After reading in late December that Transport Canada and the RIV, had taken all Volvos off the admissibility list and simply stated:
IMPORTANT: Volvo Canada has not provided information to TC on the admissibility of vehicles that are imported after January 1,2008. Effective January 1st, 2008, if you wish to import a U.S. compliant Volvo vehicle into Canada, you will have to contact Volvo Cars of Canada at 1-800-663-8255 to determine if the vehicle is admissible for importation, and to request the letter of admissibility required at the time of importation.
- I decided to go shopping!
- Last week I conducted my preliminary investigation using the Canadian and U.S. Volvo web sites. Results including, Fuel Surcharge, RIV fees, Inspection fees GST and PST are:
- Today I talked to Volvo Canada, a Volvo service department in the Montreal area concerning compliance letters, and two salesmen, one in Canada and the other in the U.S.
- I feel sorry for the folks working for the Canadian Volvo dealers; they are being set up for failure!
- Guess which dealer had the better incentives!
- Tune to this web site each day and find out the results of my spree! Tomorrow, find out what Volvo Canada had to say!
January 29th, 2008 at 5:07 pm
A similar story line…………I want to purchase a new Audi S5 but it does not appear on the RIV list on
either admissible or non-admissible. So I diligently wrote Audi Canada and they basically said…we have no idea. So who exactly IS supposed to know? TC/RIV rely on the manufacturer to tell them what is/is not admissible. I want to go get it but I don’t want to hoop myself because of beaurocratic ineptness.
January 29th, 2008 at 5:54 pm
I called Volvo Canada and they explained the procedure to me. It sounds workable! Stay tuned for tomorrow’s entry!
January 30th, 2008 at 12:35 am
Hey Robert, I am interested in hearing what you find out. I was looking at a C70 this Fall, and the price difference is $20K between the US can CND model. The US models has a few more extra choices, but essentially dressed the same. The RIV comment of checking with your Volvo dealer if a car is admissible is hilarious: most people in the dealerships have no clue what they are selling! - not much different from a Ford dealership …
January 30th, 2008 at 9:31 am
Ah good ol’ RIV - they don’t have a clue what they are doing. I caught them on that
Volvo Admissibility issue - they stop responding to my e-mails - great tactic.
I called Volvo and if the Vehicle was on a previous RIV list ie. 2006 XC70, then its admissible and to contact RIV, so I contact RIV and they say to Contact Volvo.
Good luck in sorting through the run around.
I e-mailed Minister Cannon - so far no response.