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Originally Posted by billroth
A question for those who have driven a car home. Did you need to get an Ontario trip permit? And how did you get it? I understand you need the titile.
Did you see car, buy it, come home, trip permit, go to car, drive home, wait at border, get home? Seems like a lot of work to me. Shipping might be easier, but you still have to fly somewhere to look at a car that you may not buy in the end.
Any advice or ideas appreciaited.
Lawrence
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I drove my 996 from Salt Lake City to Ottawa.
You can't get a Ontario temporary permit until you have the RIV2 form (unless you're more successful at sweet talking the girl at MTO than I apparently am), which means its of no use to you for transport. You need to get a temp permit from the state where the car is currently registered. *Most* states (a couple of exceptions) have a trip permit specifically for people who will be registering out of state (far out of state in our case).
I did not see my car until until I picked it up. I did ante up for a *full* PPI (including leakdown, compression tests etc) by a Porsche dealership (not where I bought the car) - this is more comprehensive than the testing they do for Porsche Certified and spent about an hour on the phone with the mechanic going over everything afterwords. **Best 350USD I've ever spent - and this was my 3rd PPI (walked away from 2 others - that's why I know it's the best money spent).
The process for me was:
- find the car through online sources
- do a carfax check
- interview the dealer
- checkout the dealer (BBB, dealer groups etc)
- negotiate an offer conditional on a successful PPI
- PPI
- Execute a contract of sale
- Wire transfer funds
- Get a fax of the signed title
- Faxed signed title and Bill of Sale to Detroit Border and Customs
- Flew to SLC
- Picked up car, original title, Bill of sale
- Drove to Detroit (this part took a couple of wonderful days)
- Went to customs inspection office
- Had titled stamped 'approved for export'
- Crossed bridge
- Went into RIV office
- Paperwork and cash (6.1% duty, $100 A/C, GST - weren't setup for HST yet)
- Dealt with Canada Customs (it is a different group). Do yourself a favour, if there's an autotrader or cars.com ad - print it off and take it with you. Eventually got approved
- Drove home
- Paid the RIV fee online and faxed in my recall clearance (save yourself $500 and get it from the dealership that does your PPI - it's called a 'job management report')
- Downloaded my RIV2 form
- Did the DRL hack, installed tether bolts (if there were any on my cab, I couldn't find them), printed up some bilingual airbag stickers
- Canadian tire did the RIV2 inspection.
It sounds complicated, but it's a lot of little steps - not difficult **if you're organised.
Not all border crossings allow you to fax documentation in. Detroit does, and they're a 24/7/365 operation. I was a little hesitant to cross there (is there a busier port?) but they were *extremely* efficient - on both sides of the border.
I still have to do the provincial stuff (safety, clean air and registration), but that's where I am to date.