Update for anyone, like me, who is pursuing the ADAC option and hoping to securing a bank guarantee as opposed to having to shell out the deposit money up front:
Anna from ADAC is almost certain that it will NOT be possible to lodge a bank guarantee if you are not a native German as it requires the stamp of a local German branch as opposed to a UK Bank who simply has a operating branch in Germany.
Example: You may bank with HSBC for example, who has branches in Germany, but as a UK citizen you cannot lodge a bank guarantee as the German branches are not in anyway tied to the HSBC UK Banks.
Anna also said she has never heard of a UK Citizen securing a bank guarantee with ADAC.
Not great having to put up 6000 Euro from the trip fund in order to get our 2 Carnets! Uuugh!
I will try to talk to the HSBC Business Enquiry Line to see if they can perhaps set up something with the Frankfurt am Main Branch as Anna said that they so far have been the only UK Based bank to have offered a bank guarantee for ADAC, albeit to a German Citizen residing in Germany!
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