Moving to France

[GreenT]

When I bought my car in France, they asked for my driving record from the USA. I got a NCB.
I pay about 120E a month for a petrol car*. (Mini)
And I only drive about 10000km a year here.
Watts_up. not sure cool is the word. Challenging?
I learned to drive in my native UK, then drove for decades in the USA; always flipped back and forward with no issues.
But driving my LHD car to the UK.
I have to do it one day ... when they lift quarantine.
I one asked a postal worked in the USA what it was like and she looked at me like I was daft.
One MAJOR hurdle is driving a UK car to France ... toll booths. You would NEED a "Vinci" toll transponder but unsure if you get one w/o a French A/C?
Entering car parks is a bore.
You hope they have ANPR and the gate opens on its own.

Petrol cause I'm renting and street charging is so hit and miss and the nearest SC is 200kms.

 

[rlasry1]

Thanks all for the replies.

Took my RHD/UK Tesla to France last year and driving was surprisingly seamless (and I am from France originally / more used to LHD cars).

You can get the Vinci roll transponder very easily (I did); works even with foreign number plates. This takes care of the most annoying problem.

So if when I move back, I think keeping my UK model will be fine rather than selling and rebuying + losing Enhanced AP. Reselling the RHD car in 5-10 years on the French marcher might be harder though…?

 

[rlasry1]

With obvious variations for NCB location etc...the Discovery fully comp is 495€ and the Model 3 is 550€ both up to 25,000km per annum.

PS - sometimes a proven NCB will give you some discount when you arrive - I got one.

Good to know you can port the no claims bonus across countries. Thanks

 

[Sparkeur]

Reselling the RHD car in 5-10 years on the French marcher might be harder though…?

Personally, I'd just enjoy life and worry about it in ten years...I have

 

[GreenT]

You can get the Vinci roll transponder very easily (I did); works even with foreign number plates. This takes care of the most annoying problem.

As Vinci transponders are stuck on the windscreen / windshield of a car, what do foreign number plates have anything to do with it?
ANPR (Automatic Number Plate Recognition) cameras are not part and parcel of VINCI transponders that I have seen?

 

[Sparkeur]

Other tags are available...

 

[Dilly]

Times must have changed. I drove my Ford Escort through France in the mid 1980’s. I didn’t pay any tolls, didn’t see much traffic, overturned a canoe in the Loire, drank lots of wine at 25 pence a bottle, ate at least 25 metres of French sticks and an obscene amount of native cheeses.
Enjoyed every minute!
Oh to be young again…

 

[GreenT]

Other tags are available...

Those tags are no different in concept than the VINCI ones.
The only time ANPR comes in to effect is when you use T to pay for car parks.
But that's autonomous.

 

[Sparkeur]

Those tags are no different in concept than the VINCI ones.

Just to be clear, I wasn't disagreeing with you, I just meant the OP has a choice of tags - not just the link I posted.

 

[Cogarch]

You should install a camera on the left side of the windshield and a display in front of your steering wheel
otherwise you will never be able to pass a car or a truck.

Actually although I have contemplated such a device I find that the M3 acceleration allows you to stay far enough away from the vehicle in front to allow you to see sufficient distance in the opposite lane. The instant acceleration then more than makes up for the additional distance you have to cover.

 

[GreenT]

Other tags are available...

Those tags are no different in concept than the VINCI ones.
The only time ANPR comes in to effect is when you use T to pay for car parks.
But that's autonomous.

 

[Sparkeur]

Those tags are no different in concept than the VINCI ones.
The only time ANPR comes in to effect is when you use T to pay for car parks.
But that's autonomous.

Why are you disliking me agreeing with you

 

[GreenT]

Why are you disliking me agreeing with you

Because you were suggesting that tool booths here use ANPR.

 

[Sparkeur]

Because you were suggesting that tool booths here use ANPR.

I think you're confusing me with someone else. I'm just agreeing with you and others that a tag for drivers of LHD cars is useful at a toll booth. The guy asked if he could get them in the UK - I sent him a link to such a company with the statement others are available as well. I'm well aware the tag (obviously as it's a tag!) has nothing to do with ANPR nor indeed have I mentioned anything to do with ANPR.

 

[GreenT]

I thought you were trying to persuade us that VINCI could use your "immatraculation" to pay tolls.
Really off-topic ... yesterday had to have been my worst driving days of my life. Nice to Paris ... already tiring enough in one day (900kms) but rain was forecast for Paris. Never driven through a storm like it. Cars were down to 20kph. Visibility was near zero. Took me 2 hours to get from the outskirts to central Paris due to flooding and then it hit me. I've never seen cats-eyes in France. So you cannot see lane markings.

 

[MrBadger]

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