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• Lease or Buy? 15 Jun 2005 (Forum)
  of thousand on summer hols in France. I like a nice comfy and fairly rapid family job, nothing cheap and cheerful. Has anyone out there been energetic enough to do the math and have enough of a Tefal head to know the pitfalls or gains? Would be interested to know.
• Renault and the cold 7 Mar 2005 (Forum)
  We're off to central France for Easter. They are having a very cold snap at the moment, -20c up in the hills I was told yesterday. We will be going in our Megane but should I have anything done to it to prepare it for a rather unpleasant experience. It's only one year old so will still have
• long term storage? 25 Mar 2004 (Forum)
  My Dad is on about getting a cheap run-around to leave at his place in France. Thing is though the car would be stood still in the barn for up to 6 months at times over the winter, and I don't think this is particulaly healthy for any car, if indeed it will start at all. He seems to think modern
• are hard tyres quiet? 16 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Here in France our local tyre place (Speedy)has a special offer on its own brand of tyres that are made for it by Continental. They say that they will guarantee them for 5 years or 40,000kms which suggests they are very hard wearing - does that mean they will be noisy. Being rather short of cash
• Quality & comfort of ride 23 Jun 2003 (Forum)
  In the market for a small to medium sized car to replace a Cavalier CD automatic. Unfortunately all those I have tried so date, like the Jazz (the new one), Yaris, Mercedes 160,& 220 and the small Skoda all ride like bricks. The cars from France seem to be better sprung but I am not over fond
• Vectra 19 May 2003 (Forum)
  Well it had to happen had the R reg Vectra 3months took it to France on a booze run last Fri dropped a gearbox bearing which shot through the housing at the speed of light !! Thats the bad news the good is that I returned to the second hand dealers ready for ww3 but to my surprise took the keys
• Silverstone for the chop ? 20 Dec 2001 (Forum)
  ( France).
• Focus 1.6TDCI Estate - Focus Diesel Problems 13 Sep 2011 (Forum)
  a trip to France in August £450 Kerching! The Ford garage informed that the DPF fluid needed topping up an extra £99 Kerching! At this point we had no idea what a DPF was and that the car had one! Off to France safe in the knowledge that the car was ok or so we thought. 800 miles
• Audi A3 TDI - CV Boot change 3 Jul 2011 (Forum)
  steering angle sensor was faulty and would cost over £250 to put right, I also told them at the time that I had noticed that my steering wheel was no longer straight! Anyway they could not fix it until next week. This weekend I had to do a long distance trip to France during which time I noticed
• Ford Mondeo III (2000 - 2007) - Keep or replace? 9 Feb 2008 (Forum)
  , and replaced her Celica. The problem is, they now have a place in Spain that they visit every six weeks or so, driving down through France, and the car needs to be suitable for this. They fill about 80% of the Mondeo with the seats down, and she is considering downsizing to Focus/Civic size. I think there's
• Renault Talisman 160 edc Initiale Paris estate - Left Hand Drive Car Insurance 1 May 2021 (Forum)
  insurance company has offered to insure the car based on its VIN number whilst it is transferred onto British plates, but the cost is nearly £700 for the first year’s insurance. I do have maximum no claims in France.    
• French hotel/motel chain recommendation needed 6 Jun 2010 (Forum)
  Hi, The family are off to France first week of June,  La Rochelle, and to break up the long drive each way we plan to take an extra day getting there and and another extra day getting back. Going via calais, we are looking for a motel/hotel near Rouen
• How civilised is Newhaven? 15 Jul 2008 (Forum)
  We need to do a quick Blighty run this week from France and we are tempted to use the Dieppe-Newhaven crossing with Transmanche Ferries - seems cheap and convenient. Only problem is - the return ferry leaves Newhaven at 7am on Saturday and we don't know the area. We'll need a hotel Friday night
• Question about car prices in the 1960s. 17 Apr 2008 (Forum)
  sure that the Wolseley16/60 was not. My question is "What would the respective prices of these various cars have been?" (Price was always an important consideration in my family.) And since some of the cars were French, what would the respective prices have been had we been buying in France?
• Autoroutes v Motorways 14 Sep 2007 (Forum)
  Having just returned from another driving trip to France, about the twelth in the last few years, I am again amazed at the difference between Autoroutes and Motorways. In the 250 miles or so between my home in Glossop and Dover I encountered about 5 or 6 sets of roadworks, the one on the M1 near
• Volkswagen - No PD Oil In French Supermarkets? 30 Aug 2007 (Forum)
  Been on my annual 3 week tour of France. Yet again looked at the shelves for this mythical cheap PD engine oil. In around 6 large supermarkets/hypermarkets. No luck - even the best spec diesel oil seems to meet a very old pre PD VW spec. Talking Chevron, Elf and Shell plus supermarket own brands
• Travelling to Brittany 3 Aug 2007 (Forum)
  Hi to you all, We are travelling to Lorient in southern Brittany this coming Saturday the 4th. Does any one have experiance of driving in France on what may be one of the busiest days of the year for French traffic? Our ferry arrives in Calais at 10.30am French time. I have printed out
• Cannonball Run 12 Jul 2006 (Forum)
  Just been watching French TV (LCI news channel) and had a giggle at two English lads stopped by the Gendarmes near Bethune,France. They got caught at 190 and 250 Km/h in a Ferrari Modena and Porsche 911 during an organised "Cannonball Run" from the UK to Italy. The LCI chain claims that the Kent
• Europe and spare tyres 24 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  Afternoon all, I'll probably regret asking a question about Europe, but... I'm planning on going down to Europe for two weeks in the summer, mainly France, but possibly Austria, Germany, Swizerland and Italy as well. I've just read on another thread that in Spain, it's law that you have a spare
• I have a question Volume 53 23 Sep 2004 (Forum)
  , but I have tried just about every logical key combination. It works but I wish to change some parmeters None of the Sharp sites appear to list it. It is marked as made in france and certified for Irish Approval. All proper Sharp labels on it! pmh (was peter)