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A nice but chilly drive to and from the Ace Cafe 'Cold Turkey' meet this morning. Plenty of bikers, some classic cars and some good chats. The XI started up well without a choke and ran faultlessly.

Santa bought me some heated gloves, for winter Westy fun 🤩

So finally had a chance to get into the garage to sort the worn bushings out and try the tool i made. I made a couple of modifications including adding clearance where it butts up against the wishbone as some have larger welds than others, and also to make a custom nut with a very long thread to try to avoid stripping threads. This also makes it easier to use as a socket no longer needs to fit in. I can confirm that it worked - I knew two of the bushings were worn, but ended up replacing five as I found some of the others were worn. This was all I had to hand and I haven't even started on the rear suspension yet. Photos are the tool with modifications, the tool in use for removal, and the end result with the removed bushing on the tool. Installation was easier than removal. I changed the front upper bushings on the car without removing the wishbones so it ended up being relatively easy. I don't know why this worked when others have needed so much force for removal, but there was no significant rust at all so maybe that made it easier?

Christmas present from me to me - pointless engine compartment bling: Who knows when it'll get fitted though, probably not until January or February.

Wish you all a Merry Christmas and a new year full of reliable, exciting, memorable trips out in our beloved pride and joys! 2026 will be a blast im sure!

not exactly delivered by postman but just been to collect this for my megablade so lucky to find such a clean used cage local came with a nice set of carbon mirrors as a bonus 😀

Snap, my Xmas delivery

Santa was there, but I didn't get chance to tell him what I want for Christmas. And I made it out in the damp for possibly my final run of the year, mot runs out tomorrow.

Please may I wish each and everyone one of you and your families a peaceful and very merry christmas. Please be careful with the brussel sprouts and your release valves. Stay safe and I hope you all get the presents you wanted. Cheers martin and emma

Merry Christmas everyone. It's always a good day when you can see your club chairman on a photo with a turkey on his head. Have fun all !!!

It's been a good white since I've shared any photos of my car...so it's time I guess! This photo was taken by my wife and while I was autocrossing in a local church parking lot. I like how the big, wide and sticky tires distort under the heavy cornering loads. It's winter here now and snow covers the roads and the Westie is tucked away warm and safe in the shop waiting for the sun to melt the ice. dave

Merry Christmas everyone.

I could be simple about this… but where’s the fun in that? I’ll bore you instead. I checked backstage yesterday, and there were four different addresses on your account. Only you can explain why, but I’m guessing that you’ve moved once or twice in the past. There are two different possible addresses on each account, a billing address and a delivery address. That’s because sometimes someone will buy a membership for another person at a different address. That’s where I think it went wrong backstage. You correctly updated your address in your profile, but the system retained your old addresses for billing purposes. Why? Eff knows. I also tried to remove the other three addresses yesterday and the system refused to let me, so I did the wise thing and walked away to get a glass of red wine. Today, they’re gone. No idea why, but they’re gone. So glitch gone as far as you’re concerned, which I will take as a win. Off for a glass of breakfast…

Merry Christmas to one and all have a great time🎅🧑‍🎄🎉🍷🍻 and now…..

Happy Christmas!

A change to previously stated meeting date, totally my fault as I got us double booked, so we are meeting on SUNDAY 28th Dec at Cupola, Hope Valley, S32 4TF, 10am. If you can let me know if you are coming and how many then I will book a table, it can get busy at holiday time even though this is a quieter one of the cafes. We will have a drive out on carefully selected roads to miss the madness and will finish at an equally well chosen venue to finish off. All welcome at Cupola but members only on the run out please, keep it fair to those who pay. Who is coming?

You seem to have missed then end of ypur sentence off, let me fix that for you.........Of course Andy and we will have the top down @Tim (Sideways) Johnson - Club Treasurer I will be making a route and finishing point up later this evening and will let you know👍

So Guys it's the last Sunday of the year, and your full of Turkey and mince pies. Why not get out of the house and come down to the Stag in Challock and support us for the last meet of the year. 09.00 to midday. I know the weather is lousy so come in your Tin Top....See you there.

Hello... Yes plug an AP into each switch, set the SSID and password to match what you currently have and it should be all done... Choice of AP is entirely personal, and my personal choice is to avoid Ubiquity, which I am sure has come up. And of course budget is often a deciding factor. I find TP link to be acceptable most of the time, and I try to avoid home systems that have a "controller" like Netgears Orbi. I have no experience of TP Link Deco unfortunately. With regards to speed, wifi 6/6e and 7 speeds are theroetical. Most switches have 1Gb ports so that's the maximum speed possible. Most phones have just a single antenna so can NEVER get the full speed from wifi 6/6e and 7 because the speeds are predicated on both AP AND host device having multiple antennas so the data-streams can be multiplexed. I could talk about this for a long time. Most phones will see about 500Mb/s depending on all sorts of boring things that the adverts never mention... Oh yeah, forgot to add... 99% of wifi problems I see are not network related, they are user device and user-not-understanding-how-wifi-really-works related...

