Is Rovertech dead?

[vinny19791]

Less and less posts. I feel as if this site is going by the wayside

Anyone left to comment?

Its quite sad

[carl747]

I think it's people moving away from rovers

And general lack of meets / fix it days anymore

[Rrobson]

Must admit, I joined this forum because it seemed to give the most technical knowledge for my varient.
Now don't get me wrong, it is FULL of info, and there are people who are happy to post and help but it does seem a little quiet.

I'm used to really busy forums which has its good and bad points. Although less people see posts on here, there's still a good chance of having it answered correctly instead of a lot of people guessing who are simply regurgitating rubbish they've read somewhere else.

[David-Ti]

Good point about the forum made above. There are still a good few reliable and well informed members who do come on to answer questions (providing they are not questions answered 100times already) so it is still a good place to get decent info if/when you need it!

Tis a shame its soo quiet though. I dont use facebook anymore but I hear that is/was more active??

Oh well, I still like my two rovers so I'll be around for a while yet.

Definitely alot less new comers though and only a few hanger'onners. In a way it would have been nice to be in on the scene when more folk were present but the flip side is that each year my car gains a little more exclusivity.

[1234dist]

i glance at the fb page but don't really post anything on there.

I still come on 3-400 times a day
#sad #nolife

[Marty]

I don't use face ache and I'm normally about but it's not what it was 13 years ago on here.

[james3990]

You will be greeted by many Plebs on the FB pages so be warned

We need a new admin team IMO, people who are active members and regularly help others.

This forum could easily be more interesting if we had the right people on board.

I.e

1) monthly competitions ( winners take feature on home page etc)
2) local and national meets
3) fix it days (go round and help people fix cars)
4) event days
5) updates guides (HOW TO)



Things above that have been mentioned over and over and over again. moderator needs to wake up and socialise more, Only comes online to report when things go missing.

[Jason36]

Yeah so quiet these days.

[ghall2004]

Groundhog day

[_BILLY_ZR_]

I've noticed the parts for sale on here have really dropped over the last year.

[Badboyrich]

I have two cars - a MG ZT and the coupe turbo.
I find the 75 & ZT forum to be by far the best place for the ZT related stuff, and here for R8 & T series questions.
I have laid the coupe up this year while I save up to do the things to it that I want to and so haven't had much to post, but still look daily.
Still lots of good threads and I feel the place to be for the aforementioned.

[_vitesse_]

As above, I guess it is down to less and less MG and Rover cars in existence these days and maybe the ones that are still going the use is different.
Still this site has so much knowledge stashed away in all those years worth of threads.
Maybe it does need a new look or focus, these cars are getting older and rarer, bit like us.

ps and the youtube in post link thingy needs fixing or I need to find the correct way to use it.

[parker2245]

I visit regularly,

Maybe we should start catering for the new mgs etc

[rovermadman4825]

Am still about, I also don't use fb. I do check here many times a day but with my project on hold and many health problems alot of my enthusiasm has gone......

Hopefully it'll come back or al just pay someone to do the finishing touches.... Altho I need a job to pay for that lol

[1234dist]

1) monthly competitions ( winners take feature on home page etc)
2) local and national meets
3) fix it days (go round and help people fix cars)
4) event days
5) updates guides (HOW TO)

Not to be negative but i'm good at it.
1) monthly competitions has been done before and dwindled down to th same 4-5 people participating
2) local and national meets I used to arrange the northwest meets with BJRESPECT, 2 events were ok, 3rd no one came
3) fix it days (go round and help people fix cars) have been doing this for 3 years at the unit and guess what, once their car was done they were never to be seen again so i stopped
4) event days Always good, always down south
5) updates guides (HOW TO) would be great

[Marty]

With regards to how to guides I would say over the years just about everything has been covered.

You just have to face facts Rovers have had there day and will now fade into the background there is less on the road and hence why this place has gone quite and add Facebook to the equation and it's now a quiet road for this place as well as a lot of forums.

I remember when you use to log onto here and have over 200 posts a day if not more and I have seen it change massively over the years I'm glad I was about at the beginning and got to experience the laughs and have met some really nice people who I now class as mates.

Give it 2 years and this place as well as a lot of other forums will be dead it's how it's going it will fade into the background and will be a classic forum from back in the days that will make comical reading for people in a few years and a huge library of information.

[Rrobson]

It's a strange one, because there are loads of members on here, just not many active ones.

Like said, these cars are getting fewer and fewer, which means new member numbers are following the same trend.
It doesn't help that there are so many different forums covering everything mg rover. If you've got a 75/zt then you'll naturally go to the 75 zt forum, then there's the .org site which like this site also tries to cover everything but seems to be more popular. Then there's Facebook and any number of smaller focused forums.

One thing I noticed is this doesn't seem to be very well known. I stumbled onto it by accident searching for information. There isn't anything drawing people to this forum. And those that want the social side of ownership won't stay because there isn't any... But then there aren't enough people to to bother so it's a bit of a vicious circle.

[Tritium]

I visit the forum every day....

[E_T_V]

Rovertech has always been quieter than some of the more generic MGR forums, largely because it is more technical and less chit-chat (which is a good thing in my opinion! - Facebook is for chat - forums are much better for capturing knowledge as you can search them properly).

It is also coming up to autumn so there is always a lull in activity as the rain comes and the evenings draw in.

