My first post was 13th December 2000 - just over 7 years. Who else is still here from those days? There used to be an Andrew Bairsto - is he the same as Andy Bairsto?
And what happened to John Slaughter? He was the Aprilia/Number Cruncher of the day.
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August 2003 - see the post "think I've seen the last of my car" volumes 1 and 2. Thankfully I've grown up a lot since then (I hope)!
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7 of May 2002 Man and Superman.*
*Meant in an ironic rather than an arrogant way.
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 24/12/2007 at 22:12
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May 2002 and approaching 4000 posts
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May 2002 (although feels a lot longer)
Some 12,000+ posts, and nearly 600 threads created.
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12th September 2002 as my previous userID..... It might only be 5 years, but lets see:-
I was driving a Peugeot 306 1.4LX (X365 CNH) at the time.since then Vauxhall Astra Coupe YJ52 LJK, Ford Focus NK02 YLE, Ford Mondeo DG04 VKE, VW Golf GTTDI RY51 LFU, Hyundai Terracan BN04 NNV, Vauxhall Vectra CDTI SRI, before finally VW Golf GTTDI 150 and the Mitsubishi Shogun
I've also lived in Bradford, Huddersfield, Kidderminster, Worcester and Shropshire
And had two kids.
They do say time flies when you are having fun!!!!
Been having a look back over some of my past posts - nothing really changes around here does it???
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11th Dec 2002. Seems like less
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2005 Ford Mondeo Zetec 2.0 TDCi 130ps
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Ha, I've been here a long time, but not posted much. Mainly because I don't know much!
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July 2001 - seems like a lifetime ago. On a similar note I remember writing into HJ's column when it was in it's infancy around 1998/99 and the letter was published. Do I win a prize?
Are the Lacey brothers and David Woollard still around? Perhaps under new IDs?
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Ah the Lacey bros. and their infamous Anal Bender.
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just over a year, only just out of my probation.....still not allowed to sit at the top table
Edited by Westpig on 24/12/2007 at 23:00
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June 2002
Cheers
CBG
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Early 01.
Seems like a lifetime ago now, the backroom has taught me a great deal and provided worthwhile advice for many a technical problem. The strict moderation policy can be annoying when you fall foul of it, but I think it is the main reason why this place is so good. I belong to a cycling forum where moderation is non-existant and it has been spoilt by turning into an abusive place, full of little cliques and people with little interest in bikes who just want to shout off about whatever political issues float their boat. Disaggreements here are kept in check before they get out of hand and the undesirables are soon shown the door.
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How long have I been here? hmm let me see...since about half past ten i think.
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10 March 2003 and to be honest, can't remember why I joined in the first place! Most likely a link from a Yahoo search.
I remember once posting a question in Technical, most likely about my Saxo or Scenic. I then did a search on Yahoo to see if I could get the answer there and the first result it came up with was a link to my thread on here!
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2007 Seat Altea XL 2.0 TDI (140) Stylance
2005 Skoda Fabia vrS
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Good question????????? Cant remember when I got the bug. Do any of the mods have access to that information?
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Aye....
Date registered: Tue 7 May 2002 (294 weeks ago)
Number of threads: 43
Number of posts: 709 (av: 0.34/day)
Edited by PoloGirl on 24/12/2007 at 23:56
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Thanks Polo Girl. 5 1/2 years!! Doesn't time fly.
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November 2002, just before Toad left.
It's funny when I think that some of the more regular and to me older posters have been on here less time than I have!
1763 posts and counting.
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Wed 8 May 2002.
Wednesdays are always a quiet day... :-)
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joined just before I got a Mondeo TDCi so Sept 2003 probably. Hope I have not offended too many and helped more. Think I joined as we are Telegraph readers on a Saturday and read HJ column for years. I also read the Times online :-)
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I also read the Times online :-)
Hoy !
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Since February 01 in my previous incarnation.
Hawkeye
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Stranger in a strange land
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And whatever happened to Lada Man? He had a lot of ideas, the best being a perpetual motion car.
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As a reader about 8 years. As a poster, about 5.
