Dear members,
you will see that we have created a number of new forums. The reason these changes were made are as follows:
- to better organise the thousands of posts we get;
- to reduce the load on the system when searching for topics (just select the forum you are interested in) and to reduce time-outs (see the index.php?topic=549]discussion[/url] here);
- to create some additional functionality.
ForumsWith this change we have changed the purpose of this General Forum to deal with general topics and history. For technical subjects, we have created four forums:
- Chassis, body, interior, and cosmetic (anything not directly related to moving or stopping the car)
- Drive train ,suspension, steering, and brakes (anything that makes the car go or stop)
- Electrical and Instruments
- Research and Development, where experiments and non-original modifications should be discussed.
We would like to re-emphasise the charter of this group:
"The purpose of the Group shall be to maintain the historical heritage of the Mercedes-Benz brand and products, particularly the W 113 230 SL, 250 SL and 280 SL models produced from March 1963 through February 1971." We are here to preserve the historical heritage, not to help people change their cars. We would request that topics related to these changes (new engines, overdrives, trick suspensions, electric windows etc) are posted in the R&D forum.
Forum confusionYou may find that there are multiple places where you could post an item. For instance a topic on radios does not have anything to do with making your car go, so that goes in the Chassis, Body and Interior forum. However, an electrical topic related to points is a subject that is related to making the car go, and therefore goes into the Drive Train forum.
We would like to remind you to also check the
Technical Manual. We are aiming to make that into the
definitive source of information, well structured and organised, without the noise of a typical forum topic. For some topics we are already getting there. So if you have a new insight as a result of a forum post or topic, which is not yet in the
Technical Manual, add it there instead.
The moderators can, and will move posts between the forums. Over the next few weeks you will even see old topics move into the different forums. That may however take some time.
Commercial AdvertisingWe have also added a Commercial Advertising forum, that currently is restricted for posting. The purpose of this forum is to allow commercial vendors leave an advert/message. We shall only allow a small number of time-limited active threads, in effect making all of them sticky. Advertisers would need to pay the group a nominal fee per post in that thread, but you shall all see clearly that the vendor has a commercial goal. It will also create room for people who contribute greatly to this community to help develop their related commercial business on the board. If you'd like to advertise, please contact admin@sl113.org for details. Ultimately however, it is the Board's decision as to whether we allow someone to advertise. We will not allow non-relevant advertising for instance.
Do note that as a result we shall be enforcing our "non-commercial" policy much more strictly in the "Items for sale" forum.
Peter
For the board of
www.sl113.org1970 280SL. Also known as 'admin@sl113.org' and organiser of the
Technical Manual.
