unless you live in NH... theres a guy here who bought one of the old VWMS rallye golfs from Tim Oneil and sent off the reg over and over, after about two years of sending it off they registered it. weird...
-----Original Message----- From: Deutsch Sport Tuning [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 2:53 PM To: Matthew Yip Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: OT: Importing Hrm... VIN swap? ;) Kidding, kidding....That crap will REALLY get you in trouble! Jay www.DSTRacing.4T.com Home of the ULTIMATE sport shift linkages ----- Original Message ----- From: Matthew Yip <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 11:13 AM Subject: Re: OT: Importing > I tried this about 8 years ago and it simply isn't worth the effort. > In this case, the car was an '86 Turbo R that was carburated - the US > model in '86 was fuel injected. The comment from the companies that > federalize these cars was "don't waste your effort b/c it'll cost > $25K to change the bumpers, side glass, head lamps and so forth just > to find out that it won't be accepted". > > The US DOT has severely limited the Euro import (gray market) cars > since about 1984. For the most part, the regs state that if the car > is less than 25 years old, it must be identical to the US version in > every way, shape and form - including safety equipment AND emissions > equipment. In other words, you'll have to spend the money to add all > the necessary equipment which will, in most cases, have to be NEW > although the actual bits on a US spec vehicle are 20 years old. > > There are tax and bond issues - neither of which I'm familiar with > anymore. Suffice it to say that you're good buy on a Golf Rallye may > end up costing you 2 or 3x the purchase price with no guarantees that > it will be federalized. If the car fails federalization, you have > two simple options - ship it back to it's point of origin or crush > it. And bear in mind that this isn't like a junkyard - you don't get > to take anything off the car before it's crushed. > > You may want to check out http://www.nhtsa.dot.gov/cars/rules/import/ > > > > --- Nils9 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Hi, > > I was wondering whats involved to get an euro car to US, > > car which basically has an US model and is easy to convert. > > Have any ideas, anyone did that? Taxes to pay? > > Any readme on the subject? > > > ===== > Matthew > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Listen to your Yahoo! Mail messages from any phone. > http://phone.yahoo.com > _____________ > List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com > To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message > See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com > Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org > --------------------------------------------------------------- NetZero Platinum Only $9.95 per month! Sign up in September to win one of 30 Hawaiian Vacations for 2! http://my.netzero.net/s/signup?r=platinum&refcd=PT97 _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
