Hide Email Address. Allows you to hide your email address from public view.
Avatar
The Avatar section allows you to choose a from one of the graphical images that shows up under your username.
My Signature
The my signature section allows you to preview and edit your signature. When changing your signature it will update all your past posts in the forums.
My Biography
The my biography section gives you space to list information about yourself, a list of all cars owned currently or previously. Also a great section to list all the modifications on your car.
My Notepad
The my notepad section gives you and area to leave yourself notes for things like reminders, to do lists, links to your favorite VW websites. These can be organized in folders or just in different notes.
My Recent Topics
The my resent topics section gives a list of threads that you have participated in sorted by the most recent activity. It shows the name of the thread, the forum the thread is posted in, who created the thread, when the last reply was made and by who, lastly the number of posts made to the thread.
This feature is VERY server intensive and when used by many users at once can slow down the forums at times. If the forums are running slow please do not use this feature for a while.
Email Notification List
The email notification list shows all the threads that you have requested being emailed when a reply is made to it. From here you may remove the notification per thread. You may also jump directly to a thread to view it. This list is sorted by the thread with the most recent activity.
Forum Subscription List
The forum subscription list allows you to view the forums you have requested daily email subscriptions to. You can also remove a forum from if you no longer want to receive the daily emails.
Instant Message History
The instant message history section allows you to view messages that you have received up to 7 days prior. It is important that if you need to keep any contact information from a deal you made in the classifieds that you either write it down, or put it in your Notepad. You can also restart your IM conversation from here with a user you have had a recent conversation with.
Instant Message Ban List
The instant message ban list allows you to block particular users from instant messaging you and you from instant messaging them. If a user is harrassing you through IM you should add their name to your list and contact a forum moderator, administrator, or staff.
Reset Forum Cookies
The reset forum cookies section allows you to clear corrupted forum cookies that can cause all kinds of strange things to occur in the way you see the forums. If you are having problems posting, staying logged in, replying to a thread in a particular forum this should be the first thing you try to fix your problem. If this does not work post in the help forum to get additional help from a moderator.
