[David & Sue White]

How do you find the result? We all know the sound will be good but does it affect performance and can is thesports button still effective and meaning you can reduce the volume in build up areas

[David & Sue White]

Yes my 90th anniversary goes from strength to strength strength with the help of Marios set up.

what a difference he has made to its performance and having had the tracking sorted at great expense at a main dealer the handling is much improved.

so it’s all go and we are now on Edwin’s spain Portugal tour when we get home I will prep it for Yorkshire elegance at Grantley hall Skipton on 23 & 24 th July where the Club have an exclusive display area.

hope to see a good compliment of club members there. Contact me for a discounted ticket

[David & Sue White]

I found the 1st race to watch on YouTube is that the race you are referring to ??

[David & Sue White]

Is the race available to view anywhere??

[David & Sue White]

Yes I totally agree, Marios at Autoshield just replaced my  clutch on my 90th anniversary spyder.

the car has been serviced at the main agent all its life, but I didn’t want to take it to JCT600 again because all the mechanics are used to working on new Vehicles and there aren’t many of the old Brigade left.

i’ve known Marios for 15 years in the club, and I’ve been meaning to use him for a decade, but it’s always been easier to take my car to JCT600 because they collect and deliver it.

having said that if you drive it there, Marios will always take you down to the train station and the same on the return.

to my amazement when Marios got the car, I asked him to have a good look over it and do whatever was necessary and one of the amazing things was that the main dealers had used completely the wrong plugs.

what are massive differences he has made, car runs so smoothly now and the gear changes sink quicker.

He’s made a big difference to it and he offers a comprehensive service. I have my wheels all refurbished while it was there again a superb job I had on one side very big gouges cut where I’d hit a granite curb. I’ve been repaired and the finish is  superb.

is experience with the older. Maseratis is superb. He’s always at the end of a phone if you have a problem which he could usually sort out for you while on the move.

dictated on my iPhone

regards David White

ps are you from yorkshire?

if so, I have a new local group WhatsApp called Yorkshire tykes.

we allow members from Yorkshire or the surrounding counties to join in with any events that we’re going to organise in the future.

 

[David & Sue White]

Saturday morning ? You must be snowed in Lee ?

[David & Sue White]

Nice buy!!

 

it’s an ambition that my wife is trying to quell ?

do you mind saying how much you had to pay for it??

 

[David & Sue White]

Exactly the reason you should sample the delights of the Yorkshire coast, we are building a great itinerary has been a little difficult with lots of companies only just opening back up.

I drove to Norway with the club a couple of years ago so Yorkshire is a mere stones throw ?

[David & Sue White]

We are getting there, there are some members who are apprehensive and maybe are not seasoned WhatsApp users who I believe will eventually see the merits of the group.

I will certainly be using it for the organisation of the “Gods own county” rally in Autumn, Yorkshire coast & Moors

 

[David & Sue White]

Hi Stewart

I have started a private Maserati Uk club chat whatsapp group and sent out invites to a few, lets see if that gets the ball rolling after all anyone can quit should they decide its not for them. I mistakenly include some members meaning to send out an invite which they could respond or not to but I hope no one is offended, as I say, I can most easily remove anyone upon request.
Regards

David

[David & Sue White]

Wow you are at it as late as I am.

Thanks graham I will look at that although at this moment I am logging in and out most successfully bit next time the problem  arises I will use your advice.

ps

regarding the WhatsApp group I had offered originally months ago, when the committee original rejected my idea of a WhatsApp group, to run it fir the club so as not to cause more work for the few who already offer their time for the club.

now go to bed Graham ?

[David & Sue White]

I agree with both Stewart

“WhatsApp is probably the only way I’d really be able to engage with the group.   It’s a great way for us to all share ideas without the hassle of Facebook and limits of Instagram”

Let us hope the committee actual do read this forum and respond, most have been silent so far, so maybe they don’t use the forum frequently, which sort of proves the point.

