dave21478

You are in the process of getting a declaration de cession? I doubt it. This needs to be filled out by the person named on the carte gris. Your problem is that the paper chain of ownership is broken. If the last named owner is person A, the guy who bought it for parts is B and you are C, the paper trail needs to be complete. A fills out a CdC selling it to B; B registers it and when he sells it fills out a CdC selling it to C. Your problem is you dont know who A is, and even if you did, A is likely to have filled out a CdC selling it to B. If you turn up at the prefecture with a CdC from B selling it to C (you) they will check their records and see that this doesnt match the last details known for the car ie A sold to B. I cant tell you about the ffve side of it as I have never done that way but their website says their service can be used in the case of lost carte gris. I would be looking into that in more detail if I were you.

When all the hooha about lack of stock and the delay of implementing the law was on the go and suddenly there was massive overstock of them everywhere, I was in Gifi buying some tat and the till staff were giving away breathalysers free to everyone, just shoving one or two into each carrier bag. I fluttered my eyelashes at the till girl and asked if I could have a few more. With a disinterested shrug she tipped the rest of the box into my bag, then grabbed another box from a pile under the till for those behind me....obviously told to just get rid of them. They were still in date but only by a couple of months. I asked for more because we were having a party that night. As the evening progressed, I would bet our scientific accuracy dropped, but the results were clear....the devices were a load or rubbish with results all over the place, using two right after each other giving wildly differing results etc etc.

Never been asked for one, never been asked about vest or triangle either. I dont carry breathalysers and never will....literally pointless. I sometimes see them for sale by the till in Leclerc Auto.

4 or 5 times in France, always in the car, never on foot. They just seem to lose interest as soon as they clock my accent. They have sometimes given my licence a half-assed glance, but its clear they arent actually reading anything on it. On the other hand, the three times I have gone to the cozzers to report relatively minor things they have acted like I brought fresh intelligence on ISIS movements.....all hands on deck, multiple officers taking endless statements, countless forms....its dragged on for hours each time. I guess they dont have much to do round here.

Also, y'all absolutely need to get an adblocker....I like ublock origin..... and install it with your browser. Not only is the internet a much less obnoxious place without adverts, you can right-click on pretty much any recurring page elements and add them to your block list, so you can strip this forum down to nothing, getting rid of all the gaudy flashing crap down the right hand side, links to articles nobody reads and all the bumpf at the bottom that slows page loading times. [img]https://s29.postimg.org/xobg6lihj/Sans_titre.jpg[/img] I dont zoom in to spread it over the page because I am not an old giffer like most of you lot and my eyes still work. [:P]

Of course not. Two days downtime and these choobs have managed to change the font. Brilliant. How about making the basic forum features work with arguably the most popular browser on the planet?

Maybe? [quote user="dave21478"]Let me just test something real quick.... [img]http://imgur.com/a/3lbxO[/img][/quote]

Let me just test something real quick.... [img]http://imgur.com/a/3lbxO[/img]

There you go with the assumptions again. Im not wound up in the slightest - I find your posts to be funny. However I genuinely cant tell if you really are this oblivious to yourself or if it is trolling. aaaand again with the assumptions - you have NO IDEA what the guys drainage situation is, and believe me there are plenty of houses all across France just pouring sewage into a field or ditch....I can name at least 4 in this small commune here.

Thats a perfect example right there. Surely no real person can be this unaware....this oblivious to how pompously arrogant and clueless they are? You MUST be trolling....its the only explanation. The guy asked a question.....a pretty dumb question, I would say, but thats not the point. If you had said "Get the diagnostics done and budget 15k, that would have been not unreasonable. You have NO IDEA AT ALL about the house or its situation, so your reply is uninformed and he could have taken your advice with however much salt he wanted. But no, its been discourse on how terrible tanks are, massive assumptions about his budget and the state of the house and how only idiots would choose to live in the countryside and everyone should buy a house with mains sewage. Time to stop posting.

"I just logged on using a phone to say the same thing. Not a happy bunny. I don't do phones and it is harder than it looks. Read the thread again, davey, I have tried to help the OP and bounce ideas. You, you just moan. " Oh, you are not happy? well boo fcking hoo for you. Read the thread yourself, you have pulled a figure out of your arse without the faintest idea about anything at all, done nothing but tell him he should move to a town with mains drains and talked rubbish about a subject you know nothing about, which is ironic since you and septic tanks share the common point of being full of sh1t.

Nobody cares what YOU would budget for it you fcking imbecile - thats of no help whatsoever to the guy asking the question is it?

"I would ball park a figure of 15 K Euros for the Fosse." Talking utter sh1t as usual. Jesus man, do you ever post anything at all on this forum that isnt mis-informed bollox or blatant trolling?

