Changes in Membership Access to the Forum and Technical Manual

[Garry]

For over ten years the $30 price of Full Membership has not changed and will not do so for the foreseeable future. This has been achieved through good management and direction by current and past fully volunteer Pagoda Group Boards. Funds collected are used to pay the cost of hosting the Forum and Technical Manual, producing and distributing the collectable Pagoda World magazine twice a year and insurances considered necessary as an incorporated body in the USA. We wish to thank all our Full Members for their continued financial support to enable this Group to continue.

This is outstanding value for the price of ten coffees a year and we have and will continue to encourage our Associate Members and guests to consider joining as Full Members to give us the financial support needed to continue.

The Board is in the process of reviewing what Full Members get for their on going financial support and what additional benefits we could provide to them such as access to videos of basic repair and servicing functions etc. This review will continue for some months and some changes to functionality and access to both Full and Associate Members are still being considered.

As part of this process, from this point forward, Associate Members will NOT be able to access the majority of the Technical Manual.  Those pages in our Technical Manual with the ® sign will be reserved for Full Members only and will apply to all future content added to the Technical Manual. To access the Technical Manual you will need to be logged in.

Many questions asked by Members on the Forum are often cross referred to the Technical Manual which will in future require Associates and Guests to become Full Members to access and the Board would ask our Full Members to encourage Associates and Guests to support the Group by joining to gain the access enjoyed by Full Members.

Your Pagoda Group Board

[Peter van Es]

If you are a Full Member, and want access to all of the Technical Manual, the procedure is as follows:

• log in on the Forum first
• then use the Technical Manual button to go to the wiki

After that you will have access to everything. Associate members and guests (and Google etc) will NOT be able to access the pages with the ® sign.

If associate or non-full members access a restricted page, they will get a log-in page.  Trying to log in on the wiki (the Technical Manual) does not work.

Peter (Webmaster)

[Merc_Girl]

Fully concur with your sentiments!

You can’t go into a sweetie shop and expect to get free sweets 🤣

I personally don’t use the Tech Manual that much and usually use the forum. However I’m aware it take time, effort and monies to run such an efficient resource. After all, if you own a pagoda, you need to have a few pennies to keep it going, so contributing such a small amount each year certainly represents good value for money for me!

Keep up the good work!!!

[Tomnistuff]

When I found this site, i had owned, neglected and abused my Pagoda for 25 years already.  That was 11 years ago.  I don't remember when I became a full member, but it was maybe at the beginning.  When I joined, I knew nothing about my car, although I was an experienced automotive engineer at Ford in Dearborn, Michigan when I bought it.  When I think back, I realize that $330.00 is pretty cheap for all that full membership offered me for those 11 years.
Thank you all for 11 really enjoyable and productive years.  Hopefully, with my new Pacemaker, I'll outlive Covid-19 and have a few more PUBs and maybe even another Meeting of the Clans.
Tom Kizer
Quebec

[Benz Dr.]

When I found this site, i had owned, neglected and abused my Pagoda for 25 years already.  That was 11 years ago.  I don't remember when I became a full member, buy it was maybe at the beginning.  When I joined, I knew nothing about my car, although I was an experienced automotive engineer at Ford in Dearborn, Michigan when I bought it.  When I think back, I realize that $330.00 is pretty cheap for all that full membership offered me for those 11 years.
Thank you all for 11 really enjoyable and productive years.  Hopefully, with my new Pacemaker, I'll outlive Covid-19 and have a few more PUBs and maybe even another Meeting of the Clans.
Tom Kizer
Quebec

The site works well and when I started working on MB cars over 40 years ago there was nothing like this resource around back then. You were really on your own back then.

We will have another Meeting of the Clans when things clear up. Not this year but maybe next year. I have to say that it really was nice having all of my buds over for a visit that day; all of whom were met on this forum. Those friendships and acquaintances are worth far more to me than anything else.