Does the car forum reflect the type of owner of the car?
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Over the years I have frequented many internet car forums as I have owned different cars. It seems to me that the topics, content, speeling and grammaer very much reflect the type of owner of the cars.
Top of my list would be the Lotus Seven forum, Blatchat, followed by SELOC the Lotus Elise forum. These both are an incredible technical resource. Some of the BMW forums are OK, but not as good as the Lotus ones.
I recently went on a Saxo forum for some technical advice... Oh dear! I though some of the posts were in a different language! "Me exaust well loud init m8"
doogz said:
buzzer said:
Over the years I have frequented many internet car forums as I have owned different cars. It seems to me that the topics, content, speeling and grammaer very much reflect the type of owner of the cars.
Top of my list would be the Lotus Seven forum, Blatchat, followed by SELOC the Lotus Elise forum. These both are an incredible technical resource. Some of the BMW forums are OK, but not as good as the Lotus ones.
I recently went on a Saxo forum for some technical advice... Oh dear! I though some of the posts were in a different language! "Me exaust well loud init m8"
Technical advice, try the 106 Rallye Regsiter. Top of my list would be the Lotus Seven forum, Blatchat, followed by SELOC the Lotus Elise forum. These both are an incredible technical resource. Some of the BMW forums are OK, but not as good as the Lotus ones.
I recently went on a Saxo forum for some technical advice... Oh dear! I though some of the posts were in a different language! "Me exaust well loud init m8"
There were 2 Saxo forums in the past. One for people who wanted technical advice, do trackdays and enjoy there cheap fun hatch. Anyone who came on talking like a moron was treated similarly to here and went across to the other one. The other one is still running
t thing to have a specialist knowledge on ehWhile troubleshooting my runabout (Corsa), I had to go to a few of the Corsa forums as, apparently, no garage or mechanic has the ability to work on a bog standard 12 year old car these days... 
Whilst it was very helpful (enabled me to sort a camshaft sensor fault), and helped me locate very cheap parts and good fixes for a couple of other niggles, I had to wade through page after page of chavspeak to find the answers I needed.
Was not really much of an issue, as I don't have the same spelling hangups and cognitive impairment that a lot of the people on here seem to have when it comes to reading through mistakes, but I could have probably saved a few hours if it were laid out like the posts on here.
Whilst it was very helpful (enabled me to sort a camshaft sensor fault), and helped me locate very cheap parts and good fixes for a couple of other niggles, I had to wade through page after page of chavspeak to find the answers I needed.
Was not really much of an issue, as I don't have the same spelling hangups and cognitive impairment that a lot of the people on here seem to have when it comes to reading through mistakes, but I could have probably saved a few hours if it were laid out like the posts on here.
Edited by Carrot on Thursday 6th January 14:18
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