOYO because you’re using a recent model of civic. If them born you well carry that civic make me and you enter road do racing inside sango Ota or Sagamu bad road. Na me go later give you lift

erico2k2:

What's the cost of taking up your franchise?

shoot an email to our message me (just know for some reason I don't always get NL direct message)

radautoworks:
shoot an email to our message me (just know for some reason I don't always get NL direct message)

No problem

RichIgboBoy:
say what you know o bro, I can comfortably travel with my car to Abuja at night, no check engine light. My bro was using same oil and was frequently traveling to east with his car. Even for over heating, people that has suffered it more in Nigeria are those using thin oils, you can do your research. I sha understand that you are a business man
My thermostat and every other factory fittings still intact tho. Na just the oil dey fear me on how to revert back to factory recommendation. My point is you can’t completely downplay the 20w50 oil which has been serving people over the years without issue.

Nah the reason people nor dey RIng car abroad be that,ANy small thing water do n mix with Oil lol

erico2k2:

Nah the reason people nor dey RIng car abroad be that,ANy small thing water do n mix with Oil lol

how do you mean?

erico2k2:

Nah the reason people nor dey RIng car abroad be that,ANy small thing water do n mix with Oil lol

what do you think about this?

RichIgboBoy:
what do you think about this?

If I talk now u go say I wan sell market. And have Stated before and again. If your motor na naija used I go dey tell you to use wetin the previous owner was using ....coz naija no fit maintain cars. But if the motor na tokunbo especially Grade A I go encourage and welcome you with open arms to buy my oil.....


Yes we can agree the reason for thinner is for environmental reason and increase mpg ..... But this modern cars and engine were structure that way. Especially the oil pump. What we are saying is follow owners manual. If you read owner manual well it will also give you weight of oil you can use at different temperature......


That been said. If your requires 5w20 why do you want to use 20w50. Why not use 5w30 or better yet why not use 5w20 high mileage.. why go to the extreme and use 20w50. This is just common sense


(Pic 2). This is a manual for 2016 Benz. The manual gives you option on type of oil weight to use .... The oil pump is designed to accommodate those weight. So why in the hell would you now use 20w50 for the car....

My brother this is my last explanation on the topic . I no get power to dey explain. And I keep saying I will never buy naija used cars unless I wan buy am give somebody and punish that person....

Will u keep quiet,ole. Which difficulties and slow flow at cold start in nigeria. Does nigeria. Cold temperature freeze a glass of water by 4am.idiot.get lost,u fake oil seller. If your car falls between 1995 till 2010 model.20w50 is a welcome,just that every 4months,u go need change am

dru23:


If I talk now u go say I wan sell market. And have Stated before and again. If your motor na naija used I go dey tell you to use wetin the previous owner was using ....coz naija no fit maintain cars. But if the motor na tokunbo especially Grade A I go encourage and welcome you with open arms to buy my oil.....


Yes we can agree the reason for thinner is for environmental reason and increase mpg ..... But this modern cars and engine were structure that way. Especially the oil pump. What we are saying is follow owners manual. If you read owner manual well it will also give you weight of oil you can use at different temperature......


That been said. If your requires 5w20 why do you want to use 20w50. Why not use 5w30 or better yet why not use 5w20 high mileage.. why go to the extreme and use 20w50. This is just common sense


(Pic 2). This is a manual for 2016 Benz. The manual gives you option on type of oil weight to use .... The oil pump is designed to accommodate those weight. So why in the hell would you now use 20w50 for the car....

My brother this is my last explanation on the topic . I no get power to dey explain. And I keep saying I will never buy naija used cars unless I wan buy am give somebody and punish that person....

2cribz:
Will u keep quiet,ole. Which difficulties and slow flow at cold start in nigeria. Does nigeria. Cold temperature freeze a glass of water by 4am.idiot.get lost,u fake oil seller. If your car falls between 1995 till 2010 model.20w50 is a welcome,just that every 4months,u go need change am

erico2k2:

AHah this is funny, dont you know,60% of cars sold in Nigeria are insurance write offs? let me make it easy for you, any car with a structurer damage is a write off, they sell them to Africans in good faith as for parts but of cos we fix them and resell them. A car with damage to any of the chassis part is a write off.Why do you think people advocate for VIN check go to the copart website or iaaa website and see what's on auction

More than 60 percent, I want to believe. It is just sad, told myself my next car will be brand new, don't even care if it is innoson or any of our "brands" here, the day isn't far when I'll make a thread about it here, just like a few have done ☹️, my car is the only thing I own that wasn't bought new, even as I was 'lucky' during purchase and it has turned out to be very reliable, that needs to change, I must see zero for my odometer!

RichIgboBoy:
what do you think about this?

Simply put, let us see how Engine oil pump work relative to the weight of Oils
Now most wear and tear in any Engine occurs at the beginning. Thicker oils move slower than thinner oils, so if your car rotates with insufficient oil, then wear and tear occurs, even worse in colder climes. The Engine heats up to a constant temp after a while so the issue of oil temp do not count as its highest temp is the needle in the middle which is 90.The bores is another thing ,Diesel Engines are different from patrols, Diesel have more power than petrol hence they are for larger Engines and plants. So what this guy is saying is true of Larger Engines but wrong with smaller Engines ie cars. For trucks, Ships, hGV then yeah

2cribz:
Will u keep quiet,ole. Which difficulties and slow flow at cold start in nigeria. Does nigeria. Cold temperature freeze a glass of water by 4am.idiot.get lost,u fake oil seller. If your car falls between 1995 till 2010 model.20w50 is a welcome,just that every 4months,u go need change am

Bross crack on with your oil ohh, no need to turn vowlence ahahaha

RichIgboBoy:
how do you mean?

