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Bringing car to France

Old Sep 12th 2014, 12:27 pm
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Originally Posted by Tweedpipe


The answer of course is that they would request an increase in salary at having to be trained, and then use extra 'tools' to perform their job. The increased salaries for toll and car-park operators etc would in turn lead to Flamby imposing an additional net tax (see what I did there!), which would result in discontent, manifestations, and mass lynchings of anyone found driving a rhd vehicle.
That net tax sounds gross...
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Old Sep 12th 2014, 12:45 pm
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Originally Posted by JWL
That net tax sounds gross...
Touché....
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Old Sep 12th 2014, 1:20 pm
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Originally Posted by Chatter Static
Some wazzock in a Gibraltar plated RHD high end car nearly sideswiped us at the coast at the weekend, he decided to pull out left to go round a bus on a dual lane section without looking in his mirrors or looking to his left where we were sat in our car, In hindsight I wish I had let him hit our car it would have made for a very expensive insurance claim, but I have noticed a trend of expensive car drivers being off with the fairies.
I hate wazzocks.
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What's a wazzock...?
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Old Sep 12th 2014, 4:14 pm
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What's a wazzock...?
It's a polite way of saying ******* and saves me circumnavigating the Forums built censoring system.
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Old Sep 18th 2014, 2:00 pm
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Originally Posted by touraine
Sell your car in the UK and buy a LHD in France. If you are living in France full time you really need a LHD car.
Get a LHD and be safe.
For once I agree with you. I can't for the life of me see any point whatsoever in keeping a RHD car in France unless it's say, an Austin Healey 3000, SS Jaguar or a Daimler Dart. Sell it in the UK and get an LHD over here, but try not to moan about how high the prices of second-hand cars are here on the continent.
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Old Sep 18th 2014, 3:41 pm
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Originally Posted by Peabrain
For once I agree with you. I can't for the life of me see any point whatsoever in keeping a RHD car in France unless it's say, an Austin Healey 3000, SS Jaguar or a Daimler Dart. Sell it in the UK and get an LHD over here, but try not to moan about how high the prices of second-hand cars are here on the continent.
I don't know either. When I moved in 2007 I was running a 1994 Rover, I brought it with me and put it on French plates and kept running it until earlier this year when the cambelt went. So that's 7 years motoring I got in France for next to no outlay, it never even had to go back for a retest on a CT though there were one or two advisories. Amazing little car it was, K series engine, went like brown stuff off a shovel.
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Old Sep 19th 2014, 6:16 am
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Depends on how adaptable a driver you are, I have both and find no particular problems with the RHD.

As for nets at toll booths for RHD, what a ridiculous and self centred idea !
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Old Sep 19th 2014, 8:40 am
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As for nets at toll booths for RHD, what a ridiculous and self centred idea !
When you get on the first péage section of the motorway heading west from Calais there is (or used to be) a lane with a Union Jack over it that I assumed meant that there would be a ticket machine for RHD cars, so I always headed for the Union Jack but I never did find an RHD ticket machine. Is there one, has anyone else ever found it?
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Old Sep 19th 2014, 12:43 pm
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Originally Posted by EuroTrash
When you get on the first péage section of the motorway heading west from Calais there is (or used to be) a lane with a Union Jack over it that I assumed meant that there would be a ticket machine for RHD cars, so I always headed for the Union Jack but I never did find an RHD ticket machine. Is there one, has anyone else ever found it?
The union jack could have been there because UK bank cards never worked in the tolls, I honesty don't know if they do now mind.
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Originally Posted by Chatter Static
The union jack could have been there because UK bank cards never worked in the tolls, I honesty don't know if they do now mind.
Yes it could couldn't it - I never thought of that.
I'll file that away as another of life's little mysteries cleared up
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Old Sep 19th 2014, 1:43 pm
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Originally Posted by EuroTrash
When you get on the first péage section of the motorway heading west from Calais there is (or used to be) a lane with a Union Jack over it that I assumed meant that there would be a ticket machine for RHD cars, so I always headed for the Union Jack but I never did find an RHD ticket machine. Is there one, has anyone else ever found it?
I have used that one but it was many years ago.
There was a machine for RHD cars - but that was the only one.
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In that case maybe they took the machine away but left the flag! Cos I looked many a time and never spotted it.
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