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What is it you are hoping to achieve by being in a JDM club?
I ask because there are millions of Facebook groups, nearly every car has at least half a dozen "owners club" style groups and all that happens is you see the same stuff posted over multiple platforms and half of it is worthless crap.
As an example I joined the Altezza UK group and met a bunch of the owners at Castle Combe, they didn't appear to know a great deal about the cars at all and it felt more like I was at a Q&A meet telling them about their cars.
The local JDM club near me has hundreds of members but only about 3 actually have JDM cars ,the rest have UK spec versions of common Japanese cars , again I've not gained anything other than being on "club stands" at shows I was going to go to anyway.
All it ends up with is a few prominent members posting 10 pictures of their new valve covers or latest sticker yet ask them what diff ratio and final drive combination they have or if anyone has any tips on for example changing a tensioner or something like that an you get told to go to a garage...not even a specific one
I ask because there are millions of Facebook groups, nearly every car has at least half a dozen "owners club" style groups and all that happens is you see the same stuff posted over multiple platforms and half of it is worthless crap.
As an example I joined the Altezza UK group and met a bunch of the owners at Castle Combe, they didn't appear to know a great deal about the cars at all and it felt more like I was at a Q&A meet telling them about their cars.
The local JDM club near me has hundreds of members but only about 3 actually have JDM cars ,the rest have UK spec versions of common Japanese cars , again I've not gained anything other than being on "club stands" at shows I was going to go to anyway.
All it ends up with is a few prominent members posting 10 pictures of their new valve covers or latest sticker yet ask them what diff ratio and final drive combination they have or if anyone has any tips on for example changing a tensioner or something like that an you get told to go to a garage...not even a specific one
aka-kerly
Car clubs a car club - Facebook forum is a facebook forum - aka[KRAP] - if you've never been in a real car club, where people actually use, work on, DRIVE & talk about the cars, face to face then you probably won't know the difference
I'm Not on facebook - never will be
I live in the real world, something most and especially younger people don't seem to recognise anymore which is a shame
I was hoping to meet like minded folk in a club enviroment ie. the real world
Pictures of a shiny rocker cover on internet mean SFA - IMO that is.
Car clubs a car club - Facebook forum is a facebook forum - aka[KRAP] - if you've never been in a real car club, where people actually use, work on, DRIVE & talk about the cars, face to face then you probably won't know the difference
I'm Not on facebook - never will be
I live in the real world, something most and especially younger people don't seem to recognise anymore which is a shameI was hoping to meet like minded folk in a club enviroment ie. the real world
Pictures of a shiny rocker cover on internet mean SFA - IMO that is.It's interesting you say that, I'm a admin on the MK2 Volkswagen Golf club, a proper club that was founded by a good friend of mine with a traditional chat forum which had a tonne of technical information,useful how to guides ,regular local meets, regional event organisers, a annual club meet where we rent out a sprint track to do a weekend of track, show an shine, maintenance/mods, auto jumble, amazing food, music/entertainment etc etc
It's brilliant but we had to concede defeat as the forum side started to die when about 20 other MK2 Golf groups all started on Facebook, I hardly bother with them as it's far too much "what oil to use" or "what is the best engine conversion" every single day rather than anyone actually searching or using the many existing sources of information.
What you are describing is exactly what I want from a club to!
It's brilliant but we had to concede defeat as the forum side started to die when about 20 other MK2 Golf groups all started on Facebook, I hardly bother with them as it's far too much "what oil to use" or "what is the best engine conversion" every single day rather than anyone actually searching or using the many existing sources of information.
What you are describing is exactly what I want from a club to!
aka_kerrly said:
What is it you are hoping to achieve by being in a JDM club?
I ask because there are millions of Facebook groups, nearly every car has at least half a dozen "owners club" style groups and all that happens is you see the same stuff posted over multiple platforms and half of it is worthless crap.
As an example I joined the Altezza UK group and met a bunch of the owners at Castle Combe, they didn't appear to know a great deal about the cars at all and it felt more like I was at a Q&A meet telling them about their cars.
The local JDM club near me has hundreds of members but only about 3 actually have JDM cars ,the rest have UK spec versions of common Japanese cars , again I've not gained anything other than being on "club stands" at shows I was going to go to anyway.
All it ends up with is a few prominent members posting 10 pictures of their new valve covers or latest sticker yet ask them what diff ratio and final drive combination they have or if anyone has any tips on for example changing a tensioner or something like that an you get told to go to a garage...not even a specific one
I think you have perfectly summed up the majority of Facebook "owners clubs" I ask because there are millions of Facebook groups, nearly every car has at least half a dozen "owners club" style groups and all that happens is you see the same stuff posted over multiple platforms and half of it is worthless crap.
As an example I joined the Altezza UK group and met a bunch of the owners at Castle Combe, they didn't appear to know a great deal about the cars at all and it felt more like I was at a Q&A meet telling them about their cars.
The local JDM club near me has hundreds of members but only about 3 actually have JDM cars ,the rest have UK spec versions of common Japanese cars , again I've not gained anything other than being on "club stands" at shows I was going to go to anyway.
All it ends up with is a few prominent members posting 10 pictures of their new valve covers or latest sticker yet ask them what diff ratio and final drive combination they have or if anyone has any tips on for example changing a tensioner or something like that an you get told to go to a garage...not even a specific one
It's more about stickers and coloured sidelight bulbs than anything relevant/interesting.
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