german autobhan

[mike360]

is their a speed limit on some parts of the autobhan and can the german speed cameras issue fines to uk cars ?

thanks

[LukeBird]

Nearly all of the autobahn (in fact, I believe all of it) has a recommended speed limit of 130km/h. If you would like to drive above that, you can, but you have to do so in a safe manner i.e. don't drive stupidly fast police cars in the pouring rain in rush hour!
You might find this helpful
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
considering Adam managed 200mph+

[Norbury90]

Yes and I think so.

But there are some clearly signed sections of the Autobahn with no speed limits.

HTH

Edit - Ah, was a minute too slow

Edited by Norbury90 on Tuesday 29th May 22:33

[LukeBird]

mike360 said:

can the german speed cameras issue fines to uk cars ?
thanks

Sorry, realised that bit as well!
Aren't germany like France in the fact they fine on the spot?
I thought that was the EU way...

[mike360]

ok thanks i am going to drive to stuttgart for the weekend so do the speedcameras issue fines to uk cars

[johnfm]

Be careful. Some of the cameras are just before services. you may get pulled over and fined on the spot - up to 1000 euro. be wary.

[Medic-one]

LukeBird said:

Nearly all of the autobahn (in fact, I believe all of it) has a recommended speed limit of 130km/h.

True, however if the weather conditions are bad (heavy rain) this advisory speed limit becomes the maxmimum speed limit, so in bad weather it's max. 130 km/h.

The signs showing a maximum speedlimit (of 130) look similar to the British ones (round with a red border), the roads were the 130 km/h is the advisory but not the maximum speed limit looks like this :


Advisory (but not maximum) speed limit

Be awere that when your speed is over 150 km/h (93 mp/h) and you're involved in an accident which isn't your fault your insurance can still blame you for a percentage of the dagmage.

Have fun!

Medic-one (justed to live 10 min away from German Autobahn)

[mike360]

Medic-one said:

LukeBird said:

Nearly all of the autobahn (in fact, I believe all of it) has a recommended speed limit of 130km/h.

True, however if the weather conditions are bad (heavy rain) this advisory speed limit becomes the maxmimum speed limit, so in bad weather it's max. 130 km/h.

The signs showing a maximum speedlimit (of 130) look similar to the British ones (round with a red border), the roads were the 130 km/h is the advisory but not the maximum speed limit looks like this :


Advisory (but not maximum) speed limit

Be awere that when your speed is over 150 km/h (93 mp/h) and you're involved in an accident which isn't your fault your insurance can still blame you for a percentage of the dagmage.

Have fun!

Medic-one (justed to live 10 min away from German Autobahn)

Had a great time achieved speeds of 160+ in the sl

had no sat nav that did europe and £250 for a new disc is a rip off! so navigated via maps , got lost quite frequently

went to the nurburgring and stayed in a nice hotel over looking the track and went to the museum it was excellent. this weekend it was rock am ring which is a rock concert at the ring then went on to stuttgart to the MB museum was a very good musuem then went to amsterdam to see some nice shop window displays haha then home.