Driving to France
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Good tip, thanksDon't stick it to your windscreen until late on; if your windscreen cracks and is replaced, you can't unpeel the sticker.
Unlikely yes, but I believe in Sod's Law
Do Crti Air stickers have an expiry, or do you only have to buy them once?
No expiry, to the best of my recollection.
Even if they only last a few months though (they don't), less than a fiver a pop is nothing.
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All you need to know about Crit'Air certificate - Renault Group
The Crit'Air certificate is mandatory to drive in some cities in France. Find out here if your vehicle is concerned.
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(link dated December 2020)
"Your air quality certificate and its sticker can be ordered online directly from the Ministry website. The vehicle and its Crit’Air level are recorded definitively, and so do not need to be renewed. All vehicles registered since January 1997 are eligible."
Which makes sense, if the Crit'Air is an measure of how polluting your car is (which won't change per se: a 120 g/cu.cm CO2 car will always be that; only the government's rules will change).
OP did you do your trip in the end?
I'm currently sat on the return ferry to Dover after our trip just south of Béziers.
In the end the wife and 3 year old drove down with me and flew back yesterday.
We stopped twice overnight at Reims and clermont ferrand on the way down and stopped in numerous villages and places on the way down over the 2 days to let my daughter unwind.
On the way back wife and daughter flew from perpignan, I dropped them off at 4pm yesterday and got the 12:05 ferry back today, I drove late into the early hours of this morning then had a few hours sleep in a layby before finishing the journey.
We used a mix of toll and non toll roads depending on the benefits, as ever the roads were far better than those in the UK and so was the driving standards generally.
Saw alot more speed cameras/gendarmes mobile speed traps this year compared to last year too.
I'm currently sat on the return ferry to Dover after our trip just south of Béziers.
In the end the wife and 3 year old drove down with me and flew back yesterday.
We stopped twice overnight at Reims and clermont ferrand on the way down and stopped in numerous villages and places on the way down over the 2 days to let my daughter unwind.
On the way back wife and daughter flew from perpignan, I dropped them off at 4pm yesterday and got the 12:05 ferry back today, I drove late into the early hours of this morning then had a few hours sleep in a layby before finishing the journey.
We used a mix of toll and non toll roads depending on the benefits, as ever the roads were far better than those in the UK and so was the driving standards generally.
Saw alot more speed cameras/gendarmes mobile speed traps this year compared to last year too.
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I've found there have been a lot more speed cameras in recent years too. And they arent easy to see like our bright yellow ones in the UK.
If your car has a speed limit function that stops you going above the limit I find that useful.
How does that work, is it live, linked to satnav? Incidentally, as I understand it, speed camera warnings on satnav are illegal in France.
Most cars with a cruise control have a speed limiter option too.
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In my Ford car you can set it so you can only accelerate upto the maximum speed of the road you are on.
You can over ride this in an emregency or to overtake by pushing down firmly on the accelerator.
I guess it uses the SatNav to know the current allowed speed. Not all cars will have this fucntion of course.
You can over ride this in an emregency or to overtake by pushing down firmly on the accelerator.
I guess it uses the SatNav to know the current allowed speed. Not all cars will have this fucntion of course.
That was my question. My satnav knows most of the speed limits, but occasionally gets it wrong, so need to be careful.
My newish Toyota has all-round cameras and seems to look at road signs, it puts a speed limit sign on the dash, which changes the instant you drive past one, and light changes from green to red if you exceed the limit.
I don't use the speed limiter (yet) and don't know what it would do.
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It is within "Toyota Safety Sense"
I just watched the instructional video, and it reads the roadsign and advises the driver so he can adjust the cruise control.
It does not change the speed setting itself.
The vid did not include ASL. I can't find the instructions for that.
I don't use the speed limiter (yet) and don't know what it would do.
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It is within "Toyota Safety Sense"
I just watched the instructional video, and it reads the roadsign and advises the driver so he can adjust the cruise control.
It does not change the speed setting itself.
The vid did not include ASL. I can't find the instructions for that.
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I didn't find the roadside cameras too hard to sotto be fair but they are grey, there seems to be 2 types, some ground mounted ones that look like a big bollard and then some newer looking ones up on poles.
Both mobile gendarme speed traps we saw every car we went past on the approach was flashing like mad.
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