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• BX Sinking Feeling? 30 Jun 2003 (Forum)
  The auto height correctors both appear to be clear of crud and function correctly when pressure is applied to front or back respectively. Any comments from BX experts? (David?) I may venture to France in it if there is no suggestion of imminent permanent terminal failure! Good ride, economy (DTR) and space make a return home an attractive proposition. pmh (was peter)
• is a Legend coupe worth the price 24 May 2003 (Forum)
  hi all i live in France and need another car but don't dare buy the home product (all ugly, unreliable and appear to be cobbled together between strikes - just like the old days, eh?). I am thinking of sticking with RHD and buying a Honda Legend 3.2 coupe I found in UK.
• 1999 Golf - Total Gearbox Failure 18 Aug 2002 (Forum)
  Incidentally he has a Fiat Stilo Hire car - it is a fantastic little car, very thoughtfully made. I hired a Citroen C3 when I was on Holiday in France - it was awful........... I look forward to any comments Cheers
• Day trip to France - LD Lines 12 Aug 2009 (Forum)
  I ventured £50 on a day trip, Dover to Boulogne, on the new LD Lines Norman Arrow high speed ferry; this fare was for 2 passengers and small hatchback,...
• Car hire troubles 11 Sep 2006 (Forum)
  I always stick with the big multinationals. Anyway, I few weeks back I booked a car for collection at an airport in France. The booking was with a major rental company that operates throughout Europe and the rest of the world. I arrived early morning at the airport rental station and was given a Megane Diesel 6-sp with about 1000km on the clock.
• Lexus LS430 - Driving to Europe in an old large engine Lexus 4.3 24 Aug 2018 (Forum)
  So on a last minute impulse I have just booked a ferry trip to France in my 2002 Lexus LS 4.3 litre an old beast which hasn’t been in use for a while now . Now I have just realised that there may be some additional issues with driving a large engine car. Apart from getting the warning triangle, breathalysers, spare bulbs and high visibility jacket...
• Any - Scrappage - French style 6 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  Your old car or van must have been registered  before 1997  for petrol vehicles, and  before 2001 for diesel vehicles … so probably not taking too many BR readers' cars off the road  The vehicle you trade in must be registered in France, and have been owned by you for at least one year. The amount you might be paid varies depending on the household’s financial situation, with up to €1,000 available for taxed households and €2,000 for those that do not pay tax … not an irresistible incentive I imagine.
• Any - Scrappage - French style 5 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  Your old car or van must have been registered before 1997 for petrol vehicles, and before 2001 for diesel vehicles … so probably not taking too many BR readers' cars off the road  The vehicle you trade in must be registered in France, and have been owned by you for at least one year. The amount you might be paid varies depending on the household’s financial situation, with up to €1,000 available for taxed households and €2,000 for those that do not pay tax … not an irresistible incentive I imagine.
• N/A - Car scrappage – the French way 5 Jan 2018 (Forum)
  Your old car or van must have been registered before 1997 for petrol vehicles, and before 2001 for diesel vehicles … so probably not taking too many BR readers' cars off the road  The vehicle you trade in must be registered in France, and have been owned by you for at least one year. The amount you might be paid varies depending on the household’s financial situation, with up to €1,000 available for taxed households and €2,000 for those that do not pay tax … not an irresistible incentive I imagine.
• Jaguar XF - BMW 5 series 2011 Manual or Jaguar XF 2011 20 Aug 2016 (Forum)
  So the question is more around manual vs automatic, I love driving and I go on driving trips to Switzerland/France/Spain/Scotland from London, so the question is will I love automatic as I get used to it or if driving pleasure is the priority, is manual the one to go for ?  
• Jaguar X-Type 2.0d - Positive Story 22 Feb 2016 (Forum)
  Took it for a good run and I really am pleased with it.  Looking forward to a 1200+ mile run to France in Spring and a 2500 mile run to Andorra in summer. Had the car been terminal I planned to buy a new Dacia on PCP at £100/month. The sensible thing to do now, of course, would be to put away that £100/month.
