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No that falls squarely on the shoulders of some deranged orange faced despot…

I got mine from a local car parts place complete with self adhesive letters. No markings and for "off road use only". Photo from @Ross the Scottish exile.

Afternoon guys the next wscc is on tuessay the 14th of this month we are going to do a run out (weather permitting ) meeting @thechurchmouse DH23RJ for 6.45-7pm the run will be one that Scott Taylor aka @westfield_bumble organised last year finishing at the jolly driver again Look forward to to see you guys there

Well yes but the media adds fuel to the fire

I wasn't the only person deciding whether to have the Sunday carvery only to be told it's Saturday, oh crumbs, so tomorrow will feel like Monday and I haven't a clue what day it is, it's CLUB day! yeah that's all that matters. Great to be out with our great car club!! Meeting earlier at Quacker's to have a quick look at my TPS values and general ecu numbers as the revs on cold start seem to be down at 600 rpm for some bizarre reason. Nothing glaringly obvious showed up on a warm engine and, now Ian Kinder has shown me what to do, I will look at the cold engine in the morning. Although Dave mentioned that the OMEX ecu's are clever little sods that can compensate for failing instruments, making diagnosis a challenge. Oh the joys of owning a kit car, never a boring moment, still it made for good photo's of the tread pattern on my shoes Here we are at Quacker's car park before Luke arrived Jake and Jim arriving Inside Quacker's cafe, inside because it was freezing outside Andrew had picked up a screw in his tyre resulting in a slow puncture, Ian Kinder to the rescue again. Luke arrived and we got a fantastic display of the mighty 3.9 litre V8's, these 2 cars are about as similar as 2 Westfield's get. No 2 cars are the same. Off we went on our run out on great wiggly roads with some of the most amazing views you can get in the area, we avoided the tourist spots and flowed very well. Well, most of the time, until I saw the warning triangle for the crossroads, thinking ah that's where we turn left. Nope, it's a farm track, then to the ruddy next one and same again, a farm track, finally on the 3rd warning triangle it was the road we wanted, Derbyshire County Council must have had a 3 for 1 offer that day on crossroad signposts. Worth it though for the view as you come down into Taddington, awesome. That bought us nicely to The Cow Shed, Tideswell where it was far too hot to sit inside, even if you were wearing shorts, Mr K. A few shots of us gadding about at the Cow Shed, please add your photo's of the day too, much appreciated x Dave and Ian leaving with the Honda Roar Really, really excellent to have folks back out now the tax man has been paid and the weather is everso slightly warmer, thank you for making the time to join us and also a great big thank you for the technical expertise that member's of this club share with us XXXXXXX

Ah yes, flippy plates! Many years ago, there was a Cheshire biker, who decided it would be a great idea to fit his rear number plate on a springloaded panel the spring holding it in the normal position. He then had some kind of pull cord attached, so, when passing cameras etc, he could pull it and fold the plate up out of site. Cheshire Police had quite an album of him apparently. Then one day, an ex copper I know happened to see the photos and burst out laughing. Being a biker himself, he recognised the leathers/helmet design etc and knew who it was. ANd thus our care free biker rocked up home one day, only to find said office waiting for him on his drive. A quick check of the bike confirmed the device was still there. The charge he faced for the device was far more serious, and cost him far more than the the fines for the speeding would have done, even totalled up. (It's a long time ago now, so I can't remember, I want to say they got him on a charge of attempting to pervert the course of justice, but memory is hazy on that one.) Said Police officer, not well known amongst his colleagues for his athleticism in chasing down miscreants, (desk jockey), dined out on that arrest for years.

