I'm not in the habit of starting threads, but I felt this needed to be stated.
I've read several posts commenting on the "piddly" nature of questions being asked on the forums here.
I find that disconcerting.
You can't build a a good, reputable technical forum without addressing the lowliest of questions with equal gusto as you would a question on the merits of tweaked injector pulse timing and coil pack dwell. Every car nut, modder, and gear head started out having to ask questions and learn from the ground up.
If you want to build support on a forum like this, you HAVE to take the smallest questions seriously. You don't start a community with high end tuners and technical projects, you grow them, starting with small questions, building a reputation for folks with general questions who become motivated and come back with more ambitions questions and projects
Folks like me, who are looking for place to talk versa, will look first to see what's being asked, and how it"s being answered. I want to know where the experts are and how they behave.
The Versa is a young model, especially in the US. It hasn't yet cracked the 10 year mark, and does not have that "sporty" persona that a car like the Fit, or Fiat 500 enjoys, so it doesn't draw as much attention.
It takes time for a community to discover all the nuances of a given model, and it's evolution. It takes longer to find all the ways to exploit the strengths and fortify the weaknesses.
The VW/Audi 1.8T is 16 years old, and we are still discovering things about that engine's engineering and ways to exploit its systems.
I've read several posts commenting on the "piddly" nature of questions being asked on the forums here.
I find that disconcerting.
You can't build a a good, reputable technical forum without addressing the lowliest of questions with equal gusto as you would a question on the merits of tweaked injector pulse timing and coil pack dwell. Every car nut, modder, and gear head started out having to ask questions and learn from the ground up.
If you want to build support on a forum like this, you HAVE to take the smallest questions seriously. You don't start a community with high end tuners and technical projects, you grow them, starting with small questions, building a reputation for folks with general questions who become motivated and come back with more ambitions questions and projects
Folks like me, who are looking for place to talk versa, will look first to see what's being asked, and how it"s being answered. I want to know where the experts are and how they behave.
The Versa is a young model, especially in the US. It hasn't yet cracked the 10 year mark, and does not have that "sporty" persona that a car like the Fit, or Fiat 500 enjoys, so it doesn't draw as much attention.
It takes time for a community to discover all the nuances of a given model, and it's evolution. It takes longer to find all the ways to exploit the strengths and fortify the weaknesses.
The VW/Audi 1.8T is 16 years old, and we are still discovering things about that engine's engineering and ways to exploit its systems.