Cmonty

Yeah, I was reading about the carte grise, control technique, pollution tax and all that tax stuff - i'm going to delegate that as I feel it needs a french speaker/reader . car is now just over 5yrs old so hopefully it should be cheap enough. i'll keep a record of anything that is needing to be done and by who, and post back when its all completed in case it helps someone else in the future.. exciting times.. one-way flight booked for the 21st August..

Thats a really good shout.. thanks Penpusher. Its funny how many of the small things you take for granted.

My wife is French so she only thinks in KM.. whereas i'm still stuck in miles. I'll be able to do the conversion easily enough too, but the kids just want to know how long it will take

You guys continue to astound with your knowledge and willingness to share. Its amazing.. after work i'll go and have a check to see what the MaxiDot can do with regards displaying the KPH. I think I am lucky that the dial already shows both MPH and KPH..

Yip, getting out while we still have some sanity left (although my wife would argue that i'd lost that a long time ago). Thanks for going the extra mile mate, really appreciate it. Yup, everything is getting added to a list, with regards other things (i'm quite naive here - so apologies). but outside the lighting(front & fog) and radar calibration.. what else could there be that would need changing?

Thanks everyone for helping me! Really appreciated. Its only another couple of hundred quid added to the immigration money cannon

Hey.. nice colour :-) I think i just have the bog standard halogens so don't think they are capable of being flattened then.. certainly the menus on the car settings didn't have anything close to this option.

Nice one.. really appreciate that. so i'm be hunting ebay and the likes for 3v1.941.015 and 3v1.941.016's then :-) this is great. The only other bit of tech is there is radar at the front, don't have lane assist-- just the distance alert that kicks in when on cruise control. Many thanks Varooom

So does my car have this headlight capability as standard? Or am I potentially looking at temporarily firing on some eurolites to get me over there legally and swapping in new headlight units / fog-lights once there and before i get a french mot (control technique). Apologies for all the questions..

I'm going to be shortly moving from the UK to France, and want to bring our 2017 Skoda Superb 3 estate over with us. I realise there is something we need to do with the headlights, i.e. get them pointing the opposite way to the UK but what I can work out is whether this car does it automatically based on GPS or am I dreaming I read this somewhere. The headlight units have a part number of 3V2.941.016 (1LJ 011.939-04) and are made by Hella in the Czech Rep.. As the car will be going over permanently I don't mind going through the hassle of replacing the headlight units if required so if anyone knew of the part numbers that I would need to get that would be great.