Is John Slaughter the same person as John S?
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I'd guess 6 or 7 years - no doubt a more computer literate Broomer will tell me how to find out!!
VB
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Vansboy
7th May 2002
Click on your name and all will be revealed.
I can't remember - in an alcoholic haze...:-)
madf
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22 February 2004, according to the records. I'm a Times reader but the Telegraph motoring supplement is far the best and i see this online - so that must be where I found out about the Backroom.
One of my earliest requests for advice was for 'New car for my wife'. Some bright spark responded with something to the effect of 'Sounds like a fair swap'. That's my kind of humour and I've stayed here.
The backroom is at its best when we discuss issues rationally, or try to help a poster choose a car; at its worst when argument gets needlessly personal (well done the moderators for keeping this under control).
And, to the backroom's eternal credit, no-one actually advised me to buy a Mercedes B-class. That was entirely my fault. Never mind - driving is fun again now.
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20th May 2002. and enjoyed all of it including the occasional rollocking.
VBR...........MD
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Since late 2000ish - in the old Backroom. In this one since opening day or thereabouts. Interesting looking back to the very early days how many users posted using what appeared to be their own names.
One or two user names stick in the mind - where's Paul Mycatz-Tinks these dayss?
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2nd November 2006.
Arrived back then from the Wild West of the usenets Mech forums, a certain mechanics forum and more latterly lost interest in the the Fiat Forum, leaving just participation on this site.
Its the quality of moderation that I have grown to appreciate more and more here.
I don`t know whether anyone is still trying to make sense of uk.rec.maintenance and other sites there when one bloke can cause all that current chaos.
I have become accustomed to the comparative deep pool of tranquillity, which is my perception of the HJ forum.
I was startled therefore to see the Webmasters/Mods recent re-post of the swearing situation, with perhaps a certain tenseness that may give insight.
Perhaps the swear filter is like the under belly of the Space Shuttle re entering the earths atmosphere, with Pugugly and the other mods desperately slipping new tiles into place as others burn through?
Whatever, appreciation. I can`t think of another forum that has such diligent, committed moderators.
Merry Christmas to everyone ;)
Edited by oilrag on 25/12/2007 at 22:24
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Since 1938. Of course we had real moderators then - any fancy stuff and you were made to run three times round the pitch with no boots on.
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"Since 1938"...
Nsar, did you come on to the Backroom to say how awful the first VW prototype was?
Sorry, couldn't resist it.....:)
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Date registered: Tue 3 Aug 2004 (177 weeks ago) as John R @ Home, a bit longer as John R@ Work...
Regards,
John R @ Home
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Date registered: Wed 8 May 2002 (294 weeks ago) as John R at Work, a lot longer than John R @ Home!
Regards,
John R @ Work :¬)
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Since September 2001 (at least).
I was more involved then, I think!
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Feb '05, and 225 posts according to my online record. What a wasted life!
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Thu 13 Nov 2003 (214 weeks ago)
Last visited forum: Wed 26 Dec 2007
Number of threads: 62
Number of posts: 1507 (av: 1.00/day)
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Are there no errr... multiple personalities, with overlap? The Nicks that is ;);)
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Since 16 September 2002.
...don't post very often, though.
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When I first came here there was only one moderator called Martin IIRC and a chap called Bogush who filled the board with drivel. A most pleasant cove called Mr Woollard used to make many wise points and helped to keep things on an even keel. Good old DW still comes here now and then as MM.
There was also a small group known as the "desparados" who took amongst other things a strong anti-censorship stance.
Just after I came here the former moderator Mark (RBLS) joined us but at the time was known as Mark (Brazil) and was just an ordinary poster like us all.
I made my first post on June 2001 shortly after buying a Passat (same weekend in fact) to ask a question about the spec.
Strangely the site software says that I registered in May 2002 which is incorrect and I cannot fathom out why.
I am here most days but the current "unbearable smugness of being" exhibited by some here mean I post less and less.
As always
Mark
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Strangely the site software says that I registered in May 2002
I think that was due to a site software upgrade (pre Technical) see Back Room Archive..
