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and the protectionist French will make it as hard as possible for you to register it in their country
not at all - the only real difficulty has been obtaining a CoC - and none of the manufacturers has been French.
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and the protectionist French will make it as hard as possible for you to register it in their country
How about looking on Mobile.de for a Concorde Charisma for sale in Europe.
Contact the seller and tell them you need to see a copy of the CoC before viewing the van.
Would that work?
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We got a CoC as part of our owners packMy memory is not as good as I would wish but I thought that my CoCs were vehicle specific, (even more important for something as infinitely variable as a MH).
I don't see why the seller would have one, I don't have them for any of our vehicles, nor I suspect do you - unless the vehicle is un-registered of course.
It is rather nice down there, Lot and Garonne is superb...good choice! Peter, Can I pick your brains on your Concorde please.....what tyres are you running. My van came with Pirelli CityNets, 225/75 16s and I really don't like then. Need look for something more suitable as these are designed like old crossplys or truck steering axle, they give very little grip. And now with just 17000 miles on them they are cracking nicely on the walls. So before we head off for winter we will swap them.We are heading towards the Lot et Garonne....we are planning to buy a house there as soon as we can sell our house here in Cumbria. The housing market has gone a bit flat here at the moment after Brexit but we've had a few people looking round. We will come over to France anyway in October for a couple of months and leave the estate agent to show people round.
No word back from Russel at Southdowns yet.
It is rather nice down there, Lot and Garonne is superb...good choice! Peter, Can I pick your brains on your Concorde please.....what tyres are you running. My van came with Pirelli CityNets, 225/75 16s and I really don't like then. Need look for something more suitable as these are designed like old crossplys or truck steering axle, they give very little grip. And now with just 17000 miles on them they are cracking nicely on the walls. So before we head off for winter we will swap them.
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Must admit that was the choice of tyre for me, a four seasons should give a reasonable grip for wet grass, and I hope its will be ok in sand as January we are heading to Morocco!Yes ...we have a few friends in the Lot et Garonne now and it's a lovely bit of the world.
The tyres are Vanco Four Seasons Continentals 225/75 R 16's. Touch wood they seem fine. Can't see any cracks on any of them. They are the originals on a 2012 chassis so may need to be replaced in the not to distant future....the numbers on the tyres..3410..indicate I think that they were made in 2010. We now have 16,300 miles on the clock, most of which we put on after buying it second hand last year.
I saw on a thread somewhere that a concorde owner had his spare cradle lowered and greased at each service, when the vehicle was on the lift....seems like a good idea.
Are you off to Spain for the winter?
Know it well. A couple of years ago we met up with some friends and parked up on the free parking at the south end of the runway...had a couple of days there just watching the Patrulla Àuuila practicing. Low pass with a 300 sense you could clearly photograph the rivets! OH well, we will keep an eye out or you! Hopefully by then we might have French plates !We plan to head towards Cartagena after Christmas ....we found a good site there this winter called Camping Mar Menor. It is about 20 miles north of Cartagena, on the beach and next to the HQ of the Spanish air force equivalent of the Red Arrows...air displays over the site two or three times a week. Not everyones cup of tea but we loved it.
Hi PeterAny luck with the certificate of conformity?
I didn't hear back from Russell Ayling and have 'phoned sales at Southdowns today; they have promised to get back to me.
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I have had the same problems trying to communicate with Southdowns and that was for information on a new Charisma.Any luck with the certificate of conformity?
I didn't hear back from Russell Ayling and have 'phoned sales at Southdowns today; they have promised to get back to me.
Hi PeterSouthdowns have emailed me through a pdf of the COC...dated back in 2011 when the beast was built and with correct VIN etc....typical Germanic efficiency. I'm thinking, from reading through various posts, that a printed out pdf, as opposed to an original document, will suffice? Any one had a different experience?
Thanks to Southdowns for good post sale customer care.
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Hi Jock@Concorde. Although I couldn't contribute helpfully in any way, I have been following your thread with interest, wondering what are they going to do, if the French flatly refused to accept the evidence.
I am please that the bureaucratic nightmare is over for you. If it's any consolation, we don't seem to fair very well back home, with DVLA local offices being closed and everything centralised at Swansea these days.
Cheers,
Jock.
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Tell me about it. All they had to do was change the weight on the new V5 from 5000Kgs to 5500Kgs, but instead they've decided that a rear axle needed knocking off the wheelplan.A lot of my agro came down to the good old DVLA. Wrong weights listed, wrong cc, and virtually every other section on the V5 empty!