You know it's a good forum when....
 

You know it's a good forum when you take your car to the dealership to get something fixed and they have no clue what's wrong. They check their manuals and their stuff on the computers and still can't figure it out. Then you look from the waiting area and they are looking at ft86 club and voila they figure it out. Thought it was funny so I had to share.


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Service manager at my dealer is on here. Don't know his name though but he told me the forum has helped them numerous times

Yea that's what the one at my dealership was telling me to. He said most of the time he just jumps straight on nasioc or here rather than going through all of the service manuals.


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Hmm, that highlights an issue with the way Subaru makes available the internal wealth of information to their dealers.

Same issue with most large companies involving tech stuff and massive dealer networks.

What was the issue btw?

crickets.

My passenger window froze over and stayed cracked.


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You mean you took the car to a dealer for something that is covered in the owner's manual?

http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=53176

A weird circle of "not reading the manual" becoming "dealer reads forum post that says to read the manual to someone else with the same issue".

-alex

That's cool some service professional are tuned in to the forums. It is a great resource.

Not the only resource, mind you.

Yea I got the window back up but while I have a warranty that covers the whole car I think I'm gonna use it. They ended replacing everything for my windows under warranty. So yes it is covered in the manual but why not use a warranty every chance you get just saying.



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Test: What would you do if the car doesn't start?

Because my time is far more valuable and taking the car to the dealer for every little issue is a huge inconvenience. I'll make my list and have them taken care of all at once when I have a more significant issue or right before the warranty ends.

I agree.

And this is a car specific forum and a fairly mature crowd so information is shared pretty openly.

I disagree with that second part. Id say as much as 30% of this forum has the 86 as their first car and are, need i say, clueless? The 1 post with the clicking 5-10 minutes after shutting off the car still makes me laugh...

I agree - tt's very hard to say that most of the forum is mature enough to discuss issues but at least it is still a data mine that can be excavated for nuggets of information.

That's the problem with the internet age. Everyone things they are everything and know everything yet no one has application experience.

Oh I have definitely learned a lot about this car from this forum, but would I call this forum a good 1?...no

Sometimes the information in Owner's manuals is incorrect from the manufacturer. I'm not sure if Subaru has this issue, but we've found numerous mistakes in several GM owner's manuals.

The best information comes from people with hands on experience, that's a big part of what makes a forum so useful IMO.

Your owner's manual isn't going to tell you a DIY about a cam upgrade lol

Nick C.

Because time is money.

My time is better spent fixing small things myself.

My time is better spent using warranty work when it is not worth my time to fix the problem.

If I used my warranty every chance I had, I would be out of a job.

-alex

Fairly mature but 30% based on what? No one knows really but give it 3-5 years and the same questions will pop and people will never answer the simplest questions and tell people to search. The maturity level goes down, all the cool people stop posting and/or grow out of thier cars and move on.

Again, fairly, which is why right now there isn't threads on top of threads of endless BS to sift through.

I think we can agree to disagree.:w00t:

I would have to agree that's some serious respect for the knowledge found on this forum.
Congrats to the gnu's within; much Props

That's fine and all I'm just saying the maturity and knowledge and even humor are superior on other forums. Yes this forum is still young, I just hope it grows up along with its owners

Agreed hopefully the e-harmony thugs eventually die out.


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Autocorrect fail or not, YOU DECIDE!

I feel bad now because most of my posts are not contributing to help them. At least they will be entertained by me.

I'm all for having good and accessible information on a forum. But if I saw dealer techs looking at one I would be BS pissed. I've made a career working at indy shops and dealers guys always think they are hot shots, guess what, no one knows everything.

I mean a good tech support rep would give a google search a shot after they tried protocol troubleshooting.

I would welcome a dealer searching the forums if they couldnt replicate or solve the issue.

OP thanks for posting.

Nope not autocorrect just what I call ***s that like bash for no good reason.


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