Welcome to SEATCupra.net

Thank you for registering to the SEATCupra.net Forums - one of the largest online communities on the world wide web that is dedicated to the enjoyment of SEAT motor vehicles.

As well as the usual forum discussions, we encourage forum users to get involved in the self help aspect. Using the forum for the sharing of information with which to help themselves and others diagnose problems and gain the best possible advice. We hope you find it a friendly community and a useful resource.

IMPORTANT INFO PLEASE READ!
Before you start posting on the forum, we respectfully ask that you first have a careful read through our rules FAQ. Most of them are just simple guidelines, but they are in place to ensure the smooth running of the forum. Ignorance of our rules does not absolve you from the consequences should they be broken. Click here to view the rules

IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR NEW FORUM USERS
Some of the forum services offered are temporarily suspended for New users, this had to be put in place to prevent spam and to help protect our forum members from unsolicited advertising and scams.

The forum services you cannot use temporarily as a Newbie member on SEATCupra.net are as follow:

1). Create "For Sale/Classfied" Threads
2). Send PM (Private Messages) to other users
3). Posting links or images including signatures. (If you really need to post an image for an important reason, contact an admin)

All the locked services will become available to you once you are upgraded to a Full Member. For more info regarding this goto rule no.7 Click here to skip to Rule No.7

How to use the forum?
We understand not everyone can be a computer expert, and the forum does have a wide and diverse number of sections that can sometimes baffle or confuse those venturing onto forums for the first time. The forum is fairly easy to operate once you get the hang of it, but to help you there is a specific FAQ set aside which we hope should cover most questions on how to post and start threads etc.
Click here for Forum user guide FAQ

Search Tips
The forum has been active since 2001, and as such a forum this large has a vast number of re-posts. A great deal of this information can be overlooked by New Users. We politely encourage users to lookup the information that is freely available to find if you simply use the search functions - Click here for Search functions


Be specific and enter lots of keywords, also narrow your search field by searching only specific forum sections. For example if its a Leon specific query, set the search engine to only search in the Leon forums. The more information you give the search engine the more chance it has of finding something from the database that answers your question.

Many common questions, such as dump valves (whooshy), chip tuning (remaps) have been discussed in great length many times before. If you have searched and can either not find what your looking for or have more questions relating to the subject that may not of been answered. Then by all means start a new thread in a relevant section. If the subject is already covered in an existing thread then please add to the existing subject rather than starting a new thread.

Advertisers/Sponsors
If your signing up to tell us about your company, or latest products. Please speak to an administrator before posting your commercial information, otherwise your posts will be removed and you maybe blocked from the forum.

SEATCupra.net is supported by its sponsors and we do not allow unsolicited advertising on the forum.

We already have a high concentration of advertisers and will only look at working with registered limited businesses. It can seem alien to some but the main aim for SEATCupra.net is not to fill the forum with advertising to line our pockets.



None of the team benefit financially we do this as volunteers, every bit of sponsorship funding is pumped back into the forum for its continued growth and for the overall benefit of the community.

We always look at each and every advertising request carefully and decide if its of interest or importance to the forum, please understand that sometimes we are over-subscribed and we have a limited amount of advertising space available.

SEAT Dealers
Representatives of any franchised SEAT dealer are always very welcome on SEATCupra.net This forum is as much here for your benefit as it is for the enthusiastic members. Many of whom are already likely be your customers or potential customers in the future.

We have dedicated a section of the forum for the use of official SEAT dealers, SEAT DEALERS - CLICK HERE.



This section is provided for dealers to post up current used stock lists or special offers your company may wish to advertise. All SEAT dealers are welcome to have a subsection of the dealer forum dedicated to their business for FREE. We also have options for financial sponsorship benefits such as web-banners and more prominance on the forum.

If your a SEAT dealer and have any questions about the forum please contact a member of the managing admin team.

Thank you for reading this introduction and we hope you enjoy the forum.

Best wishes

SEATCupra.net Admin Team

MODERATION.

Moderation is an important section and one that everyone should take the time to read and understand fully.

While there are some who believe that we should not delete or edit forum users threads and posts, some users posts can pose a threat not only to the credibility of the forum, but more urgently its staus in the eyes of the law and its financial long-term survival. This is why we must have good moderation, it means we take an active interest in what happens on this forum. Those things that damage the site in our perception need to be removed.

