Dec 06
CWB Submission to Transport Canada Dec. 6 - 11:20AM
submission-to-transport-canada.pdf
dec10thcysreportpluspart1.pdf dec10thcysreportpluspart2.pdf
dec10thcysreportpluspart3.pdf dec10thcysreportpluspart4.pdf
Find our submission presented to Transport Canada Public Consultation on December 6th, at 11:00 A.M. regarding the proposed amendment to Regulation 114.
December 6th, 2007 at 12:09 pm
I just gave this a quick read and my initial comments are the submission is clear, well articulated, and professional. The submission focus’ on the immediate problem and solution which is to get the amendment passed and clearly defines the bigger issues which need to be addressed after the amendment hopefully becomes law. Good work.
December 6th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
Great letter! I don’t think we should stop until all vehicles are admissible; either they can have a after market VIS installed or they get a by for safety reasons. Leaving it up to the manufactures to self police with no appeals process is not a democratic system!
December 6th, 2007 at 3:39 pm
MEMO
TO: All BMW and MINI Retailers
ATTN: Service Manager, all those co-coordinating recall clearance letters or letters of admissibility
CC: Retailer Principals, Regions, John Cardinale, Kevin Rendl
From: Bruce Caton
Date: November 27, 2007
Re: Recall Clearance letter & letter of admissibility - update.
To All,
Recently we sent you a memo outlining changes to the process of vehicle importation in regards to the adding of requirements for a “letter of admissibility” and the mandatory activation of the daytime running lights at your store.
The effective date of Nov. 26th/07 has arrived and both the RIV/Transport Canada website and our website reflect the changes.
Based on questions we have received I wanted to clarify a few items;
1) If the vehicle is already in the country, you do NOT need to request a “letter of admissibility”. Since the change to Transport Canada’s website happened at approx. 4pm on Nov. 26th, there will be vehicles that came into Canada earlier, but just now are showing up at your dealership. From this point on, providing the border attendants enforce the guidelines as per the lisst of admissible vehicles, all units coming into Canada will require this letter.
2) Further to point number 1, if the vehicle is already here, simply proceed to the recall clearance letter request which would include doing any outstanding recalls and activating the datime running lights, which must be done before the recall clearance letter can be given out.
3) In addition to our previous bulletin, we will require a faxed copy of the work order showing the activation of the daytime running lights (of the confirmation check, see point 4) before we can issue the recall clearance letter. Please fax them to 905-428-5066, and cleary mark on the RECALL CLEARANCE LETTER.
4) In cases where the customer has already activated the lights (at a US Retailer or by purchasing a part and having it installed, etc. ) we require you to check the process to ensure it fully complies with our service bulletin. If so, then they have been done properly and permanently and you can charge the customer for the check and no further work is required. If they have not been done as per our bulletin, then you must advise the customer they will need to be redone at your facility. They should be given an estimate and further informed until the daytime running lights have been activated; the recall clearance letter cannot be issued.
5) There is a form to request a letter of admissibility, you can get it by emailing to admissibility@bmw.ca (please note our initial letter had the incorrect email address) and there is a separate form to request a recall clearance letter which you can request from recallinformation@bmw.ca. In both cases complete the form and email it back to the same address. Please remember to advise your customer, letters of admissibility will take 2-5 business days and be sent back to you by email and recall clearance letters will take 15-20 business days and be sent back to you by Retailer mail.
6) Please do not encourage your customers to call our Customer Relations staff to ask when their letter will be ready; this will not help speed things up. Our process should not exceed 15 business days. If it does and you need to check on a letter, please email to recallinformation@bmw.ca and we will check into it and reply to you.
We sincerely appreciate your efforts in this regard and as always are here to help, 905-428-5653.
Best Regards,
Bruce Caton
December 6th, 2007 at 11:27 pm
I read a recent report that said something like 500,000 vehicles are coming off lease in 2008.
Lets assume that’s correct and lets assume the leasing companies take say a $4000 hit on the residual of each vehicle coming off lease due to the downward pressures on new car prices.
That’s a $2 BILLION hit. Even if the assumptions are off by a factor of 2 it’s still a $ Billion
No wonder the industry is working so hard to protect Canadian market pricing, even to the point of stretching the truth about immobilizers
December 7th, 2007 at 6:21 pm
That’s a pittance compared to the $5 BILLION PLUS that Canadians have been paying in premiums over U.S. pricing for a long time.
OK…how’d I get $5 BILLION
1,700,000 new vehicles sold each year in Canada (per Stats Can)
$20,000 my guess at a conservative (low) price for the average car
15% my conservative guesstimate of percentage premium paid by Canadians…but we can visit http://www.talesoftwoprices.com and find 25% to 45% premiums.
$3,000 premium per vehicle $20,000 x 15%
$5.1 BILLION Out of our pockets and out of our country for the most part (i.e. dividends to parent company)
The auto industry has a partner called the Government of Canada that gets sales taxes so you can assume the $20,000 includes or excludes the sales tax but for the sake of this exercise I am assuming that the $20,000 excludes sales tax so the Government of Canada gets $250,000,000 to buy us off with all sort of wonderful announcements just before the next election.
Have I made an error anywhere here?