"I take it you don't watch 'chasseurs d'appart' on M6 LOL" I dont. "Admittedly, the forum expect could have rephrased that better. Lets say, don't go near a 4 bedroom house that does not have a fosse without a diagnostic being undertaken." Ok, I will give you that one. The plums that moved into the house in front of mine have just found out that having a house surrounded on 4 sides by roadways and is 300 yards downhill from their garden is a problem. Currently when they drop a load it goes through a 100mm pipe laid under the road back in 19oatcake and exits in a ditch, complete with clumps of sh1tty pink toilet paper for all to see. The guy whos land the ditch borders is a first class choob and wont let them do anything on, under or through his land so now since the mayors wont let them dig up the road and put a fosse under the roadway either they are probably going to have to dig up their lounge floor and put it under their own house. "Apart from Humax boxes, Fosse's must be the second biggest misery question on French forums. " I dont understand this. Its not rocket science - its a big box full of sh1t...nothing more. I have lived in several houses Uk and France with tanks and had a tank at a previous garage in UK too and never, ever had any kind of problem at all....I dont even think about it....and I dont "baby" them with fancy cleaning products or waste money on silly sachets of magic powders....its all completely pointless. I even use bleach cleaners....as long as you arent pouring 20 litre drums down the bog there wont be a problem. Also, dont put baby wipes or jam rags or cotton buds or make-up remover pads or anything like that down it....but that goes for mains drains too. Most of these things that claim to be flushable are not. Been away for months and think your fosse needs "activating"? (it doesnt.) A fivers worth of magic powder is not going to help you. You would probably be better putting the actual fiver down the bog due to the level of bacteria on it. The best thing to do is have a sh1t in the fosse, which can conveniently be done from the comfort of your bathroom.

"....don't buy a property that requires a fosse. Not worth the hassle for so many reasons." More pearls of wisdom* from the forums Expert Of All Things. *total sh1te.

I will take a guess and say that the 150 euro fee and inspection by Mercedes will be for a certificate of PARTIAL conformity and will only cover the base vehicle....ie cab and chassis. You will then have the usual camper rigmarole of getting certificates from the coachbuilder who made the camper conversion, electrical inspection, gas inspection etc etc. You need to clarify this, as its all a massive pain in the balls and if your 150 fee covers it all and is certain to get you a French Carte Gris, then grab that offer and do not let go until you have the papers in your hand.

What should one do if a caravan, bought in UK, registered in France is then taken back to UK and sold, carte gris retained and French number plates removed. Depending on what it says on the carte gris, you could use it to legitimise a non-conforming trailer. Some caravans have "remorque" as the vehicle type on the carte gris, and are sought after by people with home made or imported trailers that can never get a carte gris by the normal routes.

Exactly the same thing happened to me this summer. I sacked it off and refitted a halogen tube - mainly because of the flashing, but also because there was significantly less light output from the LED. I later ditched the whole light and fitted a proper LED one with the correct shape of reflector and it was much brighter.

Its really easy to fix a dent. part 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ctGWOau0iIA Part 2 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJTRzezX9wE

All you doom-mongers with generators.....When was the last time you dragged it out of the corner of the garage and started it? Petrol doesnt remain useable for more than a few months these days, and a carburettor full of fuel left sitting for a year or two will likely be gummed up to the point of no longer running. And if it does run, the low octane of the petrol means it will likely lack power, stutter or even stall under load and may well cause serious damage to the engine. Start your genny once every few months and run it up to full temperature, not just a few seconds, before switching off to prevent condensation accumulating in the exhaust. Dont switch it off....close the fuel shut off tap and let it run out, which will take a minute or so. This empties the carb. Keep a supply of fresh petrol for it. Again - no point in letting this fuel sit for years, so if you have a petrol car, every two months, tip it into the cars tank and get fresh stuff for your stockpile. Additives are available that are supposed to prolong the life of stored petrol....whether they are any good or not, I couldnt say. But if I were in need of a working generator, Im not sure I would trust 20ml of some magic potion to make it work.

The early days are what insurers fear - unproven technologies, no legal precedents for machine decison making etc, but once its commonplace it will be business as usual for them.

Computer "mistakes" are human error at either the programming or data entry stages. The problem is that humans are designing these systems, so errors are inevitable.

I read recently from I think Mercedes that their systems are being programmed to protect the car occupants at the expense of all others if the situation arises, as that is most closely aligned with a human drivers self-preservation instincts. The moral question of whether a computer should be allowed to make that kind of choice is being pretty much ignored.

Big insurers LOVE the concept of automated cars. They will still be pulling in the same premiums every year to cover drivers that never tire, never text, never drink, and have an exponentially lower accident rate than humans. The thing to be worried about is what the machine decides in a no-win emergency - swerve to protect the car occupants and squish a pedestrian, or save the pedestrian and risk those in the car.

Nobody thinks progress is a bad thing - Im not saying we need to go back to quill pens and riding penny farthings, but unchecked progress could literally be the end of us. Many people (including Stephen Hawking, I believe) believe that genuine artificial intelligence is mankinds biggest threat. If we succeed in creating it - and scientists are trying very hard indeed all over the world - then its likely to rapidly improve itself within seconds to be so far beyond our comprehension that it might as well be God. It might well decide to alter quantum vacuum states just becaused it wants to end literally end the universe. Yes, that sounds like the plot to a bad Star Trek episode, but there is no way to know how it will react and behave. Yes, its likely to be isolated on a computer network somewhere, but what if it invents a way to expand beyond that network? if its advanced beyond our understanding, we cant plan on how to contain or control it. Could we react fast enough to switch it off in time? Less dramatically, automation is going to completely and irrecoverably screw our current economies. If the robots are doing the work, what are the workers going to do?