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HJ reviews issue - misar

I don't look at them very often so this may be old news. No matter which review I open I can only view the Summary tab. None of the other tabs respond.

HJ reviews issue - Zippy123

Working for me.

Clear cookies etc?

HJ reviews issue - gordonbennet

Just looked at our Forester, 2002 to 2008 model, as OP only the one page visible.

HJ reviews issue - Trilogy.

Sadly the HJ video reviews seems to have been removed, at least for the cars I've looked at.

HJ reviews issue - badbusdriver

I don't look at them very often so this may be old news. No matter which review I open I can only view the Summary tab. None of the other tabs respond.

Working for me.

HJ reviews issue - Xileno

I noticed some of the CBCB has disappeared.

HJ reviews issue - John Boy

I noticed some of the CBCB has disappeared.

CBCB?

HJ reviews issue - Xileno

Sorry - Car-by-Car Breakdown, as it used to be called on this site years ago when I joined (2004?). It seems to have morphed into the 'Reviews' section but not all the data has been saved. I realised this because I have been offered a 2002 Laguna non-runner as a project and just wanted to refresh my memory on what goes wrong as HJ had a good section on this car. Also I recall another make/model I was looking for has gone but for the life of me can't remember what it was!

HJ reviews issue - Engineer Andy

I don't look at them very often so this may be old news. No matter which review I open I can only view the Summary tab. None of the other tabs respond.

Same here - none of the specs, history etc will appear. The styling of the tabs looks like the section is being changed / updated as a whole. Let's hope it's just a temporary thing whilst all the (vast amounts of) data gets changed over to a new format.

HJ reviews issue - Avant

With my browsers (Chrome and Edge) some of the reviews are there in full, with others there's a response to the tab but no information.

I would imagine that they're being updated but I'll try to find out.

HJ reviews issue - merlin

I have this issue using Firefox. Fortunately Chrome works ok. Try a different browser & see if that helps.

HJ reviews issue - madf

Chrome works perfectly here- no issues with Reviews

HJ reviews issue - Theophilus

Not working in Chrome for me - but load normally in Edge ... bizarre how this varies for different subscribers (sorry, that came out as subscrubbers until I corrected!)

HJ reviews issue - misar

The reviews now open with an error message:

Sorry, this page did not load as expected

We have been alerted to this and will try our best to fix the problem as soon as possible.

Guess Avant got them to investigate. Not impressed that they failed to notice a major fault with their own website.

HJ reviews issue - Engineer Andy

Not working in Chrome for me - but load normally in Edge ... bizarre how this varies for different subscribers (sorry, that came out as subscrubbers until I corrected!)

I have a similar usage issue, but my main browser is Firefox. I also have a problem logging into my account with SSE but which works fine on the latest (Chrome-based) MS Edge.

I wondering if there's something also similar with the problems associated with logging in here via the link of the main page (no popup appears).

HJ reviews issue - Avant

I will never understand software. No error message for me, although I mainly use Chrome. It seems to affect people differently even using the same browser.

As ever, if you have an IT-related problem, please Email kalpesh@honestjohn.co.uk He is always very helpful.

HJ reviews issue - ZP

Never fear, fellow hunters of old and potentially unreliable (or even new and potentially unreliable!) motor vehicles. The web archive at archive.org should work for you and allows you to read (albeit slowly) all of the info that seems to have disappeared into a strange Schrodinger's reality where it simultaneously exists and doesn't exist at the same time, depending on who is viewing it!

I'm on the hunt for a 90s Jaguar or Daimler and I'd like a pointer as to the engines to avoid, the models to pick, issues etc. Snag is, like a lot of you, I can't see anything other than the main review.

Point your browser at https://web.archive.org/web/*/honestjohn.co.uk and pick a date from the calendar provided. I went for April 13th and my browser (Edge) happily provided what is, essentially, a complete back-up of the site. Found my info - ruled this one out.

https://web.archive.org/web/20170327174129/http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/jaguar/xj8-and-xjr8-1997/?section=good

You can stop reading here if all you want is a way to find the info that you now can't currently see.

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I have a suspicion this might be related to how strictly people have set up their privacy settings in their browsers due to differing results. All of the major ones allow you to set different levels of tracking/script blocking/cookies et.al. and I managed to coax *some* of the car-by-car sections back into life by fiddling with mine in different browsers but it was neither repeatable nor reliable. Something has definitely changed, code-wise, on the site because, up until a few weeks ago, it worked 100% of the time.

The other thing, of course, is that we are probably using different versions of the same software. "I have Firefox too" doesn't mean much if you haven't updated it for a few years!

Edge is basically Chrome now (but has additional features I really like so switched to it) and neither work for me. A quick install of Firefox showed that didn't work and neither did Opera which is also Chromium-based. I couldn't get any of the current releases of the browsers to work.

The Good/Bad section of those reviews is hugely, hugely useful for anyone buying a car that's been manufactured for at least a year or two and it's now inaccessible at my end. Even the link to the following page at the bottom of the main review section simply scrolls my browser back up to the top of the review.

HJ reviews issue - ZP

Just as a follow up to this, with a cup of coffee it occurred to me that it might not be the pages that are missing, but that the links from the main review page might be broken. (I work odd hours!)

