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A stunning bit of sunshine in the Peak District today as we went to the H and H car auction in Buxton

Good location. Not as far for you to the good roads in the Alps and the Dolomites!

Having sold my S2000 Westfield, I'm having a loft clear out as you do £25 Delivered to the UK

Greetings to all from Italy, waiting to find the westfield for me

Thank you, I will not fail to ask you for information if I need it, but I already have a very experienced person who has been importing from England for 20 years now. Now it is "only" a matter of finding the creature for myself.

I live down south, small town close to Lecce. If you buy a 2006 car, you need to wait till 2026 to register it (if legislation doesn't change in the meantime). We are talking about cars, like Westfield and other kit cars, which doesn't have the CoC. If you need any info about contacts for registration/import which I used, just give me a shout 👍

Welcome 👋 Where from Italy are you exactly? @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO in Italy cars from 20 years old can be registered (mine was from 1998). They are called "cars of historic interest", while 30 years old cars are actually historic cars.

OK, Dont laugh, but I have reasonably succesfully used heavy duty bathroom scales (that go up to 250Kg). I weigh each corner at a time, ensuring its all completely level (use wooden height adjusters / planks on the 3 wheels not being weighed). Real cheapscate solution (scales are £20 from amazon). Happy to be ridiculed, but for a rough guide I have found it pretty good... (Waits for incoming.....!)

We have a 61 plate X3 3.0SE with a ridiculous number of factory fitted options, bought it 5 years ago as a 1 owner car with full BMW service history from the supplying dealer at 95,000 miles, serviced to the book and now has 176,000 on the clock, brilliant car! Will run this one till the end!

If 250kg scales are £20 each, why not just get 4x? Set up on a flat, level surface and use some planks to aid roll on/off so as not to damage the edges.

Hi Tom, happy to take them if still available. Lee

PM sent

Westfield SEIW / ZK / 2004 2ltr Zetec Black Top Dunnell upgrade 180bhp engine, low mileage at 13.5k MT75 gearbox short shift / Sierra LSD. ProTech shocks. Runs and sounds fantastic, full weather gear and side screens. Car In excellent working order. High quality build standard. Price £11,500 ono - Colwyn Bay N/Wales -Any questions please:- Call 07824165502 / mail - dafwynt@outlook.com

I'd have thought a chap as wise as you would have sold it several times over! Especially with the weight saving.

Nope, thats gone already

Please find below the 2024 Speed Series Calendar, it's taken quite a while to get to and there has been a lot of discussion about which events to go to as a Championship. We need to ensure that we get a reasonable number of our competitors attending any specific event for it to remain on the Calendar ie 5 or more competitors. For 2024, some events that didn't reach that have still been included, but they will be up for review at the end of the Year if we have a poor attendance. If you favourite event is not on here, then you should still be able to go as membership of WSCC and our Motorsport UK membership / affiliation with Regions means that you have a good chance of your entry being accepted by the Event Organisers. There is a PDF with the dates you can download. Date Circuit Club 23/03/2024 Saturday Cadwell BARC Midland 24/03/2024 Sunday Mallory Park S&H MC 30/03/2024 Saturday Loton Park HDLCC 31/03/2024 Sunday Loton Park HDLCC 06/04/2024 Saturday Anglesey 1 LDMC 07/04/2024 Sunday Anglesey 2 LDMC 27/04/2024 Saturday Gurston GDSH 28/04/2024 Sunday Gurston GDSH 18/05/2024 Saturday Blyton 1 LDMC 19/05/2024 Sunday Blyton 2 LDMC 15/06/2024 Saturday Barbon LMC 16/06/2024 Sunday 3 Sisters 1 LDMC 23/06/2024 Sunday Mallory Park S&H MC 29/06/2024 Saturday Curborough NSCC 30/06/2024 Sunday Curborough NSCC 21/07/2024 Sunday 3 Sisters 2 LDMC 10/08/2024 Saturday Blyton 3 S&H MC 11/08/2024 Sunday Blyton 4 S&H MC 24/08/2024 Saturday Snetterton 100 BARC Midland 25/08/2024 Sunday Snetterton 100 BARC Midland 31/08/2024 Saturday Aintree LMC 01/09/2024 Sunday 3 Sisters 3 LDMC 07/09/2024 Saturday Knockhill KMSC 08/09/2024 Sunday Knockhill KMSC 08/09/2024 Sunday Hethel Borough 19 21/09/2024 Saturday Harewood 1 Harewood 22/09/2024 Sunday Harewood2 Harewood 05/10/2024 Saturday Anglesey 3 LDMC 06/10/2024 Sunday Anglesey 4 LDMC No of Events = 29 Speed Series Dates Final.pdf

and also on June 1st / 2nd

Ahahah I saw the photo, definitely not Trentino 😄.

