Im thinking about bringing a car up from the states. The exchange rate isnt what it used to be, but with the price of the car I'm looking at, its still worth it.
I havent had much luck searching endlessly online about what I need to do to get the car here.
Its located in New Jersey (about 8.5 hours from my house). Thinking about either flying down, or driving down and hope to drive it home. Id tow it if I needed to, driving just seems like the most cost effective, and without a doubt the most fun!!!
What do I have to do to be able to do this? I obviously cannot register it before I have it here, so I dont know what the laws would be on driving it, nor how to insure it.
A bigger issue would be the boarder... What am I looking at in boarder fees? Am I pretty much paying 13% tax on the purchase price? Am I paying tax on the market value? (the car is being sold way below market value).
Are there any other fees I should be aware of either at the boarder, or anywhere else along the line?
Any insite would be awsome!
I have an idea in my head on whats involved, but lets be serious, Ive been very wrong about things before, and this seems like it could be costly!
btw the car is a 2008 Audi TT roadster... If youve met me personally over the years, you know its been my dream to get one pretty much since I was 16!
"Louis, you better watch who you call a child. Because if I'm a child,
that makes you a pedafile, and I'm not gonna stand here and argue
with a pervert" -- Peter Griffin
I was looking into getting a Mini from the USA and found out with BMW's you need to spend about $2000 (Cluster, DRL's, etc) to get the car converted for Canada and the only place you can get this done at is the BMW Dealer (plus take it to Crappy tire).
I know you said an TT but they may have the same type of thing.
They do this because they do not really want the cars to cross the border for some reason.
I had this .pdf that I friend at work paid for when he did this on his car, I will see if I can find it. It was a step by step and it worked for him.
The car has to have DRL's before it can pass inspection in canada. Also, it has to have a cluster that reads in KPH. Most cars have both MPH and KPH on them, not really sure about the Audi.
I'm not sure what else has to be done, but the DRL's are a pretty easy fix. One of my buddies just wired a relay up to the stock foglights with a 6v resistor, and wired it to the ignition fuse for a temporary fix to pass the inspection. It
HAS to be inspected at Canadian Tire.
2002 Cavalier "LS Sport"
My brother has a Honda Pilot from the States that has a MPH gauge that he bought from a Honda dealer in Toronto
My buddy has another car that has a MPH gauge that passed safety
i had bought a fiero from florida 5 yrs ago and had it shipped up here in my grandfathers trucks. the car passed saftey with no problem i just had to get a few things to pass emissions over here such as a cat. and so on. i still had the mph cluster in it.
you need to get it modified to Canadian standards before you can put it on the road on top of all of this.
Working on obtainting an M-Class license... ?? Hint: 2 wheels.
what is modified to canadian standards?
i the only differences I know for sure with the TT are the DRLs (easy fix) and the bumpers are different. Ours are the 5km crash bumpers, the US dosent have them, not sure if someone inspecting would even notice...
"Louis, you better watch who you call a child. Because if I'm a child,
that makes you a pedafile, and I'm not gonna stand here and argue
with a pervert" -- Peter Griffin
With the new importing rules the bumpers dont matter
You can bring in GTOs and Evo's now
Antler wrote:It HAS to be inspected at Canadian Tire.
But they don't have to do the work needed. A family member of a friend of mine imported a year old (at the time) Ferrari and Canadian Tire only
looked at the car and told the guy want needed to be done. Then he had Ferrari do the work.
I don't think the guy even let Crappy tire move the car
My Uncles brought over 2 vehicles from the States(drove them both back). one was from a dealer, (06 Tundra) which he had to get a temp license plate and brought it back like that, even drove around with the temp plate for awhile. the other an old school mint RX7 Convertable he bought from Cali and didnt change the ownership til he brought it here, just kept the Cali plates on it. Had no probs. Otherwise just read through what Bottom Feeder has on there for a full guide on gettin the car to Canadian Standards.
good info here and this is a good future reference. thanks guys!
