Second Car Has Its Controle Technique

We've had a massive success today, getting our UK registered Saab through its Controle Technique (French MOT).

We thought that we had to have French registration but both the prefecture and the MOT centre confirmed that we didn't, although I'm sure that this was not what they said for the first car.  However, the first car was stressful and we're a long way from being fluent in French so we may have misunderstood.

Now with that one ticked off it's off to Tours one day this week to see if we can get a French registration.  If they accept that the Certificate of Conformity is OK in English and as a duplicate then we are home and dry.  They accepted it for our other Saab so we are hopeful, although expecting consistency from the prefecture is a bit of wishful thinking.

However, we go to Tours for most things these days as it is much more cosmopolitan than Blois, our local prefectural town.

This article details the steps we took for both the first and second cars