Latest News From the UK S2000 Owners Club

Thanks to everyone who submitted photos and who voted for the calendar pictures.  The voting has finished and the results are in!

Well done to all the winners!

We will have representative images of the calendar soon, but if anyone wants to PRE-ORDER their copies, you can now do so here (along with other merchandise):

http://www.s2kuk.com/s2kuk-shop1.php

The winning 12 entries for the calendar are below....

Andy Williams

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We recently received this email of thanks from a relatively new member who contacted us via facebook when he had some problems with his S2000...

"Value for money!

I'd just like to openly applaud S2KUK for stepping in and helping when I was at my wits end and facing a lengthy legal battle. My ultra reliable F20C engine in my 08 pride and joy S2000 decided to blow itself up, even though I'd cared for it like a babe. I'd reached a stalemate with my local dealer, who refused to honour the warranty and after removing the engine and stripping it said the fault was mine and made me remove what was left of my car from their premises, charging me for dismantling. I was £3000 down and left with a destroyed car, quoted £15000 by the dealer for a new engine or faced a further £3000 for a replacement from a write-off.

Looking through the S2KI forums I came across a load of interesting information about similar problems other owners had. I contacted Ian who runs the S2KUK club and he put me in direct contact with the right person at Honda UK. The guy even came to visit me at home to work out a plan to get my car sorted! Honda reimbursed all my outlay to date, arranged to get the car back to the dealer and put in it a brand new engine!

I now have my S2000 back to perfection but had I not had the help of S2KUK, the forums and Ian I would have been out of pocket to the tune of £6000! Pretty good value for the membership fee if you ask me!

Well done S2KUK!!"

Karl Gregory

Amazing fundraising effort - now standing at just over £2000 for Alzheimers UK.....

https://www.justgiving.com/s2kukmegameet11

The raffle including those kind supporters who bought tickets online raised £950.
The remainder is from auction items sold on the night of the Gala Evening as well as some additional donations and supplemented by some Gift Aid.

Raffle prize winners who weren't in attendance won the following:  

Yellow MM10 Baseball cap - Mans Best
Yellow MM10 Baseball cap - Geoff Bland
Yellow MM10 Baseball cap - Dan Bourne
Box Thorntons Chocolates - Andy Sharp   
Amaretti Biscuits tin - Steven M       
The Hakushi - Japanese Single Malt - Mans Best
Causeway Coast 2016 Calendar - Paul and Linda Cohen
Euromeet Baseball cap - Ryan McMurray
Leather Protection Wipes - Chris Spicer
Super Sausage Magic Mug - Stephen Brearley
Photoframe - Paul and Linda Cohen
Bayliss and Harding skin spa box - Stephen Brearley 

Apologies for posting late but some of us stayed on in Ireland to do a bit more travelling round !!!   Prizes should be in the post in the next week (unless anyone is happy to wait till XM to save on postage)

HUGE thanks for your generosity for such a worthy cause as voted for by our members.  

Voting is now open for the 2016 S2KUK Calendar!

It is highly recommended that you click on the thumbnails to see the larger versions first.  Most images are done no justice by the thumbnails.  

Vote on your favourite 3 images.

You can only vote once.  This will be monitored and anyone found to be attempting to vote multiple times will be disqualified and votes removed.

To see the entries and vote click here

Voting will close on Saturday 24th October at 12.00pm MIDDAY

As you may well know Megameet 11 is this weekend in Northern Ireland and we will be raising money for our charity of the year - Alzheimer's Society.

On Saturday night we will be holding a Gala dinner at which there will be a raffle with many many prizes, donated by members, traders, suppliers and Honda.

If you are not attending but would still like to help the cause you can buy raffle tickets for £5 a strip or £10 for 3 strips.  To do this simply make the relevant donation, and include your name and membership number, or email address in the notes on the just giving page here:

https://www.justgiving.com/s2kukmegameet11

We will allocate raffle tickets in your name on the night and advise you what you win!

DONATIONS MUST BE MADE BY 4PM SATURDAY 19th SEPTEMBER! (Any after will be accepted but you may not get tickets!)

