Subject: Re: Call your local BMW dealer Author: nislandbimmer : member since June, 2007 : 7 posts Posted on: 2007-06-03 19:41:59

The warranty is as good in Canada as it is in the States. I bought an '03 Z4 last year for $18k US and all up once I had it on the road here it was just under $24k Canadian.

I took the car to Victoria BMW to get the day time running lights activated and the odometer switched to metric and they offered me $35K before I even registered it.

Two weeks ago I bought a 530i from the NYC area including the $1K US trucking to Seattle the car will have cost me $29,800 including duty, PST and GST. It has premium, sports and cold weather packages with bluetooth and is a CPO car with a warranty good until 2009 or about another 70K KM of warranty.

All you need is the paperwork from customs and a recall letter which you can get in about half an hour from BMW USA. It is also very important that you fax the original title to the US customs Office you are driving the car back through with a letter stating you intend to export the car at least 72 hours before you do. I also always get a "clean title" letter in other words there are no liens on the car.

US customs will stamp the title "for export" and you gotta skedaddle across the border as now the car cannot be driven in the states.

Make sure you have an "insurance binder" from your insrance company and a temporary permit to drive the car in Canada until you have the RIV paperwork to take to Canadian Tire for the Federal inspection.

The only issue I had was with Canada Customs on the Z4 as they did not believe I paid so little for the Z4...

The Canadain BMW dealers are very good about us bringing cars up but some are better than others.

The whole process is outlined at www.riv.ca.

Cheers Dave

Those two cars I have done for myself, I have done many more than that for others...

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