The facts as they are today, not in years past.
When you enter Mexico you go to immigration and you are issued a tourist visa for 180 day stay, that document has a number and it is registered in a computer memory bank and you can now travel all over Mexico.
Then you move over to the Banjersito counter and you present the vehicle documents and the Visa, they register the visa number associated and linked with the hologram number for the Temporary Importation Permit for the vehicles whether it be a 10 year permit for the RV and/or a 180 day importation permit for the tow vehicle or toad, or car.
Registered in Banjersito's computer memory bank is your name with the immigration number and the Temporary Importation Permits numbers, nothing is written on the documents that you have linking them together.
What I do not know is if the airline computers have a link to the Banjersito computer, since I have not flown out of Mexico since 2005 and at that time the whole system was total chaos after 9/11.
Vehicles with a 10 year permit you can leave and come as you wish, a completely different set of laws apply to vehicles linked to tourist visas, they are temporarily imported and the owner with the 180 day visa has to remove the vehicle that was issued the 180 day permit linked to the visa with him/her upon exiting Mexico that is the law.
Need to go out of Mexico then arrange with Customs to have the vehicle in impound until you get back, you can loose the vehicles both the 10 year and the 180 day and/or be jailed and banned from coming back, Mexico does have laws and Mexican jails are not a nice place for a forced vacation.
navegator