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Fri 7 Jun 2002 (289 weeks ago)
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Now pinned it down. 1st post - 11th march 2001. Crumbs thats nearly 7 years!!!
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Hi all
First post was back in 2002, can't believe it was so long ago. My last post was over two years ago, I guess i have turned into a bit of a lurker.
But hey since I am here I have a question for you all.
My wifes 206 is a complete dog, it is cutting out at roundabouts, and has recently started to smell of a bad catalyst. In addition the c.v. joints are also shot. We now want rid of it.. The question is; what should I do with it? trade it in? send it to auction as is?
I could never sell it privately, my concience would'nt let me.
Suggestions please
Acrabat
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Acrabat with your consent I'll move the question over to Tech. Engine type and year to progress ?
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Dave
Chris M is right. I'm still here, but post far less frequently, and with a slightly different name!
JS
Edited by John S on 27/12/2007 at 13:49
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27th July 2002 for me. I visit most days, much to my wifes disgust.
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Just over four years, averaging nearly 5 posts a day despite a number of breaks of a month or more.
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Hmmmmm: according to a forum search, my first post was 29/1/01.
Thanks to all (over the years) for considered advice, help and opinions.
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Sometime in 2001, don't post as much these days but still read a lot.
Still miss Ian Cook's virtual bar on a Friday afternoon :-)
Another question - is anyone on facebook? Been an interesting Christmas as I realise most of my friends and me are _just_ too old/not bothered to have signed up. I reckon there won't be too many people on here with
"Tigerfeet is posting about a Mondeo TDCi in the Backroom"
Oh, happy new year to all too
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Did poke mi nose into the facebook backroom, but apart from the draughts and cobwebs there were only four of us there, so haven't been back!
Billy
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First posted on March 2002 according to Forum search. Think I looked in on the site for a few months before that though. Only look in occasionally since early retirement 'cos life's so much busier now!
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Date registered: Wed 3 Sep 2003 (226 weeks ago)
I only post every 6 months or so.. hoping not to offend the "clique"
Simon
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I only post every 6 months or so.. hoping not to offend the "clique"
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>>>>>>>>>>> who"s the clique?,this must be the only site ive ever used that in my opinion doesnt have one,there are some posters who spout more than overs (me for one) but its my job to talk so keyboarding words is just a natural follow on for me ive always spouted since i left skool
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Did poke mi nose into the facebook backroom, but apart from the draughts and cobwebs there were only four of us there, so haven't been back!
There's a Facebook group??
Ooh!
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December 2001 under a previous incarnation.
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Registered Wed 25 Sept 2002 (275 weeks ago), made 819 posts (av 0.43/day) but almost all under my alter ego of Dave_taxi_driver. Took a good 2 year break but am now back, albeit more in a viewing than contributing capacity these days. IIRC Paul M-T left a few years back after some previous discussions got a bit petty. Where are all the others though? Hi DD and drbe by the way :-)
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October 2002
I read this forum quite often and post just occasionally. Very good, well moderated forum with many very knowledgeable contributors.
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197 weeks, 4 and a quarter posts a day nearly on average, hundreds if not millions of inconsequential threads too, rabbit rabbit rabbit, hell's bells.
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Since September 2003. My first few posts when I was 23 were ridiculed for asking about Porsche 928's and Ferarri 348's, I now drive a Porker so wasn't telling porkies at the time!
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The answer to this used to be viewable under Profile or some such? Anyway I think the answer is December 2002.
{you just need to click on a username - DD}
Date registered: Fri 6 Dec 2002 (264 weeks ago)
Number of threads: 59
Number of posts: 599 (av: 0.32/day)
Edited by Dynamic Dave on 03/01/2008 at 00:33
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Dave was it you who was doing the daily contract run to Glasgow and back? Did it ever get off the ground or is that why the name has changed?
2007 Seat Altea XL 2.0 TDI Stylance
2005 Skoda Fabia vrS
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40 weeks - a mere sprog !
Clk Sec
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It's actually a little difficult to be sure for those from the early days. If we consider the current forum the mk.3 then the mk.1 started on the 17th October 2000 with a question that I seem to remember HJ posted under another name (Peter!) just to get things started.
