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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 🤩

Meeting at Cupola, some of us arrived more toasty than others didn't they Mr Westwood? A table for 10, we had a few wonderful surprises today, with @Robin Parker (Red Spider) - Yorkshire AO and @aeg and Becky, even Bagpuss making a last minute journey in his little Santa hat, sat there on the bonnet. In the car park at Cupola. After a hearty breakfast we had a good journey around the Peak District, not too busy and roads in a somewhat dry condition, good for December anyway. We soon arrived at the Cock and Pullet (stop laughing) at Sheldon, which is near Bakewell We were eating a little bit lighter today as we were stuffed full of Christmas cake, this sentence does not apply to the Westwood's who might have had a full on Sunday lunch Thanks Becky for the photo's on the move and thank you to everyone for making the day wonderful, see you all in 2026, kiss kiss.

A great day out as usual and thanks to @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative keeping us on nice lightly trafficked roads. Good to meet @DannyTGS today. How were my new DLR's in your mirrors today? I've often thought about taking this pic as I pass it in and out of the peaks. Today I remembered and made it happen. As I was taking a Selfie. @Darren Harvey (not in his Westie) stopped to ask If I was Bagpuss! Stay tuned to find out how I replied! Have a great New Year All!

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!

Ignore the red tape, Didn't have any black, But ill thread it through loom corrugated section once I get some from work, but now I have reactive brake lights lol And while I was at it, little extinguisher install

Great meeting up with everyone and thanks Julie for a organising it. Lovely spin around the Peak District with a great group of friends. Have a great New year and hopefully see you all soon in the new year.

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 !!!

Got this for Christmas

Our regular meet day falls on New Years Day this year, so we've postponed it a week, to the 8th Jan. As usual, the Golden Pheasant, around 7pm if eating, else 7.30pm

@DannyTGS well done for fixing your brake lights after @Ian Kinder (Bagpuss) - Joint Peak District AO commented on them on Sunday 🤣 he will be pleased to know I’ve put new bulbs in Becky’s car as well 😜 so that just leaves @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative !!!! Has Glen fixed them yet ? I should hope so …. his got more time on his hands than the rest of us 🤔

Was a great day, the batteries in my gloves died literally 1/4mile from home so couldn't have timed it better, I have a link cable to run from the car battery so will have to figure that out next time, Socks worked a treat too ♨️ The DRL's looked smart, I've LED headlamps to fit too but i need the buckets for them but mine are budget non DRL's haha

Additional dash printed, painted and fitted.

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...

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!

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?

Reporting for duty…. @IanD - I’ll get one in the post to you 👍🏻

Received refurbished shocks for my track Westfield from https://www.thunderlane.eu . I bought the car in 2018, with a few years of history before that, and I think the shocks had never been overhauled. They got new bearings, thinner valves for a lightweight car, new bump stops, etc. They were dyno tested (I don’t understand those diagrams at all 😕, but I was assured they were matched in pairs). I’m really curious whether I’ll feel the difference. When they were “new” ( I mean after few seasons in Westfield Cup NL , and on some endurance challenges (got few broken wishbones with that car ) , even on the softest settings the car was quite darty. Hopefully this effort and the expense — will be noticeable 🙂 Edit – oh, and I had my springs measured: front (RED) 60 N/mm, rear (BLACK) 40 N/mm. Not sure if this is right or wrong, but at least I now have a baseline if I learn which way to go softer or stiffer at the front or rear in the future.

I'll be there too

Good shout, will be there. Andy

Sorry for gatecrashing your party @Julie Hall - WSCC AO Representative and not coming in the Westfield (no mot), although I did get to put the Alfa in Dynamic mode for a while.

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.

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!

It seems bonkers that you can buy an epic Westy like this and have enough money left over to also buy a lovely baby Aston to keep it company, for less than the price of even the cheapest new Westy! This is amazing value for money. Good luck with the sale

I also got a good result with a Cudy access point that I picked up for no money on ebay. Designed for multiple WiFi devices

I'm happy with our TP Link Deco system- Ours is M4 Current seems to be this- https://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-Deco-X10-Dual-Band-AI-Driven/dp/B0CPMBLJW2/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1KCSUZNMZU9H4&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.hizV8AkyTH5QA8tULus30mDOnm8j1hGwRsE6UC8K2m4YoUE0lHujGhJf0gAJ-mFp79Lzsi38pKVMatEUpwxMg8Ad-YeswoCMxRWY3tRdW_4.wBAP297VOZd_qrCMGY8onBtwdSsOo-QJRWuF6JcYvQs&dib_tag=se&keywords=tp%2Blink%2Bdeco&m=A2OAJ7377F756P&qid=1766779874&refinements=p_123%3A229250&rnid=91049098031&s=warehouse-deals&sprefix=tp%2Blink%2Bdeco%2Cwarehouse-deals%2C99&sr=8-1&srs=3581866031&th=1

I’ve ordered heated socks and just hoping my snowboarding gloves do the trick, will see

@DannyTGS we went for a wiz today and it was rather a bit cold but we had electric jackets and gloves on, they are a game changer, get some quick!!

I'm saying nowt 🍊🥕🍊🥕🍊🎅🤣

Very! 🤣

Merry Christmas from Canada!!! ❄️

Hey, it’s Christmas, that’s not a nice thing to say about @Blatman even if it’s true.

Merry Christmas all. Hope you all get lots of Westfield parts! Looking forward to 2026 👍🏼

Have a lovely Christmas one and all.

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.

Merry Christmas one and all 🌲 🎅 🎁

Happy Christmas to you all.

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

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