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marieloona

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  1. I have had dealings with many of the French banks now including Barclays and have found the service from Barclays pretty bad. They should be ashamed that they are wasting money on flashy ads in property magazines when the service is awful after. 5 months to get a mortgage offer with hardly any correspondence is not on!
  2. We are from France living in the UK and we have brought our LHD over with us. Drove on French plates with Tesco insurance (apparently this is legal  - checked with DVLA) for the first few months whilst deciding if we stayed or not. Once we had decided to stay got MOT (CT had run out) and started process to re-register car here. We also made the mistake of going back to France in the car to during this time to pick up the remainder of our belongings that weren't going into storage. Driving happily towards Calais we got stopped at the peage by the Gendarmes and had the car inspected. They were not too impressed that we were driving with UK insurance, UK MOT, french licenses (this didn't really make a difference but didn'thelp our pleads for ignorance), French registration documents and NO Controle Technique! We were threatened with having the car confiscated whilst a CT was organised but managed to convince them to let us off with an on the spot fine. Moral of the story is that whichever country your car is registered in then you should respect their rules. Sounds daft with Europe and all that, but basically things don't seem to be progressing on that side. With regards to driving here no problemo. We have stick on mirrors on the wing mirrors which help with blind spots and I believe that the world would be a safer place if everyone had them! I think that I can probably see better with these than those in RHD over here without them. We do now have a RHD now that we are here for the long term and ironically go back to France in it (safer better car than the LHD). Prices in the UK for used cars are dirt cheap. My first RHD cost me only 700 (it was to practice with). In France it would have cost me at least the double!
  3. Hi there My experience of CCF is bad. They are lazy snobs to say the least who want the creme de la creme of clients but do not wish to do anything to obtain them. I sent one of their introduction forms back but omitted some details as it was for a company and not for me personally and their attitude as been awful. If that is what their customer service is like when trying to attract new business I hate to think what it is like for customers. They can keep their rotten attitude of you ask me. Marie
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