Forum rules and posting guidelines

Supra-chargedIS340 · April 21, 2002

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Poppi · August 22, 2006

In other words you all do not want anything said that is adverse to Toyota/Lexus products. This stinks!!! How else would those who are searching for answers to questions they may have about Lexus vehicles find out about problems with the vehicles? If I had known about these websites concerning the ES problem transmissions, I would have never ever purchased one. I know one thing, I have been broken from sucking eggs and will never ever think about purchasing any more Lexus vehicles. The RX300 has been a dandy; but our ES is the pits.

Poppi (Glenn Camp)

bartkat · August 22, 2006

In other words you all do not want anything said that is adverse to Toyota/Lexus products. This stinks!!! How else would those who are searching for answers to questions they may have about Lexus vehicles find out about problems with the vehicles? If I had known about these websites concerning the ES problem transmissions, I would have never ever purchased one. I know one thing, I have been broken from sucking eggs and will never ever think about purchasing any more Lexus vehicles. The RX300 has been a dandy; but our ES is the pits.

Poppi (Glenn Camp)

I don't see anything in the rules that say that, and if you look at the threads you'll find plenty of problem descriptions, fixes, and long threads pertaining to the specific problems that you state. Had you looked at LOC prior to buying your car, you would have seen those.

The rules have been up for over 4 years, you've been here for two years, and you just now found them? Seems a little late for that.

SW03ES · August 22, 2006

Huh? Who said anything about that? Theres an entire thread in this forum about the transmission issue in which nobody stifles anybody's opinion. Some of us may disagree, and thats our perogative. You've voiced your opinion ad nauseum, we're tired of reading it. I never told you that you could not post your opinion, I said we don't care. We don't, the fact that we don't obviously irritates you greatly.

We get it that you don't like your ES, to be honest listening to you whine gets old. We've given you feedback and ways to better your experience, all you want to do is whine. Sell the damn car and leave us alone.

This is a Lexus Enthusiasts Club, guess what? The majority of the members here are LEXUS ENTHUSIASTS if you want to do nothing but complain, write Lexus a letter. Start a blog, go wear a cardboard sign and walk down the street. This forum is private, and is not here to be your sounding board whenever you want to !Removed!. Its here for contributing members, you sir have never contributed anything but negativity. If you want to contribute to the community be our guest, but if all you're going to do is post a thread flaming the ES every 3 months and then cry foul when you get something thats not total agreement, this is not the place for you.

We have several very valued members who totally dislike their Lexus vehicles (several come to mind, most notably RX in NC). Lexus doesn't own these forums, we don't care. There is however a difference between having a certain opinion and discussing it, and posting nothing but flamebait. Your thread saying the Taurus you've rented is better than your ES had no purpose but to incite our membership of mostly happy Lexus enthusiasts. Which obviously was your goal, otherwise why would you come back here after 3 months just to post that?

You can either contribute to the forum or leave. If you keep posting crap like that we'll make the decision for you. What you're doing is called trolling, and there is not an internet forum out there that won't ban you for it.

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