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Understanding High and Low mileage in buying used cars.

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Want to buy a W-Engine vehicle?

 ------ AUTOMOBILE 101 ------ By Engr Gozie Atueyi.  People are more conversant with I - Engines and V - Engines but very few know about W - Engines. Volkswagen the owners of Bently are the only Automobile company in the world that produce "W" engines. This is similer to "V" engines but the only difference is "V" engines have 2 rows of cylinders on one side ie, 2 rows of 3 cylinders for V6 or 2 rows of 4 cylinders each for V8 engines but in the case of Bently W12 engines there are 4 row of 3 cylinders each. The engine is a 6.0 liter twin tubocharged that came into existence around 2002 as a replacement for the V12. Why Bently switched from V12  to  W12 is the W12 is more compact, flater, shorter, and smarter. Due to the compactness, the engine now becomes more easy for full time AWD instead of the V12 rear wheel drive and also occupies lesser space inside the engine compactment. These W12 engines are hand-made by about 30 highly skilled craft men, and Bent...
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DOES YOUR CAR JERK?

  So many things can make an engine cut off power when you need more power from the engine. You said you've replaced the fuel pump, nozzles and spark plugs yet no improvement.  find solution to a problem first thing is observation of the problem. Since this happens only when you speed up to 80 - 100km and above what it means is it happens when much power has been drawn from the engine and more power still needed. Now what are those factors/components responsible for helping the engine push out more power with increased RPM or workload ie components that adjust with higher pressure or RPM? Fuel pump, Nozzles, Throttle body, air filter, engine oil, coil, pressure vaccum, blocked exhust, MAF etc. Now on this case, did you take time to read the value of your Air : Fuel Ratio? This value is suppose to be 16.5 (air) : 1 (petrol). If your MAF is not good or air filter is blocked by dirts and this value becomes less due to engine suffocation as result of the blockage the engine will b...
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NOT ALL MECHANICS ARE MECHANICS!

 A very quick one. You see most of those exotic super luxury and powerful cars you use to admire and wishing to have one some day. Rolls-Royce,  Bently,  Lamborghini,  Porsche etc, this is how their engine look. This one no be "oga it fit be the plug or make we service the nozzle"......mba. I just say make i inform you. Just minding my business.  ©️Engr Gozie Atueyi.
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WHY YOUR DRIVE SHAFT ALWAYS PULL

 ------ AUTOMOBILE 101 ----- Drive Shaft fault is a very annoying fault especially front wheel vehicles with flat engines.  Drive shafts pull out for many reasons. Major reason is bad or absence of Outer shaft KEY LOCK. That lock looks like ring used in locking the shaft rod inside the outer cup. Most fairly used/ tokumbo shaft in the market do have this issue. About 85% of them dont have key lock. The reason is thus: Most fairly used shaft in the market are not follow come but coupled inside that market, i dont have problem with that but where i have problem is the process used in the coupling. The process used in coupling them is so crude.   They forcefully hammer off the cups, breaking the key lock and after coupling they hardly install a new key lock. That small key lock is more than N2,000 so if the seller couples 100 shafts do you expect him to replace all key locks at that price but this is where you the buyer have to come in by insisting to confirm it has the...
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VEHICLE MAINTENANCE ALERT!

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