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Check your headlight beam if travelling to France. - geoff1248
Just returned from a couple of weeks touring around France and thought that you guys may appreciate a tip. Make sure that you have adjusted your headlights.
On two different motorway service areas we noticed that the French Police were pulling UK reg cars over and putting one of those headlight alignment machines onto the lights. Be warned ...

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Edited by Dynamic Dave on 28/05/2008 at 21:58

French Leave - Statistical outlier
I don't blame them. I was 'lucky' enough to be stuck in the Eurotunnel holding pen for 5 hours recently after a power failure stranded a freight train in the tunnel. Of about 50 cars I walked past on my way to queue for an hour for a free coffee, mine was the only car with deflectors fitted.
French Leave - 659FBE
Some cars are like mine and are adjustable to dip the opposite way - so you would not see any beam deflectors on such cars.

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French Leave - b308
Yes, the BMW 525 next to me last year had them, dead easy compared with my deflectors!

The ones I have are special plastic ones for my model and when I went from Poland into Germany a few years ago the German stopped me and were not wanting to let me in because of the "modifications" I had made to the car - the original border gurad didn't speak English and it was only when another one who could came over that we able to get through... best part was is that I thought they'd waved me through and it was only the wife who stopped me, who knows what would have happenned if I'd driven off!

Edited by Dynamic Dave on 28/05/2008 at 21:59