Phefewwwww..... what a relief!

 

I'm in front of a computer all day (and nobody is looking over my shoulder) so it's pretty easy for me to check in during the week. Not so much on weekends because I'm outside enjoying the time away from a desk job. Once I check the 'new posts' & 'Gallery' here & make a contribution (post/upload) or two I check out & go to other sites/forums & pretty much do the same thing. If the phone rings or I get an email I will log out as well (gotta get some work done ).
I think the addition of the HHR Facebook page will pull some away as well.
I've had my HHR since May 2009 & the newness has definately worn off (and I did not buy it new). When I first get a vehicle I am all over the mods & buying stuff for it but once it gets a few years old I start looking for something fresh. I've done this with all my cars, motorcycles, bicycles, etc. My '07 Panel is just about paid off now & I'm already itching for something different. If I do sell the HHR & get something different, I will not be coming back to this site & just hanging around (whats the point?). But I do like the fact that this site was here for me for this car! I dont know of too many other cars that have this cool of a website available to them. I think the uniqueness of vehicle strikes a chord with people & I love talking to people on the street about my Panel. Perhaps I can find a SS Panel & keep going with it but who knows?

 

 

Im with ya Brandon. Im guilty of doing sending people to the search feature at times. I try to help out though. I like it when i get help when i ask, so i try to do the same.

 

I check in once or twice a week, just sayin'.

 

i used to frequent the site every day, several times a day. it just seems like there is nothing going on here performance wise worth discussing imo. im into the performance aspect of my ss and thats about it. supporting vendors suck....seeing the same post about twm shifters 40 different times is just pointless. ttr is great, don't get me wrong but we need to have more than what we have. ttr, pyfc, twm....really?? then we talk about another product from xxxxxxxx company and posts get deleted, threads get locked.....it really gets old. i had tried to get a company to build a pillar pod a couple years back.....started a thread to gauge interest....thread was locked......this is how it should work: thread started to gauge interest...interest gets determined, by say needing to get 20 pieces to get the project started, people sign up, success is determined, now vendor pays to be a supporting vendor because they know it will be worth while and they will make money off the site. no vendor is going to just pay money blindly if they dont know whether there will be interest in a product that doesn't even exist yet. so now to this date (this was back in summer of 09) there are no gauge pods for the hhr. am i butthurt about it? no. i came up with my own solution much like many of the mods i have performed. i have customised my ic, intake, guage pod, several things to make them work on my platform. but it helps to have the resources out there to make things a little easier.

yes people will come and go, someone will sell the hhr and never return. if i sell mine, i won't be back....no reason to return. but then again i don't plan on getting rid of it for a..............wait..........ever

 

...and the choir says amen. I'm getting tired of not being able to discuss potential new mods not offered by our existing vendors.

 

Well, I'm on a bunch of auto forums, and this one is much more mature than most in this regard. For example, CSS.net is one of the worst. There's people doing the "Search, newb!" thing, and people bragging or just plain lying about their cars' performance, and it takes more time to find things and sort out who is real and what advice is legit. People here usually behave well and try and help out instead of cracking jokes when someone asks a question. So I think the opposite of you on this one.

Personally, I tend to read more than contribute, but as an engineer, there are lots of things I take as givens regarding vehicles that I can explain, or caution someone about. I'm at a tube all day, too, but my "real work" allows some time for things like this, too. When I run studies in the background, I am still adding value to my employer (like now, when I'm working on stuff for the next-gen Equinox/Terrain as I type). It's easy to pop in and read, but harder to contribute some great new thread.

 

Don't tell anybody, but I'm about to buy some stuff for my SS, from a non supporting vender.

 

Now now... Play nice!