THE FABIA CLUB

k_ajay

Dear Fabiosi,

In line with the admin team's attempt to make this place a much livelier and a web spot to return to, we've gone about making some cosmetic and non-cosmetic changes, new threads, sections and such.

While we try to do what best we can given the forum's template and challenges, we'd like to hear from you, the members on what you'd like to see more in here and critical feedback, valuable suggestions and comments.

We even need ideas to make our forum more visible [Robin has already made arrangements for our forum to appear on Google search when anyone types skoda + Fabia & India in same breath.

Please kindly use this thread [so we can find all of them in one place than all over the forum] for sharing with us your:

Feedback
Suggestions
Comments
Ideas for betterment
Other Miscellaneous

While you do the above, I certainly believe you will also keep in mind that:
1. We do not want to emulate, directly copy or try to mirror another bigger and/or better motoring websites [from where you might have landed here yourself]. The bigger ones are certainly doing great and we wish them well, but we'll have our own agenda here, strictly based on what OUR Fabia owner members want.

2. We're currently on a free-to-use forum template and that you'll consider that limitation too when you think for the forum. Smile

But please let us know for any other.

Many thanks.
- For the Admin team.
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uneet · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 8:40 pm Post subject:

Hi Ajay,

The Fabia Club is looking fresh and more importantly its been quite active.

A one small suggestion to the initiatives you guys are taking, I would like to add Fabia Accessories section also so that we all can share the cosmetic changes done in our cars under one roof.

Uneet

k_ajay · Posted: Thu Mar 18, 2010 9:38 pm Post subject: Good one

Uneet,

That's a good one and I'm incorporating the same immediately since we can do it and also it's one that can be handy [since accessories is always a hot interest with most owners].

I think our member Invincible will have lots to share Wink

We're waiting for him to head back to the forum here.

Thanks mate.
aK
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anekho · Newbie Joined: 09 Mar 2010 Posts: 6

I've been lurking here for a while and have only one suggestion,

get netchef back into writing about his fabia! I really used to enjoy his posts on t-bhp and came here looking for more - but alas, he seems to be not to active Sad

rm · Posted: Sat Mar 20, 2010 10:43 am Post subject: Re: Feedback?

Samir Mullaji · Newbie Joined: 09 Jun 2010 Posts: 15 Location: Mumbai

Dear Admin Team,

It would be really appreciated if you guys are a litte more forthcoming in welcoming new members to the group. This will encourage new members to be more active.

This comes from my personal experience!!

Rgds.

Samir

admin · Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 8:04 pm Post subject:

msbala · Newbie Joined: 02 Jul 2009 Posts: 14 Location: Bangalore

Dear Administrator,

I am a member of this forum for some time now. One thing I noticed is that there are hardly any serious complaint against Skoda Fabia.which I can not believe being an owner of this car for over 14 months. When I open another website I note it is full of complaints against the product, against service set up and against Skoda customer service set up and there are several court cases, judgments against Skoda etc. To me this appears to be very strange. I was a member of another web site belonging to Carwale where I noticed similar issue . I stopped visiting or posting in that website ;that site only encouraged sponsored blogs.

Therefore I would like to know from the administrators following;

Is this site sponsored by Skoda directly or indirectly?
Is it sponsored by Carwale?
Is it sponsored by any other dealer?
Who is paying the maintenance cost of this website? And why?
Who are these administrators and moderators and how they are related to Skoda/ Dealers
What is revenue source for this website?.
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akutty · Newbie Joined: 22 Feb 2010 Posts: 18

Hi Msbala,
Probably this discussion should be in a separate thread or so. I leave it to the moderators to take care of this.

I am a Skoda Fabia 1.2 HTP Ambiente model owner and I don't have any allegiance to skoda other than being an owner of the car. I have purchased the car 3 months back and the odometer now reading more than 7000Kms and after having several visits to service center for general check ups (summer checkup, monsoon check up etc) and washing, I am a satisfied fabia owner.

I know for a fact that this forum has started out of a thread in another popular automotive forum and I have gone through that entire 70 or 80 page thread before finally finding out this forum. All the active members in the above mentioned thread are the first few members of this forum. Thanks to netchef and his writing skills.

Anyway I have been a member since the last three months and all I have got through this forum (and the original thread) is useful/credible information. And I don't believe there is any collusion with skoda here and I can't see how it is possible with the above history.