My earliest post in the archive shows as 27th March 2001 but I remember my first post and that isn't it. I know the archive was "pruned" around 2002 by a now ex-mod so it can't be taken as gospel any more.
Of course in that mk.1 forum there was no registration so you could use a different username for each post... as some seemed to do with great regularity. Funny at times but a bit destructive when impersonation reared its head. There was also no moderation as such, just the guiding hand of Martyn the website manager... a real gent who we drove to distraction at times.
Those early pre-moderation days were very much like a cosy pub with a hard core of about 20 frequent posters, a couple of essential village idiots and then newcomers who wandered in and out at times.
I forget the date exactly but I reckon early/mid 2002 we had the upgrade to mk.2 where registration was required, hence many will see in their profile a date around this time when in fact they were probably posting unregistered in the earlier forum. A forum search in the archive with your original username is the best way to find out... unless you have been pruned of course.
Some will remember I was heavily involved in the mk.1 to mk.2 changeover and moderated in that initial period of registration. At that time I was working as a self employed motor engineer being able to look in frequently when I used the office phone next to the PC. I think then there were four or five of us directly involved with vehicle repairs who offered replies to many queries... and Chris Watson of course!
Now after 13 worthwhile years just closing my business and "retiring" to a new venture where neither ECUs nor seized fixings can trouble me!
David W
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www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?f=1&t=4
The first recorded post I could find.
See how HJ quoted a post - wouldn't get away with that now.
I remember where I was when first read about this site - On holiday in Llandrindod Wells of all places sitting on a bench reading the Motoring Section of DT waiting for Mrs P who was shopping.
Edited by Pugugly {P} on 04/01/2008 at 11:56
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Started reading the original BR back in early 2001, first posted mid 2001....you didnt need to register then. Originally posted as Ian L.
Wonder what happened to Dizzy, Martyn BRM? Managed to track some username changes through the years. One very annoying feature of the username changes is that if you change a username then all the past posts also change.
Dont post all that often these days but still read recent posts on most days.
Thanks goodness the endless speed camera threads dont surface as often as before..
Interesting to go back and read the Life outside the BR and Cars outside the BR threads from a few years ago
Stargazer
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PU this is the "Peter" post which was said to be the first.
www.honestjohn.co.uk/forum/post/index.htm?t=2&m=5&...e
Forum search does seem to throw up some odd results for the earliest posts and some are really hard to find.
Hello Ian L, heard briefly from Dizzy the other day but promptly lost the mail so couldn't reply. I would expect he is still enjoying a "busy retirement". Martyn BRM I did wonder about too, must try and find out. Perhaps PU knows?
Of course in those early pre-moderator days we had a "Polo Girl" in the form of Carole Adams who would keep the male ego in check when required. She was a brave girl.... if I remember correctly on finding her Citroen unreliable she bought an MGF!
David
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Since March 2003 in my present incarnation.
What happened to Dizzy, I liked his input? Used to work for Perkins didn't he?
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2001, I think. Not here as much as I used to be, though we have finally bought a computer at home, so that may change.
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Registered Nov 2004 but a silent lurker for a while before that. Don't visit so often, SWMBO has banned me from the internet. Gotta go, she's coming up the stairs...
Edited by Xileno {P} on 05/01/2008 at 21:18
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May 2002, apparently. I can't remember, ossifer...
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Late 2003. I've just checked my profile.
I was on before that while in the UK, from 2001 I think, but under a different name that I can't remember!
That's why I am the only HJ Backroomer whose real name appears at the top of every post. Although it might be a bit risky because anyone can look me up it does mean I get messages from old friends and things like that, which is nice.
And with a bit of luck I won't forget it...
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Been reading since the beginning, but only started to post very recently. ( Nov 07 ) Sort of habit forming isn't it ? Thoroughly enjoy it most of the time even if some contributors do get a bit grumpy occassionally. Have already learned that you have to be crystal clear what you mean or someone will misinterpret it ! Have learned much useful stuff from here. Thanks all !
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