EcoModder is NINE! 9th birthday prize contest! (ScanGauges, etc.)
 

http://ecomodder.com/forum/attachmen...1&d=1481139897

(Original cake photo...: Andrea_44)

Tim and I were going to shut down the forum, considering this is the 2nd year of crazy low oil prices. REALLY, WHO NEEDS EFFICIENCY!?

But we changed our minds and decided to celebrate EcoModder's NINTH birthday instead. (Dec. 1 was the big day).

And we're marking the milestone by giving away The Customary Birthday Loot.

On Friday, January 6th, we'll draw prizes randomly based on forum posts made between today and then. (So the more you post, the better your odds. Not that our hard-core members need any motivation.)

HEY - this is the month of prizes! The birthday draw period runs concurrent with our free $25 gas card contest.

Birthday Party Prizes

• ScanGauge II: (again generously provided by Linear Logic) will be awarded at random to one member* who posts in any thread in the forum between 12:01 AM EST today (Dec. 7) and noon EST on Friday, Jan. 6th.

• ScanGauge-e: (generously provided by Linear Logic) the ScanGauge II's little brother (see comparison)

• EcoModder decals: one additional randomly chosen member who posts in the forum in the same time period will receive a pair of decals.

* ... only members who joined before today can win.

So... Happy Birthday to everyone -- members and moderators alike -- who have made EcoModder what it is.

Woohoo for us! Thanks for making this a great place. :thumbup:


Gotta admit, that got a good laugh out of me. :D

:thumbup: Hard to believe it has been 9 years. :cool:

I love to visit this site everyday. There's not a lot of fights on this forum, which I like :)

Agreed. The people around here are great! Mostly!

It seems to me there was more a bit more fighting when U.S. gas prices were much higher.

1) there were a lot more people interacting, and many more "non-regulars";
2) maybe people were generally more frustrated to begin with.

So... is Ecomodder actually 10 years old or was this post recycled?

I hope it's not 9 again or I just wasted a bunch of time making another 9th birthday cake image!

OH WAIT - I see it now. The timestamp on post #1 showed a 2015 posting date. It's because I copied the 8th birthday post from last year and edited it with the 9th info. Apparently vB copied the date as well... so, yeah, it's a recycling error. I'll go fix that.

EDIT: fixed!

I just registered to thank you guys for not pulling the plug. :D

Gas and oil may be ridiculously cheap for now, but I don't think that can last forever. I'll keep doing the hypermiling thing even when it doesn't save me much money. :thumbup:

- Scott

Happy day!

That cake looks more aero going backwards...
Great belly pan though ;)

Congrats EM on 9 years of helping each other save fuel.

I was wondering why "last year's thread" was getting attention now. :confused:

I didn't realize that the forum wasn't even a year old when I joined (or that I joined 8 years ago...).

congrats for a great forum community, I love you guys. (I know, stay away from your beers)

Love this forum
Woo hoo - how do we enter? :)

Happy birthday! I'm in...

I don't post regularly, but love this forum! Thanks for existing! You folks are partly the reason why I own two hybrids, and love both of them!

Regards,
Steve

I don't think I would have started hypermiling (at least, to the extremes that I do) without this site. Can't remember when I first started reading here (I know I didn't sign up right away), but over the many years, I've bought and built daily driver cars because of the extremely useful information on this site and the great interaction with the users. Happy 9th, Ecomodder.

(Don't worry, gas will get expensive again! lol)

feel the same way....but different.
i bought the Jetta because of this site.

Congrats and nice cake, although you may have gone a little extreme on the diffusers.

I wouldn't mind winning the cake.

Happy Birthday! I don't care about low prices, this stuff is fun in and of itself!.

And yes, that car has WAY too many vortex generators.

I'd love a scan gauge!
Haven't posted in a while, life, ya know.
I'll hypermile if gas is under a buck a gallon. I simply get a kick out of it. I do it by habit and have before I knew the word or that this site existed. Plus, there's the added bonus of driving my wife nuts.

Yay!
 

This is great! Everyone should run a ScanGauge! :) :turtle: Thanks for making this forum happen! I've learned a ton of neat stuff here, and I hope it never ends! :thumbup:

Thank you all...

Happy Birthday EcoModder!

Awesome, keep up the good work on the forum! I would love to get my 2000 V8 Tundra up to 20+ MPG. I'm thinking some clever aero might get me there.

Congrats on 9. I have been here nearly 6 of 'em, happy to say.

Thanks for a great site!

Well, that's just thrown me a curve ball, I manly lurk on here, there is no need for me to post anything.. I come here, learn things, move on. also, I Believe this is my 1st post for this year Ever.

Yay, b day bash again!

Cool. Count me in!

Don't make it your last! Post about your vehicle and its mods, or what you'd like to do with it. We want to hear. :thumbup:

Happy 9th Birthday

I've learned a lot from this site and told many people about it.

HBD, count me in as well!

Dave

I thought "Wait, what?!"

I bought the HX because of this site, but I wish I could have found Ecomodder without purchasing the Forester!

Bought a TDI Beetle with a 5 speed! Love passing the pumps for weeks at a time!

I hope this site has many, many birthdays to come. I appreciate that the moderators keep topics based on science and not just unfounded claims (even though there is even a place for them in the "unicorn garage"). Not everyone has a copy of Hucho's work or would even know how to interpret his research. There is no other site like this one with such knowlegeable and helpful threads and posts to help us in our quest to drive farther while using less energy in the process. Thanks EcoModder.

Can you imagine... a website so eco-conscious it even recycles forum threads. :D

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Congrats on making it this far. Low gas may be hurting the community, but the community ain't dead... not yet!

Happy Birthday!