Now about other websites. I have gone through many before making my decision to buy skoda. One thing you will notice if you read carefully, everybody who complains about skoda doesn't actually own a skoda. Every other Tom, Dick and Harry on the street seems to have lot of opinion about skoda and they put it out on every other website. I guess this fact is quite visible in car wale, which has about 100 user reviews on skoda fabia. Of course there are a few skoda owners who does complain about it and if you notice carefully its this same owners who posts in every other website. At least I could find you being one among the few who could be found at multiple websites/forums.

Of course every car may not be perfect and I believe you are an unfortunate owner. I know owners who complain about swift and maruti service centers. I don't believe its reasonable to justify skoda for having a customer like you, as skoda seems to be "obsessed with quality".

May be the moderators will have the best answers for your questions. But I thought I will give you some pointers to find some of the answers yourself as I just tried now. When I search for bizhat in google it takes me to a website http://www.bizhat.com/ where some free webhosting, filehosting etc are mentioned. You probably can find more info from there.

Even if some one wants to believe (or there is in fact) that there is a collusion with skoda or skoda dealers, what you are getting is useful information from this forum. I haven't found any piece of false information here (eg nobody in the forum claimed 18 km/ltr of mileage for fabia petrol in this forum).

I will post my complete fabia experience very shortly. I reiterate, I don't have anything to do with Skoda other than me being an owner of fabia. Why I replied, I am a very passionate owner of SKODA FABIA.
Cheers,
Ajith.

admin · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 8:46 pm Post subject: Re: Forum Mangement

orionph05 · Posted: Sat Jul 03, 2010 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: Forum Mangement

uneet · Posted: Mon Jul 05, 2010 11:38 am Post subject:

Hello MSbala,

Its been a quite some time now that i have ben following your posts both in this forum and the other respectable forums.

One thing I really don't understand is that why do you think that all the Skoda owners has to be dis-satisfied with their car and the company in general.
I do feel that I have been ditched by the company in tune of Rs. 50000/- as when I bought the car there were no discounts on offer and now the car is available at much less and a good value for money, but this does not mean that I will keep on raising my voice against the company's marketing policy.

Also please be advised that any car owner of any brand can face some technical problems in their cars, but these are isolated cases which is in tune of less than 1%

Also please note one very important thing out here that all the members of this forum are indivudial owners of their Fabias and we as mods are trying to bring out their experiances of the car owners for mutual benefit.
The information shared between the members is more reliable and authenticate than what we can get from Skoda dealers.

You are requested to present your case/problems to the company and share the same in this forum rather than having a blind eye.

Me personal suggestion with due respects --- If you dislike your car than please disown it asap.

Uneet
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Earlier - Toyota Innova, Suzuki Baleno, Honda City OHC, Toyota Qualis, Maruti Zen, Omni etc

k_ajay · Posted: Tue Jul 06, 2010 1:33 pm Post subject: Re: Forum Mangement

rm · Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2010 11:59 am Post subject:

Bala,

I have been a member of this forum for the past 6 months now and believe me i had a tough time in finding it in the first place. I was one of those who was passionately following Netchef's musings on the TBHP forum. so much so that i looked forward to reading what the 'General' had to say every morning that i booted my machine up. That said and done, when they suddenly moved out from there it took me quite some time to find out where all these good folk had moved to. The singlular reason for that is that this being a forum hosted for 'free' sans any advertisements does not come up tops on search engines.

In all honesty i understand the problem with the F.E. I for one happen to be one of those who faces a similar situation. I have mentioned the same in various posts of mine.

Also i have had other quirks on various fronts with my car and i have posted my concerns on the forum and have received free, frank and honest opinions. I have been someone who has not been happy with the service provided by the Skoda Authorized service Centers and have expressed that openly in the forum.

I certainly have my share of gripes w.r.t the car but at the same time i understand that any piece of mechanical equipment may be subject to mannerisms that they were not intended of doing in the first place.

In all honesty i believe that the administrators of this forum have done a commendable job in keepiing the forum running inspite of their pre-occupations. My Kudo's to all of them for that.

I believe your concerns may have been laid to rest and i hope you continue to share your concerns and comments regarding your car in a manner that does not deprecate others but serves to add value to all those who wish to share information freely, for the betterment of all.

rm
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