As an aside to getting your hands on the auto route widget I note you say that you will not have a UK bank account when you have moved here.
Do not burn your bridges by closing your UK bank account as once you are french resident you will not be able to reopen a uk account. I am sure that everyone will tell you that keeping at least 1 uk bank account while resident here is a must and very convenient.
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been thereā¦ but is there a way you can find on their site a location to get the gadget on the day?
I thought it says they have service centresā¦
we plan to have one bank account in the UK, but I donāt want to have any standing orders on an account that is not often checked/used. rather move all that to the french accountā¦
Dear Bettina
You might try this email address Contact@easytrip.fr they are happy to receive and reply to emails in either French or English and have been very helpful to us. Our French and English addresses are registered with them and they send the badges to our UK address. Bill are paid by DD form our French bank and are sent for the months we use the service by email. If you are mainly using the Northern France motorways you might get a discount on the tolls. We donāt as we donāt use any motorways north of Nantes.
Good luck with it.
Regards
Mike
This is near Caen, but thereās no Tel no to check if you can buy one on the day.
Agence TƩlƩpƩage Bip&Go Caen
Address :
Autoroute A13 Gare de PƩage de DozulƩ sens Caen-Paris, 14430 DozulƩ,
Thank you Chris.
I found their phone number and will give them a try tomorrow.
Declaring it SORN but keeping it in France doesnāt work as the vehicle isnāt Off the Road.
If the vehicle is going to be in France for 6 months or more it has to be exported.
Exporting is easy enough (at the moment) but can be very expensive if you need to replace the headlight units. Fortunately we havenāt needed to do so on the 3 Beemers we have imported as it is possible to change the way the headlights dip.
Only problems we have had is toll booths (until we bought the electronic tags for the cars) and car parks when there is only one of us travelling.
Being able to see just how close to the ditch you are is a big plus on rural roads when somebody in a 205 Sacre Bleu or the like comes barrelling down the road towards you.
Having been the passenger in my very kind French friend yesterday, being so close to the ditch was a terrifying experience.
It is off the UK roads, which is what UK road tax is for. I guess if someone wants to pay UK road tax unnecessarily during the time it takes to re-register in France then itās up to them.
Mark, a Statutory Off Road Notice attests to the fact that a vehicle if Off the Road.
Exporting a vehicle to France is a very different thing according to the DVLA and the French authorities.
Up to the point that the vehicle is transferred to French immattriculation it has to be registered, taxed and MOTd in the UK, unless it is actually off the raod and transported, as opposed to driven, to France.
Keeping a UK bank accpount is always worth while, not the least for situations such as this.
Certainly donāt need a French driving licence (well not at the moment anyway).
As an aside I bought a car in the UK during an extended stay there while my Mum was ill and I was settling her estate.
Bought, registered and taxed a car in the UK using a French āGreen Cardā and then imported it to France.
The DVLA were very obstrcutive until I mustered all the references to the regs, than they collpased without explanation or apology.
Have an international licenseā¦ Getting a new car tomorrow. Registered in the UK, so will have 2 cars to re register in France. The JOY! Movers booked, Ferry booked, sorting out insurances and healthcare as I type. All good.
Just need those motorway thingysā¦ Will ask the movers to buy a french pay as you go sim card, and our sellers to post us the thingysā¦ Still have 4 weeks to go - should be enough time even with the typical french bureaucracy.
An International Driving Licence is only valid when backed up by a national driving licence that is recognised in France.
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@Bettina You will need to find your paper licenceā¦ for when you want to exchange for a French oneā¦
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Have a British license and a Canadian oneā¦
should keep the gendarmes happy
Have all the bits for a British license, we are horders, every bit of paper is filed somewhere. Will be such joy when I register my BREXIT settled status (just to clog up the system)
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Now reporting back 
I got a email from ANTS this lunchtime advising my CG request of two weeks ago needed attention. All it needed was for me to tick a few boxes, one of which said I attest that Iāve a license for this class of vehicle (I donāt remember having to show a license at the Prefecture in the past so maybe this is new), and pay the registration fee. Once I did that out popped a provisional CG, which Iāll use this afternoon to get the plates made up.
No CT was required because sheās only a couple of years old.
The fee BTW was ā¬2.70, because even though she has 270 BHP sheās a hybrid. If I remember correctly my Tiguan which has āonlyā 240 BHP cost over ā¬3K to register two years ago.
All in all, the ANTS online system worked fine for me. They must have ironed out the bugs.
Thanks for coming back about the Driving Licenseā¦
thatās one for folk to remember when getting their dossier togetherā¦
Hi everyone
After a very busy few weeks / months (love French paperwork) I am back to ask about whether I need a certificate of conformity for my Peugeot - 3 years old. I read that if something is on your registration, then it is not necessary. Any help greatly appreciated as always.
Many thanks