I also agree with Lee who points out that the forum should be the main resource but I also know that it has always been there and is still not used as much as you would have thought.

I believe the best way of publicising the forum would be more posts on the facebook page in general but also including comments about the current topics on the forum, along side an active whatsapp group, which might not be for everyone, but I am confident it will get more use than this forum currently enjoys,  which itself has already proved “not for everyone” by its lack of contributing members barring this flurry of activity on this subject.

 

Time to try something else to boost the forum I think???

 

 

[David & Sue White]

I agree

The Facebook page also seems a bit clunky and slow, or is it just me?

I have already this morning sent the message below to who ever is in charge of the facebook group manager because as you say it is very dysfunctional.

 

 

Hi I am sending this to see who deals with the facebook messages

You sent Today at 13:27

the page doesn’t seem to be as a group because when you search for maserati uk in the Groups search bar it doesn’t come up. it also seems impossible to add to your short cuts because when you go to edit and search for maserati club uk, once again it doesn’t come up to add it? i used facebook a lot for business and pleasure but am by no means expert enough o sort this out. I think there is possibly something in your administration settings that isn’t ticked. You can also search for the club in the normal top line search bar but that takes you to the results page when normally it would take you to the actual groups posting page, see images to compare. Unfortunately It is very dysfunctional even for an experienced facebook user. I wish I could help but I am not sure what has gone wrong, it certainly explains why no one much is using it.

this is the page you land on if you search for maserati club uk in the normal facebook search bar.

Thai is how diffrent our page looks like when you search for it

 

 

 

 

 

This how it normally looks when you search for a page in the normal facebook search bar, it takes you to this page which has the normal  blue arrow to click which then takes you to the club posting page.

 

you land on this page which has the posts on or the invite to visit the group.

This is all very normal and the normal course of facebook action but for some reason unbeknown to me the club facebook page has been set up to function differently and it is very awkward to find your way to the posts without ending up on someone else’s page.

As you probably know facebook page management is in its self an art and I struggle with it as do my staff and we are using it constantly through out the business day.

Anyway lets see if I ever get a reply from the message i sent from the maserati club uk facebook page at least then we will know who reacts to the messaging

 

[David & Sue White]

I agree Simon the Forum is a bit clunky and sometimes you have to try getting the the string you are looking for several times before it loads but it is very good for finding a particular subject, they are gathered there all in one place. Whatsapp is extremely good for general information, chat and images inc videos etc but rather poor when you need to look up a subject say you particular car and a problem with it thats where the forum comes in.

In this modern age I am surprised more people haven’t liked and followed the club facebook page   facebook page link

In my opinion It just need a bit more publicity in the printed bulletin maybe an article written about its availability but I am not sure who would organise that Graham woods  or Phil Ward as trident editor??? maybe they will pick this link up?

Just for anyone who isn’t conversant with how these thinks work, you can add images but unfortunately you cannot cut and paste directly into the text, it has to be an image that is already saved on your device, you first click on the image thumbnail on the top bar this opens up the pop up imaged below and then choose this file thumbnail to the right to choose the image on your device you would like to add.

 

[David & Sue White]

I feel maybe the clubs Facebook page isn’t pushed enough in the bi monthly Bulletin.

to illustrate this I was just trying to point out how few members (340) were actually following the club Facebook page.

It would be great to get more activity so I have put a couple of comments on old posts and some images from the classic motor show 2020.

tge weird thing is that even though I have always followed the page I didn’t get any notifications of the previous posts although most are pre 2019.

this forum isn’t user friendly in respect of uploading images so both Facebook & WhatsApp make that easy.

 

I was trying to cut-and-paste an image from my phone into this forum but find that is a very clunky and difficult thing to do.

you click on the insert image thumbnail and you are faced with having to give an address for the image et cetera instead of just been able to cut-and-paste into the forum.

 

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