Just look at the smile on Glen’s face 🥶 !! Have fun you Brave (daft 🤪) people , see you all soon A&B

Merry Christmas everyone. Now to look forward to the nicer weather and more driving.

Sunday, 28th. Meet at 9.30 at the Tudor Rose, A540, A550 crossroads at Two Mills on the Wirral.. Run into Wales to find a breakfast halt, then some great Welsh lanes. Mince pies supplied by Barbara, what could be better. Merry Christmas.

Happy Christmas to everyone and thanks to those who have helped out with technical support this year.

@mtownsend Happy Xmas to you too!

Not us I’m afraid, our last full day In sunny Thailand before the long trek home.

Stickers went in the post to both @Gillinghampaul and @Benrobson2999 - Kent AO today. Not sure they’ll make it before Xmas, but should be with you soon!

@DaveBr Speed Series Organising Team. Westfield Sports Car Club. Members & competitors. Whether you’re chasing an overall title or simply looking for an easy to enter mini-series to gain experience. The 2026 7’s Speed Series now offers multiple championships and challenges across hillclimbs and sprints, making it simpler than ever to get involved, build confidence, and enjoy top-quality events next season. We are now in the position to post our ‘2026 7’s Speed Series’ ‘provisional calendar; you will see that we have been extremely lucky to secure a large number of quality events for both Hillclimbs & Sprints. With this in mind, it gives us the exciting opportunity to try something totally different for our 2026 7’s Speed Series Championship. In short, we will now be able to offer to our 7’s Speed Series registered competitors the following: · Overall ‘7’s Speed Series Championship’: Best of 10 events count from all events · The Speed Hillclimb Cup ‘Hillclimbs’ only’: Best of 7 Hillclimb events count out of all Hillclimb events · The Sprint Cup ‘Sprints only’: Best of 7 Sprint events count out of all Sprint events · The ‘Mini Series Cup’ mixture for both ‘Hillclimbs & Sprints’: best of 5 events count out of 7 nominated events The above will run alongside the overall championship, you will see that there is now something for everyone i.e. the main 7s Speed Championship or different series running alongside the full championship - depending on your own personal preference. Registrations will be open Shortly. All dates have been added to the WSCC Speed Series Events Calendar for 2026. If you have not registered before or would like to find out more before committing, we actively encourage both members and prospective competitors to make enquiries. Our organising team is always happy to provide further information, guidance on getting started, and advice on choosing the championship or mini-series that best suits your experience and ambitions.

Great, still want one 😁 maybe your bushes were pressed in originally with a little grease or copperslip (think I did this with mine)

The webmaster would be the one to answer part two of the question; I don't know if it's been updated since, but it was a very, very, very old plug in, written for a much earlier version of the forum software, that neither plays nicely with the later generations of software, nor was particularly easy to update, without essentially writing a new plug in. As such, it's now become that elderly, somewhat crotchety relative that likes to sit in the corner and randomly respond to things on it's own, glacial time scale.

Two explanations, one highly probable, one barely possible but unlikely: 1) The system does not update that information instantly. It’s a sub-routine that updates the information periodically. Now that the other addresses are gone, it will eventually sort itself out. When? Sometime between now and The Rapture, I’m guessing. Sorry I can’t be more specific. Or… 2) Your fellow members living close to you are trying to send you a subtle message.

Happy Christmas to you all.

Happy Christmas everyone, Hope Santa brings you all the presents you want 🎅

Well done excellent tool your decision to make that extra long threaded nut is definitely the key to success with this ive heard others using similar tools that rely just on a standard nut have failed with stripped threads

I've just booked on, with single garage too, Anyone's welcome to join me

I should be able to make it too

Ill save one for you @mega adethere's a good chance we will meet, im in sunny medway so don't think im a million miles away from you, be a good excuse to get the cars out too for a quick meet/breakfast!

We’re got a family Xmas day but pop a post in the group there may well be a few keen to escape the Xmas madness

Hopefully be there, not sure of the vehicle yet, though!

Sad loss today, fine musician and petrolhead. Thanks for the great driving songs, Chris. 😢

Paul, if you have a spare in the bundle can I pinch one off you when I see you as now I’ve gone full cage I don’t have one anymore, cheers

It was but it was reduced when I ordered it.

@Gillinghampaul - If you’ve been a good boy, Santa will put some in the post to you… 🎅

🤫🎉40th?

@Ansoeb might be this one

That's a nice one, let's hope it stays on, my nob keeps falling off 🤭🎅🎅🎅

New Nob 😁

nice turn out of westies for a December meet for the essex and north kent group

Well, the challenge is now officially over. If I'm being honest, I'm disappointed that it didn't strike a chord with more members and take off the way I wanted it to, but that's the breaks sometimes. Anyway, I'm a man of my word, so congratulations to individual winner @Paul Baker and to local area winners @Stuart Davis AO - Devon Cornwall & Somerset and his members. A small, cheap but personalised engraved trophy is on its way to you - enjoy!

Watching some Caterham Caribbean Cup at Bushy Park in Barbados 😎

A chilly but dry run out for the Surrey group today.