trevorswaine
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It's a very good upgrade - Timmus fitted them to my A2I have Komfortblinkers, see my signature
It's a very good upgrade - Timmus fitted them to my A2I have Komfortblinkers, see my signature
Sorry, I didn't realize you knew Ukraine so well. Have a good trip.Thanks for the advice but I'm actually married now to a Ukrainian woman and have traveled many times by plane to the Ukraine, Dnipro,Odessa, Kiev, Kharkov, Nikolaev, Chernitiva etc and I have used BlaBla car in the ukraine to get around sometimes, so cheap and so easy to use.
I know how bad Ukrainian roads are, whole sections on motorways closed due to bad carriageways, hence why I'm going to carry two spare wheels with tyres. I thought about 15" wheels too, but the expense of buying 6 wheels was too much on top of the new brakes all around and the MOT and subsequent failure, so I ended up with a very cheap set of 16" A1 wheels to match the ones I have, plus I've had to buy 4 new tyres for the MOT.
I have been in a stop by the police (as a passenger) and it took us quite a while to pay the 4 cops that turned up for their share of the loot. But nowadays there is a lot of anti-corruption stuff going on in the Ukraine so it's not as prevalent as before.
Just waiting for my green card and IDP now and I have everything ready to go, going to move my high vis jacket to the front of the car, I have a charging mount for my phone, Ukrainian SIM with data in my dual SIM S9 with credit loaded up. A set of the latest 2018 RNS-E disks, which unfortunately stop at Poland, but I can use google maps the rest of the way, Ferry is booked etc.
Trip is in 2.5 weeks time so wish me luck, we intend to do this twice a year if all goes well.
Sorry, I didn't realize you knew Ukraine so well. Have a good trip.
No worries. My main concerns and I should have probably been clearer is around traffic signals. I see lots of flashing amber on overhead gantries and wonder what should I expect besides a change to red etc
Thanks for the advise guys, flashing red would confuse the heck out of me. As for a brake switch, not the sort of thing I would have thought i would need a spare of, but actually I do have one in my spares bin.
Passed the MOT today after replacing the track rod ends and dust covers, but one advisory was front suspension spring loose, so I've ordered two new springs and top mounts and will get both sides swapped before I go I think.
For what it’s worth my first trip through Europe had a breakdown. We drove over the Alps into Italy via the Simplon Pass and the Peugeot 405 overheated. We managed to get to Varzo and stopped at a petrol station. The young lad called his uncle in the local Fiat garage, they recovered the car, MADE a new component, fitted it and we were back on our way in 2hrs. Cost £35 all in. I thought at the time “that wouldn’t have happened in England”...
French police are well known for fining drivers who do not have hi-viz jackets in the cabin. It seems a little unclear if it is required to have a hi-viz for each passenger. Also France requires alcohol kits which are 'in date'. The French Police are also very hot on enforcing 30kph speed limits through villages with on-the-spot fines - on-coming drivers flashing to warn should be taken seriously!
Drive well and you don’t have a problem, beware the France level of ksi (killed seriously injured.) is double that of the UK ....
A consequence of this is that from the beginning of July, the maximum speed limit on all non-dual carriageway roads in France has been reduced from 90kph to 80kph (50mph).
RAB
I'm pretty certain that only some single carriageways roads have been downgraded to 80kph, for the reasons you say.