Making SXOC Better - Not a member! How Come?

[pk]

was a member until i went away for a year and membership lapsed, once I came back got no response to my membership query (perhaps were silly questions) - tried twice I think and then left it

have no issues being a member, no one forces you to and everyone is helpful on the boards so more than happy to contribute

[thehats13]

basically im too lazy to sort out who i need to send money too to restart my membership as i used to have one and it ran out

if anyone can sort this please pm me

[Rude Dog]

I don't own any sort of SX/Silvia anymore but I renewed last year, after not being a member for the previous 2 and I'd happily say the fee is worth it. I went to the weekender this year in the stagea and easily ate 20 quids of burger/kebab/bacon and probs drunk another 20 quids worth of alcofrolic slush puppies. Shit it was worth 20 quid to hear in excess of 100 people sing "*****s a cnut when the crowd says bo selecta", which is technically a lie as he's always a cnut
Thats £60 on its own
The club spirit on here is, and always has been awesome! Some one has just paid my subs for a year coz I is skint and can't afford it where i'm sick and waiting for an op and my Mrs got made redundant and now has to look after me full time!!! I don't really know any other car clubs where people look out for others like that but thats what this club is all about underneath the Nazi mods and no streeto cos it's bad M'kay!
The members section is deffo worth looking in if you likes your internetz porn as well. Without this place i'd have never ever found out about female body builders shitting in each other cups and other delights and whilst looking at said porn the wife thinks i'm looking at SXOC. Winnah

[ally]

One of the things that would benifit me would be the discounts for some of the locally heald events. The only one that i am aware of is the SXOC crail drift day.

It is a good event but im not really interested in participating in drifting, i would rather do a dedicated grip event at either crail or knockhill.

I guess there is not enough demand for an event like this because everyone who buys a 200sx these days purely wants to drift it... correct me if i am wrong though

If Grip events of this nature were organised at crail / knockhill then i would most likely become a member again

I have to agree with big g here. We used to have loads more events such as go karting, knockhill track days, Inglestone, big meets at strathy in the summer, runs up the trossachs that the goose has suggested on numerous occassions. There just doesnt seem much interest up here these days.
Other than the Crail days and the usual Brewers fayre sit inside all night meets, nothing else gets organised. The lack of communication regarding the last rr day was personally the last straw for me. I joined MLR instead.
Not to say I wont ever rejoin again though. Ive been toying with another s-body for a while. It would also be nice to see some of the old faces back at events however unlikely it may be.

[lj13]

Im just plain lazy and havent got round to it yet.
Will be sorting this out ASAP!!

[JP]

I know it says "members don't post" but...

My freshly-rebuilt 2001 S14a had an intimate head-on encounter with a tyrewall @ ~100mph after the brakes failed completely. Within hours the local SXOC members had clubbed together to help get me back on the road in a new shell which meant digging deep into both their own pockets and their own time - I had never heard of, nevermind witnessed, such an amazing communal act of selflessness & Club Spirit and still haven't since! It still amazes me to this day how fantastic and giving of themselves the people in this club are. Thank you SXOC!

[Rubix_Cube]

I have to agree with big g here. We used to have loads more events such as go karting, knockhill track days, Inglestone, big meets at strathy in the summer, runs up the trossachs that the goose has suggested on numerous occassions. There just doesnt seem much interest up here these days.
Other than the Crail days and the usual Brewers fayre sit inside all night meets, nothing else gets organised. The lack of communication regarding the last rr day was personally the last straw for me. I joined MLR instead.
Not to say I wont ever rejoin again though. Ive been toying with another s-body for a while. It would also be nice to see some of the old faces back at events however unlikely it may be.

I think you answered your own question their Ally

I think with funds being tighter for a lot of people, or simply people moving on in the lifes the Scottish section as it was is slowly shrinking.

[M.D.]

i paid membership for 3 years i think. maybe 4 but i forget now. but wont be renewing just yet.

in that time ive benefited from 2 slightly cheaper track sessions at castle coombe. and met a few good guys.

other than that i paid because at the time i was learning a lot about my s13 so had a lot of questions. but lately my questions are more in depth and generally go unanswered as its normally above what a general sx owner would know,
i seem to get a lot more resoponse and knowledge from the driftworks guys. and that forrum is free.

i personally havent had time or the money to spend on membership lately, but i believe the money that i have paid was worth it as i have managed to gain a lot from this site, and have saved a lot of garage bills by learning the sx's little problems that can be easily sorted out by little tricks of the trade and not paying through the nose for brand new parts all the time. (lambder sensor springs to mind, just unplug and it ran fine for years lol)

these days i do ask a few general questions but as said i normally get more responses from the driftworks guys as there field of knowledge is much wider than an sx specific forrum. but that said you also get a lot of crap responses over there with people just guessing.
and as i have a skyline engine in mine its a little different from the sx guys knowledge. no fault of you guys over here.

i basically only use this forrum to pass on my previous experiences and help others now. and just nose at others projecets. i may rejoin again some time but at the moment i dont feel i gain any benefit from it.

i think a lot of the reason i dont use the benefits is the fact that in the southwest its so far away from anything it costs a fortune to get to any events other than coombe. which negates the benefit of a small discount anyway. which is no sxoc's fault, just the fact that down here we get sod all as its too full of noise complainers grrrr!!

[Kev]

Sorry to be another staffer replying on this thread.
But I thought I'm likely the best one to reply to rubix, medium g and Ally.
Basically g there has not been enough interest from grippers to either organise a grip only day, nor to section off the crail days.
I could run the days an hour drift, an hour grip etc, but besides yourself, only Dunc has asked about gripping, and so 2 peeps in 35 attendees doesn't make sense tbh.
As rubix said, Adam from track Scotland used to post up about track nights, and Dunc, Math and a couple of others would attend.
We have never had even nearly enough grippers to arrange a track day in Scotland, and even with cheap as chips crail I still struggle to get the numbers to make the day viable every time.

