craig

there was a 2 year subscription payment (£35) made in September 2019 direct into the bank account rather then by paypal. i have the name/reference with the payment, but unless you have notified Gary or Lee, your profile would not have been changed to Premium member automatically. if this was you, please let one of the committee know so that we can fix it for you.

presume bank, as have just checked and seen a payment today :thumbup1:

that's the purpose of these vents, NLA from Silvia Engineering

people keep buying the OEM ones and modifying them so they cant be used anymore.... :p

last one was the green one Tony, but the discussion was to cover all 3 as 89, 93, 95, due August, September and October.

the normal threaded ones are just like some of the old HDD or CD drive mounting screws you used to get on the PC, but i have found a couple of the recent units i have installed in ours and daughters cars, have had either those coarse screws, or the original type, and both the same manufacturer!

thanks Mike, it was one of those links that i followed before, and that's what i couldn't remember. :thumbup1: the PDF with the FAST photos. although, MOT all done now, as i had enough with the link from Andrew. :)

imo, ducting will always be better, even if it is stock ducting and doesnt cover the full intercooler area, as long as the ducting does cover the area closest to the entry and exit pipes of the intercooler, e.g. the area which would be flowing air with the path of least resistance. The non ducted part will be slightly warmer, therefore the air will be slightly warmer, so the actual exit temperature will be an average value based on temperature and volume of air passed through the colder fins, and volume/temperature through the warmer fins.

having been chasing some electrical issues myself recently, the diagrams in the service manual are pretty rubbish for identifying colours, and you generally have to revert to the pages where the connectors are shown, rather than the diagram itself, and go back and forward between them. i am not sure i have ever seen a full colour electrical diagram for the car, tbh

That's the one Andrew. I also found it in the official government manual. Of the 3 import cars i have, 2 of them have first registered as the same date as when first registered in the uk. The other has a date similar to the manufactured date. So for imports, that field is fairly arbitrary. If you can use the VIN to check manufacture date, then he is happy to use that as proof. There has been no problem before with my blue zed and really wont be a problem now with the green, he will still test it with non cat test, but he has asked me if i can provide proof that he can store with his own records in case he ever needed it. That date isn't on them Tony.

thanks Tony, i needed to find something a bit more official.

thanks Andrew. i saw a post or picture recently showing something similar for imports, and was sure i bookmarked it, but cannot find it. might have been on TT or a FB group somewhere. needed it to prove the manufacture date for upcoming MOT, using the table 1 flowchart i think you posted previously? basically, anything up to 1995 M reg does not require cat test, and my tester is happy to accept that as long as he has proof, not just the fact it has M reg plate. happy to use manufacture date as cannot prove first use date. 1995 N reg (1st August onwards) do require, according to the guidelines.

was there a site or page where i can check the build month/year for imports?

probably a bit late for you now Simon, but if you has gone North from Barcelona, you could use the N260 to Jaca and then the N240 to Pamplona. They are fantastic sections of road.

the screws you want will have a very coarse thread like a self tapper Mike

The responses in this thread itself prove that you cannot keep everyone happy. If we vote on the "what did you do" thread and it comes out at 52% for 48% against, we will offend or upset half of the voters regardless of which decision is made. Do we close it anyway, regardless that 52% voted to keep, just because the voices of the 48% are more frequent posters or more regular members? The forum (all forums) are on a downward decline, purely because of Facebook and the like. Always on, always available, easy to use, can access multiple interests at once, FREE. FREE, apart from the really annoying adverts that everyone complains about but just puts up with. People put up with it, because its free. Multiple interests are covered as a snapshot, without having to go to dedicated web sites, but easy to go into a group, and back out of at will. No forums can compete with that type of random access interest model. What makes this a club and not just a website? - The members. - Helping each other, meeting up socially, arranging meets, giving advice, offering parts. - Members make the community. Yes all of this is also done on Facebook. Clubs exist on Facebook, or are they just groups of people using a common website? It's about attitude, intent, commitment. But human nature means that the majority of people will ALWAYS take the path of least resistance, or the lazy path, which is now Facebook. The modern attention span is so short, it has to be constantly piqued by something new, something random, flitting from place to place. It might seem like a clique in here sometimes, but that's just because it's always the same people that post regularly. Those same people that want to keep the club active, want to keep being part of a community, want to keep the forum as the resource that it is. This applies to posting regularly, attending meets, organising meets. Some people keep on making the effort, keep on trying to make it work. Are they just flogging a dead horse? Why bother? Because some of us like this old school approach to a community. The problem is, Facebook has an ever growing fan base, as long as people are being born and integrated into the digital age from the moment they can use a touchscreen, and will cater for every interest. We have an ever decreasing fanbase, which is a very focussed interest, which can only really start from age 16 or 17, and only for as long as the cars are still available to buy for a realistic price. For pricing, we could change, and open up to an ad service as a side bar or in between thread posts like some other forums. Maybe that's what we should do? We could vote on it, but again, regardless of the outcome, some members will be happy, some sad, some ambivalent. Traders will never be interested in a forum that has a dozen regular posting members. Yet we have 100's of members that visit. The NEC voting thread, and others, often show lots of names coming out of the woodwork to vote, or view the post, but still not post. There are even members that re-subscribe for multiple years and never post. The information resource must be useful to them, and keeping it online and available is useful for them. Some have been here through the good times, bad times, and back to the (hopefully) good times of committee changes, moderation team changes, big personality members, polarised views, etc. I thank them for that, as there are far more of them than posting member renewals, and they are unsung heroes in my opinion. There is no single right answer to how we keep the forum alive. We can keep changing things, knee jerk or considered, to changing trends. We can keep adding or removing privileges, permissions, value, etc But from our experiences so far, there is no step change reaction to anything we do. It can only be kept alive by people WANTING to keep it alive and using it.

best wishes

Good to see you had everything planned and in hand. My dad has lived abroad in Spain and France for about 30 years, 15 in each, and i know he will have had everything sorted, as you also do, however he still has concerns about how this is panning out and the problems with bureaucracy.

i can see from other pics, it doesn't look like you have a pit in the garage, so this picture just looks so weird to me :lol: nice to have some help though, and it's looking good :thumbup1: [ATTACH=CONFIG]118503[/ATTACH]

oh come on Nick, we've all been with you this far :biggrin: having a coming home party for it? it's like one of those "leaves as a boy, comes home a man" type stories

la Vendée, Pays-de-la-Loire previously needed mayor's permission just to move his shed :lol:

Upheaval may have been the wrong word. Dealing with the French authorities always seems to be a painful process, and this is no different. https://www.thelocal.fr/20190910/will-the-new-online-system-for-french-residency-solve-the-postcode-lottery No different i suppose to the similar system we are operating here for foreign nationals to register to stay, which by all accounts is just as bad.

Have you got any thoughts or plans about staying where you are if we do leave Jeff? My Dad lives in France, and at 72, is not really the type of upheaval he was expecting this time of life.

£47k... erm no thanks, that is extremely optimistic. would not be my choice of car with that budget available

no, just an up to date vaccinations card counter signed by all 8 great grand parents should cover you :biggrin: the whole situation has certainly clarified what the government really think of the people they represent