01-09-14, 09:25 PM
That's one thing that's different in Spain then. His insurance is 19 Euros a month. That's only third party admittedly but it gives him a 12 month green card rather than a UK policy which will only allow up to 30 days use outside the UK. Even though it is with AXA, AXA France and AXA UK are different companies so his French insurance doesn't get entered on the Motor Insurers Database so doesn't show up when he's over here and gets pinged by ANPR. He's only been stopped once over here and once he'd shown his documents then it was fine. At the end of the day, insurance is insurance no matter what country the company that issued it is in.
I think the problem with spares is that nobody in France repairs anything so a motor factors as we have over here would go bust as they would never sell anything. Consequently, other than NorAuto, a sort of French equivalent to Halfords, you have to go to a main dealer and pay main dealer prices.
I think the problem with spares is that nobody in France repairs anything so a motor factors as we have over here would go bust as they would never sell anything. Consequently, other than NorAuto, a sort of French equivalent to Halfords, you have to go to a main dealer and pay main dealer prices.