- Thread starter Derfish
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Importing a used car.
NO, Read more carefully before you attack. I said someone on this board said he knew someone who had done it. Not that he had done it.
Der Fish
But the rest of the post is the type of info i had been hoping to see. THanks.
Washing the bottom of a vehicle is something I had forgotten. Crossing from One central American country to another theyhad to spray the uunderside of my motorcycle and charge me about $20.00 12 years ago to cross.
I stand corrected then.
So PM that person that knew someone and have them put you in touch with the person who claims to have done it.
If this were easy and cheap, every Dominican car dealer would be bringing stuff in registered in Puerto Rico.
Let us know how well it works.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
That is not bad considering what you would pay for a vehicle in DR. If you are getting one, make sure it's 4-cylinder and has 4-doors. You could recoup all your money when selling it to a concho driver.
I've seen high end vehicles here and there with Puerto Rico plates.
And what's to stop someone from sticking some old Dominican plates on a car here?
The one impediment I see is insurance, I have no idea how you'd insure a car that doesn't have proper placas.
But given that the tax on nicer cars is often more than what the car is worth, it may make sense to give it a shot, especially since selling a cars that aren't in one's name, or are sin papeles isn't uncommon.
And what's to stop someone from sticking some old Dominican plates on a car here?
The one impediment I see is insurance, I have no idea how you'd insure a car that doesn't have proper placas.
But given that the tax on nicer cars is often more than what the car is worth, it may make sense to give it a shot, especially since selling a cars that aren't in one's name, or are sin papeles isn't uncommon.
I thought I read (some time ago) that one could NOT bring in a car over 5 years old, PERIOD.
Has this changed or was I misinformed before?
Has this changed or was I misinformed before?
The 5 year rule is still effect for everything except commercial trucks, buses, construction equipment, antique autos etc.
At one time, you could bring them in over 5 years old by paying a penalty....not anymore.
Every year the used auto dealers lobby to extend the 5 year rule to up to 7 and 10 years old.
It is a fluid situation.
Salvage vehicles are not allowed, but reconstructed salvage are...if....they have been registered/driven outside the DR for the past year.
And just when you think you know the rules.....they change them without telling anyone.....until they are ready. Helps keep the flow of propina's coming for all those cars in port in violation of the "new" rules.
I have brought several cars in......and its different every time.....even when the "rules" have not changed.
Bienvenido Republica Dominicana.
Respectfully,
Playacaribe2
That surely wouldn't get you thru aduana, would it? As a kid a couple of times I went to a junk yard and liberated a plate that still had 3 or 4 months to go on it and stuck it on a junker, but it has been 50 years since i tried a trick like that!
So I swipe the plate off my old dead Pollito and buy a car in Miami and put it on a ship to Puerto Rico and then the ferry will let me aboard? Then sometime during the voyage I switch plates on the car? I doubt it would work. Sometime ask me about m problems with my motorcycle in Panama! It was legal, but the paper work required is a lot more complicated than that!