• Renault Clio II - Clio II pollution - how to read 4 gas analysis 12 Feb 2015 (Forum)
  I've changed the spark plugs and filter and put in an additive, and although the values dropped from the initial fail, it's still not good enough: Acceleration (max CO 0.3, max lambda 0.97-1.03) CO 0.92 Lambda 0.978 Co2 14.4 O2 0.18 HC 90 And Idle (max CO 0.5) CO 0.54 CO2 13.2 O2 1.93 HC 169 I live in France so I'm not sure whether acceleration and idle are the correct ways if translating the two tests but I hope you might recognise them from UK terminology (I've never had to MOT a car in the UK). I'm stuck and don't know what to look for next.
• Citroen Berlingo Multispace - Citroen Berlingo Clutch problems 2.0 HDi 14 Dec 2011 (Forum)
  Our 2003 Citroën Berlingo 2.0 HDi has been amazingly trouble-free for 200 000 km. (we live in France). Extremely reliable, comfortable, roomy, we love it. Then Oct 2009 the clutch cable broke. A main dealer replaced it but said that the diaphragm had become hardened and the clutch mechanism needed replacing.
• Toyota Corolla - Returning with an untaxed, un-MOT car 16 Sep 2011 (Forum)
  We can't get a MOT without getting in to the UK. We are having to drive from Morocco through Spain and France with our vehicle that will not be taxed anywhere. I'm expecting that we can buy insurance online and print off the emailed cover note (but I might be wrong on this score?) We're concerned that the moment we approach Dover the customs people will give us grief or that on the way home (Bedfordshire) we'll be stopped at least once by the police.
• Foreign drivers let off 25 Dec 2008 (Forum)
  However police said that if a driver is registered outside the UK, the camera offence is currently "rejected".'' Now go to France and try speeding or choose another european country and fail to carry your fluorescent jacket, spare set of bulbs,warning triangle and see if you get ' let off ". Gives me a clue as to why so many foreign registered cars with their weird and wonderful number plates are increasing in my town and why their users don't seem to be in a hurry to change their details.
• FIAT - Buying flawed 70s Gems.... 16 Nov 2008 (Forum)
  All despite having fantastic engineering were built from useless recyled steel and rusted away over here. However do cherished cars still exist in the south of Italy and France, where is the best place to look and are pristine examples of such cars expensive? I remember them all as great little cars as a kid and the Alfas and FIATs used to sound brilliant when driven "con brio" as they usually were.
• punto cylinder head at main dealer 15 Feb 2006 (Forum)
  I've a 2001 Punto 1.2 8v and the head gasket just 'went' at 75000 Kilomteters (I live in France - thats about 50,000 miles). THe local FIAT main dealer took two weeks to fix it, offered no courtesy car, and charged 800 Euros (about 520 pounds) for changing the head gasket, water pump, cam-belt,temperature gauge on the radiator, sparkplugs and purging the cooling circuit.
• What's in your boot? 9 Apr 2005 (Forum)
  Foot pump 2 socket sets - 1/2 and 1/4 inch drives Small tool kit Set of alum keys Security screw bits and holder Roof bars Ratchet straps and ropes Warning triangle 4 cardboard bottle carriers (for the next trip to France) Car rug for picnics 4 large towels (used for stopping items rubbing or moving) Screen wash concentrate Deicer Car polish Interior plastic polish Roll of kitchen paper Set of spare light bulbs and fuses Set of jump leads Torch Plastic fabric sheet (for dirty items or roadside repairs) Umbrella Thinking about it, I seem prepared for almost anything.
• Car hire in Europe -- help! 6 Aug 2004 (Forum)
  The last time I hired a car it was a Ford Zodiac, so I'm yonks out of date on these things. We spend a chunk of each year touring France, but it's a 250-mile flog each way just to drive to the ferry, and Lady Stripey and I are starting to feel the strain a bit. Consequently, I'm now thinking of combining Ryanair (we're 10 minutes from Ryanair's Blackpool base) with a hire car at the other end.
• Which Oil Filter for VW Polo Classic 12 Dec 2003 (Forum)
  Now its my car - and its been almost 5k miles since last change - and seeing as I'm about to do a long drive through France next week, i've decieded to do a change of oil this weekend. HOWEVER (you knew something was coming!) the oil filter on the car at the moment is a very large diesel oil filter (according the local spares shop who had to check what I was going on about when I said that the one they sold me was too small!).