Where's Oakville ?

[frankiman]

...seriously...

[MattiasJacobs]

Haha, as in our member Oakville!? Or the City/Town of Oakville... If you mean the city its about 10/20 minutes south of Toronto, depending on traffic.

[MKIV]

Haven't seen any recent activity from him. Why? You waiting on something?

[dark_sky]

you beat me to it, i was woundering the same theing

[MattiasJacobs]

Why don't you just send him a text? What's he gotten himself into now...

[skreamz]

He's probably just busy volunteering and school and stuff!!!

[cschepp]

Nope I'm pretty sure Oakville is done on here and will only come here when needed. I just got rid of the last of my parts today and when the car sells I will wish everyone good luck and farewell

[Snake556]

He's still around. Like Chris said, he just doesn't enjoy the forum as much any more, due to several reasons

[RABBIT]

he has a skyline so i dunnio ill text him

[cschepp]

No one enjoys it much anymore so people either get kicked off on purpose like tricky or just don't come on like Oakville. This has been a common thing the past while.

Funny thing is I always thought I would get a 34 but now I'm thinking I won't bother

[frankiman]

oh bummer, i miss him and his 2-3 threads a day

[MKIV]

Cschepp I don't know you well but it would suck to lose you on this forum you always seem to provide helpful input and also have stuff for sale and whatnot.

Okay well this is not so obvious to me since compared to most of you, I'm still a newb (haven't been on this site even a year) but I keep hearin the whole "this forum isn't what it used to be" speech...can someone explain what made this forum more enjoyable before?

[NismoS-tune]

Maybe he grew into the better GTR forums like GTRPWR? jkjk

[louis110]

Comparing GTRC to the Subaru community (a very enthusiastic bunch), I think the problem is this:

- Small community = smaller variety of cars and people;
- Lack of technical experts to post informative threads on tuning, DIYs, etc;
- General lack of "out of the box" thinking when modifying their car;
- Experienced members getting out of the Skyline scene and moving on (whereas subie guys are in 4 lyfe);
- Decline of heavy hitters in the tuning community that are involved with GTRC;
- Minimal sponsor support, and lack of a constant flow of new sponsors;
- Younger guys getting into poor condition Skylines as they become cheaper;
- Setup of the forum could be improved, i.e. adding more discussion categories like "automotive rumors and news", "parts and dealers reviews". Better division of technical threads could be beneficial too, e.g. GTR Tech > Maintenance/Turbocharging/Interior/Exterior/Suspension/Powertrain/Tuning;


Most importantly though, members need to become more involved. It seems like most people in the club are just here to take, and don't contribute back to the club. I'm also guilty of this, but I'm working on it

[Kunzz]

Lets invite and embrace our R35 brothers a little more, perhaps repost very important threads/DIY's for them from various R35 forums all over the world, give them a place. This could bring more attention to the older gens and have more "discussion" posts