You can't go wrong with window stickers, discreet ones :)
I'll tell you another reason this site is getting more hits. A lot of us UK based owners are getting fukked off with the mentality 'over the pond'. Keep getting told to read the Rave is not what casual readers want to hear. Most people that ask a question on here get a sensible answer and assistance. Rarely has anyone not been helped with advice.
Even me, and I'm crap!
I'll get out the tin foil.. :)
Doesn't bother me - happy to contribute if it comes to it too.
Tin Foil hats not needed ! Don't want to 'hijack' further but this (US-Based) Site may help explain better just what I am on about....
http://www.networkadvertising.org/faq
... but the main point is that what is now 'acceptable' on-line may not be acceptable 'elsewhere'; Eg. If you walk down the High Street and look at Ready-Made Meals in Tescos then Morrisons do you want someone to tap you on the shoulder to tell your there is a Aldi round the corner ? Some folks are quite happy with this, but some want to opt out... or at least the option to do so, anyway..... The key issue is that if we want this we should then opt in not opt out (as it stands at present)....
Morat wrote:
You can't go wrong with window stickers, discreet ones :)
RAVE is a wealth of knowlege but it's not exactly light reading. Or that easy to search IMO.
Gordon, if you're feeling feisty on the server front would you consider a Wiki? Sticky threads are all very well but they soon get cumbersome, lose their photos etc.
Good Stickies can certainly work if the content is carefully edited/controlled....
That was one of the key problems with the 'other' Site; The Stickes should have been expanded rather than all that 'just read Rave' nonsense !
Again John Brabyn pitched it about right, basically "useful/practical advice with pictures...."
Marty (somehow) managed to get them to post his Stickies on that 'other' Site and were/are invaluable, hence Toad's incessant 'just use Search'
could be extremely irritating too... Who wants to wade through 50+ threads/posts when it is (relatively) easy to consolidate it all in one place ?
Dave, I do agree with you. A wiki just makes the editing/controlling easier. You can also separate the moderator permissions from the wiki editing permissions so you don't have to have the same "team" doing both jobs - not a problem right now of course but something for the future perhaps.
Sorry Morat I was not disagreeing with you, as long as all the (really) useful data is one place it serves the same purpose !
(Sorry to hark on about the 'other' Site but all those dead links on the Mother Site were just completely unacceptable ....
when I complained they told me there were some 'information ownership' issues; In fact I suspect they just could not
be bothered to update it... ?... Or perhaps it then effectively increased the traffic to the RR Forum Site instead...?)
Incidentally Gordon I still don't know how to £contribute ... Put me down for 10 Windows stickers though.....
I complained about a few things and look where it got me......
I agree that something like this http://www.rangerovers.net/newrremedies.html (which is what I assume is meant by a Wiki) would be very helpful. I found that long before I found the forum over there but a lot of the tips are out of date and have never been updated. An up to date version of that sort of thing would be perfect.
I'm thinking about this: http://www.e30zone.net/e30zonewiki/index.php/Main_Page
It started out really small but has grown over the years.
I miss my E30 :( I think I need to scratch that itch again sometime!