Team-BHP is one of the best automotive forums on the internet. The community is knowledgeable, the long-term ownership reviews are genuinely useful, and the discussions go deep in a way that most car content on the web doesn’t. But the site is old, and it shows. On a large monitor, forum posts stretch across the full width of the screen, and reading long threads gets tiring fast.
I wanted to fix that for myself, so I wrote a small userstyle called Team-BHP Clean Reader.
What it does
The core change is simple: it caps the content width at 1200px and centers it on the page. That one constraint makes a huge difference. Text stops sprawling across the screen and actually becomes comfortable to read.
On top of that, it swaps in a modern system font stack (Inter, SF Pro, Segoe UI, depending on your OS) and bumps the line height to 1.5. The forum links keep their familiar red color but get a clean hover state and a short transition. Nothing radical, just enough to take the edge off.
The stylesheet is about 30 lines of CSS targeting the post containers directly. It does not touch navigation, sidebar ads, or anything outside the post area, so the rest of the site works exactly as before.
How to install it
You need the Stylus browser extension, which is available for Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Opera. Safari users can use it via the Userscripts extension.
Once Stylus is installed, head to the repository and follow the installation link in the README. Stylus will pick it up automatically. If you prefer doing it manually, you can copy the CSS from the .user.css file, create a new style in Stylus, paste it in, and save.
Why I made it
I spend a fair amount of time on Team-BHP reading ownership reviews and research threads before making any car-related decision. After one particularly long thread gave me a headache, I decided to just fix it. The whole thing took an afternoon and now I don’t think about it anymore, which is the ideal outcome for a tool like this.
If you use Team-BHP regularly, give it a try. The code is on GitHub under the MIT license, so feel free to adapt it however you want.