GPS detectors suitable for Continental driving?
07-16-2003, 03:12 AM
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GPS detectors suitable for Continental driving?
I gather that Les Flic don't like radar detector gadgets - anybody know if they have the same attitude towards GPS 'safety devices', and if so, anyone know of any which are suitable for Continental driving?
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07-16-2003, 03:43 AM
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Ted, no personal experience but I've read a number of accounts from people who have had GPS detectors impounded or even destroyed on the spot. Les Dibbles don't seem to be too choosy about the niceties of whether it's a laser/radar detector or whether it's a GPS based system - in a typically Gallic way, they just do what they like and ignore the realities of the situation! 
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07-16-2003, 03:47 AM
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Probably the safest kind are the ones that are software plugins for handheld PC's like IPAQs. The cameras appear as 'points of interest' on the map of your navigation software. Have a look here for some reviews. Not sure if they do foreign points of interest.
07-16-2003, 03:55 AM
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UK ones may be different..but my Jap GPS camera detector works fine sitting on the centre console so it is pretty hard to spot by somebody standing at the side of the road...and easily stuffed out of site.
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I'd be surprised if a UK GPS detector would have a database that covers the Europe cameras?....... I have a Road Angel and as far as I'm aware it only covers the UK?
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I go to France later this year. As I`m driving to Portsmouth, I wanted to use the Road Angel for the UK leg. Then my intention was to hide the RA in the insides of the boot.
What are the chances of being stopped and searched in Francais?
(I know I`ve loaded this with opportunities for you characters out there but sod it, I`ll ask anyway).
What are the chances of being stopped and searched in Francais?
(I know I`ve loaded this with opportunities for you characters out there but sod it, I`ll ask anyway).
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Originally posted by cheshire_carper
I go to France later this year. As I`m driving to Portsmouth, I wanted to use the Road Angel for the UK leg. Then my intention was to hide the RA in the insides of the boot.
What are the chances of being stopped and searched in Francais?
(I know I`ve loaded this with opportunities for you characters out there but sod it, I`ll ask anyway).
I go to France later this year. As I`m driving to Portsmouth, I wanted to use the Road Angel for the UK leg. Then my intention was to hide the RA in the insides of the boot.
What are the chances of being stopped and searched in Francais?
(I know I`ve loaded this with opportunities for you characters out there but sod it, I`ll ask anyway).
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07-16-2003, 12:24 PM
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Good advice, just ain't worth bringing it. If you have sucker marks on your windscreen, clean them off as that's enough excuse for them to want to take your car apart.
Beware of speed traps in France too. The flics are REALLY cracking down, I've seen loads of speed traps round here recently and this is an area where next to sod all happens in the summer. In their normal rosbif-catching hideouts nearer the channel I am sure they are just waiting for you.
Beware of speed traps in France too. The flics are REALLY cracking down, I've seen loads of speed traps round here recently and this is an area where next to sod all happens in the summer. In their normal rosbif-catching hideouts nearer the channel I am sure they are just waiting for you.
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Originally posted by potfish
Good advice, just ain't worth bringing it. If you have sucker marks on your windscreen, clean them off as that's enough excuse for them to want to take your car apart.
Beware of speed traps in France too. The flics are REALLY cracking down, I've seen loads of speed traps round here recently and this is an area where next to sod all happens in the summer. In their normal rosbif-catching hideouts nearer the channel I am sure they are just waiting for you.
Good advice, just ain't worth bringing it. If you have sucker marks on your windscreen, clean them off as that's enough excuse for them to want to take your car apart.
Beware of speed traps in France too. The flics are REALLY cracking down, I've seen loads of speed traps round here recently and this is an area where next to sod all happens in the summer. In their normal rosbif-catching hideouts nearer the channel I am sure they are just waiting for you.
That's it. Sod Le Chunnel. I'm taking a ferry to Holland instead...