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[427king]

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Anyone who is putting a car in BJ this year with their no-reserve has balls of steel.

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[Canucklehead]

Shopping for cars in the states, i've been finding that with the strong Canadian dollor lots of Canadians are gobbling up anything they can get there hands on. Allas they are getting stopped at the border to find a 3wk waiting list to bring them into Canada. As such the Canadians are getting frustrated and not bothering. Which is what the American government is hoping for as they are trying to stop their vehicles from leaving their country. Hmmmm sour grapes, the states have been doing it to us for many years, now when someone does it to them they get all pissy. As far as new vehicles the manufacturers are not hounoring any warrentys on american vehicles bought in the states and residing in Canada. Canadians are in an uproar as there is as much as 10's of thousands differences in price when the dollor is basically at par. Which proves that for yrs American car manufacturers have been giving it to Canadians.

[budnate]

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Shopping for cars in the states, i've been finding that with the strong Canadian dollor lots of Canadians are gobbling up anything they can get there hands on. Allas they are getting stopped at the border to find a 3wk waiting list to bring them into Canada. As such the Canadians are getting frustrated and not bothering. Which is what the American government is hoping for as they are trying to stop their vehicles from leaving their country. Hmmmm sour grapes, the states have been doing it to us for many years, now when someone does it to them they get all pissy. As far as new vehicles the manufacturers are not hounoring any warrentys on american vehicles bought in the states and residing in Canada. Canadians are in an uproar as there is as much as 10's of thousands differences in price when the dollor is basically at par. Which proves that for yrs American car manufacturers have been giving it to Canadians.

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I call BS! fact is the red tape on the Canadian side is stupid and the average guy cannot navigate it, I recently had my truck sold to a guy in Vancouver and after 2 weeks of him being on the phone most of day he could not get all the answers and paperwork to make sure he could bring it home without getting stuck at the border with a truck he owns but cant bring across legally, and he didnt want to pay a broker to bring it across and I cant blame him for that, I wouldnt either, they should have a folder of the rules and forms to follow for the average person. I may be wrong but I hear to often the same story of guys having trouble getting a car across, a bill of sale, title and some border paperwork/fee's should make it easy ??

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Shopping for cars in the states, i've been finding that with the strong Canadian dollor lots of Canadians are gobbling up anything they can get there hands on. Allas they are getting stopped at the border to find a 3wk waiting list to bring them into Canada. As such the Canadians are getting frustrated and not bothering. Which is what the American government is hoping for as they are trying to stop their vehicles from leaving their country. Hmmmm sour grapes, the states have been doing it to us for many years, now when someone does it to them they get all pissy. As far as new vehicles the manufacturers are not hounoring any warrentys on american vehicles bought in the states and residing in Canada. Canadians are in an uproar as there is as much as 10's of thousands differences in price when the dollor is basically at par. Which proves that for yrs American car manufacturers have been giving it to Canadians.

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I call BS! fact is the red tape on the Canadian side is stupid and the average guy cannot navigate it, I recently had my truck sold to a guy in Vancouver and after 2 weeks of him being on the phone most of day he could not get all the answers and paperwork to make sure he could bring it home without getting stuck at the border with a truck he owns but cant bring across legally, and he didnt want to pay a broker to bring it across and I cant blame him for that, I wouldnt either, they should have a folder of the rules and forms to follow for the average person. I may be wrong but I hear to often the same story of guys having trouble getting a car across, a bill of sale, title and some border paperwork/fee's should make it easy ??

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I'm not certain either of you have any first hand experience. I've brought in at least a dozen cars this year and even brought a car through Coutts/Sweetgrass on Nov 11, which is a holiday to many.

The US side is by far the biggest problem, if you want to call it that. You must have your paperwork in 72hrs in advance and if you show up and there are any problems, back you go. On Nov 11 it was a one hour wait at US Customs.

On the Canadian side customs typically fills out the paperwork for you and takes a visa card for payment, not a big deal at all, just pay your taxes. As a matter of fact on Nov 11 it was so busy customs officers allowed importers to fill out their own paperwork and they behaved like clerks, it was all of 10 minutes.

If you need to bring a car from the US into Canada there are brochures available at customs. The easier way is to follow this link:

Registrar of Imported Vehicles

Hope this helps!

[firez]

i have never had a problem with bringing cars in to Canada. Same old story have everything in order when you arrive at customs. We brought a Vette back not 3 weeks ago and drove directly to Canada customs and paid the taxes. I did not even bother stopping at the Buffalo side of the border.We have spent longer at the customs after a day of christmas shopping.

[Zedder]

Yep, no problems with older cars. The new glitch is with new(er) cars. RIV now requires a recall letter from the manufacturer and many of them are not releasing these letters or charging between $250 and $500 for one. Also, very few '08's are admissible at this point in time because the manufacturers have not provided safety compliance data to RIV yet. Some speculate that this is an attempt by the manufacturers to stop the import of new vehicles into Canada and get around the currency exchange issues. Like others said, bringing old car in is no sweat!

[Canucklehead]

Yes thats correct, i guess i should have specified its not the older cars that have become a problem its newer models as i am having problems right now.

[rich p]

Hey Fred !!

Its pretty funny how this first started and then you chime in with what REALLY happens at the Border. Then all of sudden the tide changed. Oh Ya we were not talking about Old cars! First reading I would never send a car over the border, then you post with real info.

This is what the Problem is in the CAR WORLD. To much talk with NO MERIT about what they are talking about.

I have had some big deals go south because of people talking BS about nothing,they know nothing about. People just want to talk.
The market would be a lot better if people who are not in the ring would step out !!!
I have shown numerous magazine that the #'s at BJ's was pretty strong untill BJ got way behind with the Rock & Roll crap and celeb's. They are spending way to much time on these people and their cars. When they got back to the Normal people cars they were hours behind by the end of the night. I was sitting in the front row watching them blow threw cars in less then 2 min,on some that still had bidders. I dont blame the market on these cars they blew out. Look at the #'s on tues-fri and the #'s were really good untill Saturday and even then, look at some of the #'s. But everybody who was not THERE was saying the market just dropped and thats how I feel the RUMORS started on Muscle cars.
Nobody is giving away PEDIGREE cars !!!!