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Morning, I am a new member to the club, I got my Westfield Sei narrow body 1.6 crossflow engine last June 2021. Firs of all, apologise for my English, I am from Spain and I live here so even the distance I think is very useful joining this club as its very impressive the amount of technical information here. I am not a mechanic, I am engineer therefore I am sure I will need assistance from all of you, and I would like to try to do my self all I am able to do. This car has been in spain since 2000, I bought from a Catalonian guy , therefore the plate with B (Barcelona). I had been looking ofr a westfield during a couple of years, however all cars I found were left right driver position, and this was the only one with right drive drive within budget that I could afford. The car has a few things to improve like the brake pedals, rear brakes , in fact it failed pass the ITV (Spanish MOT), so this would be my first topic. Here you have some pictures of the car.

Meet at Quackers 10am for chats and refreshments before going on a run around the Peak District in search of a pub lunch. Who is joining us?

they’ve stopped sending them out with licences but you can email them and they do still send copies if requested.

Hi Richard my size is 185/70 13¨ wheel, are very old and need to be replaced.

Welcome @Fernando, firstly your English is infinately better than some our our English members ( no names mentioned ) and secondly it's great to see another Crossflow powered car in the club, not only that but one with swept wings 👍. Looking forward to trying to answer your questions, and you won't find a better place to find answers. Oh and there is no such thing as a daft question, just daft answers ....

I have a dilemma myself regarding the booster jab. I was double vaccinated with AZ, no problem. I have an allergy risk that means I've been referred to the (not-so-local) hospital allergy department for my Pfizer booster - I've been told to buy a particular anti-histamine and take it before and after the booster. I've avoided catching Covid so far despite both of my children and wife having it at times (or I've had no symptoms) - I'm seriously questioning why I'd want to risk the allergic reaction to a booster that appears to have a limited time effectiveness and no benefit to others around me.

@AdamR I don’t think there are often clearcut answers to these questions. I’d imagine the “we don’t know what we don’t know” line works well both in 1918 and now. Back then, they could see people dieing so did what they could with the knowledge they had. The alternative of do nothing was no more valid then than it would be now. We don’t know NOW what the long term effects of the vaccination or the infection will be. We’ll find out. In the short term, vaccination IS saving lives. Just my view.

I am not sure but I think last 2 or 3 years. I get one as Comp sec

ha ha love it, perhaps you have something to show us 😁

Meeeeeeeeeeeee toooooooooooo

Meeeeeee!!!!!

Talking of shingles...saw a friend the other day who has recently had Covid along with a couple of his friends.. One of the friends in his fifties had had shingles a number of years ago and was left with a big rash all down his left hand side from under arm to waist area.. He had Covid fairly badly but was fine after a week or so... however the rash disappeared and two months later has still not come back!!

Too much donut eating triples your chances of being hospitalised with covid! But imagine if there were a nightly campaign against the chubsters, smokers, drinkers, drug users. The woke brigade would have a field day. Fat lives matter would be the cry 😂 But someone who makes a choice to not take up a vaccine that was rushed to production and deployment thats still operating under emergency approval for a virus that (for some age groups) has an absolute minute chance of making them seriously ill or worse is fair game to smear and ridicule In the media? Doesn't sound especially fair to me. And I'm not talking about nanobot fearing, 5g tinfoil hat wearers. I'm talking about people who've looked at the data and made a choice.

A teacher at my junior school had this playing in his MG midget most mornngs in the 70's as he pulled in the staff carpark, I had no idea what the music was back then, but do now

Or, depending on your point of view. Mainly Spouting Mumbojumbo. ETA Having now googled MSM , I think I could do with some myself these days 😄

Main Stream Media.

Welcome, the car looks great and don’t be afraid to ask any questions. above all enjoy her

Hola !

Sadly @maurici is no longer a member. Welcome to the club Fernando!

I thought the same thing TBH. No way I'm living long enough to see long term effects of a vaccine, should they occur!

