Apr 08
OK for dealers, but individual Canadians are cut off!
Check this post out we just received below. We are also hearing many stories of Canadian dealers selling U.S. Market Audi’s and BMW and MB, that the RIV would consider inadmissible!
Yes! These are the same cars that you and I either can’t bring in to the country or are forced to spend thousands of dollars to modify bumpers… etc..
Quote:
I would like to inform everyone that I had to sell my 1999 Mercedes Benz 300D Turbodiesel from the US , for a substantial loss back to the US. I will say that CCRA Customs and Border Protection in Fort Erie Ontario have be absolutely wonderful and helpful with us and Our MB issues. I will never Buy a car in Canada Again. The dealers themselves are “cashin” in on the savings. Performance MB in St Catherine’s Ontario have U.S. Model Mercedes used on there lots . We must not give in.They are selling U.S. cars on Canadian lots all over Niagara Falls.
SUPPORT CARS WITHOUT BORDERS…. End of Quote.
- Members and supporters, if you do see these cars on lots of Canadian Dealers, please take pictures, get the VIN number, check the stickers inside the door, and send them in to info@carswithoutborders.com Thanks
- It appears that this self-certification regime is really gettting carried away. Remember, it also appears that all Honda Civic’s sold in Canada for the last two years do not meet the Canadian safety Standards. Even the IBC agrees with us! They are still not on the list of acceptable cars.
- Funny, with the new immobilizer law, the U.S. Market Honda Civic is legal in Canada, but the Canadian one doesn’t appear to meet the Safety Standard.
(check out previous posts… and Cy Daly’s excellent report on the immobilizer issue )
- We have asked Transport Canada to audit the Honda several times!
April 9th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Transport Canada maintains a process that is intended to favour the manufacturers at the expense of Canadian individuals and Canadian independent auto dealers. Franchised dealers, who act as sales agents for their respective manufacturers, seem to have an apparent potential advantage over individuals and independent dealers, for they can avoid the Transport Canada/RIV process altogether, if the manufacturer that they represent, participates in importing the vehicles for them. examples of this, are the thousands of lease returns taken back every year, by the manufactures on both sides of the border, to be resold at dealer auctions. Many of these vehicles are reserved for purchase by franchised dealers only. Independent dealers are excluded from bidding on them. Such auctions are commonly referred to as “closed factory sales”. At least one of the big three was running their vehicles south across the border to be resold at U.S. auctions a while back, when the U.S. dollar was high. As the original manufacturer, of these vehicles, they are exempt from the process that we must use. This same type of exemption is also available to the manufacturers to bring vehicles north, in to Canada. The result is that many of the late model lease returns sitting on franchised dealers lots on both sides of the border, may have been imported without the participation RIV, without an admissibility letter, without a factory recall clearance letter and without the fees and expenses that independent dealers and private individuals are required to deal with.
April 9th, 2008 at 4:48 pm
With regard to the unfortunate and very sad treatment of the gentleman with the 1999 Mercedes 300D, he undoubtedly has never been told what it is about his car, that is unacceptable to Transport Canada. It would appear that he is another one of thousands of Canadians, who have simply been told, “your car does not conform and it can not be modified to conform, so take it away and don’t bring it back”. Information has been deliberately withheld from this person. Chances are, if he were to be told what it is that may, or may not need to be modified, he might easily be able to bring his car home. It is quite possible that his car is, in fact, completely acceptable, just the way it is. It is the process, forced on us by Transport Canada, that is so completely unacceptable. This process,not only can be modified, but it must be. In the meantime and until this happens, Mr. Cannon should be receiving a recall letter and an inadmissibility letter from all of us.
April 9th, 2008 at 6:14 pm
As for Mr. Cannon having to need an inadmissibility and recall letter, we will have our chance to do that at the next election. We should canvance his riding with our members to make sure his constituants know all about what is happening when importing a much cheaper new or used vehicle from the US. This was done several years ago in Ontario against the Education minister at that time and he was defeated in the election only to sit on the side lines and watch what was happening. We the “PEOPLE” have the power to change, but we need to band together to aconplish this. Oh, Mr. Cannon, ask Jim Flatherly our present Finance Minister what it feels to be a target of the people in that provincial election. Unfortunatly he won his riding but with a much lower majority of votes than prior to the first election he won. Roger Delorme
April 10th, 2008 at 8:39 am
It appears that Mr Harper has many weirdos in his cabinet.
We seldom hear them express their views.
I recently saw one of Mr Cannon’s Faces at the Montreal Auto show.
It left a lasting impression.
Which Face did we vote For?