This turns out to be the case, for me anyway.

If I go here:

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/skoda/fabia-2015/

I cannot access the good/bad, interior, driving, or specs pages from that main review page. I can see the text for those links, but they don't work because they're not, well, links.

I can, however, access those pages directly by manually adding the appropriate page to the end of the url. For example:

https://www.honestjohn.co.uk/carbycar/skoda/fabia-2015/good

Loads fine, 100% of the time. Archive.org is slow and sometimes provides a poorly formatted version of the original, but it will point you in the direction of what to add for any missing links/pages on the actual site. If the info is important to you it is accessible with a little bit of effort, but something is broken on the site.

HJ reviews issue - Hugh Watt

I can, however, access those pages directly by manually adding the appropriate page to the end of the url.

What a good tip, ZP! Solves the issue for me.

HJ reviews issue - Engineer Andy

I will never understand software. No error message for me, although I mainly use Chrome. It seems to affect people differently even using the same browser.

As ever, if you have an IT-related problem, please Email kalpesh@honestjohn.co.uk He is always very helpful.

I tried the same page twice - once in the new (Chrome-based) MS-Edge and on Firefox (latest version) and the issue of the review specs, etc not appearing when clicked on only happens on the latter.

Often these 'problems' seem to resolve themselves once the software developers either at the browser producer or the website with the 'issue' make a tiny change. Tends to be resolved more quickly if the website in question is a very popular one.

Seems par for the course these days. Not the end of the world I guess - hopefully I'll be able to find some ad blockers for Edge until the Firefox-based issue is resolved somehow.

HJ reviews issue - Brit_in_Germany

Clicking on a news item now takes you directly to heycar dot com. Why bother?

HJ reviews issue - alan1302

Clicking on a news item now takes you directly to heycar dot com. Why bother?

Doesn't for me...maybe certain articles?

HJ reviews issue - Brit_in_Germany

On the home page, the "latest news section" has four or five article intros - only the main one works, all the others link to "heycar".

HJ reviews issue - Engineer Andy

On the home page, the "latest news section" has four or five article intros - only the main one works, all the others link to "heycar".

Sneaky little blighters! What is happening to the media? It's got so bad that I unsubbed to the Telegraph, which I'd subscribed to well before they started charging from around 2000.

The quality of journalism has dropped considerably across the board, and many sites are alomst unusable without either ad and cookie blockers (and even then many are increasingly stopping access if you use them) or you need a high-powered and recently bought device to ensure things don't crawl at a snail's pace.

And they wonder why people leave and sites go under.

HJ reviews issue - alan1302

And they wonder why people leave and sites go under.

It's a bit of an awkward problem - people don't like to pay, so they have some ads, people block the ads and so they have to put more on or stop access - if people won't pay it's a bit of a tricky problem to sort out.

HJ reviews issue - alan1302

On the home page, the "latest news section" has four or five article intros - only the main one works, all the others link to "heycar".

I see what you mean - the site seems to have quite a few issues at the moment - am sure they will sort it out.

HJ reviews issue - Avant

I've checked twice now and don't have a problem seeing the latest news items.

As ever, if you have an IT problem, Email kalpesh@honestjohn.co.uk and I suggest you let him know which browser you're using.

HJ reviews issue - Trilogy.

For me the greatest sadness is the removal of HJ videos. HJ's style was distinctive, with great charm and succinctly informative too. Does anyone know why these videos are no longer available to see?

HJ reviews issue - Engineer Andy

I've checked twice now and don't have a problem seeing the latest news items.

As ever, if you have an IT problem, Email kalpesh@honestjohn.co.uk and I suggest you let him know which browser you're using.

Avant - I've just checked again using my normal browser - Firefox, plus Edge and Chrome (all the latest versions) and the articles still are only links to heycar:

Asda, Morrisons, Tesco andSainsubry's cut petrol prices;

UK MOT Official Testers Guide;

Honest John Awards 2018: Pug 3008 is most popular crossover;

Young people giving upon the idea of learning to drive.

All these articles are on the home page (not the News page).

Note also that I recently (after the problem occured) cleared all cookies, history, etc etc from my Firefox browser, so any issue should have gone if it was related to that.

HJ reviews issue - misar

I've checked twice now and don't have a problem seeing the latest news items.

As ever, if you have an IT problem, Email kalpesh@honestjohn.co.uk and I suggest you let him know which browser you're using.

Avant - I've just checked again using my normal browser - Firefox, plus Edge and Chrome (all the latest versions) and the articles still are only links to heycar:

This is very strange but I cannot see any of the articles in the list, neither on the Home page nor anywhere else. I tried a few links that I do see on the Home page and they seem normal.

HJ reviews issue - Engineer Andy

I've checked twice now and don't have a problem seeing the latest news items.

As ever, if you have an IT problem, Email kalpesh@honestjohn.co.uk and I suggest you let him know which browser you're using.

Avant - I've just checked again using my normal browser - Firefox, plus Edge and Chrome (all the latest versions) and the articles still are only links to heycar:

This is very strange but I cannot see any of the articles in the list, neither on the Home page nor anywhere else. I tried a few links that I do see on the Home page and they seem normal.

Oddly enough, all those articles I referred to earlier today have since disappeared into the aether...