Dear esteemed fellow FFRR fans,

We have built up quite a membership now and have thousands of posts with some great topics, hints, tips and helpful advice.

Quite often someone new comes to the forum with a question that has been asked before and we tell them to search for it. This is fine and makes perfect sense, however if the topic they are looking for is not easy to find it's inevitable they will probably create a similar thread, or go away unhappy and unable to fix their issue in time. I know it won't always work as we planned but if we all started our threads with a meaningful title that talks to the content then when people are searching (you included) it's going to be easier to find.

For example, if I needed to find out information about faulty steering columns, do a search, which do you think is gooing to mean more to me...

1. Steering Column Fault: Any ideas?

2. Aaaarrggh! It's broken again!

You get the point.

We all do it at times, I know I have, lets make this forum even better, it has a great reputation for the friendliness of the members and the degree of useful help we all have collectively.


I may from time to time tidy up a post title so that it has more meaning, so don't be surprised!

Thanks everyone

RRUK

(Adam) Discovery 4 HSE
1998 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
1982 Series 3 Hard Top

*Gone:L462 D5 HSE LUX, L663 Defender 110 HSE, Discovery 3 HSE, 2014MY Range Rover Sport 5.0 Supercharged AB Dynamic; L405 Exec Vogue SE 4.4, 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography, Defender TDCi XS CSW, Defender TD5 HT, Vogue SE TDV8, Vogue TD6, RRSport SC 4.2V8, Classic 3.9 Vogue Auto, Land Rover Series 3 SWB

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Y. O. L. O.
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I think I need some reassurance around the search function as I may be doing it wrong for example if I put in, as I did once, "Tailgate lock is loose" I get reams of stuff - most of it not related to loose tailgate locks.

Is it me ?
Should I get my coat? Geoff

not you mate, the search is a bit pants and you do have to read reams before you get the answer you need... ... - .- -.




Y. O. L. O.
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The key is to simplify your search and just put in "Tailgate", limit it to post titles and not contents also. Discovery 4 HSE
1998 110 TUM HS FFR Hard Top XD WOLF
1982 Series 3 Hard Top

*Gone:L462 D5 HSE LUX, L663 Defender 110 HSE, Discovery 3 HSE, 2014MY Range Rover Sport 5.0 Supercharged AB Dynamic; L405 Exec Vogue SE 4.4, 5.0 Supercharged Autobiography, Defender TDCi XS CSW, Defender TD5 HT, Vogue SE TDV8, Vogue TD6, RRSport SC 4.2V8, Classic 3.9 Vogue Auto, Land Rover Series 3 SWB

Thats the sort of help I needed - thanks.
I had assumed that the more specific you make the query i.e. including "Tailgate", "lock" and "loose" it would tighten it but it actually looks for all three words individually.

i did incidentally try "search" in the search before I posted because I'm scared of Stan  Geoff

On most forums I use, I find the search function is not quite as easy to use as google, then type in the problem area and add the forum name. (ie: Steering Column fullfatrr)

Out of interest, typing "Steering Column fullfatrr" into google gives the first result as Dan's post in the technical section of this very forum. Job done.

Fox wrote:

On most forums I use, I find the search function is not quite as easy to use as google, then type in the problem area and add the forum name. (ie: Steering Column fullfatrr)

Out of interest, typing "Steering Column fullfatrr" into google gives the first result as Dan's post in the technical section of this very forum. Job done.

+1 . This is how i search all forums

True, you can actually use 'site:' as a Google modifier as well as the standard boolean operators and quotes etc.

Example site:http://www.fullfatrr.com "rubber mats" -ebay would search the site for anything with rubber mats in (exactly) but excluding anything with ebay in

Think the quotes approach and +/- also work in the Fullfatrr search too.

Anyhoo, good point Adam- I've also probably used some vague titles!

supershuttle wrote:

i did incidentally try "search" in the search before I posted because I'm scared of Stan

happymadison1978 wrote:

True, you can actually use 'site:' as a Google modifier as well as the standard boolean operators and quotes etc.

Example site:http://www.fullfatrr.com "rubber mats" -ebay would search the site for anything with rubber mats in (exactly) but excluding anything with ebay in

Think the quotes approach and +/- also work in the Fullfatrr search too.

Anyhoo, good point Adam- I've also probably used some vague titles!

Nice tip happymadison  .
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