There was a time my 2010 Lexus IS250 sport car refused to start. I called a mechanic from two streets away from my home. People recommended him as the best mechanic around the neighborhood.
After turning around my car, touching different components and using wires and other tools to diagnose why they car wouldn’t start, this technician billed me N180k!
He said the kick starter of my car was bad. He also called some other car components I’ve forgotten. I was begging this man with N120k. He refused. He said N150k was final, because my car is rare, and the parts are expensive.
Luckily, I called a friend of mine to recommend another good mechanic. When he heard the bill this other mechanic gave me, he told me to wait that he’s coming with a car scanner to check things by himself first before we call another mechanic.
This friend arrived and plugged in this red portable device to the OBD port just below my car steering. And in seconds, it indicated that three fuses in my fuse box were burnt. It also indicated that the “fusible link” had shifted.
We drove his car to Otopec (a place in Benin city where they sell car components) and we bought the fuses. When we fixed the blown fuses and put the “fusible link” back into position, to my biggest surprise, the car started!
Guess how much we spent in total? N150 (a whopping one hundred and fifty naira — at fifty naira per fuse).
And I was begging that barawo of a mechanic with my hard-earned N120k!
That’s how these technicians take we car owners for a ride. But never again! Since I bought the AutoScanPRO car scanner, I’ve taken back control of my car and repair expenses. You should too.
I now scan and detect every fault my cars have by myself. And I fix the little little faults I can fix myself at home with the help of DIY YouTube videos.
The ones I can’t fix, I buy the parts, take them to a mechanic and tell him exactly what needs to be replaced. I pay him his N5k service charge and that’s it.
You can do same when you get yourself one AutoScanPRO for your cars.
Normally sells for between N30k, but because you are getting it in the 3-in-1 bundle, you’ll get it at a discounted price.