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Old 08-17-2010, 08:09 AM   #1 (permalink)
saand
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Making use of the Wiki for modification / hypermiling info

Hi all,
After a few months on this site I just noticed there is a Wiki hiding up in the title bar.

I wonder how people feel about using this Wiki for more detailed modification information. Ecomodder has a great list of 66 mods now and 100+ hypermiling tips and a whole lot of info hidden in the forum threads. There is a bit of a guide to how effective and how costly some mods are but to find detailed info we have to head to the forums and search through many threads to find out results, problems and solutions to how to perform a modification or do that great hypermiling technique.

So the question is if I set up a Wiki for each efficiency mod listed would people use it and update it with there own experiences/ success.

The sort of info I am thinking would be useful in the wikis are as follows

General introduction: what the mod is about why people would want to do it.
Results people have seen: results of A-B-A tests
Range of cost:
How to perform the mod: pictures/instructions for different car types
Problems / draw backs

I figure if pages are set up and people new to the site come into the list of mods or hypermiling tips page they will get more detailed info and try out some of the modifications.

So what do you all think? if no body would use it I wont bother setting up any pages

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