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Venisonpie

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4,389 posts

103 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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I'll be travelling around Europe for 3 weeks from next Thursday including France from 13th September. I've totally overlooked a crit-air cert (ordered today) - if it doesn't arrive before I go how big a deal is this? I don't intend going to any large cities so I'm guessing not much?

K50 DEL

9,619 posts

249 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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Not at all, as you've applied you're now registered on the system, just print out a copy of the email confirming the application in case you get stopped.

Metric Max

1,793 posts

243 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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Download this app onto your phone it tells you where the low emission zones are
If you don't have a sticker you will get a fine coming even if it would have been ok to take your vehicle in at that particular time

https://www.green-zones.eu/en/app

Metric Max

1,793 posts

243 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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The French are now installing ANPR cameras at these locations so its not a matter of "getting stopped"

Puggit

49,399 posts

269 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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K50 DEL said:
Not at all, as you've applied you're now registered on the system, just print out a copy of the email confirming the application in case you get stopped.
This. As long as you've applied and been processed, you should be all good.

They normally arrive quickly anyway.

B9

532 posts

116 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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Puggit said:
K50 DEL said:
Not at all, as you've applied you're now registered on the system, just print out a copy of the email confirming the application in case you get stopped.
This. As long as you've applied and been processed, you should be all good.

They normally arrive quickly anyway.
Yep, we had the same - you get the email immediately so you can travel without sticker if it doesn't arrive in time

Mine arrived within a week

The Leaper

5,458 posts

227 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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Metric Max said:
Download this app onto your phone it tells you where the low emission zones are
If you don't have a sticker you will get a fine coming even if it would have been ok to take your vehicle in at that particular time

https://www.green-zones.eu/en/app
I had a look at the app, poor reviews, particularly as it charges something like £2.50 every time you look up a location, apparently. That seems to be the case from the reviews if I have read them correctly.

R.

Venisonpie

Original Poster:

4,389 posts

103 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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K50 DEL said:
Not at all, as you've applied you're now registered on the system, just print out a copy of the email confirming the application in case you get stopped.
Thanks, I hoped that might be the case.

Metric Max

1,793 posts

243 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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The Leaper said:
I had a look at the app, poor reviews, particularly as it charges something like £2.50 every time you look up a location, apparently. That seems to be the case from the reviews if I have read them correctly.

R.
I've been using this app for a while. Not quite sure how it would be possible for it to charge me for looking up a location

HiAsAKite

2,511 posts

268 months

Friday 23rd August 2024
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Just apply now. As others have said.. they arrive pretty promptly (as do the German equivalents)

havoc

32,466 posts

256 months

Saturday 24th August 2024
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Oh fk, somehow hadn't heard about this.

My NSX is a 1996, and therefore is ineligible for a Crit'Air.

Now Paris and the other permanent low-emissions zones aren't the end of the world - I can just avoid those cities.
...but the ZPAs - the temporary zones - they seem rather less well defined, and how the **** do you find out when they're being activated?!?