Give us newby's a break
 

I can't tell you how excited I am as a new owner of a car with a few issues that I am working on. This technical section and the help you guys offer is priceless! However, the use of acronym's is making it really hard to make sense of answers. It would be nice if you notice a new person/owner with a low number of posts that you could spell things out for us.

I am not new to working on a car and have built and modified many cars over the years but never experienced the acronym problem with other makes/forums.

Just a thought...

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

I'm no newbie, but the use or overuse of acronyms confuse me too sometimes. Afew extra keystrokes sure would be helpful sometimes.:dancing

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

What's a acronyms :dontknow:

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

Post them up when you see them, we all may learn something new.

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

Personally, I would prefer to read a topic without having to refer to a list for translation.

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

Clobbered = NCM vettes.
Clutter = my toolbox.

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

Now I got it :handshak:

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

what he said :)

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

I can't tell you how much I agree with what you're saying.
Unfortunately there will always be those that will not only
have no empathy for the new comer but aggravate the situation
by being self appointed introducers of new acronyms and
espouse "it's too hard" to type it all out.

Sometime ago I figured there was no stopping the chaos
so decided to try and document the lexicon morphing anarchy.
(can change it so joined in)

So, while "short cuts" will continue .....here is a list of "semi" commonly used achronyms.
Hope it's helpful. Or should I save time and say, "U B say'n the truth and U R 2 B thanked" for raising the issue. :handshak:

Acronym List is Here

Re: Give us newby's a break
 

Thanks for the list!
On one of my early posts, People kept telling me I needed a FSM. I finally got frustrated and thought "Screw them and their acronyms" and went and looked for an answer in the Service Manual that was with the car when I bought it. And of course I have the SFSM as well which to my surprise included an email from DRM to the original owner in 04AD confirming a large shipment of parts that included PnR, V,RnS, AF, OP, and CSC. Now I am going to get back to working on the VSS, EF, and AC. Once this is done, I may change out the WB's ;)