I live in the Oltrepò Pavese, below Pavia, an area with many hills, and you? Exactly 30 years automatically become historical

I think I read somewhere that you organised a rally in Italy, Trentino Alto Adige? 20 years old, even less, meaning you can import a car built in 2006 but I'd have to wait until 2006 to register it with Italian plates. Thanks for the greeting

Welcome Calling @LoneWolf you've potentially got another play mate! We visited your great country this summer- I'm guessing you need a car older than 30 yrs to get registered in Italy?

I've got a 2014 F30 330d so same engine and gearbox and it's a great set up. Gearbox is really good,even better once you get it remapped👌 My car can tow 1800kg,it pulls my race shuttle with my kit car in it at 1400kg like theres nothing attached 😁

Never overlook the humble bathroom scale! My dad has used a set of old school analogue scale to do corner weighting for as long as I can remember, and it seems to have been working pretty well all these years! He has some 'fancy' wooden frames built around them, even has little holes so you can turn the zero-ing wheel!

trouble with the bathroom scales method is that unless you have 4 identical ones, you are very unlikely to get a true and accurate reading. you'd be surprised how much difference it makes if one corner is just millimeters lowered or raised, so using 3 planks under wheels, and the scales under the fourth, if the planks aren't exactly the same thickness as the scales your result is going to be inaccurate. Even then, are you measuring the thickness of the scales compressed or uncompressed? and how do you work out the compressed thickness before you've got it all set up on the scales and planks? 2 sets of scales and 2 identical bits of plank might work ok, doing one end at a time, but even then, as you adjust one corner, it alters the weight on the diametrically opposite corner, so you'd constantly be having to swap form one end to the other!

Yes, so far, but already a lot of salt on road and I will not fit in in winter clotches even witout a roof

It's only a little bit of snow...

After 17 (to dispatch and 20 to recive ) weeks of waiting today recived my Halfhood and Storm cup from Soft Bits for Seven ( wrr for duty I need to pay although there should be no duty tax for items "made in UK" but, reality is different, not first time. Anyway quality looks realy nice, solid material etc zips, velcro, nice bags, hope it will allow us for more days in Westfield next season! (if I manage how to get in and out, but hope openings with zip allow for that as in open car (or almost?) Sadly, right now maybe not best time to try 😕

60 plate is F25. We've got a 2017 F25 30d with 57k on it. Cracking car. Auto box is ZF and AFAIK bomb proof. BMW claim they're sealed for life but ZF say they need servicing at 60-70k and service is expensive - around £600. It's been recalled twice for replacement of exhaust gas recirculation valve. Rear diff output oil seal has needed replacing due to leak which I think is common and a £300+ job as it means drive shaft out which involves rear suspension removal. It's usually only a very slow weep so I think often gets left until car sold so watch for that. It has had a rear wheel bearing go noisy and need replacing - common on high mileage cars (but not at 50k) according to my independent service guys and cheap enough to replace. Oil filters are paper ones and I have read that unless they're decent quality they can disintegrate which means a new housing, but we haven't had that problem. Set of decent run flats will cost you close to a grand but they're good for 28-30k miles. You can switch to non run flats but I have kept them as it's the Mrs. who drives it most. Haven't towed with it.

From nowhere to a Mega sized area, well done Martin & Barry.

It was a cold morning in the garage today so I've made a start on the drawings

BUMP

This thread was begun with a remit to be open and reach as many people as possible, members and none members included. It, wasn't the OP's intention to "force" anyone in to discussing anything they don't want to, or feel comfortable doing. To limit this specific threads reach would go against its fundamental intent. However, there is absolutely nothing to stop anyone posting their own more personal thread in the members only section. However, I would consider carefully before doing so. With the greatest respect to us all, members are potentially just someone who stumped up a minimum of £10 for sixty days. So that includes folks here solely to buy and sell cars or parts or do some Westfield related research. If you don't feel comfortable posting certain details in the full public areas, do make sure that you consider whether it would be wise posting them in open members only areas, too. I'm certainly not saying you shouldn't, but please do consider the possible implications. If (anyone) feels they need to share something, but within a more closed circle, don't forget you can invite multiple people to a PM, who will then all be able to see and comment on your post. But only those you invite.

