Pistonheads or more like piston wearing out!

[Riley Blue]

NGRhodes said:

Lester H said:

Vixpy1 said:

Pistonheads has been sold , as part of the sale announcement :

'The proposed sale is expected to close in early 2019, subject to satisfaction of certain closing conditions. '

I'm willing to bet one of those was a certain turnover.

At a bit of a tangent, does anyone on here know how Pistonheads is censored, posts moved, or closed, etc.

https://www.pistonheads.com/terms-and-conditions

Together with https://www.pistonheads.com/rules-of-posting

and https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

[wise man]

It has gone down hill a little as the response is pretty bad and prices going up.

Sad as use to be a good site

[crofty1984]

If I was looking for a specialist/enthusiast car and had a decent budget, I'd probably look at PH classifieds, but I can't think of the last time I did, despite being on the forums daily.

[wise man]

Well there you go. It’s people like you that are enthusiasts and by cars from people like me so if you not looking at classified then how will I sell.

Never mind I am sure someone is making a new site where we will all meet again that’s not about milking clients

[Chris32345]

People use the place to sell cars or advertise?

[JulianHJ]

Chris32345 said:

People use the place to sell cars or advertise?

PH is owned by CarGurus, a used car website based in the US:

https://www.pistonheads.com/news/general-news/haym...

Back when 'all this was fields' (early 2000s) it was primarily a TVR owners forum. Classifieds crept in, advertising crept in, and this helped PetrolTed (PH's creator) to keep the lights on. As it's popularity grew it became attractive to a publishing company (Haymarket) and eventually CarGurus. Whilst it's not currently on the scale of AutoTrader, it remains a great source of ads if you're looking for more interesting/specialist cars.