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Spot Checks on Cars at Val d’Isere

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We were flagged down by the gendarmes on our way into La Daille yesterday- a spot check on documentation. Wanted to see driving license, insurance certificate with ‘green card’ (it’s just the translation on the reverse of the certificate these days) and registration. All very friendly-we chatted about famous Isle of Man residents believe it or not...Nigel Mansell, Mark Cavendish. Apparently they are doing more spot checks so have your docs somewhere handy and your gilets jaunts visible!
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@lynnecha, The french do this. British registered cars are usually just waved through. Did they also want to see your passports or identity cards?
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 Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
I got caught up in a similar mass check in Megeve one day - and had left the car documents in the apartment. I learnt my lesson! We were on our way back from picking up daughter at Geneva airport. She told us she'd bought a couple of litres of duty free spirits and we had pointed out that her allowance was only one - when the gendarme waved us over she thought for a moment they had advance intelligence of her smuggling. Laughing I've also been stopped for documentation in Turin. But did have it all with me on that occasion.
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Been "controlled" a few times. I always fold my reg. doc. so that the Welsh side is facing out (all official docs. in Wales are bilingual for those that did not know), they then normally ask quelle langue / quel pays, tell them Pays de Galles and it usually results in at least one of them reeling off the names of Welsh rugby players who play in France, asking if you know them etc. Laughing Normally forget all about whether it's the right document for the car, which it was not the last time, as I realised afterwards Laughing
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@johnE, we are aware that ‘the French do this’- i was just giving a heads up to anyone coming in to Val that there is a particular blitz going on at the moment so that people coming into Val d’Isere can have their stuff to hand. Last season it was speed checks after the the speed limits were reduced in the village and the immediate approach roads. I prefer documentation checks! Laughing


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Normally forget all about whether it's the right document for the car, which it was not the last time, as I realised afterwards

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For those of us hiring a car and driving into France (from the Swiss side of Geneva for us), do we need to take anything that's unlikely to be supplied by the hire company?
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Thanks for the heads up - always make sure I have those when driving abroad - together with my spare bulbs, reflective jacket, etc etc
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have your docs somewhere handy and your gilets jaunts visible!


Not too visible though or they might shoot you
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When hubby was stopped the other week and fined 90€ for (not) stopping at a stop sign, he couldn't remember the reg number. I don't suppose saying it was on the front of the car helped rolling eyes . He still had to ask me. They only asked for his licence though, not the other documentation. I should probably make sure the copy of the insurance certificate is current for our next trip, it is probably the old one in the glove box.
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denfinella wrote:
For those of us hiring a car and driving into France (from the Swiss side of Geneva for us), do we need to take anything that's unlikely to be supplied by the hire company?


You would only need to show your driving licence and the copy of the hire paperwork that the hire company gave you.
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Spot checks in St Gervais last week (although on CH plates and was waved through)
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