Thank you for your generosity!

August Bank holiday saw the third year in a row that the club attended the Dunsfold Wings and Wheels event in Surrey. This two day celebration of motoring and aviation gets bigger every year and is held where Top Gear is (was?!) filmed.

The weekend began on Saturday when Rob Wadrop (Rob-BPA) was selected by the Brooklands Museum to participate in the runway motoring display. Despite the rain coming in during the afternoon he was able to achieve a respectable 130mph down the 1.2km course; narrowly missing the record of 133 set the previous year. 

Rob crosses the finish line at 130 mph !

On the Sunday the rain finally stopped and 13 cars headed to the airfield to display their cars on the club stand in the Wheels Zone. On arrival Paul F had an idea to position ourselves in a ‘V’ shape in honour of the Vulcan bomber that was due to display that day as part of her last season in the air. What we didn’t expect was that we would win the “Car Club of the Year” trophy as a result, especially with the effort and expense some other clubs had gone to. What made it more special was the Mazda MX5 Drivers club on the next stand coming second. A little karma for the commentator describing our cars as MX5s on the previous years drive past perhaps!!

S2KUK tribute to the last flying Vulcan. You'd need to see this from above to appreciate the effort we went to park these cars!

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We will be producing another S2KUK Calendar this year, so now it is time to start getting your pictures or cameras out, and to submit your photo entries via email!  Please READ amd FOLLOW the rules and instructions - ESPECIALLY the first one!

RULES AND REGULATIONS

We all want to see great shots of the S2000, so we have high standards for submissions.

• Photos need to meet a minimum resolution for print purposes. That minimum is "high resolution" - at least 150 dpi, in tif, png, jpg formats. As a guide, photos should generally be 3-4 MB in size or more
• You CAN obscure license plates if you wish.
• Photos need to be cropped "loose" this is to avoid having some great submissions that we can’t use because the image was already cropped too tight to the S2000.
• Try and leave some space around the S2000 so the image can be cropped to fit the calendar. 
• No watermarks allowed.
• NO NUDITY - images must be work and family safe.
• If there is enough demand for hot ladies (or men!) posing we may do a short run of an alternative calendar.
• ONE ENTRY ONLY per person (so choose wisely) You may if you wish supercede your entry as many times as you want.
• The photo could have been taken BY YOU any time.

TIPS

• Photos can't just be "driveway" shots, no hose and bucket in the background. You need to be creative, artistic, and unique! At least find a scenic spot to take the pic!
• Lots of people take the ubiquitous 1/4 front or 1/4 rear view, and we can only have so many similar poses in a calendar, so taking the time to do something different and interesting will count toward the submissions
• The calendar is not for profit, and stresses the love we have for our cars. 

How to make a submission

• When you have a photo to submit, rename it with the following format:  "Real_Name.jpg" (YOUR NAME not actually Real_Name.jpg!)
• Email them to: calendar@s2kuk.com
• Photos have to be emailed for entry. This is your tacit consent that they can be used in the calendar, and on the S2KUK website.
• Submissions not following the criteria above will be rejected without notice so please follow the instructions! 

Submission deadline will be 30TH SEPTEMBER 2015 at 23:59 SO YOU DON'T HAVE LONG!

Submissions will then be put on the S2KUK website for voting.

Remember, submissions need to be EMAILED.  

If they are not emailed, they are not entered.

IMPORTANT NOTE ABOUT COPYRIGHT

By entering this calendar competition you are giving licence to S2KUK (UK S2000 Owners Club) to use your image for publication in the calendar and on the S2KUK website.  

IF YOU DO NOT OWN COPYRIGHT of the image - that is if YOU did not take the photograph it will not qualify for the competition. 

DO NOT ENTER WITH A PHOTO YOU DID NOT TAKE, as it can have serious consequences if it is published. 

By entering a photo to the competition you are agreeing to indemnify UK S2000 Owners Club against any action regarding copyright should you have entered a photo of which you do not own copyright.