Golf doesn't start sometimes

[Russ59]

What...., you don't like reading?
Surely there are some ideas what it could be in these 5 pages.
I would be glad, if it was me, and you can always skip over the messages that are not on topic.

I know a lot of threads do tend to go off topic after a while, but there is generally a sensible answer posted at least once in the 5 pages

[gregozedobe]

.... might as well close this thread as it's become a bit useless.

I went back to the beginning and had a look, there were a lot of useful, intelligent suggestions in the first two and a half pages, and quite a few of them were from the very same people you are saying made "your" thread useless

I find it quite amusing how often the person who made the original post decide they then "own" that particular thread (on a public, free, forum), and should have the right to decide what people should or shouldn't say on "their" thread

Generally the "hard" information arrives fairly early, and then when everyone has helped (for free, mind you), it starts to go off on various tangents, particularly when the OP hasn't responded to the useful suggestions for a while (as in this case).

To round neatly back to being "On topic", it's good to see you have decided to follow the advice given in posts # 2, 10, 17, 18, 23, 25, and 44, so I guess this thread wasn't really that useless after all

[Russ59]

All the extra pages of so called crap are what keeps the forum interesting. If there were no helpful suggestions amongst the replies and all the posts were totally off topic, the thread would have been long anyway

[Greg Roles]

What was the topic anyway?

[THR]

Bah, sorry for being ungrateful

Carry on

[Preen59]

What was the topic anyway?

How to get those nasty stains out of your back seat.. I think??

[gldgti]

hmm... i was on holidays...

since the topic has been kinda resolved, its ok...

[Russ59]

hmm... i was on holidays...

since the topic has been kinda resolved, its ok...

Thanks, now to find another thread that needs livening up

[Golf Loon]

OK, I have decluttered this thread. There were a lot of comments and banter here that I did not find offensive, but they added nothing to the thread and do not need to be archived forever in this forum.

If you could keep all the chat and banter in General Chat, where it eventually expires, that would assist in keeping the forum informative and our bandwidth down.

My response to the original poster is that it could be an EGR valve issue. I have seen a few G5s with this problem, usuallly with more ks, but who knows.

Get the car scanned and see if you have any air intake, throttle body, or egr cades.

[Russ59]

Are you sure you're not Homophobic Matt ? Or was the last pic too much for your eyes as well

[Golf Loon]

Are you sure you're not Homophobic Matt ? Or was the last pic too much for your eyes as well

No I`m cool. I thought that pic was you and Preeny
Its funny, just off topic. We have other sections for nonsense.

[Russ59]

No I`m cool. I thought that pic was you and Preeny
Its funny, just off topic. We have other sections for nonsense.

No, it wasn't me in that one, that was another one of his floozies
So how about we make a "sticky" Nonsense thread then

[Greg Roles]

I'm very prepared to donate $50 a year to up the bandwidth so I can continue to post my usual rubbish. Why don't we have a platinum membership with a T-shirt or something? The dirt bike site I frequent has this, and it's rather cool.

[gregozedobe]

I'm very prepared to donate $50 a year to up the bandwidth so I can continue to post my usual rubbish. Why don't we have a platinum membership with a T-shirt or something? The dirt bike site I frequent has this, and it's rather cool.

Careful Greg,

The mods might think you are being responsible or something and invite you to be a mod, then you'll be expected to "declutter" your own posts

I personally like to see a bit of light entertainment after the serious Q & A has been dealt with, it helps keep the regulars amused and awake and therefore still contributing. Answering the same old questions from newbies for the 17th time can get a bit boring after a while, and that is what you tend to end up with if everything is kept strictly technical and strictly "ON TOPIC".

Friendly banter is certainly much better than the irate flame wars we sometimes see on this forum.

[Preen59]

Friendly banter is certainly much better than the irate flame wars we sometimes see on this forum.

Irate flame wars? I've never seen such nonsense.