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Not unless your Westfield was registered before 1st January 1973, they aren't. Good luck using that as evidence in court. "Your Honour, my evidence is from a TikTok account purported to be that of a traffic officer." The reflectivity has to be to a very high measured standard and the BS number has to be affixed by the supplier, which none of them will do now. Here's an example of a very naughty online plate supplier's wording: Stick On Number Plates | Pro Plates “These plates are 520mm x 111mm ( standard sized number plates ) and Road legal DVLA BSAU certified, this means we use the very best class A reflective.” Very naughty and misleading wording to say the least. By their own admission, they’re only referring to the reflective quality and plate size, not the finished plate itself with numbers. Once you add the numbers, they can happily and legally wash their hands of you. Note that it doesn’t say which BSAU code. The first one was BSAU 145a issued in 1972, very different to the current BSAU 146e. If you used this as a defense, you’d almost certainly lose. Just because it’s reflective and uses the right size and font, that does not make it road legal on anything registered after 1st January 1973 . If there’s no manufacturers name and postcode on it, it’s not a legal number plate. That’s why they often get manufactured in Ireland, hiding behind a redirected UK phone number, so they can skirt the law on that point. The ones manufactured in the UK are all required to have the manufacturer’s name and postcode displayed on them. I have looked high and low for years and never found a UK-based manufacturer of fully road legal stick-on number plates. It’s absolutely your car and your right to take a chance with a stick on number plate if you so wish. It’s also the police’s right to apply either the spirit of the law (not legal but readable and reflective = let it slide) or the letter of the law (not legal = warning or ticket). Only you can decide for yourself if you are happy to risk it. If you draw attention to yourself in some way and get pulled over by speeding or driving like a b***, then decide to get a bit snippy about it, it’s just possible the officer in question will slowly put his magnifying glass over it and add that to your ticket if they so desire. Personally, I like how they look and hope none of you using them ever get a ticket. I'm running hard plates without a BS number, but they were manufactured two decades ago, so hopefully that's okay. Not being Lieutenant Buzzkill here, but you deserve to know the above. My advice is not to use stick-on plates on anything registered after 1st January 1973, but the list of people who have not taken advice from me over the years is long and distinguished.

The price of petrol always reminds me that it used to cost £10 to fill my Westfield when it was built 30 years ago.

Easter Bunny doing delivery duties this time....

I can only guess speed. But when you zoom in, it doesn’t really make sense,

Looks like a nice run out. We missed it due to being down in Dorset, where we have just randomly bought a horse trailer. At least we will have when Monzo believe we’ve not fallen for a scam!

A good run round on mainly quiet roads. Thanks @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative for the usual great planning. Flashbacks to my 'risky rear' pics from our 1st Le Mans Trip in 2017. Apparently @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative thinks I was taking a pic of her tread depth! Only @Jakejmagee and I know the skill required to get round this bend safely! my Bluetooth battery monitor also logs my runs - here’s today route

I have a vague recollection that it's the 'as vertical as possible' that is problematic as it's open to interpretation

I don't think the paw patrol are going to nick you for a small printed bs code missing half of them wouldn't know anyway as long as its correct reflective background font and size im sure your be ok.

found a uk legal reflective, but no BS number, guess I'll just get a BS sticker made up with the details from my BMW reg plate haha

they are legal on our cars with the markings, stick on plates are legal for cars designed not to have a front plate, Westfields fall into that category as theres is no actual mounting point, but yeah i want legal size, font, reflective and BS code thingy

And good luck with those first two in particular…

yellow is the only colour for real westfield owners....

Hello All, April has arrived and the weather is getting better I expect some cars may even be off SORN. The April meeting should be this weekend 5th April. As it's a holiday weekend and a lot of us are away I'm pushing the meeting back a week to the 12 April. Hopefully the weather will be nice and more of us will be available. See you a week on Sunday Thanks Rhett 7pm, 12th April at the Dudley Arms, Himley. DY3 4LB.

Agree harder on the eye but the constant reason they give is ANPR can’t pick them up but that’s a lie, car park ANPR is bottom of the barrel and picks them up, everyone I know with dodgy spacing still get fines in the post? So clearly gets picked up, seems easier now to just run no plate lol i just hate the fact that all these police force Facebook pages etc all they brag about is traffic offences, they never post things like, This weeks task force, we took down a burglary gang or bank robbery gang, exposed a fraud team etc it’s just this week we took down 87 motorists with miss spaced plates, 3 drivers doing 44 in a 40 zone and 7 drivers with window tints

Well the first clutch didn’t go to plan or fit! After returning the very expensive new one I opted to get the original refurbished. Really glad I did very happy. Great work! All in £140

Rear main seal now replaced. Clutch arrived today too! Be a shame to hide this away.