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[PaulCP]

2019 Frolic now on LoT site

Back to Orange 👍👍

Paul Ricard, Le Luc & Ledenon 😎😎

[Pidgeon]

37 degrees.  Ouch

[Foxy]

humm...time to fix the evoraaa?!

 

[smiley]

Yes, please fix it foxy.
I will be your navigator for the day.

[Foxy]

Or get friendly with coco and jg

[PaulCP]

37 degrees.  Ouch

Normal to low FF temps 😛😛

  

humm...time to fix the evoraaa?!

Still the same problem as at Snetterton?

[Foxy]

Yeah, starter motor. Ive not moved it since putting it away...

[Pidgeon]

Sorry, I'm busy

 

Just the tracking and front tyres to do now.

[Joss]

Remember to call insurers to give 48 hours notice.

 

I just got an emergency MOT...

 

[CocoPops]

Printed out insurance and ferry/tunnel confirmations today.

[Tony H]

What stuff do you have to take for road laws now in france?

[CocoPops]

Triangle and HiViz
Light benders, but I never bother with the vx/Elise candles.

[PaulCP]

In addition to what’s mentioned above

Car registration document (to prove you own the car if stopped)

Spare bulbs?

I just take some black tape for the lights. Never had to use any yet but best to be prepared for an enthusiastic gendarme.

[Joss]

breathalyzers

 

[smiley]

Full size numberplate at the front. Well fixed.

And don't behave like a bell end at the peage points. 

[WrightStuff]

Driving in France checklist

Here’s everything you need to carry with you when driving in France and a couple of things to leave at home  

• • Full and valid driver’s licence
• • V5C
• • Proof of Insurance
• • Passport/national ID
• • Two NF certified breathalysers *
• • Reflective jackets for all passengers
• • Warning triangles
• • Headlamp beam deflectors
• • GB sticker (non GB-euro symbol plates only)
• • No speed camera detectors or sat-navs with camera locations

* A breathalyser kit is also required, but as of January 2013, the French government announced that the fine for not having an unused alcohol testing in the car had been postponed indefinitely. In other words, you should carry a breathalyser, but you won't be fined if you're found not to have one.

[CocoPops]

Sanef Toll tag if you have one

[PaulCP]

Sanef Toll tag if you have one

And check your account to ensure battery is still likely to work. A bit of a pain when you’re in the tag only lane and it doesn’t work.

A bit late now if it is low but remembered to checked my 5 year old one 2 weeks ago to find it flagged as “battery nearing expiry”

If in doubt use a lane when entering the network where you can take a ticket just in case.

Edited by PaulCP, 02 August 2018 - 07:10 AM.

[CocoPops]

Yeh, my "French" one was 10yrs old, but I'd not paid a bill so they cancelled it.
I'm now on a UK account, and it's a brand new tag, so I know I'm good now. Shame the UK Account ones are more expensive.

[siztenboots]

The first bit of rain in the whole trip , this evening just outside Venice, we are just thinking about heading out and its started thunder and lightning.

 

Planning to drive it over to the Venice tomorrow, then start heading back later.

 

Surprising thing of the trip , cheapest petrol so far is Austria €1,24 , so fill up just before Brenner pass before Italy €1.79