Have you ever seen arsiness like this before? USA

[diddly69]

Chortle

[swiftpete]

I didn't put the USA thing in because I think this is representative of all americans. It was aimed at the chap who thinks that doing your own servicing is unamerican and then gets all uppity about it.

[Marquis Rex]

If anything- servicing and working on your own vehicles has always been a sort of right of passage in the USA- probably largely due to large expanses of agricultural land. It's far more common to work on your own car here than in Europe. Especially in parts where cars don't rust and you see very well kept cars being driven daily.

'mericans are usually less obsessed with FSH or FMDSH on 30 year old cars either.

[airportparking]

Makes PH look almost friendly and welcoming

[Mark34bn]

Chris71 said:

Deluded said:

TBH you tend to see that a lot on marque/model specific forums. I've come across it a number of times. Just because a new person comes along and asks a question that has been asked before, all the regulars have a tantrum.

Sadly true.

I signed on to one recently to do with a car I'm looking at buying and - being a car forum - there's a field to enter what you currently drive. Someone noticed that and spent a paragraph telling me how crap my daily driver is. It was a strange welcome, particularly given the forum is dedicated to another 1990s front wheel drive four-cylinder hatchback ... it wasn't as if I'd strayed onto the Veyron owners club or something.

I also think the same is true of car clubs to a certain extent. Single make clubs tend to be a bit cliquey (and downright disturbing in the form of the MX5OC person who could tell me the paint code of my old RS-Ltd) whereas the atmosphere is often better somewhere people are united by a general interest in cars and driving.

I've encountered this on a car forum, newbie asks question that's been discussed before and he's told to 'do a search' - search turns up 1600 results, none relevant to the question.
The worst I've encountered was on a UK car magazine forum, some call themselves the 'Forum Elite' and they make sure all newcomers are unwelcome. That forum is viewable by anyone and is a complete embarrassment, I'm surprised the editor hasn't ditched it completely.

[BDR529]

Mark34bn said:

I've encountered this on a car forum, newbie asks question that's been discussed before and he's told to 'do a search' - search turns up 1600 results, none relevant to the question.
The worst I've encountered was on a UK car magazine forum, some call themselves the 'Forum Elite' and they make sure all newcomers are unwelcome. That forum is viewable by anyone and is a complete embarrassment, I'm surprised the editor hasn't ditched it completely.

Linky?

[BDR529]

anonymous said:

[redacted]

A search function that works properly (possibly have the option of tags)
would solve all this.


Alot of threads are titled in a certain way that can be hard to pick up just from a search bar alone.

[Bing o]

Let's face it, driving a Yaris in the land of the muscle car is going to mean you rae a bit socially deficient.

[bluetone]

LOL at the Yaris thread - gotta love the way the former Toyota dealership manager is banging on about patriotism, after having had a career helping destroy the US car industry, with no sense of irony. Brilliant.

[thatotherguy]

I apologize for bumping such a stupid and old thread. But I wanted to check in to see whether or not the disparity in opinions had been resolved.

Firstly, I notice that a lot of people are doing the old "click on the first post's link and then comment" without reading farther down to my wall of text of an explanation.

Secondly, we're not all Americans on there. I am Canadian. We have Europeans, Asians, and people from the Middle East. It's Yaris World, not Yaris America.

• sigh* and I didn't want to resort to this but some of our members could destroy at least some of you in a race, so stop pandering on about a "woman's car". No. The Fiat 500 is a woman's car.

[Patrick Bateman]

I'd probably agree but then if the Fiat 500 is a women's car then a Yaris most definitely is as well.

[thatotherguy]

Though honestly speaking I've never bitten into the whole "x is a woman's car and y is not". No car is inherently "feminine", there are some that are just ugly. A car could really only be inherently feminine if it was made Pink, and ONLY in pink. For instance i never understood why a Mazda Miata is a "gay peron's car" when it can be made to be a very very agile track car.

But anyway.

[750turbo]

thatotherguy said:

• sigh* and I didn't want to resort to this but some of our members could destroy at least some of you in a race,......

That one comment alone, should, IMO, get you booted out of here sir.

[thatotherguy]

You know, considering what some of your members have said, I consider that to be quite civilized. And as I said, I didn't want to say it because it is cliche, it is nonetheless, true

[anonymous-user]

thatotherguy said:

*sigh* and I didn't want to resort to this but some of our members could destroy at least some of you in a race

Wow.

[thatotherguy]

Alright I see that I had used a poor choice of words. What my intent was, was to bring forth the fact that any car can be modified, and tuned- and therefore be an enthusiasts car. ANY car. Even a Toyota Yaris, otherwise known as the Turbocharged Vitz RS in Japan.

[mybrainhurts]

Is the Yaris fuel filter really in the tank, or was that a pisstake..?

[thatotherguy]

The fuel filter is part of the fuel pump, which isn't technically IN the tank if I recall.

[mybrainhurts]

Blimey...what a daft idea.