my ff was seized by French police..
Discussion
Doofus said:
The threshold for confiscation is 50kmh over the limit. I and at least one other PHer, when caught doing more than that, were written up as doing 49 over so as, presumably, to avoid the need for confiscation, and just get a ban.
OP may well have been driving like a complete bellend though; I don't know.
Bloody hell. I was caught 48km/h over. I got a sizeable fine but didn’t realise I could have lost my car. I was caught out by a temporary speed restriction on a motorway for poor air quality. OP may well have been driving like a complete bellend though; I don't know.
kiethton said:
That's absolutely ridiculous, how can that even be legal!?!
May be a good time to get some highly leveraged tick on it - not your property for them to cease then....
Must be a Jensen. Good taste.May be a good time to get some highly leveraged tick on it - not your property for them to cease then....
Quite agree, how can it be legal. How dare the pesky French even consider having rules and laws different to ours, who do they think they are?
Just tell them, in a loud voice, in English obviously, that you're British and will do whatever you want, irrespective of what their silly little rules say.
Have a chat with a friend of mine, he's called David Davis, who's curently working on a little project to get the French, amongst others, to see the error of their ways and give us everything we want. If you get him involved, the French will capitulate straight away. No problem.
citizensm1th said:
You seem to be forgetting (again) that we are not talking about english law, If Le Flicks pull you above the threshold that allows them to take your car. I don't think Mr Plod is going to worry about you waving finance papers in his face he will just let the court sort it out while you are on shank's pony back to the channel ports.
There was a case in Western Australia a couple of years ago where a mechanic was hooning in a customer's car (Ferrari IIRC) and had it siezed.Dave Hedgehog said:
Bennet said:
My f
king fiat was also seized and sold by French police.
they seized my road angle and the 380 euros cash i had on me, didn't even give me a receipt ....king fiat was also seized and sold by French police.I was parted from €120 the other year for being a little over the limit in a 70. I was traveling in amongst a sandwich of French plated German cars all traveling at the same speed.
While chatting with the Gendarmes, who as always were very pleasant and jovial, I asked why they had chosen my car out of the bunch that were speeding. They replied that orange was easier to see.
I think €500 was the top fine we used to get but there’s no doubting that the change a few years back to seize the car has made a big difference. But then the way some people drive down to Le Mans you can kind of see why it’s not a bad thing.
Basil Brush said:
Wills2 said:
Don't do 47mph in the road works on the A1/A14 link road either because they will send you a NIP. 
Not all forces use the same tolerance, as I helpfully found out on a Motorway Awareness course recently. 
NickCQ said:
Basil Brush said:
Wills2 said:
Don't do 47mph in the road works on the A1/A14 link road either because they will send you a NIP.
Not all forces use the same tolerance, as I helpfully found out on a Motorway Awareness course recently. garyhun said:
NickCQ said:
Basil Brush said:
Wills2 said:
Don't do 47mph in the road works on the A1/A14 link road either because they will send you a NIP.
Not all forces use the same tolerance, as I helpfully found out on a Motorway Awareness course recently. NickCQ said:
garyhun said:
Just to clarify, 10% + 2 is the lowest speed you can be prosecuted for under the guidelines. The so called ‘safe’ speed is 10% + 1.
My NIP for 79 mph on the A3 is proof of that!paulwirral said:
If it's black he passed me a year ago driving like he'd stolen it on the way to Perpignan, the worlds a safer place now !
I really don't understand WHY people think, "I'm not driving in the UK, so it's fine if I drive like a loon / bellend / wacky racer / complete
" when they feel like it, and are surprised when they're caught. Even on Germany's autobahns you're still at risk of an accident being your fault, then you're equally fked financially, or, worse, dead, potentially with others suffering similarly.(I've been caught more than a few times in France at 5 or 10km/h over the limit by cameras, and had to pay fines, and way back on New Year's Day 1999, I was caught on the E411 in Belgium - it was empty - at 180km/h - and that then cost me BEF11,000 (~£180 on the spot!) I was more surprised at that speed as I was in a 190E 2.0, and it was uphill!!)
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