« Reply #4 on: 11 January 2011, 05:10 »
I was just browsing through the other model specific areas and reading the top line threads, you see subjects like 'Valve Bearing', 'Exhaust' and 'Turbo'.
You wander into the Mk6 section and everyone is talking about how they feel about their cars, two members are battering each other with their handbags and there are more polls than in the average issue of Cosmo. I think the other forum members are scared to visit in case they're forced to talk about their relationship with their car.
First person to mention their car's star sign is in real trouble.... 
The other sections would have been like that when the cars were newer, granted the first few Golf chassis types were slightly before the internet was here but you get my drift.
Different types of buyers haunt the forums. The mk1,2,3 & 4 boys and girls are well out of warranty and busy repairing and modifying, the mk5 boys and girls are over on StevePs forum owing to the type of thing that happens in here from time to time getting a bit out of hand once or twice. The mk6 is the newest car and still current, thus attracting a great variety of owner types. Some of whom fall deeply and passionately in love with their car because it's new and shiny, then in a couple of years you won't hear from them again as they've decided it's a bit out of date and a newer model is required, then you get the next generation of owners who buy the second hand mk6 a few years into its life and nearly out of warranty who are itching to 'personalise' their motor, and so it goes on....
............in a few years time many of our number will have moved on and the section will be very very different.
I think the polls reflect the time of year, it's cold, wet and or snowy and most of us are indoors and a bit bored, so all sorts of crap ends up being posted up in an attempt at having a laugh and maybe learning a little about each other and our overpriced shopping cars. You can tell this by the amount of non regulars dropping by mid-week and not just when they're suffering hangovers at weekends. Even Nosher/Washer/Porter has made a few sensible type comments and that really is deeply troubling.......
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