As a lot of us are facing lockdown 2 and some people might be struggling with it, I thought as one of the quietest members of the community that I should write in this post because it feels relevant to me. I often want to reply to threads and be more active but often just lack to confidence to type anything and I feel I want to explain by sharing with you all. Where would I begin to even start, I'm sorry for droning on but maybe me, sitting here typing this may one day help. I hope someone will actually be interested enough to read this and that this part of my life that I'm going to share will help someone else who feels like I do. I got diagnosed with bipolar disorder quite a long time ago 15 years ish now, I actually was assigned an amazing psychiatrist that quickly found me some medication that kept me balanced out and thought that was it. I guess for me all the trouble started when I met someone who changed my world totally. We'd met through work, she'd just come out of another relationship and what both of us didn't know when we did meet was that she'd just fallen pregnant with her ex's child. So I stayed with her I adored her and nothing would take me away from her, I helped her to make her pregnancy as comfortable as possible, helped her raise the little boy and treated him like my own. Things were really difficult but we found a way or I thought we were, my work meant I was in London most days and living in Essex on weekdays and our place was near the Welsh border, 3.5 hours in the car each way. A bit further down the line my mum collapsed one evening, she was rushed to hospital and had suffered a massive hemorrhage type stroke, the doctors put her chance of survival at 10% and scarily her chance of surviving without major disabilities at 3%. A month into this my Girlfriend decided she'd be better off without me and ended our relationship, but she wouldn't fully let me go. Between her and all what was going on with my mum I became exhausted, my average day with work included became a 20 hour day after I'd gone to see mum and I certainly couldn't give my girlfriend the time I needed to. So I moved back in permanently to my parents and nearly exactly 2 years to the day my mum got sick, she came back home!. She made fantastic progress and became one of the 3% of cases that made a good recovery. She still needs a mobility scooter to go any real distances but truly a miracle how well she's done. So after a rough few years I decided to start chasing my dreams in life, I felt I'd given up a lot in life to help my mum so it was time to enjoy life, I ordered the westie to fulfil a childhood dream! One of the dreams of mine was ever since it launched was to go on a specific cruise ship. Independence of the Seas, It was home porting in the UK so I took the bull by the horns and booked my entire family aboard for 2 weeks to explore the med. It was a really special time however all I could think about was having my ex and the little man with me. I was there, lucky enough to live my dream, yet I hated every minute of it because it all felt empty. We then went to Russia on another cruise this time following one of my mums dreams, and once again the huge hole of the pair of them dominated everything. Once again I felt totally empty and alone in a void. As time has gone on, the emptiness stays it never goes, the more empty things feel the less I feel able to talk about things. I can be pretty good at hiding my emotions to most people. I got back in touch with the ex because my boss told me she was in a spot of trouble, she sends me pictures of the not so little man now, I even got to see a video of his school assembly, and I'm so incredibly proud of him but that's overwhelmed by the huge amount of guilt I feel for not being there for him over the years. I wanted to be but she wouldn't let me be there and its difficult because no matter how much I wish I am I'm not his dad. It's broken me to just know he'll never really know me or who I am. Life to me has seemed to evolve into a struggle everyday between two massive forces of wanting the emptiness to stop and ending it and the will to keep on going. So I just try to keep things in balance, even right now the westie just seems like a mistake, it failed its IVA because of emissions and brake balance, just feels like the end of the world. Hopefully I've fixed it to get it through its retest but I don't feel confident in myself at all. Just emptiness and a lack of anything inside. Anyways if anyone has read this thank you for taking the time, I wish I could write more on here and feel more part of the community, most days I don't feel I belong anywhere really and I hope you all understand a bit why I'm so quiet. So if I can ever be a friendly non judgmental ear to anyone then my door will never be closed and I hope everyone is looking after themselves through the new lockdowns as they can be somewhat tough!