Date: Wed, 5 Apr 2000 10:48:10 -0700
Reply-To: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
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From: Tobin Copley <tobin.copley@UBC.CA>
Subject: Re: consumer reports.org/Recalls/car.html
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At 12:52 AM -0500 4/5/00, Marshall Ruskin wrote:
>This is very important information, indeed, VITAL information for
>anyone wanting to import said vehicles from the US into Canada.
>
>At the border, customs will research your vehicle for recall
>notices, and demand PROOF that your prospective vehicle had
>participated in said recalls, and had the mods done.
>
>If you cannot supply said proof, nada on the importation, and you
>have an expensive white elephant sitting there.
Strange. I've imported TWO buses from California into Canada, and
both times, no one even looked at the bus. When I say "not even
looked' I mean, like, the officials stayed inside the building, out
of sight of the bus, took my paperwork, asked me to go out to the bus
and write down the mileage and confirm the VIN (yep!), they's stamp
the papers, I paid my duty, and drove off. Never looked up recalls
or anything either. Sheesh! I coulda had 1,200 lbs of crystal meth
in there for all the checking they did.
Man, sometimes I wonder if I look *too* honest....
T.
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Tobin T. Copley,MA Research Associate tobin.copley@ubc.ca
Offshore office: Bowen Island, B.C. http://huckleberry.chspr.ubc.ca/
Dept. of Health Care & Epidemiology UBC :(604) 822-6219
University of British Columbia Bowen Island :(604) 947-0117
Research affiliations:
-Centre for Health Services and Policy Research http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/
-BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS http://cfeweb.hivnet.ubc.ca/cfe.html
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At 12:52 AM -0500 4/5/00, Marshall Ruskin wrote:
<excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>This is very important
information, indeed, VITAL information for anyone wanting to import
said vehicles from the US into Canada.
At the border, customs will research your vehicle for recall notices,
and demand PROOF that your prospective vehicle had participated in said
recalls, and had the mods done.
If you cannot supply said proof, nada on the importation, and you have
an expensive white elephant sitting there.
</fontfamily></excerpt><fontfamily><param>Arial</param>
</fontfamily>Strange. I've imported TWO buses from California into
Canada, and both times, no one even looked at the bus. When I say "not
even looked' I mean, like, the officials stayed inside the building,
out of sight of the bus, took my paperwork, asked me to go out to the
bus and write down the mileage and confirm the VIN (yep!), they's stamp
the papers, I paid my duty, and drove off. Never looked up recalls or
anything either. Sheesh! I coulda had 1,200 lbs of crystal meth in
there for all the checking they did.
Man, sometimes I wonder if I look *too* honest....
T.
.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.-'`-.
Tobin T. Copley,MA Research Associate tobin.copley@ubc.ca
Offshore office: Bowen Island, B.C. http://huckleberry.chspr.ubc.ca/
Dept. of Health Care & Epidemiology UBC :(604) 822-6219
University of British Columbia Bowen Island :(604) 947-0117
Research affiliations:
-Centre for Health Services and Policy Research http://www.chspr.ubc.ca/
-BC Centre for Excellence in HIV/AIDS http://cfeweb.hivnet.ubc.ca/cfe.html
