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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!

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 everyone.

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?

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 !!!

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

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

Happy Christmas!

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