My Defender passed the control technic ( MOT)

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mikescuba

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What I can't understand is last time I had some advisories which I never addressed. This time I have some different ones. I have come to the conclusion that it must repair itself. Only three more years to go before its classified as a vintage vehicle here in France, then Its a MOT every five years.
 
Cool! I'm always concerened at MOT time, and I've had "advisories" disappear too - it's rather strange :eek:

The vintage vehicle thing sounds like a good idea too - much better than our "politicians" efforts in abandoning the MOT altogether for our older stuff .... :rolleyes:
 
Hi
This happened to mine on its recent ct , old advisories disappeared to be replaced by new !
What age does the vehicle have to be before it's classed as a classic? How do you go about registering it as one ?
Cheers
 
Hi
This happened to mine on its recent ct , old advisories disappeared to be replaced by new !
What age does the vehicle have to be before it's classed as a classic? How do you go about registering it as one ?
Cheers
Vehicle has to be over 30 years old. I don't know how to go about registering it as a vintage vehicle yet. I will work my way through the French bureaucracy when the time comes.
 
Vehicle has to be over 30 years old. I don't know how to go about registering it as a vintage vehicle yet. I will work my way through the French bureaucracy when the time comes.

Heheheh, good luck with that.

A mate's just got his old Honda motorbike through. He's had it from new, 1977 ish, has all the papers it's 'ever' had, he's lived in France on and off for about 5 years, and it's taken about four of those years to get it fully 'Frenchified' ... ;)
 
Heheheh, good luck with that.

A mate's just got his old Honda motorbike through. He's had it from new, 1977 ish, has all the papers it's 'ever' had, he's lived in France on and off for about 5 years, and it's taken about four of those years to get it fully 'Frenchified' ... ;)
Thanks for the encouragement. Anything to do with paperwork in France is a disaster. I organised my UK pension over the internet from France with two emails, all done within three days. The French one took 10 months. lost count how many emails and letters and phone calls. On one occasion I rang the main Pension office in Lyon which is a fairly major town. This was in May. I rang for two days without any answer. Someone did eventually answer, it was the security guard. He told me they had all gone on holiday for the week.
When I moved to France I sent in my driving licence to get it converted to a French one. I had a standard driving licence for up to 7.5 tons and a motor bike licence. It came back enabling me to drive every category going HGV, PSV motor bikes 32 tonners with trailers Buses with trailers. I couldn't be bothered to do anything about it.
 
My favourite, well one of 'em, of a holiday in France at Sables de Olonne, we went to the harbour where there's a bank right by the harbour wall, beautiful place, red hot at 10am, just walking into the bank door trying to open it and spot a small hand-written note. (In french, but I know a bit) "Sorry, we're closed until the tide comes back in, gone fishing" .. Sables is a pretty major centre in the area and this was a main bank!!

C'est la vie ... ;)
 
Thanks for the encouragement. Anything to do with paperwork in France is a disaster. I organised my UK pension over the internet from France with two emails, all done within three days. The French one took 10 months. lost count how many emails and letters and phone calls. On one occasion I rang the main Pension office in Lyon which is a fairly major town. This was in May. I rang for two days without any answer. Someone did eventually answer, it was the security guard. He told me they had all gone on holiday for the week.
When I moved to France I sent in my driving licence to get it converted to a French one. I had a standard driving licence for up to 7.5 tons and a motor bike licence. It came back enabling me to drive every category going HGV, PSV motor bikes 32 tonners with trailers Buses with trailers. I couldn't be bothered to do anything about it.

If I were you I'd do something about it. I'd start driving 32 ton HGVs! After all, they seem to want you to do so.
 
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