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Offline clipperjay

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What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« on: 04 December 2011, 23:29 »
Geez so I'm going through my old bookmarks You might have guessed!
Its Heff's viagra sale going on in there!
Anyone a member from there I joined back in 2001 learnt loads from that site in the day?
http://forum.performancevwmag.com/ :cry:
First no rice now PVW! sad times  :cry:
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Offline DubFan

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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #1 on: 04 December 2011, 23:36 »
Their forum is working but it looks like their security measures weren't up to much.
Looks like a load of posts from automated spam bots and they've all happened since the 1st December.
In the for sale section you have to go back 9 pages before you see a genuine VW for sale.
« Last Edit: 04 December 2011, 23:39 by DubFan »
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Offline clipperjay

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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #2 on: 04 December 2011, 23:47 »
Shame BigGaz, VWChaz, James, Siena, A7_UFO even our very own Danny P if its the same Danny? All gone!
Shame I learnt alot from that place we had to start from somewhere! :cry:
« Last Edit: 04 December 2011, 23:49 by clipperjay »
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Offline tweed

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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #3 on: 05 December 2011, 00:18 »
Just checked it out  :huh:
Wtf how do you sort that mess out lol
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Offline mark-mk3gti

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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #4 on: 10 December 2011, 12:31 »
Quote from: tweed on 05 December 2011, 00:18
Just checked it out  :huh:
Wtf how do you sort that mess out lol


Looks bad! :( didn't even know there was a site, haha,  maybe they could restore a backup of the site to the server., but in all likely was they are gonna have to knock it off totally and start again! Would take forever to delete all them posts!
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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #5 on: 11 December 2011, 13:10 »
that's some fierce auto spam! :shocked:
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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #6 on: 11 December 2011, 13:17 »
Holy sh!z :shocked:
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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #7 on: 12 December 2011, 00:22 »
Quote from: clipperjay on 04 December 2011, 23:47
Shame BigGaz, VWChaz, James, Siena, A7_UFO even our very own Danny P if its the same Danny? All gone!
Shame I learnt alot from that place we had to start from somewhere! :cry:

i used to post on there.

the fourum died some time ago dodn't think it had any admin for ages, think it'll just disapear at some point tbh i'm suprised it hasent happend allready
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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #8 on: 12 December 2011, 00:23 »
A7_UFO used to be on here quite a bit with some mad ass lime green mk2 iirc
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Re: What the hell happened to Performance VW?
« Reply #9 on: 12 December 2011, 01:02 »
Holy Cow!   :shocked:  :shocked:


Quote from: Sam on 12 December 2011, 00:23
A7_UFO used to be on here quite a bit with some mad ass lime green mk2 iirc

UFO was the mk1  :cool:

One of his Mk2's http://forums.tdiclub.com/showthread.php?t=152728  :cool:
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