People follow recommended oil change and oil weight, hence we don't hear of Engine rigging much in the wet unless your car suffers a catastrophic Engine failure.

erico2k2:

No problem

Emajek at radautoworks com is in charge of fleet and franchising. His name is Emmanuel.

MOTIONTECH:
which school did you go to? You need a refund oo. Internal combustion engines are the same everywhere whether BMW, Jaguar, Volkswagen or any other brand, nothing like extreme example.

Clearly, you live in one British village in Huddersfield.
How many people in Nigeria use BMW, Jaguar, Volkswagen? Mr Fallacy

2cribz:
Will u keep quiet,ole. Which difficulties and slow flow at cold start in nigeria. Does nigeria. Cold temperature freeze a glass of water by 4am.idiot.get lost,u fake oil seller. If your car falls between 1995 till 2010 model.20w50 is a welcome,just that every 4months,u go need change am

"Cold start" means first start when the engine is cold (typically first thing in the morning after sitting overnight, or during the day after it hasn't been driven for hours and the engine is no longer warm) , not the temperature outside 🙆🏾🤣

This is why you sometimes have to leave the car at the mechanic overnight to cold start it for issues that only happen at cold start smh.

RichIgboBoy:
say what you know o bro, I can comfortably travel with my car to Abuja at night, no check engine light. My bro was using same oil and was frequently traveling to east with his car. Even for over heating, people that has suffered it more in Nigeria are those using thin oils, you can do your research. I sha understand that you are a business man
My thermostat and every other factory fittings still intact tho. Na just the oil dey fear me on how to revert back to factory recommendation. My point is you can’t completely downplay the 20w50 oil which has been serving people over the years without issue.

Babatundehy:


Those claiming to know more than the manufacturer are clearly stupid, it is like arguing about the order of alphabets.
I am going to assume you were handed 20W-50 engine oil when you went to a store or a mechanic and said you want to change your car engine oil, by my two big balls, many oil sellers at 'garages' and even road side mechanics will do the same, the last time i was at Ilesha garage in Akure to change my handbrake lining (a family member keeps leaving it on while driving), sitting at the parts seller's shop, about three people came to ask for oil to service their car, they were all handed 20w-50, they paid and left.
Oh well, this is how it is with many people, they don't have the knowledge about oils, check your engine cap and have a look at the oil viscosity written on it by your manufacturer, that's what you should use whether you live in Antarctica or Death valley, USA, now you might change to the manufacturer's oil grade and notice your car smoking shortly after or even immediately, if this is the case then you must fall back to your 20W-50, this is because the engine is high mileage and or has been abused for quite a long time (with very thick 20W-50).
Some change back to the manufacturer's recommended grade and vehicle doesn't smoke or starts making weird sounds, I'll advise you don't fall back anyways, car is old (16 years) and you have abused it for two years, keep it that way so you don't draw much nearer the consequences of using very thick oils over the years.

Couldn't have written this better myself👏🏾

RichIgboBoy:
lol, Nigerians won’t learn, even in USA some of them revert to 20w50 during summer and on high mileage vehicles above 100k miles

Please stop saying this because it is false. I have owned mechanic shops both in Nigeria and the USA. NO ONE does that.

StillDtruth:


Insurance write off does not mean mechanical write off as Nigerians have proven.I am sure that if not for profits from continuous sale and the need to control the world, car manufacturers would have come to build bases here in Nigeria in joy of seeing their insurance write offs being put back together and joyfully driven off, traveling from Lagos to Abuja.

An insurance write-off is triggered when the cost to repair the damage to the car exceeds the value of the car itself. It may be body damage or mechanical damage. It is also automatically triggered if there is damage to the frame/chassis, regardless of cost, as that is now a safety issue. First-hand knowledge handling insurance repairs in Texas.

StillDtruth:


Clearly, you live in one British village in Huddersfield.
How many people in Nigeria use BMW, Jaguar, Volkswagen? Mr Fallacy

chaii....it's the way you are defending your wrong knowledge for me.

MOTIONTECH:
chaii....it's the way you are defending your wrong knowledge for me.

It's the way you are taking a very simple everyday thing people discuss in mechanic shops and trying blow it up like a nuclear bomb.

radautoworks:


An insurance write-off is triggered when the cost to repair the damage to the car exceeds the value of the car itself. It may be body damage or mechanical damage. It is also automatically triggered if there is damage to the frame/chassis, regardless of cost, as that is now a safety issue. First-hand knowledge handling insurance repairs in Texas.

Yeah I know. They are all about the money.

But Nigerian car s are all about the buyability, fixability, speed, abuse aka strength and power etc

StillDtruth:


It's the way you are taking a very simple everyday thing people discuss in mechanic shops and trying blow it up like a nuclear bomb.

you are still defending wrong knowledge further , engine oil is not just engine oil, the numbers you see on the body are not just numbers, they have meaning.

radautoworks:


Emajek at radautoworks com is in charge of fleet and franchising. His name is Emmanuel.

I will mail them once Im off work thanks

The major purpose of engine oil is for lubrication. Without oil,engine won't start,and if it does ,its a big break down of metals ,aka rod knock. Use any oil ,,be it winter 5,winter 20,winter 30,etc.oil and oil. the car is not brand new,oyinbo dey use car rough us,forget most cars at the lot are not first body.they are all repainted. Use these oils,drive ,condem or resell. U won't drive 1 car forever. Stop being scared. 20w50 is no biggie. Go and use 5w40 and watch your engine knock after 2 weeks. A knock with no smoke or leak .e don be...e go dry up like steam