After my first track day in the wet I spent a whole lot of time considering selling the westy giving up and buying a track car and a trailer and spending the left over on the kitchen. Unfortunately wall can’t have spare cars for wet days littering our drives

Nice to hear from you again mate, I am finally packing and organising for some time in the sun, so will have to avoid getting into detail on this one with you, though it has progressed the discussion and is interesting. My point was, when we balance illness vs medicine, we must not only count deaths, but account for frequency and severity of adverse effects on both. We will never be able to refer to the future for guidance, only the present and the past, so what do we know that might enable us to predict what might happen? In the history of vaccines, some harm as been done, on rare occasions a vaccine has done more harm than good, mostly though they have done tremendous good. I believe the current vaccines gave us a year of our lives back, and saved 200,000 lives. The science of what is in these vaccines and their mechanisms has concluded they are highly unlikely to do severe or lasting harm, which I agree doesn't make it impossible. Viruses, and the Cytokine storm of an Immune overreaction to them, however, are known to be devastating to body and mind. The mechanisms are fully understood and can be predicted, and they are increasingly being linked to cancers and chronic diseases. I am not going to list them , someone suggested my last post was 'terrifying' and I don't want that, It is emerging science , some concrete links have been established, many are at the hypothesis stage. I will give you one example: A Danish study (61,000 people) concluded that "people who were diagnosed with the flu were 73 percent more likely to be diagnosed with Parkinson’s more than a decade later than were people who’d never had a flu diagnosis" University of Utah neurobiologist Jason Shepherd - he finds a connection between viral infections and neurodegenerative conditions such as Parkinson’s to be plausible, because “anything that can trigger an inflammatory response in the brain can be a trigger for subsequent neurodegeneration.” I could fill a book with this stuff, it wouldn't be a great read, but as I have said, we are all backing a horse here to some extent.

I have holes in my seat and “proper” waterproofs. didn’t help 🤣

Told myself I wouldn't post in here again... but in the interests of interesting discussion... I looked up what drugs were used to treat the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic, and their side effects. Is it possible that the long term effects mentioned in the above link could be attributed to the drugs and not the disease? See half way down this page for list of treatments. If you pop the name of the drug followed by 'side effects' into Google, you get some interesting results: https://virus.stanford.edu/uda/fluscimed.html For example: https://www.webmd.com/drugs/2/drug-93171/epinephrine-intramuscular/details/list-sideeffects https://www.drugs.com/sfx/acetylsalicylic-acid-side-effects.html https://www.rxlist.com/consumer_sodium_bicarbonate_baking_soda/drugs-condition.htm I doubt all of these side effects will have been known at the time of administering the drugs, and many of them are consistent with the sort of long term health issues discussed. Which brings me onto a second point - what are the prospects for those who have taken up all the Covid jabs, will we still be finding out the side effects in years to come? I do appreciate the medical profession has come a long way in 100 years, and a lot of people have put a lot of research in - but we have no long term data for them at this time.

Hola @Fernando You'll find lots of great advice on here and don't worry about your English! It's already better than our Spanish expert @maurici 😉

Thanks for this Simon.. it may be later in the year when I get round to doing one but your list clears a few bits up for me.cheers

Half a tank done this morning. Cold but great to be out. Pics taken along the Elham Valley in Kent

Isn't it good we have a club where the Factory Parts Dept actually care about it's club members, well done WSC 👍.

Order has been processed, picked, packed and despatched. Many thanks WSC Parts Dept

Just goes to show, Dads know best.

I don't think anyone choses to do wet trackdays.. they just happen. 😉 I've enjoyed very wet days in the past .. notably the wscc Cottesmore day where I don't think it stopped raining all day! Equally that Cadwell day a couple of years back, .. the circuit was pretty lethal in the morning.. but I survived it .. and afterwards thought it enjoyable. But given the choice, I'd rather not be paddling around in puddles with soggy socks and wet undercrackers all day. Give me sunshine.