French air quality sticker

[thuylinhphuong]

I'm just about to apply for this to enable entry to several French cities. Anyone completed it yet?
https://www.certificat-air.gouv.fr/en/

[Whyman]

Yes got mine in June for our last trip to France.

Biggest problem I had was getting the image of the V5 down to the max size requirement.

One competed on line it was delivered in about 5 days.

[Whippy]

Originally Posted by Whyman

Yes got mine in June for our last trip to France.

Biggest problem I had was getting the image of the V5 down to the max size requirement.

One competed on line it was delivered in about 5 days.

Done mine , easy, got in in five days.

[Marty Dolomite]

What if you don't have a Euro engine car, do you just risk the 8eu fine?

[soleil]

Took photo of the V5 on the phone - was able to reduce file size sending it to the computer to attach to the form being sent off.
Some of the wording on the French form takes a bit of working out as I recall the layout order is not the same as the V5? One entry I had problems with and left it blank - the photo of the V5 seemed to satisfy the French authorities as the sticker arrived soon after. (can't remember which line)
Did people place it on the left or right of the UK windscreen? Placed ours passenger side thinking about driving regulations here in UK.

[xsaab]

I have a German sticker as well as the French sticker. WE have stuck each one to a rectangle of clear plastic and then can place the plastic rectangle into the carpark ticket holder on the RH side of the windscreen - which is of course pavement side when driving in the EU. No doubt a jobsworth official might get oaficious but given the small amount of time spent in alien territory I think that we will get away with it.

[rustytoba]

Interesting, thankfully having drove through Paris by mistake a number of years ago and never feeling the need to repeat the sensation the added incentive of a €135 fine for doing so confirms that its best avoided.

However it does seem a little annoying that having a car of a certain vintage limits you to certain parts of the world. Luckily I have only encountered one LEZ episode while holidaying through the continent, that happened to be in Bremen where I was asked for a proof of my hotel reservation as a way of proving that I had a legitimate reason for driving in Bremen with a car that did not meet the local LEZ standards or rather did not have a rather nice coloured sticker on the boot.

More annoying would be that fact that even if I wanted an LEZ sticker for France, Germany or perhaps the UK, regardless of the country you are asked when applying for the age of the vehicle or a Euro rating of its engine and not the actual emissions that the engine pumps out even though each year our cars are tested as such and have documentary evidence to prove how polluting or otherwise our cars are, there are plenty of fairly new cars out there that kick out a hell of a stink compared to my 240 with nearly thirty years under its wheels and I'm not even mentioning so called cleaner diesels that before their first MOT end up smelling as bad as an old ERF at the local fair.

Just a thought

Scott