Do you mean better carte grise ? Excellent result if so.
And on the penultimate day of the 2 month period of grace for a failed C.T. it passed!
The young woman who is one of the testers is such a sweetie. I mentioned the ‘nettoyage hydrogene’ and the tours round Normandy at 3k/4k rpm.
She adjusted the aim of the new headlights. When it came to the emissions test I could see, from the time she put in, that she was making an particular effort to get the figures fit for a pass. Every second rev-up it puffed mildly sooty smoke.
When I asked her about the emissions she said, “Emissions … complicated. Continue with the 3k/4k rpm runs”
And the second visit was only €12. It says €20 on their price list. 
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I think you’ve pulled. 
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Oh dear! She’s +/- 25. I’m 75 8/12. I’ve seen Jimi Hendrix [Albert Hall 1969]. I’d be very surprised if she’s heard of him. 
I saw a U.K. reg original Mini today complete with a fancy personalised numberplate. I’ve seen it before, several times over the past year or so. It has a French insurance vignette so presumably it’s been around a while. My guess is that it will be there the next time I pass by there and the next… Some people obviously don’t worry about little details like the law.
Indeed. That is the problem with my pal. He has a WA CdS. He owns a GB reg camper van. He’s illegal in both countries but shows not the slightest concern or interest in going legit.He doesn’t strike me as being someone who puts the finger up at ‘The Law’. He’s just too ditzzie to get his head round it.
He’s in UK a.t.mo. Drifting round UK in a camper on UK plates is not going to attract any attention as long as he’s not involved with an incident. I confess to doing that whilst reg’d res of ES.
The insurance position may cause problems but what will defo cause problems is that R.T.A’s which result in damage to 3rd party’s property - e.g. to their car - must be reported to the police. That’s where the trouble would start in UK.
With the latest moves on this topic I think it’s now not if but when will he get pinged at a port, as he comes and goes from UK not infrequently.
Vamos a ver!
She’s after you for your humid chateau.
Presumably he’s keeping it UK legal to avoid ANPR problems?
No idea. Probably has an MoT not C.T. Probably insured with a UK company - he has rental property in UK but then again also FR …
He’s a WA CdS res of FR. Why he doesn’t regularise his vehicle I have no idea. It’s all going to end in tears before bedtime at some FR port. There’s no outfit so hard nosed as Customs, whichever country you’re dealing with. Esp if they suspect taking the piss…
In UK for example, the police must have a warrant to enter your home. Customs can barge in whenever they fancy - 4 am is a favourite - and slit the childrens’ mattresses open looking for readies …
I was tipped off that a guy who’se company owed mine was due to a RdV with HMRC at an office in Surrey - VAT fiddlement. I sat where the door, when opened, made me invisible. He walked up to the reception desk. I appeared at this elbow
“Oh! Hi Chris! What are you here for?!” holding out his hand for a shake. I placed my docs into his hand and said, “See you in court.”
At this point two enormous HMRC guys appeared and marched him off between them in a most menacing fashion … It will have gone very badly for him from then on.
As I know because I once declared to HMRC Heathrow a lens my boss had bought in NYC, the dealer having run up a silly invoice which I told my boss was going to go down like a lead balloon at LHR. As I knew it was going to go badly I was prepared.
The door of the office I was ushered into was not closed. It was slammed shut with max force. Desks were pounded. There was shouting. At one point I was asked if I knew another advertising photographer
“Know the name. never worked with him”
"His fake invoice was sillier than even your boss’s … "
“OK monkey. Off you go. We’ll be waiting for the ordan grinder”
“Lew. That invoice. As I warned you, they didn’t believe it. Expect a hot reception”
“Hi Lew. How’d it go at Customs?”
“Kid. Don’t ask”
The Plywood Shack? 
I think she just wanted to make a happy man very old …
Sorry - a joke stolen from the late, great, one-line merchant and jazzer, Ronnie Scott. I actually heard him deliver that one.
Really? Has that changed while my back was turned, I always thought it was only if injury to a person was involved.
If it has it seems to me an awful lot of wasted police time will be involved. 
For all my motoring life [1973++++] damage to 3rd party the incident had to be reported to police.
Simply that a report would be written, not necc an investigation. Ins claim would want to see report of incident in the same way a theft would not necc result in S. Holmes 
… investigating but simply formally logging the event.
My Movano was parked up on a street in Weston-s-Mare. It had ins and MoT but no tax. I got a Billy Doo from the constab to say that it was evident the vehicle was not being driven [accumulation of leaves and rubbish under the wheels = stasis] but as it was parked on the public highway it would soothe the constab nerves if I would care to tax it.
I did. Constab thrilled …
I don’t think he’s concerned much with any of it. It’s true that ANPR won’t have access to his status as FR res so he wings it that way.
As it is he’s illegal in UK - resident of another country driving a vehicle HE OWNS on GB plates. Note that DVLA states that it is an offence to fail to report changes [address/name/ownership of vehicle etc]
And illegal in FR driving a GB reg vehicle HE OWNS whilst reg as res in FR.
That’s it in a nutshell. Insurance doesn’t come into it - until an incident.
They didn’t ‘seem to think’ It’s the law.
I watched a programme the other day where the police were called to an accident on a motorway. A young woman had lost control of her car and hit the central barrier before coming to a rest on the hard shoulder. Her car was badly damaged and she was shaken but unhurt. She told the police officers that she had swerved to avoid a rabbit. The officers obviously didn’t believe her and thought that something else, perhaps her phone had caused a lack of concentration. As no other vehicles were involved and the police officers were sure that she wasn’t under the influence of drink or drugs they said that they hoped that she had learned something from the experience and they would be reporting that it was her car that had damaged the barrier but she was free to go. (with her father who had turned up after she phoned him) The police officer explained that she, through her insurance would be liable for the damage to the barrier. They seemed to think that damage to third party property was important.
Which is exactly the point that I was making.
How come you have quoted my post when your post was posted before it?
Gawd knows.
But ‘seem to think’ is a long way from obligatory in law.
That’s a problem with your reading comprehension then. Read the sentence in context.
The words you actually wrote are what I understood. ‘Seems’ is not ‘obligatory’
You were very lucky not to be fined as well. That’s a basic requirement. OR in SORN is the clue.
Just goes to show that the Constab can ‘take a view’