Classified Ads - Engine Size Filter - You've ruined it

[snotrag]

A bit of feedback.

You've recently changed the 'Engine size filter' on your classified ads, and done a really, really poor job of it. There was nothing wrong with the previous version - where discrete values could be selected.


Case in point - I fancy another Nc MX-5. I am strictly only interested in the 2 litre cars, which are actually 1998CC. With the old system, I could just slide the lower limit to 'anywhere around about 1900cc or 1.9 litres' and get the cars I wanted, and not the ones I dont.

With you new system:

Select 1.5 to 6.0:



All the cars are shown, including the 1.8 litres cars I have zero interest in.

Select 2.0 to 6.0:



Only 3 cars are shown, which are the ones where the seller has incorrectly listed them as 2000cc rather than 1998cc.


I might also fancy changing my S2 Elise to one of those rare-ish but lovely 1ZR 1.6 litre Elise S3s.

I use the system to search for that either.

There will be many, many more used car searches which you have made impossiblle with this poor re-design of the filter system. I cannot believe that this has got through any sort of testing before being pushed out. Please fix it!

[Matt Dell]

Thanks for the feedback. We changed it because of some other feedback that the engine size filter in cubic centimeters was confusing (cars are marketed in litres not CC's) and so we updated it to be in litres.

You're right that there should be more granularity with the engine size, so we'll look into that in the next few days.

In the meantime you can update the URL if you really need to to put whatever unit you want in CC's. So set engine-size=2000 to engine-size=1900 or engine-size=1998 depending on how specific you want to be.

[snotrag]

Thanks Matt - appreciate that.

Matt Dell said:

We changed it because of some other feedback that the engine size filter in cubic centimeters was confusing.

Suppose you have to appeal to the lowest common denominator...