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heardyboy
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to be honest when most people are saying search what they are meaning is they know loads of info is here and they arnt going to find it for you. Baisicly by searching you are saving yourself time, getting a relevent answer and if your still stuck then make a post, some things are complicated and need a bit more covering. But stuff like what tyres to use etc? really do my head in.
yeah agreed with guiness, i sometimes reply to posts in the TDI section with do a search back through and you will find, as i know that the info is in there i have read it all just that im not going to spend my time finding it. Im trying to be helpful by saying 'dont go away or think no one knows, we do and its been commented on before'
Sooo many repeat posts
im on here daily and it does get bad when people dont do a quick search first before posting.
im on here daily and it does get bad when people dont do a quick search first before posting.
I can empathise with your frustration in that respect - I recently joined a Vauxhall forum (for my sins I was wanting to find out more about the sporthatch as a potential company car) - as a 'veteran' of forums i (thought) i knew the etiquette, read the rules etc. Then searched for information, got a bit and then raised a point or question from a thread started no more than a few months previous. I got a quick response! - thread locked and chastised for asking questions on a thread apparently so old! Nothing in their rules, and I wonder why they waste server space on having 'posts so old' or bother with a search function.
I've never found any problems here & despite not having a Cupra for 2.5 years (the Mrs has it!) I regularly pop back, keep up to date & pop my nose in. Its a great forum.
Keep on using the search function and don't worry about an odd moaner - you'll see yourself turning native in a few months when the fourth person in a day posts something about the DPF or bluefin, or whatever!
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lol that'd be me
Some people when they reply will dig a thread out of the weeds and then a day later will post again wondering why no one has replied. I was going to suggest ebay or your dealer but i didn't on the basis it would have looked smug as that sort of question falls under the common sense category. If you use the search facility, there's a ton of threads about which gear sticks fit which cars and which ones you can use from different models etc etc. As a general 'rule' people seem to post first and search second, what the forum tries to discourage. Once you've searched and if you fail to find what you need then there's always people around to point people in the right direction.
The other thing to remember is that people can only respond to what you write in your post - sometimes people read too much or sometimes too little into the response. The problem with looking like you've not been searching first means you're expecting others to search for you and that's the source of constant irritation.
Back to the original point, if i'd posted a thread asking where to get SEAT parts from, i'd fully expect a raft of replies ranging from the tongue in cheek / politely unhelpful to the downright sarcastic and rightly so
Informing you of the date of the thread was purely intended to let you know that there was, as DPJ suggested, little or no chance of the original poster being around to provide you with current information.
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