We rely on our members to uphold good moderation by respecting our rules. Self-moderation works very well if people take the time to take an active interest in the forum. We encourage people to point out to us when something has gone off the rails so that we can quickly deal with it. We don't have the manpower or time to read every single thread or post. The next section of the FAQ covers in more detail how to help us by reporting problems.

Experience has shown us that forums that have little or no moderation, are open to abuse and behaviour that results in lowering the reputation of the forum. We cannot help but believe that this is the sure fire way to make a forum decay to the extent that it becomes totally irrelevant to the majority, and as such may as well be shutdown.

Some people consider, because this is a 'public forum', that its open for people to express their freedom of speech, blah blah., expecting that they can say and make an opinion on whatever they like withour consequence.

Though we encourage people to have opinions and welcome good honest discussion on lots of varied subjects. When it comes to unreserved freedom of speech you couldn't be more wrong if you think that way.

Everything that goes on within the confines of this forum, is the responsibility of the team who own and manage it. Your freedom to do and say as you please, can have direct legal consequences for SEATCupra.net and threaten its existence.

So with the greatest of respect, we will protect the interests of this site above your opinions, if that means we must edit, remove, or close your posts/threads that we feel are not in the best interests of the forum or the public at large. We will at our discretion and without your permission do what is necessary:

EXAMPLES OF WHAT IS DEEMED IMPROPER AND UNWELCOME ON SCN

1). Those whose conduct on the forum is deemed to be criminally illegal, or even bordering upon it. ie Stolen goods, theft of money or items, scams.

2). Racist, sexual, religious or political abuse, actual violence or inciting violence, any abuse or bullying whether it be physical or mental towards anyone for any reason, whether they are resident to the forum or not.

3). Anything that could or may be legally challenged, including defamation of character, slander or libelous content. (Please think carefully before you decide to use this forum as your soapbox. SEATCupra.net will not defend you should the police/solicitors come knocking).

4). Worthless threads, stupid stunts or bragging rights. ie My car is quicker than your car, or versus threads

5). Street Racing/Drag racing on public roads. Essentially this comes under stupid stunts and bragging rights. But we wanted to make this point a little clearer. While we realise people do stretch the law on the public highways and that is their personal prerogative to do so. It does not mean we condone its glorification on these forums. These types of threads/posts will be removed, keep it to the racetrack/sprint/dragstrips because otherwise we're really not interested.

If you want to voice your opinions in public without us interfering in your best laid plans, then we suggest you invest in your own forum and hosting so whoever you upset can send you the solicitors letter.

Why was my post deleted or edited?

At worst likely because of one of the more serious reasons already listed above. Less seriously but all the more important is protecting our sponsors investment and their financial support that the forum benefits from. SEATCupra.net is totally free for anyone to join, we will never ask a forum member to financially contribute.

The biggest benefactors of this forum are its commercial advertisers, they gain access to a huge number of customers all discussing the virtues of their products. When a user shares their experience of a product, by association other people take interest and ultimately this means more custom for the advertisers. Its only fair that they contribute to the forum and help support it financially.

This means that sometimes some companies or individuals try to get around supporting the forum, and post unsolicited advertising on the forum. We accept that some members want to make recommendations of products and services from non-advertisers and this is fine as long as it doesn't turn into a sales pitch. Anything deemed to be overtly commercial posted on the forum without prior permission will be removed.

Don't rant at the moderator!

SEATCupra.net is as much a hobby for all of us as it is for you, we are all like minded enthusiasts and want to gain the most enjoyment from the site as everyone else. Its not our job and non of us including the owners profit from it, SCN supports itself and pays its own way in the world.

The administration/moderation team are all volunteers, and we all have full time careers and commitments which come as a priority. As such we do not always have the luxury of limitless free time to explain why we may of edited/deleted your thread/post, however, you are always welcome to inquire why a thread/post was deleted or edited if you don't understand it yourself.

The best means of contact for the moderators is by using the forums PM system. If you do not know whom the admin/moderator was that edited or deleted your post, you can e-mail administrator@seatcupra.net though this may not get a quick response.

All key forum contacts can be found on the forum, with the relevant sections they manage: Click here for SCN Forum Leaders

We would like to make it absolutely crystal clear: the 'how this Forum should be run' is not open for debate. SEATCupra.net is a non subscription forum, managed by private individuals, for the free use of the public.

