shipping a car to GTO.

[colleen]

The Duck makes good sense. We drive a 2000 Ford Explorer and had it nationalized in 2010 very easily by using a company in Miguel Aleman. The docs say Autos y Camiones Pena, Nereo Pena Garza 897-972-0255. But I remember that we dealt with the people who answered the phone here: Froylan Garza Barrera 897-972-4322, 4323, 4324. It didn't cost much and took about 20 minutes to pretend that we sold the car to a MX and then bought it from Autos y Camiones etc. It was necessary to do this since we were at the end of our FM2 and now as Inmigrado we needed a MX plated car.

I gave this info to a friend yesterday who is in the same situation. She called and found that the law has been changed and that it now costs 78% of the value of the vehicle to nationalize it!! It is clear that they are trying to keep old cars out of the country and keep American cars out of the country. We were even told by Bancomer that they could not sell us insurance because it was a car manufactured in the US and they couldn't get parts here. The man was a bit embarrassed to even say that since it's so clearly not true. We bought the insurance elsewhere.

There could be a problem just bringing in a car that old. I'd check w/ the guys who do it for a living. Like The Duck was saying, you can get the auto permiso at the border with all the various precautions, and they make up some more restrictions periodically which you have to fight them over. "I DON'T need to show you my marriage certificate." Glad you are checking this out first. Good luck with it.