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Cost of driving to the Alps

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Mind you, petrol's gone sky high again in the last couple of weeks anyway, I've noticed. I hope there's every chance of it coming down again by the summer
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Drove to Val Thorens on the 21st April and here is what I found.

Diesel on autoroute was always close to 1.20 Euro per litre. Off autoroute I found 1.09 the cheapest.
The tolls were 55 euro each way.

I also found that I used more diesel than normal due to the extra weight and roof racked skis and also the fact that the roads are so great to drive on ( at night I did majority of my driving ) that I was always around the 90mph mark. Passat Tdi I usally get closer to 55 mpg on motorways but I got 45mpg on the trip if that gives you any indication.

Another good tip is get on the michelin france site and print off your route map, they also give you the locations of any static speed cameras and pretty exact toll prices for your journey ( mine were spot on ).


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the_fatadder,

Quote:

(less if we take gerry cans from the farm with us),



In case this was not a joke.

FYI.

It is illegal to carry Full Benzine/Gas cans in vehicles on the Public highways in Europe (inc the UK)
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I've never been stopped for speeding on the french motorways. I usually drive about 130kph, but do, on occasions do about 160 (on the way to Val T)... I've never even seen a policeman looking vaguely interested. Petrol has gone up since the prices posted on 21st April. I've seen it as high as 1.39 per litre in some small service stations. Leclerc yesterday was 1.27 for 95 unleaded. Of course I don't travel during the high tourist season weeks, so perhaps it's different then, but then neither is the fatadder proposing to do so.
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easiski, how much is gearbox oil? snowHead
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If you get a route from the via michelin website, it marks the positions of the speed cameras. Also, they have signs just before the cameras. & unlike over here, the camera is always about 1km from the sign!
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stanton, is that correct?

We have allways kept a can of diesel in the back of the landrover and never had any issues. what about driving with a can back from the petrol station to home (petrol for the lawnmower etc)
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the_fatadder, from what I've read, it's only illegal in Greece, but it is not advisable to carry petrol in a can in a car. Diesel shoould be ok.
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Up date on French Diesel and petrol prices. August 5th on the Motorway coming home Petrol (95) around €1.40 and Diesel €1.20 per litre. At Ashford Channel Tunnel exit Petrol AND diesel 99.99p per litre!!

(and yes the speed trap was at 38.6 before Calais toll booths as usual. We saw two speed traps and both cars had a blue light on don't know why maybe they have a new ruling that says they must be visible)
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Telepeage box has arrived, very efficient service (only sent off for it on Tuesday) and with my password for the motorway operators website which means you can print off your journey times and kilometres travelled etc Toofy Grin

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