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Thanks Ian, as I said I forgot about the one I never posted and only was reminded when it appeared on the published post. Thanks I will try harder, lol.

Funny you should say that about intuition , I thought it was just me being used to Apple's way of doing things over what an Android based one does. It reminds me a bit like the the change from Windows to Linux. I stuck with Windows in the end. Going to see what refurb ones are out there then today, although I have bought cars that were less expensive, LOL.

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personally I’ve never been a fan of Samsung or android, I just don’t find it as intuitive as Apple but I appreciate that everyone’s tastes and opinions are different. i have used Samsung as a work phone for the last 7-8 years (not my choice) and currently on an A13 but I always prefer my iPhone.

Lovely car @Westygav, there have been times during my ownership ( since 2008) that I had thought about selling it, as money was tight that year etc, but just could not bring myself to do it. As I know full well if it went, that's probably the last time I could afford one, besides which the time and effort I have put in during that time is just a distant memory, not to mention probably never recouping the cash back. Above all else though, I can't see anything else matching the experience of driving a 7. In fact to commit myself into keeping it, I wrote in my will about gifting it to my most trusted friend ( also a car geek), so that's it now - for life.....

Sorry for the poor pic, don’t see many of these on the road.

Dry sump would be great but it's not that advanced yet as it's not a track car with sticky tyres but more of a daily with some Toyota R888R that will see a couple of track days hopefully.

Warning do not wear Purple trainers! @Roger Allton

if you're running sticky tyres you properly need to go to a dry sump system.

Thanks @Mark (smokey mow), so your jump was quite large too then, the apps is one reason I can't get on with the Samsung, this 6s must be over 10 years old now, it was a departed family members phone, and it still runs all the apps I am likely to need ( banking etc) , yet the Samsung is far newer ( not brand new but say 4 years old) yet when I tried to install the HSBC app it said the firmware was too old to do so. Samsung no longer support firmware updates to it anymore - so its next to useless to me.

Firstly, how many of you have owned, then sold your Westfield, to then regret it and then up buying another one further down the line? You see, I'm fickle and an impulse purchaser of many different things in my life and my Westfield was no exception to that. 2 years ago I woke up on a Saturday morning and completely out of the blue and thought to myself. I wouldn't mind owning one of those Westfield's and the following week I bought the one I have now. I few other examples of past purchase history impulse buying. I had a lovely Mercedes, I really liked it and I took it in for it's service. On the way to the service counter I passed another one which looked nice, 2 hours later and I'm now the owner of different but perfectly nice Mercedes. Several years ago a friend of mine had a Jaguar XKR, he took me out in it, he turned the TC off, I strongly advised him not to do it and well. We ended up in a tree, the car was smashed to bits, BUT the car was brillent (before he put it head on into a tree of course)! Two weeks later I bought one myself for a weekend car. Supercharged V8 through a stainless steel system was such an amazing sound. My wife loved that car too, especially when she was heavily pregnant, because to drive, it was such a nice car for her to get in and out of and with loads of room. More recently (Aug 23) I woke up one morning at 04:30am, decided I wanted to buy a Mazda MX5 for the track and by 07:15am I was at a chaps house and now the the new owner of it. And just like all the many impulse purchases in my life, I got bored and sold them. The MX5 went last month, I did a few trackdays and got bored. The Westfield has lasted a while for me and I'm not......'bored' I just get itchy feet. I've driven it loads! That's another side to my personality, I get into something (whatever it is) and I just absolutely go full beans addictive at it. If I got into knitting, I'd make everyone on this forum a jumper within a week! It's a fantastic car, drives lovely, it's an absolute head turner and if I'm honest, I really like the attention and it sounds great too. Plus, I love the social side that it's offered, I've met some fantastic people and I've now got some great friends too. I'm not sure if I want to try something else for a while, but not entirely sure what. But this could be one I regret selling if I did sell it. So, back to my first line. Who's regretted and bought again?

I’ve just changed from an 8 to 15pro and the difference is huge. Apps run faster, camera is better, battery life is 4x as good. being Apple the user interface is exactly the same and all my apps, photos and passwords transferred across from the old phone in a matter of minutes. no negatives as far as I’m concerned

ah.... Very true also... LOL. @Paul Baker Any developments on this ?, unless you have a post over on build diaries that I haven't come across yet ?.

@AndrewBClarke the dodgy plumbing is at the father in laws pre war house 😵‍💫 all mine is good , it’s all nice and new as I stripped out all that old stuff you old boys use 🤣

Thanks to Mark, Ian and Dave last night for my small ecu update. Everything still working as expected 👍 Good to see so many cars out last night and fun chats See you soon

Thank you @Kingster , to be honest as long as it lasts more than 30 mins on standby and can take more than 3 photos before shutting down I would be very happy. A friend upon me having these issues , gave me a fairly newish Samsung to try out, and I really don't get on with it at all. Yes that was my plan to get a refurb one, and thought before I went for it I'd ask here first.

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What a beautiful evening for a meet! This was my 3rd test drive of my new ITB's so had left early to properly stretched her legs on the local B roads. I'd just pulled up when Glynn landed in his newly upgraded car making whooshy noises! The gorgeous fully forged Mazda 1.8 with a big snail. My new ITB install. Over the next 20 minutes we were joined by Steve and Gavin in convoy, quickly followed by James (at his first pub meet), Dan and Matt. James owns the lovely yellow MX5 engined car we had spotted at Curborough at the weekend so was great to finally meet in person! Emma, Howard, Alex, Iain, Hedley, Martyn, Dom and Ben had also come along in their tintops. Shortly after Claire and Joolz pulled in sporting huge grins after Claire's recent trackday at Donington. Sounds like you had fun!! As we were chatting, we get the amazing sight of a Westfield XI pulling in! Roger had come along to his first meet in his beautiful BRG A series engined car. Most of us had spent that long in the car park we missed out on food when we eventually got into the pub! 😂 Later we were also joined by Mark, our third pub meet newbie who had recently sampled the Peaks meets with Julie. As usual we had loads of upgrade talk. Iain is in the middle of an engine swap (that a few of us are helping with), James is collecting parts to supercharge his MX5 engine and Mark is already itching for a bit more power from his ITB'd Zetec. Malvern was a big topic of conversation, seems we have load of locals going along and quite a few volunteers. Excitement is definitely building! Lovely to see everyone, hope you all got home safely. Also, great to meet James, Mark and Roger, hope you enjoyed the evening and that we made you feel welcome 👍

Maybe you could now do some plumbing. All the spray out of your joints could clean your car!!

Final Results- Cheshire: 13 Derby: 9 😃

Thanks Ian 👍

Have a great day @Dave Spooner @Jakejmagee 🍺🎂 🍺🎂

Hi Andy, thanks as I've already got the SBD low sump fitted but speaking to my engine builder and he suggested looking at a big wing sump to hold more oil for track days and reduce oil starvation when cornering hard

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Better than the alternative though!