This section is a proper dead zone Where is everyone ?
- Thread starter Dave928
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pauljmcnulty
Active member
Hi Dave,
Should have kept the 944 if you wanted help with the car! [
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Seriously, it's a real shame that neither the 928 Register Secretary nor the Tech advisor use the forum. With the Club trying to move it's digital platforms forward it's really holding us all back.
Pick up the phone and complain. If enough 928 members want this forum to be as active as some of the others you need to get David on here!
I have tried....[&o]
Should have kept the 944 if you wanted help with the car! [
]Seriously, it's a real shame that neither the 928 Register Secretary nor the Tech advisor use the forum. With the Club trying to move it's digital platforms forward it's really holding us all back.
Pick up the phone and complain. If enough 928 members want this forum to be as active as some of the others you need to get David on here!
I have tried....[&o]
As well as being President (Chairman) of Porsche Club Ireland I'm also a PCGB Member for over 25yrs. We in Ireland face the same problem, many of them with the knowledge/experience wont get involved with forums etc. This is in no way to put blame on them, they are often busy people, not inclined to post on forums or many other reasons. I would suggest the solution is to keep the old guys but at the same time nurture and promote new blood and maybe even combine both. Say have a new IT savvey member work with an older expert to put stuff here on the forum, . I have an other reason for posting this , I ve bought a 928 GT in March 2014 and really would like to find answers to my questions , problems and thoughts here on our own forum. At the moment Forums are a must for a car club and if we dont answer members questions or permit active and current discussion we will fail.
Who knows about ICVs on 928s, broken/rusted fuel pipes, leaking fuel rails and how to get a digital dash to change from MPH to KPH like the Boxster does? These are just some of my questions, I hav nt even mentioned aircon yet!
Wake up to the power of the forum, it was instrumental in the demise of a past Chairman of PCGB.
Who knows about ICVs on 928s, broken/rusted fuel pipes, leaking fuel rails and how to get a digital dash to change from MPH to KPH like the Boxster does? These are just some of my questions, I hav nt even mentioned aircon yet!
Wake up to the power of the forum, it was instrumental in the demise of a past Chairman of PCGB.
Big Load
New member
hi
I agree about the dead zone. I get more replies out of the other forums and help from there tech ppl.
I would prefer to stay in the UK forums so that maybe we can swap ideas and mechanical issues but I find the answers are not available. its a shame. am i the only 928 s4 owner in UK???I hope not
I agree about the dead zone. I get more replies out of the other forums and help from there tech ppl.
I would prefer to stay in the UK forums so that maybe we can swap ideas and mechanical issues but I find the answers are not available. its a shame. am i the only 928 s4 owner in UK???I hope not
I have to say I agree with the general consensus (amongst us few) that the forum activity levels are beyond disappointing. Having recently purchased a 928 S4, I thought the most active forum would have to be the PCGB site. Mind you, many of the other sub-forums appear to be similarly lacking. I am also a little disappointed with the total lack of 928 representation within Porsche Post, save for the 928 register section. The same could be said about articles on all front-engined cars within the magazine. I work for a publishing company and I'm quite sure my company could do a much better job than the current incumbents whom, I believe, have only recently won the contract - you'd have thought they'd be particularly keen to impress at this early stage. I also note that despite two emails to the club informing them of my membership status, I'm still down as a 'guest of the club' on my signature. I haven't the will to call them on such a trivial matter but perhaps it's indicative of the importance they place upon the forums?
ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty
Hi Dave,
Should have kept the 944 if you wanted help with the car! [
Seriously, it's a real shame that neither the 928 Register Secretary nor the Tech advisor use the forum. With the Club trying to move it's digital platforms forward it's really holding us all back.
Pick up the phone and complain. If enough 928 members want this forum to be as active as some of the others you need to get David on here!
I have tried....[&o]
Thanks Paul, Yeah I feel I am stepping away from the bustling 944 section into nothingness.....
There are a few help web pages and lots of stuff in the US. But the big boys don't want to play....[8|]
ORIGINAL: bigdavec
ORIGINAL: pauljmcnulty
Hi Dave,
Should have kept the 944 if you wanted help with the car! [
Seriously, it's a real shame that neither the 928 Register Secretary nor the Tech advisor use the forum. With the Club trying to move it's digital platforms forward it's really holding us all back.
Pick up the phone and complain. If enough 928 members want this forum to be as active as some of the others you need to get David on here!
I have tried....[&o]
Thanks Paul, Yeah I feel I am stepping away from the bustling 944 section into nothingness.....
There are a few help web pages and lots of stuff in the US. But the big boys don't want to play....[8|]
I also find the 928.org.uk community pretty good. They also have a mini-site on facebook called 928 passion group, I believe. Perhaps things will step up here once the new website and forum is in place?
pauljmcnulty
Active member
Hi Trevor,
I'm not sure where you got that from? Archant have published the magazine for many years, and only our publications manager is new.
As always, the magazine can only publish what is submitted. There will always be masses of new-car material, but little is sent in from owners of the front-engined models.
There also has to be something new in the submissions: you can't publish similar reports every month from an owner who takes his car to the 'Ring, for instance.
pauljmcnulty
Active member
I'm not sure it'll make the blindest bit of difference. If people haven't even registered on this forum in over ten years, chances are they won't ever use it. [&o]
I really think people need to pick up the phone to the Register Secretary and ask for more activity here. The technical advisor, at least, would be a huge help.
Failing that, talk to the Register Director. It's his job to help with things like this. [
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Dave, by the time you've finished you could become the forums 928 expert.[
]Now edit your signature and don't forget to inform the membership secretary of your change.
Hi Paul
I'm sorry - I'm sure I saw something within a recent issue that said they'd won the contract - unless of course the contract is for a set period of time and it was simply renewed. However, with proactive editors, it is possible to organise a number of contributors, whether they be owners, drivers, enthusiasts or organisations, as well as to interact with the readership more. I fully understand the need to keep things fresh, Paul. Keeping the readership interested is the key to successful publishing but, I wonder how much the publisher knows about the readership in this instance and quite how the quality is monitored, if at all. The nature of the readership/distribution in this case is enough to sell the necessary advertising to fund the journal and sometimes that's enough to allow a publisher to rest on their laurels. I'm not saying that's the case but I'm just rambling about my personal observations.
pauljmcnulty
Active member
Just noticed this, and changed it for you.
They're normally pretty good with this, but a post on the "why am I not a member" thread gets one of us admins on to it as well. [
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pauljmcnulty
Active member
John, please don't get me started! [
][]I have a serious problem with people who hold some sort of "official" status within the Club, and use that when it suits them, but refuse to do their flippin' day-to-day job....[
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