Empty Garages

[Digger]

There are clearly many posters here who have, have had, or want to have (not so worried about these) certain cars of what ever colour, creed, or engine configuration.

Any chance of a kick up the backside to remind peeps to spend a few minutes filling their garage? It's always their choice of course.

[rigga]

Digger said:

Any chance of a kick up the backside to remind peeps to spend a few minutes filling their garage? It's always their choice of course.

And that's where it stops .....Its a choice, so can't force anyone to fill them in I'm afraid.

[rob.e]

yes, you're right you can't force people to fill them in BUT you could make it easier and encourage people to do it - ie post the best updates on the home page etc.

i've long thought that this was an underutilised area of the site - it's basically unchanged from when ted set it up 10 years ago. Look at david yu's auto-journals.com - its essentially just a "my garage" blog site.

[Stuart]

Inclined to agree, that it is an under-utilised area of the site. We're about to start encouraging people to fill them in more often and the first step has been some data cleaning which has been going on in the background. Some of you may have received a "please login to your profile page" type email recently, of which this was a part.

We do use the garage data to invite people to private events with manufacturers from time to time (and not just high end supercar manufacturers) so it certainly pays to tell us what car you drive and to keep it up to date.

[rob.e]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[The Nur]

And there was me getting all excited when I thought that this thread was to initialise the advertisement of empty garage space for rent

[Craikeybaby]

Wasn't there a competition a while back where the prize was based on garage contents?

[Papa Hotel]

Craikeybaby said:

Wasn't there a competition a while back where the prize was based on garage contents?

Yep. If a Subaru Impreza isn't going to persuade someone to fill in a quick online form, I don't think they're going to be bothered by polite reminder emails.

[Stuart]

There was, and it worked really well. We'll keep doing that sort of thing as well.

[rob.e]

Craikeybaby said:

Wasn't there a competition a while back where the prize was based on garage contents?

[Mattt]

Stuart said:

There was, and it worked really well. We'll keep doing that sort of thing as well.

Would you consider a Lotus as the next prize, it would be funny...

[Stuart]

Yeah, hilarious. We're still laughing now in fact.

Mobile phone entry OK?

[Papa Hotel]

Mattt said:

Would you consider a Lotus as the next prize, it would be funny...

With a Tracker subscription?

[th85]

Didn't realise quite the depth you can go into it. As mine needs an update and I have 30 mins spare so I'll get to it. Quite like the idea of it.