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"His takings have gone through the poof!" ?!

You can bring your own vehicle into France, without needing to register it, for short stays of up to six months in the country. However, if you are staying for more than six months, you will have to register your car within one month of establishing residency in France. There doesn't seem to be any way to avoid registering your Swedish car in France if you are studying in France for 1 year. Perhaps the place you are studying at - university - college etc could advise you further?

All this nuclear armageddon discussion hinges on the answer to the question:- "Will russia's nuclear weapons actually work?" Explanation Nuclear weapons need regular servicing due to the initialising and boosting component tritium gas decaying into helium 3. It's not like conventional bullets or shells which still work properly after 50 to 100 years Trtium is a neutron emitter when used as an initialiser and fission booster to the bomb core, but it's half life is about 12.5 years. Its decay product is Helium-3, which absorbs neutrons, so it’s critical to refresh the boosting gas periodically or the warhead goes psst instead of boom - it's called a fizzle. Here's the interesting bit. Tritium costs around $30,000 per gram, the world market for tritium is only about 400 grams so it's value is on a par with the finest diamond. In the time gap between the collapse of the Soviet Union and the rise of the current Russia a lot of top people got obscenely rich due to selling off any assets they could get hold of. Given that during the start of the invasion of Ukraine the Russian armoured personnel carriers were breaking down in their droves because of being fitted with new cheap knock-off Chinese tyres. Ask yourself the question "Did Russia carry on faithfully maintaining all those nuclear warheads with expensive tritium or did the oligarchs sell it off?"

A lot of incendiary whimpering going on in Rennes tonight. https://www.letelegramme.fr/ille-et-vilaine/rennes/direct-suivez-la-manifestation-a-rennes-apres-la-decision-du-conseil-constitutionnel-14-04-2023-13318348.php

I've already replied to your "request" once but somebody removed the links I posted -- Grrrrr!!!.👿 Ask at your local Intermarche or SuperU store they hire cars and vans.

I presume you know that France introduced a similar system last year? https://www.interieur.gouv.fr/actualites/dossiers-de-presse/alerter-et-proteger-deploiement-national-du-dispositif-fr-alert-0

Not quite. Remember the simple experiment of chewing a piece of bread until it tastes sweet? Starch (carbohydrates) is the stored form of sugars in plants. The starch in the seeds provides food for the embryo as it germinates while the starch that is consumed by humans is broken down by the enzymes in saliva and later in the stomach into smaller molecules, such as maltose and glucose. The human stomach can then absorb the glucose.

Sadly not mainly big cities. https://www.letelegramme.fr/bretagne/en-bretagne-les-pesticides-nuisent-toujours-a-la-qualite-des-eaux-22-02-2023-13283890.php

Since arriving here in 2009 we have used bottled water for cooking and drinking. We started out using tap water but a few weeks later found that the kettle had a strange deposit in the bottom, brown/green in colour and smelt nasty. So it’s been bottled water ever since. The bottled water we use comes from a source in the Monts d’Arree and has very few minerals in it. I have to say that this thread has encouraged me to investigate under-sink water filters.

Funny you should mention Finland, today they formally became a full member of NATO. That effectively doubles the length of the NATO / Russian border, just what Putin doesn't need. Something else Vlad doesn't need is the massed ranks of Finland's Defence Force artillery targetted at Russia. 700 howitzers + 700 heavy mortars + 100 rocket launcher outfits - the biggest artillery asset in europe. I seem to remember that one of his excuses for invading Ukraine was to prevent them joining NATO. Putin - what a loser!

Laugh this off Vlad🤣 Citing Germany's decision to send tanks to Ukraine, the Russian president said history was repeating itself. "It's unbelievable but true," he said. "We are again being threatened by German Leopard tanks."

Has Putin ever been photographed laughing?

That's before the threatened prosecution - if it goes ahead, watch the approval rating rise. Biden's approval rating is only about 42% against 52% disapprove.

The Democrat administration risks being seen as a banana republic dictatorship who are hell bent on using the law to lock up their political opponent. The fact that the Dems do not ATM have any realistic alternative to Dozy Joe and Hyena Harris for 2024 means that they have to stoop to spurious prosecution of DT by the Soros-funded New York district attorney Alvin Bragg. If they are stupid enough to go ahead with this, they are virtually guaranteeing that Trump will be President again in 2024.

