Is Ecomodder dying/dead??

[oil pan 4]

Aerodynamics is fun.
It's like Babylon bee vs epoch times.

[California98Civic]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Agreed.

I follow the Recent Posts, but my refuge is in The Lounge (and Aerodynamics). It's as close to 'social media' as I care to be.

Except that, as you know, this is not a general interest social media site. It's specifically a car modding forum. I don't bother myself with the Lounge, so I don't know alot about how stuff plays out there. But, to me, politicized public health policy (especially politicians' mask mandate decisions) is a divisive distraction from the purpose of the forum. The more members engage in unrelated divisive political debates the more difficult it will be to rebuild membership around the core skills and interests the EM site is for. This not a free speech site. It's a membership community with which we freely agreed to limit our speech in order to focus on a shared set of interest. Put another way, it is a free association site with rules about staying reasonably on topic, and not an anything goes free speech site. Anyway, that's the way I see it. I don't need people to agree with me. I can ignore threads and get along anyhow. Cheers, james

[freebeard]

Ha. There're things I wouldn't say on 4chan.

The terms are acceptable.

I don't bother myself with the Lounge, so I don't know alot about how stuff plays out there.

He says, in The Lounge.

[Autobahnschleicher]

Originally Posted by freebeard

Ha. There're things I wouldn't say on 4chan.

The terms are acceptable.



He says, in The Lounge.

4chans /o/ is just about the worst car forum in existence

[cRiPpLe_rOoStEr]

Originally Posted by Autobahnschleicher

Changing tires yourself is pretty hard and requires a machine for dynamic ballancing.
I'd rather let someone in a tireshop mount new tires onto my wheels.
However just switching between summer and winter wheels is pretty easy.

I was actually refering to changing the tire and wheel assembly for the spare when a tire gets punctured, which is as easy as changing from the summer set to the winter set

[Vwbeamer]

Gas is too cheap for ecomodding to be anything but a hobby, or a goal to reduce green house gases.

I have ecomodded my truck, let's add up the cost
40% bed cover -$70
Lowered -$700
Increase PSI tires-$0
Total cost -$770

That price doesn't include my labor, which was considerable in installing lowering kit.

Gas saved last 4400 miles 26 gallons vs epa average
average cost $2.70
Total saved -$70.20

Miles until total cost is recouped at current gas prices
about 43800

[Piotrsko]

Maybe the ROI sucks but for me it's like the reason for mountain climbing. Does make the wife nuts.

[Autobahnschleicher]

Originally Posted by cRiPpLe_rOoStEr

I was actually refering to changing the tire and wheel assembly for the spare when a tire gets punctured, which is as easy as changing from the summer set to the winter set

Well, I actualy change the tires on my moped myself.

[redpoint5]

Originally Posted by California98Civic

Except that, as you know, this is not a general interest social media site. It's specifically a car modding forum. I don't bother myself with the Lounge, so I don't know alot about how stuff plays out there. But, to me, politicized public health policy (especially politicians' mask mandate decisions) is a divisive distraction from the purpose of the forum. The more members engage in unrelated divisive political debates the more difficult it will be to rebuild membership around the core skills and interests the EM site is for. This not a free speech site. It's a membership community with which we freely agreed to limit our speech in order to focus on a shared set of interest. Put another way, it is a free association site with rules about staying reasonably on topic, and not an anything goes free speech site. Anyway, that's the way I see it. I don't need people to agree with me. I can ignore threads and get along anyhow. Cheers, james

People that leave because of stuff they can't handle in THE LOUNGE are snowflakes. There's a reason there's a lounge, and it's to talk about off topic things with other members here that we've established relationships with. Nobody forces anyone to read something, so that excuse is lame.

A handful of people leaving because they can't handle the discourse isn't the reason for the overall decline in participation.

The topics have been thoroughly discussed. What is the chance that someone is going to bring up a topic that doesn't have several threads already discussing the subject? A site like this flourishes in the beginning when information was scarce on such topics. Now, when people in other forums discuss efficiency related topics, I simply link an old thread that is a good resource. No reason to have another discussion about it.

[freebeard]

Lowered -$700

Air bags? How much drop did that get you? It's 90% of you out-of-pocket expense, but the looks and the handling probably benefited too.

Lowering a VW Type III or a 1964 Plymouth Valiant (at least the front) is a labor-only proposition.