Autotrader stupid change

Autotrader stupid change

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Petrolsmasher

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2,452 posts

128 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Anyone else annoyed by the recent change to autotrader which only allows you to select cars with 'at least 30000 miles', rather than less than.

What a stupid change, i want to narrow it down by less mileage i dont want 'at least' so many miles on the clock, who the hell thought of this?

S100HP

13,210 posts

179 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Petrolsmasher said:
Anyone else annoyed by the recent change to autotrader which only allows you to select cars with 'at least 30000 miles', rather than less than.

What a stupid change, i want to narrow it down by less mileage i dont want 'at least' so many miles on the clock, who the hell thought of this?
User error. You've got a filter elsewhere which means there are only cars over 30k available.


Petrolsmasher

Original Poster:

2,452 posts

128 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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S100HP said:
Petrolsmasher said:
Anyone else annoyed by the recent change to autotrader which only allows you to select cars with 'at least 30000 miles', rather than less than.

What a stupid change, i want to narrow it down by less mileage i dont want 'at least' so many miles on the clock, who the hell thought of this?
User error. You've got a filter elsewhere which means there are only cars over 30k available.

Nope does it even with no filters.

mike74

3,687 posts

144 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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I never like the format or search function on AT it always seems to include all sorts of model variants that you're not interested in despite trying to narrow down and specify your search requirements.

Am I doing something wrong at the moment?... When I search for Impreza wrx sti it's showing only one for sale?!!

Edit - Ignore that, I've just tried it now and it's showing 134 cars, looks like the new changes have improved the search function for me at least, it was definitely only coming up with one example for sale the last time I looked!

Edited by mike74 on Wednesday 6th May 19:00

Jimmy Recard

17,547 posts

191 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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S100HP said:
User error. You've got a filter elsewhere which means there are only cars over 30k available.

The website options are all 'at least', in fairness. It does seem a bit weird to me

Scrump

23,243 posts

170 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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You seem to be looking at the min mileage search field.
The max mileage search field allows selection of 'up to' X miles.

S100HP

13,210 posts

179 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Oh I see now on the website. Seems like a small error, because if I search for at least 10k I get nothing above 10k miles. Suggests wording is incorrect but functionally still exists and works correctly.

manracer

1,548 posts

109 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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I'll let the guys know, I'm working with AT at the moment on something, looks like they pushed a change down the pipeline incorrectly.

Scrump

23,243 posts

170 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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The app is working correctly for me. The min/max mileage search fields are correct.

Not Invented Here

19 posts

85 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Can they also change the 0-60 sort function???

It’s daft, you can sort by
0-5 seconds - quick
0-8 seconds - quite quick
8-12 seconds - virtually all other cars
12s+ - cars no one wants

It’s the 8-12 seconds band that is particularly daft, it includes cars that can pretty well keep up with traffic in the low to mid eights, including the Luke warm cheap hatches, in with the truly tragically slow!


honest_delboy

1,588 posts

212 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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manracer said:
I'll let the guys know, I'm working with AT at the moment on something, looks like they pushed a change down the pipeline incorrectly.
You can search for 2 keywords using the app but the website comes up with 0 cars with the same search.

Is this a bug or by design ?

aka_kerrly

12,491 posts

222 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Whenever AT have a survey I always ask if the 0-60 time filters can be adjusted because there is too big a cap between cars that do just under 8 seconds and those that are 5. 1 and sub 5 is the next option. I just want the 5-7 area.. I'm awkward haha

Dalto

3,198 posts

175 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Got to say I'm not a huge fan of the redesign. It sounds silly, but I am so used to the search fields being on the left hand side, that it's strange to see it on the right now.

I also agree that the terminology that've used for the mileage is a bit misleading. There wasn't anything wrong with saying 'Up to x miles'.


stevemcs

9,284 posts

105 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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It would also make sense that when putting a max value, say 5k that it stops putting sponsored cars in that are double the price.

Hub

6,735 posts

210 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Not Invented Here said:
Can they also change the 0-60 sort function???

It’s daft, you can sort by
0-5 seconds - quick
0-8 seconds - quite quick
8-12 seconds - virtually all other cars
12s+ - cars no one wants

It’s the 8-12 seconds band that is particularly daft, it includes cars that can pretty well keep up with traffic in the low to mid eights, including the Luke warm cheap hatches, in with the truly tragically slow!
Agree with that - and have you noticed that in the performance stats hardly any cars seem to have 0-60 figures anymore!

DoubleD

22,154 posts

120 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Hub said:
Not Invented Here said:
Can they also change the 0-60 sort function???

It’s daft, you can sort by
0-5 seconds - quick
0-8 seconds - quite quick
8-12 seconds - virtually all other cars
12s+ - cars no one wants

It’s the 8-12 seconds band that is particularly daft, it includes cars that can pretty well keep up with traffic in the low to mid eights, including the Luke warm cheap hatches, in with the truly tragically slow!
Agree with that - and have you noticed that in the performance stats hardly any cars seem to have 0-60 figures anymore!
I also agree. The 8-12 is too big a gap.

SidewaysSi

10,742 posts

246 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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I would much rather they did a 30-70mph in top rather than 0-60mph

V8fan

6,863 posts

280 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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The results returned are wrong as well. If you do a search for cars with 0-60 mph of under 5s, you get loads that obviously can't (Suzuki Swift 1.5 GLX, BMW X5 3.0d or a Suzuki Jiminy 1.3 for example ??)

In the BMW's case it's the actual data that's wrong in every listing, spec says 0-60 in 4.7s, with 235 bhp .... I think not. It's 7.4s I reckon and been transposed from the data provider wrongly.

Glenn63

3,315 posts

96 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Hub said:
Not Invented Here said:
Can they also change the 0-60 sort function???

It’s daft, you can sort by
0-5 seconds - quick
0-8 seconds - quite quick
8-12 seconds - virtually all other cars
12s+ - cars no one wants

It’s the 8-12 seconds band that is particularly daft, it includes cars that can pretty well keep up with traffic in the low to mid eights, including the Luke warm cheap hatches, in with the truly tragically slow!
Agree with that - and have you noticed that in the performance stats hardly any cars seem to have 0-60 figures anymore!
They should also bring back the power output selection.

hadleighhammer

59 posts

159 months

Wednesday 6th May 2020
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Glenn63 said:
Hub said:
Not Invented Here said:
Can they also change the 0-60 sort function???

It’s daft, you can sort by
0-5 seconds - quick
0-8 seconds - quite quick
8-12 seconds - virtually all other cars
12s+ - cars no one wants

It’s the 8-12 seconds band that is particularly daft, it includes cars that can pretty well keep up with traffic in the low to mid eights, including the Luke warm cheap hatches, in with the truly tragically slow!
Agree with that - and have you noticed that in the performance stats hardly any cars seem to have 0-60 figures anymore!
They should also bring back the power output selection.
Agree with the power and 0-60 times spread