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Just finished getting my car back together with its new radiator and intercooler so we will be there.

Count me in please 👍

I'd be interested however they'd need posting, and my budget is way too small unfortunately 😞 If they do go on eBay feel free to drop me a link if the price is lower, I may stand a chance aha

No interest so i will consider flee bay or maybe FB marketplace

No interest so i will consider flee bay or maybe FB marketplace 😞

Funny 😂😂

I doubt if anyone will be going in the museum. We will start relaxing with a nice coffee/food, sit and chat to allow other cars to arrive, then we will go outside to have a look at all the cars and chat with their owners. When everyone is ready we will go for a run out, as it is Spare Seat Pete's birthday we will finish at the Bakewell Tap Room for a zero alcohol beer and pizza. (Riverside Brewery, Buxton Road, Bakewell, DE45 1GS) If you want to go around the museum, I suggest you go straight in (it opens at 9.30) or come back in the afternoon on the way home. @Tony H there are 2 petrol stations in Bakewell 😁just sayin'

Will there be many going in the museum & how long will we have if we go in after breakfast?

I have a full westfield wide track set available with Gaz shocks if that’s any good

I didn't know this was on.

And now sorted! THANKS

I think that used to be the case but now I think that we've just reached the point where it's really hard to hit increasingly stringent emissions standards without badly compromising reliability.

Hi all, just thought I’d give you an update after a bit of a wait .. the Westy has passed its MOT today as a non cat vehicle using the engine specialist report I got and emails from DVSA! You should see the smile on my face and a great day for a blast! Thanks to all for your help and advice with this!!

I believe they call it 'inbuilt obsolescence' Manufacturers love that stuff. More repair work, shorter lifespan, more sales, more profit etc

Yeah... no local stock. They claim 7 days delivery till they try to place the order... honda will not serve it to them.

Good Shout Ash. I've placed a post there. Let's see.

That's certainly true. We seem to have gone from over built boat anchor engines that easily outlived the rot box bodies that they were installed into, to engines with 'improvements' like wet belts, low tension piston rings, water thin oils and the like that consign otherwise good condition cars to the scrapper.

Charge anxiety would be a better description. Think back to our last petrol shortage when we all had ‘range anxiety’. We also suddenly discovered how far our cars could go on a gallon when driven carefully too. @joolz my MOT tester just sold his Passat. Similar story to yours, 260k, he paid £700 for it about 5 years ago IIRC. Key thing there is it predates the worst of the modern ‘improvements’. I sincerely doubt a current equivalent would perform for you as well as the Passat does. The perception, or worse, reality of being forced to adopt something new is always going to be unpopular. We naturally want to carry on just as we are. Stick to the familiar.

Came out of Wales yesterday. Far too many 20mph restrictions for me. It’s just so slow.

I don’t think we will see the changes threatened/promised materialising personally. The deadlines will get pushed back & diluted, the problem will get kicked down the road again and again. Short term expedience will always win out.

I think that it's more than that - I think that it's a resistance to forced change - especially when it's badly thought through change. BEVs definitely have a very good use case; for some things they're great but they're very obviously not a universal answer. Yet the sale of ICE and hybrid alternatives are getting banned. 15 minute neighbourhoods are a great idea but instead of encouraging small local businesses they try to do it by banjaxing the road system instead. An increase in the use of public transport would be great but encourage it by providing that public transport regularly at a sensible price, not by taxing us our of cars. It's politicians that need psychologists, not the public.

I'm going to castle Howard tomorrow if your over that way for a run... 👍 Classic car show https://www.facebook.com/share/p/14LunjnMLZR/

That is correct @Stuart

Yes I watched that too, made me realise how absolutely useless the governments here have been at 'putting the great back in Great Britain' We may be a wealthy country but we are definitely not a country full of wealthy citizens like Norway seems to be by comparison.

One of the reps for a local motor factors I use told me that at the main dealerships people are trading in their full electric cars for hybrids. Is range anxiety still an issue? Might we need psychologists in dealerships alongside sales people? On a personal point my 267k miles passat is still going strong, is averaging just over 60mpg including towing regularly. It cost very little to buy and costs very little to run. I'm in no hurry to go electric.