"the water keeps them cooler" That didn't keep them cooler here:- https://abcnews.go.com/International/video/floating-solar-power-farm-catches-fire-japan-65518363

So where do the geometres get the accurate details of a property from to do their extremely expensive measurements and calculations?

Most of the posts from the subject member are requests for information that could easily have been found by doing a search on the internet. Remember - Google is your friend - sometimes!

This has to be a record for resuscitating an old thread - 17 years !!!!! If anybody fancies parsnips get round to your local Lidl - ours in Brittany has them on sale right now.

All modern car/small vehicle diesel engines have glow plugs, one per cylinder, they have two functions, to aid starting in cold conditions, and to reduce exhaust emissions after a cold start in cold conditions when the engine computer works out how long to keep them glowing according to how cold it is. Bigger diesels in trucks can use inlet manifold air preheaters, a bit like an electric fire element in the inlet manifold to feed hot air to the cylinders as a cold start aid and reduce cold exhaust smoke after the start. The older Perkins type where a glow plug ignited fuel sprayed onto the glow plug in the inlet manifold isn't used any more - too much smoke etc. Diesel fuel comes in different grades - winter and summer diesel For example - the UK changes to winter diesel in November and goes back to summer diesel in March. Winter diesel either has more kerosene in it or has an anti-freezing additive in it to stop the filter blocking with the wax flakes when its cold in the diesel. Some vehicles have an electrical heater controlled by a thermostat in the fuel filter to stop the filter plugging with the wax flakes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winter_diesel_fuel https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cold_filter_plugging_point

If you are going to mix your own two-stroke fuel, don't use E5 or E10 essence it has ethanol in it. Use SP 98 which has little or no ethanol in it and will remain stable for a long time. The best one to use is Total Excellium Sp 98. From caradisiac car forum "Hello, I am 98 excellium exclusively in my cars and my garden equipment. - no pure ethanol which attacks the seals and which makes the mixture turn. -good conservation over time, no deposit. - 2-stroke engine that runs better at high revs (11500rpm) and starts better when cold"

You will not be able to get away with that - the tester will look to check that the MIL light comes on when the ignition switch is turned on and goes out almost immediately before starting the engine. It's the car's self check on the correct operation of the MIL.

"I have two questions: a) Will the car automatically fail because the engine light is on, even if the emissions are within the numbers allowed for that car, and b) In this situation (ie not a major safety fault) can one (legally) drive the car during that 2 months before the contre-visite?" As the french CT test is largely based on the same criteria as the UK mot test - ie they both have their roots in EU diktats. a) An engine MIL light on is a major fail. b) If the fault is just a major fail and not a dangerous condition you should be able to drive the car in france for the 2 month period of "grace" Defect Category (a) Smoke opacity levels exceed the manufacturer’s specified limit Major (b) Smoke opacity levels exceed default limit Major (c) Exhaust emits excessive smoke or vapour of any colour to an extent likely to obscure the vision of other road users Dangerous (d) Exhaust on a vehicle fitted with a diesel particulate filter emits visible smoke of any colour Major (e) Emissions test unable to be completed Major (f) Emissions test not completed because smoke levels are significantly in excess of the specified limit values Major (g) Engine MIL inoperative or indicating a malfunction Major From the UK MOT tester's manual. https://www.gov.uk/guidance/mot-inspection-manual-for-private-passenger-and-light-commercial-vehicles/8-nuisance

There's a lot more to it than that. Most cars 20 years ago used to run very slight toe in settings of 1/6 of inch or so. Toe in gives a little more steering stability - the car will have more of a tendency to hold the line you are steering, but will show slightly less eagerness to turn-in to a bend. No toe in or slight toe out will make the steering fidgety ie slight steering corrections will be constantly needed but the turn - in to a bend will be slightly more enthusiastic. Now I notice that our two newish cars are set up to be parallel ie no toe in or out. This is done to reduce the tiny amount of drag that toe-in will cause, to enhance the official mpg and CO2 figures. Toe in/out is just one of the many settings of suspension geometry, there are many others that can affect handling and steering. https://low-offset.com/workshop/car-suspension-geometry-explained/

"This has nothing to do with Brits, CDS’s or Brexit. LOL" As this is a brit forum - oh yes it is to do with brits!