What other motoring forums are you a member of, and what do you make of them?

JHMEG

Boards motors is sort of the daddy of them all, being the biggest (doesn't mean best tho;)).

Among others I'm also a member of g2ic.com, primarily US-based but the guys on there have encyclopedic knowledge. Non-cliquey, I'd consider it probably to be the best car forum I'm a member of.

Also a member of GreenHybrid. Also full of very enlightened people, and like g2ic no-one talks down to anyone and nor are there any irrational fanboys or cliques.

So what are you a member of?
Why?
Is it any good?

jonjo81

This one's slightly... different

http://www.****france.com/topic/3491782/1/Salutes/WilyB-s-car-salute.html

colm_mcm

jonjo81 wrote: »

This one's slightly... different

http://www.****france.com/topic/3491782/1/Salutes/WilyB-s-car-salute.html

It certainly is. it doesn't actually work...

but even when you bother replacing the **** in the url with a well known four letter swear word beginning with F, it's a rubbish site.

EPM

I'm on seatcupra.net-thats a great site really. Order bits and pieces from one of the lads on there and get great discounts and free delivery. Lately been hawking around vagdrivers. Some very nice members cars on that. Always good for the pictures! Go on honest john too but its quite boring. Everyone seems to be way too polite for my liking...and the average age has to be a good 60 odd...

jonjo81

colm_mcm wrote: »

It certainly is. it doesn't actually work...

Sorry, replace the asterisks with the F word.

http://www.****france.com/
topic/3491782/1/Salutes/WilyB-s-car-salute.html

colm_mcm

I'm also on www.fto-ireland.com

cianclarke

colm_mcm wrote: »

I'm also on www.fto-ireland.com

http://www.bmw-driver.net/forum/ - prefer it to here as the content is more to my interest and doesn't move quite as fast so can keep up..
Here is still great tho.

ronnie3585

I'd spend most of my time on Octane. Fairly cliquey but entertaining nonetheless.

Lurk a bit on vagdrivers, for the pictures of Mk1 & 2 Gtis.

Spend a lot time on Rennlist. Some extremely knowledgeable and friendly members over there. A million miles away from the usual American motoring forums. Super forum.

6speedonline and teamspeed for the pretty pictures.

Last but not least, barryboys.co.uk - probably one of my favourite sites on the web, if only for the welcome they give to the newbies!

homer90

http://www.isdc.ie/
Frequented this during my scooby days..... A good bunch TBH !

http://vagdrivers.net/forums/index.php
This to keep an eye on classic stuff


The rest for everything VAG.

http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/

http://www.passatworld.com/forums/

yop

http://www.vwaudiforum.co.uk/
www.stdrivers.co.uk

Both for sales and advice

DUBLINHITMAN

i'm on a few different sites but alot of them push there sponsors products and it gets annoying when you know there's better products for what you need but yet people buy sh!te because its plastered all over the site's

Interceptor

www.fiatforum.com and www.octane.ie

Oh and scoobynet of course.

'cptr

Voodoomelon

I'm on bimmerforums.com, specifically, the E38 7 series section. 95% American so they all have the V8s, but the 40-50 guys on there know more than all the BMW dealers in the country combined.

From now on I will actually give serious consideration to a cars online following before deciding what next car to buy, i've saved and learned packets.

BeardyGit

jonjo81 wrote: »

Sorry, replace the asterisks with the F word.

http://www.****france.com/
topic/3491782/1/Salutes/WilyB-s-car-salute.html

You make a grand entrance there new kid. How's your exit?

Seriously though, that's a crap site. I want my 5 minutes back.

Yakult

I use along with boards motors, www.midnightclub.ie and www.dtdirl.com.

Owen

I setup and run miniclub.ie, but I spend a lot of time on northamericanmotoring.org (MINI related), and totalMINI in the UK.

Atomic Pineapple

http://www.dtdirl.com
http://www.itr-dc2.com
http://www.sxoc.co.uk
http://www.irishrotary.com
http://www.irishmoc.org
http://www.driver.ie

I'm slightly drunk and too tired to comment on them all

NewApproach

www.alfaowner.com is a mine of information. Not a regular poster on it though.

.Longshanks.

Im a lurker on www.dtdirl.com, but get lots of info from www.vxronline.co.uk It can be a great site if after info etc, but can be a bit repetitive at times. People don't seem to know how to use the search buttons!

stealthyspeeder

Mazda3forums.co.uk is always open on my desktop as is the motors section of boards.ie (I find this wierd but I prefer this website later on in the week, as people seem to spend less time having a go on roadrules and guff, and tend to talk about fast cars on thursdays and fridays! anyone else noticed this phenomenon!??)

Im also on reallymeansounds.com for the Northern Irish petrolhead banter, and the pics of the members cars and reading about the epic (and terrible) modding that some of those guys do!

Bluefoam

www.alfaowner.com it makes me feel warm inside.

smash

pistonheads
octane
alfaowner
lambopower
ferrarichat

probably a few other that I don't use.

W.Shakes-Beer

im a paid member of: www.astraownersclub.com

amazing website.

lafors

here...obviously, but its more like a "General Motoring" forum than anything technical.
vagdrivers.net (Great site, if a bit slow for Skoda/Audi talk/tech)
briskoda.net (Excellent for my VRS, sound lads on it too, helpful)
vwaudiforum.co.uk (Good info for the boss's A3)
audi-forums.com/8p-forum/ (again for my wifes A3)
civinfo.com/forum/ (great for the new shaped civics, used it before mine went back)

2 Espressi

Let's see, there's Octane.ie (cliquey me hole), Pistonheads, VWVortex, vagdrivers, I'll them browse daily, then depending on my humour and what I'd like to buy next, , I'll have a read of miniclub.ie, mx5ireland, mx5nutz, ikcc.ie. from time to time I'll have a browse of the HAMB, Driver, dtdirl, I also joined afterdarkcruisers, for a laugh...

There's something for everyone at this stage, I prefer non-marque specific boards, life's too short to commit to a single carmaker! That said, single brand boards have their uses as well, especially when you're thinking of buying.

no1beemerfan

Here obviously.....lots of info and diff topics

renaultforums.co.uk - lifesaver to any renault owner!

retrorides.com - some gorgeous machines

bmw-driver.net - ok

carcare.ie - keeping your car clean advise!

bmw5.co.uk - some gorgeous machines here

BMW alpina section of pistonheads - drool!

oldcolonelcars.co.uk - some gorgeous older bmws for sale

bavarian-board.co.uk - more for newer 3 and 5 series owners - ok.

dizbo

IrishCruisers.com

HungryJoey

Here's my list (after here of course..)
VAGdrivers.net
OcUK (motoring section, kind of like boards motors)
DTD
Octane.ie
BMW-Driver.net
FCI.com
pug306.net


Thats my regular lot I frequent daily.

Hal1

Passion ford
Turbosport uk
Pistonheads
Zetecs
RAC
Honest John
Focus owners

Silvera

Octane.ie
TotalOpel.com (Irish opel site)

Also find these sites very useful -

www.honestjohn.co.uk
www.carmechanicsmag.co.uk

Steve

fto-ireland but I don't visit as often as I should.

(sorry Colm )