Blessing went well Priest says he does a lot of Landrovers this time of year.
Have booked a Vicar with holy water for Friday as a last minute back up and will have family travelling fingers crossed all the way.
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Slightly more seriously only a bit
Anybody recommend a petrol station in or around Dunkirk or on the Paris road thats easily accessible with a van on the back?
or a cheap one near Dover?
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James that tolling thing I was looking in to that but my RR has a roof box & I travel through france a lot & I thought you had to go through the restricted hight area to use that system if you don't can you post a link so I can sign up it could save me hours

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I looked at the web site when I was investigating them the height limit is 3 meters so you should be ok
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curiously the garage just on the way out of the tunnel was pretty cheap for derv and pretty much all of the autoroute services are fairly negotiable with a van attached, just make sure that you pick a good edge pump and not one in the centre.

Curious about the GTW over 3.5t having to show 90 kmh stickers. I was aware of this but to me it seems daft. a focus with a caravan on the back can bowl along at 80mph but a rr with a small trailer would be limited to 50. Bleeding idiots. Would a large 4x4 with a moderate caravan attached not be more stable at speed? Of course.

I think it is aimed at drivers of large saloons or estates, which i have seen on the continent with very large vans attached, but the ruling also applies to us, c'est la vie.

rant over.

sorry,

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Mutley wrote:

James that tolling thing I was looking in to that but my RR has a roof box & I travel through france a lot & I thought you had to go through the restricted hight area to use that system if you don't can you post a link so I can sign up it could save me hours

Mutt

I'll have a Thule bike rack on the back, but nothing up top. It looks like there are two types of lane.... One <2m (which I'll sneak under) and one >2m. It refers to class 1 and class 2 here https://www.saneftolling.co.uk/how-does-it-work

James

I was sent this email which saves you 5 euros (oh and me too ) off the tag bill, if you sign up. I've not got any friends/family that would be interested currently, therefore if anyone on the forum is just about to sign up then you're welcome to use the link below.

James



Hi James,

We have previously written to you to highlight our “recommend a friend” offer. If you recommend a friend you will each receive €5 off your next trip*.

We hope that you are completely satisfied with the Liber-t service provided by Sanef Tolling UK and are enjoying the convenience of queue free travel on the French autoroutes. If you recommend a friend to our service, you will each receive €5 off your fees*. To claim your discount, simply forward this email or send the link below to your friends and ask them to use it when signing up.

https://www.saneftolling.co.uk/subscriptio...25-40CDF28

* The discount can only be applied against application fees and monthly active service fees and not against tolls, annual fees or other charges. Any discounts not applied will be carried over to the next invoice.


Yours sincerely,

Customer Services
Sanef Tolling Ltd

Update
Got there and back and a nice time was had by all BUT and you know there was going to be one. Home to Dover fine no problems messages etc. Get off ferry air suspension fail!! Keep calm carry on, 650 miles later arrive still with fault. Drive around for a couple of days then when coming out of supermarket its down on front bump stops
Start it up if lifts to normal height and resets no more problems for two weeks!
Depart to port 650 miles no problems again on Ferry off at Dover on to M20 Transmission failsafe!!!!!!!! WTF stop start give it half an hour no change keep calm carry on, all the way home in fourth gear. Sweaty palms check it over no obvious faults full of transmission fluid still showing message when trying to go into fifth gear left it.nipped diy late on no fault. Last desperate grasp at straw put it on charge all night so try again later. We could hear a car alarm on the ferry and wonder if it was the FF and that plus the drain of the caravan fridge car fridge dvd players l pods and aircon has depleted the battery. If not its off to the gear box specialist  Mine was a blue one!