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Henn
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How about an "L Plater section"	Tue, 15 February 2005 12:07

I saw this on another forum recently. A section made purely to ask really simple, maybe obvious questions where flaming or responses consisting of "DO A SEARCH" were not allowed. It gives people a place to start if they really don't know where to fill up there oil (although they could consider their local mechanic), and if the more educated don't like reading the same stuff over and over then they can choose to stay out. May help remove crap and unneccesary tension from Tech and General car talk. Hen [Report message to a moderator]

Choony_AE86
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Tue, 15 February 2005 12:49

Good idea Henn this sounds good as i've had many 'L plate' questions i've wished to ask and cant find in a search [Report message to a moderator]

nick2b
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Tue, 15 February 2005 20:47

yeah sounds good... [Report message to a moderator]

CrUZsida
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"

Thu, 17 February 2005 03:37

Henn wrote on Tue, 15 February 2005 20:07

It gives people a place to start if they really don't know where to fill up there oil (although they could consider their local mechanic),

Anyone in this sort of situation, should really go and buy a Haynes or Gregory's manual before even touching their car.

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Lucid
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Thu, 17 February 2005 06:16

Personally I think it sort of defeats the purpose of trying to encourage a TOYMODS community if we create sections for sub-groups to talk amongst themselves.. Much for the same reasons the interstate sections are not for general chat, if we create a "Learners" section, then those people will only ever talk amongst themselves, and not be part of the wider online community. My 2c anyway.. [Report message to a moderator]

Julz01
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Thu, 17 February 2005 11:15

Thats very true but its not very encourging to these Learners if they get smart asses telling them to do a search all the time. [Report message to a moderator]

Joshstix
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"

Thu, 17 February 2005 23:31

Julz01 wrote on Thu, 17 February 2005 22:15

Thats very true but its not very encourging to these Learners if they get smart asses telling them to do a search all the time.

Yes but what's the other option? Only people who need to learn the kind of things in the L plater section go in there and therefore all of the answers are useless and potentially damageing.

Really if you aren't willing to try and learn something for yourself, not just ask the question, you can't expect people to go to the effort to answer you. Not meaning you sepcifically, just people who ask the same question that just got off the front page every second day.

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fade-e
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Fri, 18 February 2005 19:03

how about a 'For Dummies' sort of write up in the articles section even??? as for haynes manual or whatever it states in those books that you should know whats going on before attempting those fixes so if people dont know how to change oil then i dont think the haynes will help much... also i see alot of requests for new sections and sub sections. i believe the forum is just right how it is. if we start adding new sections and what not then the first page is just going to be too long down the page thats my 5c worth [Report message to a moderator]

h3ff44
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"

Mon, 21 February 2005 07:15

CrUZsida wrote on Thu, 17 February 2005 14:37

Henn wrote on Tue, 15 February 2005 20:07

It gives people a place to start if they really don't know where to fill up there oil (although they could consider their local mechanic),

Anyone in this sort of situation, should really go and buy a Haynes or Gregory's manual before even touching their car.

but what if they cant find a manual on there particular car? ive looked around for ra28 celica ones n cant find sh*T

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CrUZsida
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Mon, 21 February 2005 08:09

http://www.haynes.com.au/category162_1.htm [Report message to a moderator]

Mookie
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Tue, 15 March 2005 05:25

I think it would be a good idea, I suggested it in the tech forums but i think witzl misunderstood it took offence. [Report message to a moderator]

Corona RT142
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Re: How about an "L Plater section"	Sun, 20 March 2005 22:09

if someone doesn't know how to put oil in a car I can't see them stumbling across toymods and actually giving a shit, think anout if they don't know where the oil goes they would generally not be a car enthusiast and not going to frequent a site about modifying cars. [Report message to a moderator]