European LEZ's

[Dickie Dastardly]

Taking the Tuscan on a wee european road trip in a few weeks and just looking at LEZ's for cities & towns.

Destinations are -
Strasbourg - France
Lucerne - Switzerland
Como - Italy
Garda - Italy
Blaubeuren - Germany
Aachen - Germany
Amsterdam - Holland

Looks like i may need to register the car for access to many of these locations, has anyone had to do this before?

Thanks in advance.

Richard

[Oldwolf]

I registered the TVR for France crit Aire, painless and less than €5.
You must display the sticker on the windscreen, so if all the countries are the same you won't be able to see out

[Dickie Dastardly]

Oldwolf said:

I registered the TVR for France crit Aire, painless and less than €5.
You must display the sticker on the windscreen, so if all the countries are the same you won't be able to see out

[Granturadriver]

There is a LEZ in Aachen but not in Blaubeuren. And there is no at the Nürburgring as well. Further details on this map here https://maps.adac.de/verkehr/umweltzonen

You will need a green badge, however available gor all speed six cars. You can get them at the TÜV or other testing agencies like Dekra.

You can buy them upfront or local. See further details here:

https://www.tuvsud.com/de-de/branchen/mobilitaet-u...

[LucyP]

I assume that you are taking your 2003 Tuscan, which presumably is Euro 3 compliant, at least on paper, if not in reality. That won't be permitted in Strasbourg or the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg, so you might want to avoid that area.

[Dickie Dastardly]

LucyP said:

I assume that you are taking your 2003 Tuscan, which presumably is Euro 3 compliant, at least on paper, if not in reality. That won't be permitted in Strasbourg or the Eurometropolis of Strasbourg, so you might want to avoid that area.

That's a bugger, accommodation already booked and paid for and very central....

I did manage to get the car reclassified with the DVLA a few years back, so has no emissions figure or euro rating on the V5 - fingers crossed.

[Granturadriver]

According to this https://int.strasbourg.eu/lez Strasbourg does not depend on the Euro rating, but on the year from which the car was "in circulation".

The English wording used "in circulation", so one could consider if the year of manufacture or the registration, the individual vehicle or the entire series is relevant. But the German wording refers to the year of registration of the individual car.

[andrew_r]

I’m off on a European road trip next month too and will be visiting Strasbourg in my Chimaera. According to this website, as long as you have the Air Quality Certificate (which I do), the ZFE does not apply to any petrol vehicles registered after 1st Jan 1997.

https://www.strasbourg.eu/web/strasbourg.eu/mon-ve...

Andrew.

[Zeb74]

andrew_r said:

I’m off on a European road trip next month too and will be visiting Strasbourg in my Chimaera. According to this website, as long as you have the Air Quality Certificate (which I do), the ZFE does not apply to any petrol vehicles registered after 1st Jan 1997.

https://www.strasbourg.eu/web/strasbourg.eu/mon-ve...

Andrew.

Yes, I confirm that for Strasbourg you can enter with a petrol car registered (not built or designed) after 1st Jan 97. This is the category for Crit'air 3 (like my Chimaera. Lots of cities are like this, few have a more restricted criteria as people are starting to complain (the ones who are voting).
For Lucerne, nothing specific yet, their are planning to forbid ICE in 2040...

[Dickie Dastardly]

Thanks for the information chaps, very helpful and reassuring.

[Byker28i]

belgiums gone quite strict as well in their major cities. My youngest is in Antwerp and its euro 6? cars only until 2025 in the center until 2025 when it'll be electric only.
Which is a huge smae as there's two great tunnels under the river

https://www.slimnaarantwerpen.be/en/LEZ?gclid=CjwK...

Apparently the same for Bruge, Brussels etc

Worth looking here for europe as a whole
https://www.eccbelgium.be/themes/car/driving-in-eu...

[Dickie Dastardly]

Feckin world has gone wokey mad 😡