Recently joined... Just found this thread... Gorgeous! Love the fender flares!

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Please don't revive all the dead threads. He no longer owned that X5.

Maybe you could explain a lil better..

Are these forum rules? If they are I had no clue.
What is concidered old? 1 year two years?
Why is it not ok to revive them if they are concidered too old to revive?

Apologies if I violated any forum rules. I was just looking around for fender flares and came across this thread.

Haha I don't believe it is a written rule, but rather forum etiquette

There's no such rule of course. He did complement on a car that a member no longer owned, and the owner might not even a forum member anymore. I didn't say that he, the new member, broke any rule.
To me, if the thread was dropped passed 5th page, it's old. If it hasn't been reply to for a year, it's dead.

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das it!

Ok so if I understand correctly, bumping a thread that's over a year old is bad forum etiquette.

So we probaly should unsticky the bottom two sticky's as they have not been replied to for several years.

I always thought a lot could be learned from old post. In fact when I'm searching for an answer, I sometimes pull up old post. And sometimes bumping these old post will bring something up again that no one has seen or thought of.

Example here would be the "coding what not forget" thread. Or "cool hidden features on our X". Some newbs don't even know about these threads, yet if I bumped one of these older threads, you guys would think I have bad manners?

If this is the way of the forum, why does the server hold on to post over a year old? If they did not, IMO, the forum would not be as usfull, hence pulling up old threads.

I think there's an exception to this.

I've bumped a few of my old threads on alignment/summer compound tires and brakes, to give long term wear results.

i concur with the above.