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Buying and Registering a car

Liber-T badge – motorway remote control

Kate 10/08/2023 0 Comments

Liber-T badge – péage without pain Motorway remote control French motorway operator, Sanef, has  extended its Liber-t automatic toll payment service to UK motorists.  All you need to do is register on their UK website…

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Exchanging Your UK Driving Licence for a French ‘Permis de Conduire’

Madeleine McMullin 09/07/2023 240 Comments

UPDATE Exchanging a UK driving licence for a French one – do you need to do it and how is it done? Find out more here.

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Importing a UK car into France post-Brexit

Laura McLellan 29/05/2023 3 Comments

Importing UK cars into France has always caused headaches, with readers having very different experiences of what should have been the same process even before the complications of leaving the EU. Now, in this post-Brexit era, what are the rules and regulations?

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France: Contrôle Technique

Kate 12/05/2023 0 Comments

Don’t forget to update your ‘controle technique’ (MOT)

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Recycling Your Old Car in France

Kate 30/01/2023 8 Comments

Risks to the environment
Every year in France more than 1,5 million de vehicles are scrapped. A VHU (véhicule hors d’usage) can pollute both ground and water, due to the various liquids.

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LATEST : Importing a UK car into France

Laura McLellan 19/08/2020 0 Comments

It appears readers are having very different experiences when it comes to importing and registering a foreign (European) car in France. Have you got information to share that could help others?

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Importing a UK car into France

Laura McLellan 02/08/2020 3 Comments

It appears readers are having very different experiences when it comes to importing and registering a foreign (European) car in France. Have you got information to share that could help others?

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What to do if your Contrôle Technique is due during confinement

Kate 31/03/2020 0 Comments

The French government has issued an extension for contrôle technique’s due on light vehicles during the confinement period.

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Buying a second-hand car in France?

Kate 08/07/2019 0 Comments

The free government site HistoVec (https://histovec.interieur.gouv.fr) has been launched by road safety authority Sécurité Routière to reduce risk when buying a second-hand car.

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Traffic Jams at Garages in Preparation for New Controle Technique

Laura McLellan 18/06/2019 0 Comments

With reforms set to hit the mandatory contrôle technique for vehicles, garages are being hit by traffic james as motorists try to get in early

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