importing a scirocco?

[jason@scirocco.org (Jason)]

Just so there are no misunderstandings -- importing a Canadian-spec car is=
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a completely different procedure than a non-North American car.
Jason



At 12:28 PM 1/30/2003, Rich Deede wrote:

>I had to bring my car in from Canada last year. Here is what I had to do.=
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>I had to get a letter from VW stating that the car I wanted to import was=
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>legal for the U.S. Volkswagen wouldn't do this for me, for unknown reasons=
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>to me. So customs said if the car had a US emissions sticker on it, then=20
>they could let the car in. Since the car did not have this emissions=20
>sticker, I had to *create* one. (Shhhhh) :) Photoshop is a wonderful thing.
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>The car had to have a speedo that read in mph. They did not care about the=
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>european headlights, and Im sure if it had eurobumpers they wouldnt have=20
>noticed that either, but shipping from Germany maybe be different. And=20
>then it cost me $500 for all the paperwork and taxes.
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>Let me know if I can answer anything more specific.
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>
>-Rich
>1988 Scirocco 1.8t
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>From: "Foxx (in a box)" <foxxinabox@excite.com>
>Reply-To: foxxinabox@copper.net
>Date:  Thu, 30 Jan 2003 09:30:03 -0500 (EST)
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> >  i know it's been discussed before and i have read some topics on the=20
> subject and have visited the nhtsa's web site. seems like all you'd have=
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> to do is swap things over to make it compatible with u.s. regualations.=20
> about the only items i can think of would be bumpers and headlights.=20
> everything else, afaik, should be the same. i'm sure that emissions would=
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> be similar, but since i'm not sure about the various little items like=20
> that, i can't be positive.
> >  the other tid-bit i heard was in regards to the rally golfs.=20
> apparently they CAN be imported, but have to be gone through and=20
> converted to u.s. spec at the import yard. unfortunately they end up=20
> destroying the euro-spec parts in the process. i'm just curious to know=20
> other peoples thoughts on shipping the u.s.-spec parts over to europe,=20
> having them installed, then have the whole car shipped over (euro-spec=20
> parts contained in the car, of course). if something like this can=20
> happen, i have a feeling that dirk may be kicking my ass. any responses=20
> welcome.
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