You are always welcome to send us suggestions but you cannot demand, or publicly challenge the way this forum is managed. Remember that this is a privately owned service, we do not ask you to pay for its upkeep, we are not public officials and sadly or happily you do not get the chance to elect any of us.

Abuse towards moderators

We have an underlying rule that you may not like but we insist on: The admins and moderators on SEATCupra.net are to be treated with respect. By respect we do not mean you must fall at our feet, and you can disagree with us and have open discussion, but we do not tolerate abuse from people.

Our moderators are a bunch of GOOD hard working people, with the very best of intentions regardless of what you may think, who really put in a lot of hours a day (and in some cases have done so for a very long time) to serve YOU. And by saying SERVE YOU we do not mean they are your servants. Please learn to differentiate between the two. Without their generous support this forum would cease to exist.

If, however, an administrator/moderator is in your views out of line, then you are perfectly welcome to complain to a senior member. But you do so in PRIVATE and reasonably. We will handle it through our channels, not yours.

And, although some here seem to want to see blood running through the streets, we can tell you this much: this is not the "let's flog show". If you wanna see that one, it must be playing on another forum - not on SEATCupra.net.

The process of forum disipline.

Sadly some forum users can take their behaviour or conduct a little too far and a moderator will be forced to issue a warning or infraction to inform the member of their conduct. If the warning is not heeded then a temporary and/or permanent ban can be made.

Warnings or bans will generally always be carried out privately and the user will be informed by way of an infraction or private message. This process remains the private business of the moderators and the member involved. No other members will receive any information about this.

We can understand that some here think that justice must be seen to be done, however those who adhere to that are missing out on a very important point: we are not here to pass judgment nor educate anyone. Absolutely no one here is our 'pupil', 'disciple' or 'subject'. We tend to be quite tolerant, and much prefer to warn people about misconduct, before instantly jumping for the BAN button.

In some cases we use the BAN button as a temporary but effective tool to call to a users attention that they have taken their conduct a step too far. We would encourage them to contact us by our main administrator@seatcupra.net email to discuss the situation with the aim of resolving it and quickly reinstating the banned member.

The administrators enforce the rules that govern the forum in order to preserve the orderly functionality of service for the wider audience. Someone is banned not to punish them (although no doubt the side effect of a ban is that they are punished) but rather to remove an obstruction from SEATCupra.net's normal daily harmony, that is our foremost priority.

Warnings and bans are not vindictive action by moderators but used as a means to restore normal operation of the forum, and lessen disruption for other members.

Not every 'offence' must or should end in a ban. When someone has posted over a year or more here, with thousands of posts to show for it, and has only once posted something 'bad' - as bad as it may be, it must be seen as a one-off 'offence' and therefore a waring or infraction will be issued to remind the user of proper conduct.

However, if someone is repeatedly argumentative, offensive or disruptive, then they have no place here. Again, not as punishment but rather as a measure of removing a cause of constant friction from the forums.

If someone accepts in principal the rules that govern this service (and in theory, all that have clicked on "I Agree" when they registered have accepted it), then there is no reason to ban them. If it seems obvious to us, however, that someone disregards these rules, then, they simply do not belong here.

Forum Penalties

The common practice is to politely remind a user, either by PM or an infraction notice that what they are doing is not tolerated and in breach of the rules. Infractions can vary in severity, from a simple ticking off to a final warning. They are at the descretion of the moderators.

Any member publicly arguing with anyone from the admin and moderation team on the forum, will be subject to the following penalties.

You will be warned ONLY once, and be advised to take your grievance to either email or PM for private discussion.

Failure to comply with this request, will result in an instant cool-off ban from the use of the forum, this cool off ban is at the discretion of the administrator and can vary from 1 day to 1 month if this happens we request that you respect it, your access to the forum will resume after the alloted period ends. You are always welcome to email us to discuss your ban period.

If persons persist in abuse of the admins or any other members of the forum after they have already been warned or penalised, will then receive a further ban for a longer period or ultimately a permanent ban depending on the seriousness. That is at all time at the discretion of the administrators.

You are quite free to appeal against any decision made by a moderator to the admins, but these are to be done privately by email.