Our online order software will present the prices and allow you to order these items precisely.

Many customers who order a child seat, roofrack, etc. simply leave them behind upon returning the vehicle, which is fine with Renault. Of course you can instead sell the items in Europe or mail them home. If you want to keep such items, it is ultimately your responsiblity to detach them before or upon the return occasion.

As of 1 July 2008, All drivers in France and Spain must carry in their vehicle a reflective jacket and warning triangle. The fine for not carrying these is about EUR 150. Renault Eurodrive customers can purchase a kit including reflective safety jacket and warning triangle when they collect their car from the Renault agent at all airport locations in France including Geneva, as well as from Avignon Rail station or Calais Ferry, at a cost of about EUR 15, or from a Renault dealer at a cost of about EUR 15. Alternatively the safety kits may be purchased from most service stations and supermarkets at an approximate cost of EUR 10. We apologise to customers of Renault Eurodrive for any inconvenience this may cause.

Renault map CDs for built-in GPS navigation

 
The GPS navigation noted as being a guaranteed feature in certain of the Renault short-term lease vehicles is compatible with Renault-licensed software only; software bought on the open market will not work with the system.

In the short-term leasing program, Nissan models and Renault Koleos GPS models, as well as the Renault Laguna sedan and wagon GPS models featuring leather or automatic transmission, come loaded with GPS navigation software featuring high resolution maps covering the entire domain of the included insurance and assistance.

All the other GPS-enhanced vehicles in the Renault short-term leasing program are equipped with high resolution maps covering France, plus low resolution maps (i.e. showing primary and secondary roads) covering the rest of Europe, plus the French "Infotraffic" system that presents timely reports about traffic conditions, road construction and such.

Regardless of its scale of coverage, the software does include English and Spanish audio and visual in addition to French.

Via IdeaMerge you can buy from Renault particular software CDs to enhance the low-resolution maps noted above. Again, you will own such CD outright; thus you may be able to sell it (via Ebay, perhaps) after your lease. The available CDs are the following:

child safety seats

Although you could bring to and employ in Europe the child seats your children use at home, Renault makes the following child seats available for pre-purchase and pick-up with the tax-free short-term lease vehicle.

elios baby seat	0–9 months
britax duo child seat	9 months – 3 years
ergos complete booster seat	3–8 years
ergos assise booster seat	8–10 years

A careful address of these safety devices touches not only on various domains and the laws thereof but on at least one or another more overarching and conservative (i.e. child-conserving) consensus about child safety. Nevertheless please note that IdeaMerge is neither obligated nor qualified to present to clients nor to the general public the full set of relative laws nor the letter of those individual laws; the comments below, whether about law or consensus are merely intended to indicate the nature of the general issue of child motor vehicle safety. In many cases (such as Canada and the United States) the law applies based on the state, province or territory in which the vehicle is registered or in which a particular rental commences. In Canada such law is strictest in Quebec and in Ontario. Which is to say, these are the only provincial units in Canada that require booster seats. The general North American consensus considers booster seats necessary for children weighing 18–36 kg (40–80 lbs), forward-facing safety seats necessary for children weighing 9–18 kg (20–40 lbs), and rear-facing infant seats necessary for children weighing up to 9 kg (20 lbs). Age-wise these ranges correspond to 4.5 years through 7 years, 1 year up to 4.5 years, and 0 years up to 1 year. In Germany, however, the high-end figure is more conservative, in the sense noted above. German law puts this figure at up to 12 years or up to 1.5 m tall (4 ft. 11 in.); moreover, children under age of 10 may not travel in the front passenger seat of a car, the exceptions being: (a) a child younger than 1 year old seated in a rear-facing safety seat, (b) a vehicle with no rear seats or seats that temporarily cannot be used, and (c) a situation in which all rear seats are already occupied by children under 10 years old. French law puts said high-end figure at up to 10 years. In Ontario a child need not use a safety seat if (a) his/her weight is over 36 kg (40 lbs) or (b) his/her age is over 8 years (i.e. he/she has turned 8 years old) or (c) his/her height is over 1.45 m (4 ft. 9 in.).… Generally a rear-facing safety seat should not be used in a seat equipped with a functional frontal airbag. Also generally speaking, children under 12 years old should sit in a rear seat.… In the context of the whole IdeaMerge Website it is appropriate to address a few more specific cases. The state of Washington in the USA is relatively strict: children up to 1 year old or less than 20 lbs must be seated in a rear-facing infant seat; children from 1 year old through 3 years old or 20–40 lbs must be seated in a forward-facing child seat; and children from 4 years old through 5 years old or 40–60 lbs must be seated in a booster seat (in the rear if the front passenger seat is equipped with an airbag). In the state of Oregon children from 0 through 3 years old or less than 40 lbs must be seated in a child seat, and children 4 years old through 5 years old or 40–60 lbs must be seated in a booster seat. In the state of California, children from 0 through 5 years old or less than 60 lbs must be seated in an appropriate child seat, perhaps a booster seat. In the state of Nevada children from 0 through 3 years old or weighing less than 40 lbs must be seated in a child seat. In the state of Colorado, children from 0 up to 1 year old or weighing less than 20 lbs must be seated in a rear-facing child seat; children from 1 year through 3 years old or 20–40 lbs must be seated in a front-facing child seat; and children from 4 through 5 years or less than 55 in. tall must be seated in a booster seat. In the state of New Jersey, a child 0 through 17 months old must be seated in a child seat; a child 18 months through 4 years old must be seated in a child seat if riding in front; and a child less than 8 years old or less than 80 lbs should sit in the rear, if rear seating is available.… In Australia a child from 0 up to 1 year old must be seated in a child seat, and this seat must be fitted with a top tether that is in turn attached to a suitable mounting point on the vehicle; other constraints apply per territory, but the general rules noted above should nevertheless be applied and are typically indicated by vehicle rental vendors. In New Zealand a child from 0 through 4 years old must be seated in an appropriate safety seat; a child from 5 through 7 years old must if seated in front be seated in a booster seat or, we are told, secured with an adult safety belt (although this latter option seems too lax); and again the general rules noted above should neverthless be applied and are typically indicated by vehicle rental vendors.

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