There are also less and less on the road so numbers will naturally reduce to a smaller hard-core of enthusiasts. There is nothing you can do about that

The one area where I don't see a lot of posts in on K turbos particularly and there are lots of inane questions that appear on facebook which I'm sure would be within some peoples areas of expertise here.

Then of course there is the diesels which is a bit of a niche area but there is an area of expertise from some members and a hardcore of a few enthusiasts with few forums to capture the expertise.

[wayno]

It doesnt help that we have a fair few members who just want to pull people up on grammer or spelling, and then the people who wont accept other people opinions or points of view, thats why i tend not to use this site anymore, i find the rover coupe forum more friendly r.i.p rovertech

[stefaclese]

My enthusiasm for cars generally waned after writing off the Coupe and driving around in a bog standard ZS for over a year now. Could do with having a project or something to reignite it, but that requires more space and consequently more money which isn't realistic at the moment.

IMO the forum has been like this for a few years now, it picks up from time to time and then quietens back down again, with these sort of threads making regular appearances.

As said the larger forums tend to be larger and busier purely because they're full of crap and like fb you get the same stuff being asked over and over.

There is a fair bit of K turbo stuff on here, just not a lot of members on here doing them. The standard K turbo engine has become a lot cheaper and easier to source in the past couple of years, they used to be nearer the £500 mark and thus were pretty pointless as a T16 turbo conversion was a hell of a lot cheaper. ZandF remaps for the turbo are a relatively recent thing too.

I can echo some of Craigs comments, I used to organise stands and track slots at Castle Combe Action Days for a few years, hardly anyone came to most of them. The only motivation for me to do them was to get in some track time myself.

[Marty]

It doesnt help that we have a fair few members who just want to pull people up on grammer or spelling, and then the people who wont accept other people opinions or points of view, thats why i tend not to use this site anymore, i find the rover coupe forum more friendly r.i.p rovertech

My spelling is shocking so is my grammar I just laugh when the grammar police come out [emoji38]

[vinny19791]

Rovertech has always been quieter than some of the more generic MGR forums,

It is also coming up to autumn so there is always a lull in activity as the rain comes and the evenings draw in.

.

Rain, wind etc is for wimps

LONG LIVE ROVERTECH

[james3990]

I still believe the Mod Team needs a change.

Not all of them, but at least 2-3 could be changed with some more enthusiastic and active members on this forum.

Spice this place up a little.

It's not going to revamp the forum as these cars are only going in one direction, but there are a number of areas from a moderators point of view that could be improved.

Anyone else agree?

[1234dist]

i wasn't aware we still had a mod team


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[Marty]

They all on holiday least they all been on this year at some point [emoji38]

[tomcat espace]

rt ftw. im going to have put my bit in now. ive got to say thanks to most of the usall guys in this thread have helped me make my project aka (boost buss) t16 espace a reality. if it wasnt for all the great old school members i wouldnt be wear i am with my car today rovertech is the only place i feel for the definitive answers for the t16. if we was to cater for other cars and advertise it wherever we can i no a lot of you dont use face book those that do could promote on various pages and get us out there i love this web page even when i was ill in hospital for around a year i came back on and the support was amazing thanks guys

my number plate even says rtw rover tech website

[vinny19791]

I still believe the Mod Team needs a change.

Not all of them, but at least 2-3 could be changed with some more enthusiastic and active members on this forum.

Spice this place up a little.

It's not going to revamp the forum as these cars are only going in one direction, but there are a number of areas from a moderators point of view that could be improved.

Anyone else agree?

I agree

[tomcat espace]

[stuballs]

It is weird because the technical knowledge here is excellent.

Maybe it's just because so much has already been covered AND there are just less cars on the road now.

Something else that's pretty weird is rovertech never comes up in Google searches unless you include rovertech as a search term. So newbies might never even know it exists!

I always update my project on here first. Mostly because the members here have been SOOOO helpful.

[parker2245]

How far are you getting it running stu

I may well go down the same route, I'm still thinking kv6 in a brm tho

[stuballs]

How far are you getting it running stu

I may well go down the same route, I'm still thinking kv6 in a brm tho

Should be ready for first start by next weekend.

Kv6 in a BRM would be awesome! Never been done that I know of.

[southside]

I think unless your in to the dub scene then modifying or owning a modified car isn't really that popular anymore? Atleast round here anyway I rarely see modified cars anymore, and I don't mean big body kits either I just mean enthusiast owned cars in general.

Most young lads around here drive brand new standard cars now and even the older enthusiast just drive standard high performance cars. Nobody seams interested in working on or improving their cars anymore.

[1234dist]

Mainly because there is no money in modification any more and with the price of parts nowadays you can only get your money back in part form.

[Rrobson]

Built not bought!

You don't have to modify a car to be an enthusiast, the biggest problem with rover now (I've seen it happening on the 75 forum over the last 6 years) is that the brand has fallen in to the banger bracket. A car can be bought for next to nothing, run until it breaks and then scrapped. I'm guilty of this on a few occasions and until my latest 75 I hadn't spent more than £500 on one which even included a low mileage diesel.
This means you don't have enthusiasts any more because of how the cars are being treated.

When I sold a 25 a year or so ago, the guy who picked it up said he's just going to run it until it breaks, then scrap it. But disappointing when id bought it for scrap money, fixed up and gave to my sister as her first car

But that's the other problem, any issues with the cars now and nobody wants to know, it just goes to the scrap which now seems to be pointless as the price of scrap is so low...