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My 12 year old nephew was screaming by the side of me when giving him a "ride".. obviously I thought whoops of joy, so naturally kept the boot in..... the reality was he'd gone a funny colour with dribble all down his face on the verge of puking. I Had to drive home at about 25mph 😁.

My 8 year old nephew screams when the throttle bodies really start to roar, and hits me to slow down. I kinda treat him like a shift light... :-)

I've fallen asleep on the back of my mates motorbike twice while travelling long distance at night. Bizarrely you stay seated, like a bird sleeping on a branch, but it's freaky for the first 10 secs when you wake up! Have to say, the number of people I see with 4-point harnesses that are adjusted wrong is very numerous. If that car had crashed, she would have slid under the belt and crammed into the footwell and garotted herself on the lap belt on the way. Do the lap belt up first, tight to the hip bone, and under the gut if you're portly, then adjust the shoulder belts to take out the slack but not lifting the lap belt. People give 4-points this mythical superiority over 3-points, but if worn incorrectly, can do more harm than good.

My 15 year old daughter fell asleep in the Westy. Really? How does that even happen?

Ha she won’t be using that photo for her social media.. both my boys fall sleep in the car and camper.. I wish the wife would she hangs on, so as to offer helpful driving advise!!!!

My parents have lived in France for 20 years. There is an ongoing problem that the younger generations are moving away from rural areas to towns and cities for work. Many small villages are only populated by the older generations. Once the population gets too small to support local stores bread shops, it gets worse. This is why sometimes you find some small villages with very cheap houses.. the closest amenities may be 20 miles away. It's a shame there are some very nice places... but empty

I’ve done it myself when riding shotgun in them. There’s something about the noise/vibration that’s soothing, not unlike the effect of that clickety clack of trains! However, that picture really made my stomach sink, it’s so frightening! As Brad said, please, please, please ensure that passengers know how to do the harnesses up properly, it’s not really that intuitive I suppose, and not something that people are used to, especially now everyone is used to self tensioning inertia reals. A badly fitted full harness is probably borderline as dangerous as having no harness at all. The lap belt must be properly tightened over the bone at the hips, not dragged up on to soft tissue of the stomach, or worse, even higher. Only then do up the shoulder straps, being careful not to pull up the lap belt. (Sorry for the public service broadcast! Having received seatbelt injuries in a bad crash from a modern inertia/pre-tensioned system that worked and held me in place, the thought of a harness that didn’t work properly is so much worse!)

This building that is behind Buttercup was for sale at 170,000 euro. Big courtyard and land too.

I know our motto is 20's plenty @Geoffrey (Buttercup) - North Yorkshire AO And @Gary Taylor - Scotland AO But we had to do it just once for Dave!

You're obviously not trying hard enough🤣

My son and his partner (I'm old fashioned & I know I shouldn't moan about the non wife status) have blesses the Sage & I with a grandson, he's a complete clone of our son right down to the right arm to the ear asleep mode, so 2 questions, is it possible to get an adaptor bracket that fixes the child seat to the roll bar of the ASBO & is it legal? A very happy and proud Nem...........

Good Afternoon All, Fathers day fast approaching, I hope all dads have a lovely day on sunday. Discount code: FATHER10 can be used on all online orders. Active from today 13.6.2019 until Monday 17.6.2019. Best Regards Patrick

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How much is the discount? @Westfield Parts Dept

@AdgeC Hopefully it’s the throttle position sensor, but it’s taken ages to get delivered and I haven’t been able to fit it so far this week to check it solves the problem. From your previous post, the start location is the pub car park.

great tool, cheers Geoffrey 😉

gorgeous.

No. Its mainly because they tend to have low cranking amp capacities and struggle with starting high compression engines. There are slightly larger sized lithium batteries with greater number of cranking amps that dont require slave batteries for most car engines

It might be beneficial to put a price.

Isn't the fact that a lithium ion battery (of the sort that Simon is considering) has a very low storage capacity the reason why most who use them for sprinting/hillclimbs tend to have an anderson socket permanently wired in to the battery, so that a slave (external) battery rigged up with an anderson plug, or a powerpack, can be connected up when starting up in the paddock, leaving the capacity of the on board battery full to start the engine in the event of a stall or having to shut down the engine near the start line if there is an incident on track just ahead of you? Terry can give a definitive answer to this, because I know that he has such an arrangement on his car. Simon, I hope your upgrades include making the passenger seat slightly more accommodating for a well built passenger?!😄

The more meaningful aspect of Ah in our sort of usage is the number of go's you'll get to start the engine, before charging is needed. My old gel battery used to give a good solid three or four goes, before the engine turnover speed on the starter would start to fall away rapidly, and the Voltage while turning over would drop below the threshold the ecu needed to start. In normal circumstances this was never a problem, as the engine would fire straight up. You just had little margin for error!

Good morning Adge, thanks for that sounds like a plan…..catching up with "admin" this morning as yet again the rain has stopped play (well, roofing work)… heatwave forecast to start on Saturday 22 June

Ah refers to the storage capacity of a battery so 16Ah is almost twice the storage capacity. CCA refers to the ability to start an engine in cold temperatures. (number of amps a 12-volt battery can deliver at 0°F for 30 seconds while maintaining a voltage of at least 7.2 volts.) it's always difficult to explain in real world terms but CCA is more important for a diesel, which takes a higher cranking load to turn over. It rates the amount of power the battery is able to supply, which diesels usually take a lot of when cranking. A bigger AH rating means you can sit longer with the car not running listening to the stereo, and longer resistance to the natural drain on the battery when not in use on your drive. probably clear as mud....

<Victor Meldrew mode>bl**** teenagers</Victor Meldrew mode> I agree about the harness though - needs to be so tight across the pelvis that tightening the shoulder straps hardly makes it lift at all For what its worth, my youngest son had a habit of falling asleep in the most unlikely of vehicles - a fully stripped-out track car that needed earplugs to drive and also on the back of my motorbike. The amazing thing is that the bike was a Buell - 1,200cc of hammering V-twin with race pipes. It was bl**** hilarious when a passing R1 woke him up though - he nearly jumped off...

Becky falls asleep on the way home on most of our trips out!! I can tell because all goes quiet , she thinks the baseball cap and sunglasses disguise it, but then I play the rolling head game 😂 of braking hard and flicking the car around islands. The thing I want to know is how do they wake up as you pull into your road?

@Dave Eastwood (Gadgetman) - Club Secretary Please Don't Answer that!!!

I took this with me and with it we kept a Westfield going for most of the holiday in Switzerland. His alternator also packed in. It also started another car with a flat battery and charged a phone to allow a call to the recovery services. Well worth carrying.

Never met any of you but have booked a wigwam!! Looking forward to it and hope to meet a few of you before this when the meets start to happen in the Spring.

Well it was an interesting tour! 🤣🤣😲