We have tried paintball and karting and even outdoors adventure events and every one has fell flat because of a lack of attendees, the latest of these was the rr day.
We usually get 20+ attendees for this, but in the occassion mentioned by you Ally, we couldn't even get the minimum 10, and it was postponed at the last minute.
Steve was organising this, but he asked for my input, and I said to postpone.
Steve doesn't have ur number Ally, but I do and with heinsight I should have phoned u when the decision was made mate, but tbh my head has been up my arse for the past few months for various personal reasons and I wasn't thinking straight.

So basically sorry mate, hands up, was my fault, and I do understand why you were pissed about that, hopefully you know me well enough to know it wasn't done out of spite or arrogance, more of headuparse disease.

Kev

[Kev]

Oh and the run up to the trossachs is something talked about every tear fir the last 5 and always comes down to cars being off the road, usually martins

same with another Baltic balmaha BBQ bonanza.
Maybe next year??

[markcro]

Being a paid member is more than getting cheap events and discounts, it's about giving some support to the overall club to ensure that it keeps going. A simple example is that the server that this site is hosted on is not free, it all costs money. So even though all the technical support is there for members and non-members, it does cost cash to someone not to mention the amount of time people give to the site.
And the membership fee is pittance compared to other car clubs that I am in, so I will gladly renew each year just to ensure that the excellent support is always online for me.

[Sideways Simon]

Theres not much incentive for people in Ireland to become full members, thats the feedback ive got and can fully understand that...

saying that , ive always been a paid up member on here, its handy for the free postage on club merchandise but otherwise its off no benefit to Irish members

[Tetra]

Theres not much incentive for people in Ireland to become full members, thats the feedback ive got and can fully understand that...

saying that , ive always been a paid up member on here, its handy for the free postage on club merchandise but otherwise its off no benefit to Irish members

What I've always said to everybody is come to as many events as possible and then the club is actually paying you to attend

Off the top of my head, I reckon between subsidies and the likes of the free bar-b-q at Japfest (Ireland) and after the Karting, each member (who attended everything) probably got about 2 years worth of membership fees back in 2010.

I concede not being able to (easily) access the main UK perks can be a little bit of disadvantage but watch this space for more local ones.

[twincam]

Theres not much incentive for people in Ireland to become full members, thats the feedback ive got and can fully understand that...

saying that , ive always been a paid up member on here, its handy for the free postage on club merchandise but otherwise its off no benefit to Irish members

I agree with this. It's not as attractive for us to join the club as someone living in the UK. If your living in the uk, the events the club organises are absolutely fantastic without a shadow of a doubt, but the cost to attend these events just don't make them as appealing for us. The weekender is the best club event of the year imo, but coming from Ireland cost me near 1K last year. I tried doing JAE on the cheap by flying over, but still cost over 200.

I've never saved anything on parts from the traders i bought off by being a member. Insurance discounts don't apply in ROI.

I think we don't advertise the club enough in Ireland. We need to attend more events, shows ect to make more people aware of the sxoc, and make the most of whats available to us. Maybe a few more social events that our partners could come along too.

I attended the karting/bbq and japfest all of last year, but other then the RR day, was there any other events? I'm just looking from the point of view that would encourage new irish members join up.

Personally, i love the sxoc I think the local reps do a great job giving up there own free time and do realise the massive amount work and effort that goes into orgainising events I'm only trying to give ideas that might create more incentive and make the sxoc more inviting for new irish members.

[insejn]

Theres not much incentive for people in Ireland to become full members, thats the feedback ive got and can fully understand that...

Yeah exactly, if I was in the UK I would be a fully paid member without a doubt, since there isn't much there that I could really benefit from actually being a full member on here, can't see the point for anyone outside the UK wanting to pay for it !

[Aj82]

I was a member a while back and then i let it lapse and i never got round to renewing it but still used the forum often.
I then had the birth of my baby boy and new house etc and i have also decided to fully rebuild my 14a, so was waiting to get this to a certain stage before i signed back up and started a project thread.
I think from my view i didnt know many folk and didnt attend many events/meets etc but now that i do know a few im going to a few more things like crail/knockhill etc. I think if you are attending events and are fully aware of the discounts etc that apply to you then its worth the fee.
I find the fee itself totally reasonable and i will be signing back up again in the new year.


Cheers Aj

[Tetra]

I attended the karting/bbq and japfest all of last year, but other then the RR day, was there any other events?

There were a few:

Rolling Road day Pt 1

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=446996

Rolling Road day pt 2

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=473268

SXOC drift day (cancelled due to adverse weather)

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=476083

Japfest Ireland

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=468568

Terenure Classic Car show:

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=456066 Fell through because of little interest (4 cars wasn't enough).

All Ireland Karting championship

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=459651

SXOC trackday (cancelled due to not getting the numbers)

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=445813

West Xmas dinner:

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=476583

East Xmas dinner:

http://www.sxoc.com/vbb/showthread.php?t=476794

That's in Ireland, add to that JAE and the weekender there was nearly an event for every month of the year.

[Tetra]

Yeah exactly, if I was in the UK I would be a fully paid member without a doubt, since there isn't much there that I could really benefit from actually being a full member on here, can't see the point for anyone outside the UK wanting to pay for it !

On the last post I made above mate, if everyone of those events had ran (which unfortunately they didn't) and you attended all of them. You would have received subsidies and free food that was probably worth double the cost of the years membership. If you attended 4 you would be breaking even. If that doesn't have a point to it, I don't know what does.

[Sideways Simon]

ill def make the karting day next year

[dannyboi200sx]

havent paid yet lol