Mexico, ceased operations allowing permanent vehicle importation. No more extraneous cars permitted to be nationalized at the border.last July ADUANA imposed a one-hundred percent tax on extraneous motor vehicles brought in for duty as FRONTERA plated cars through the ANAPROMEX Frontera program. Similarly, no ANAPROEX Frontera cars can be nationalized.This has no effect whatsoever on temporary import 180-day and 10-year tourist vehicle programs. Keep tour TIP papers and your FMM permit with you when traveling on federal roadways. The SSP is auditing car permits, and FMM paperwork for drivers and passengers at roadside retenes.In some towns with large gringo enclaves Mexican immigration is stopping cars on the street and requesting FMM documents. IMN migras are also going from house-to-house in such gringo areas, knocking on doors and requesting to see valid paperwork.

MEXICOWANDERER wrote: Keep tour TIP papers and your FMM permit with you when traveling on federal roadways. The SSP is auditing car permits, and FMM paperwork for drivers and passengers at roadside retenes.In some towns with large gringo enclaves Mexican immigration is stopping cars on the street and requesting FMM documents. IMN migras are also going from house-to-house in such gringo areas, knocking on doors and requesting to see valid paperwork.Actually, I consider this to be good news! There are far too many people driving around in illegal vehicles that have been brought across the border and never properly imported. They are unlicensed and carry no insurance. This refers to NOB people who know that ,up till now, there would be little or no checking. The same thing goes for RV trailers and 5ths that have been brought in and left in Mexico without a valid TIP. I personaly know of several units that have been left in Mexico and sold to new owners which is illegal. Hopefully they will start checking on TIPs for RVs similiar to the checks they did on boats in the Acapulco area several months ago.It just irks me that most of us follow the rules of the land while so many others feel they are above the law.

Chicken Little, the sky is falling!! Which Gringo communities are having this problem?Moisheh

moisheh wrote:Chicken Little, the sky is falling!! Which Gringo communities are having this problem?MoishehWe met a Gringo guy in LaPenita that had an odd vehicle with Washington State plates and a 2002 registration tab on it. He was drinking all the time and said that the local cops knew him and it didn't matter.

Late yesterday I went to 3 heavily used ex pat Gringo forums. I went back to the middle of March. Nothing unusual! Some of those gringo communities are full of illegal cars. If anything had changed they would have been whining loudly. Presently there are no vehicles being imported. The Mexican association of car dealers has been crying to the Gov. There is some sort of moratorium on importing. Where exactly have the Gov. agencies been examining paperwork of foreign owned vehicles? I go through some of their retens and have always been waved through. They are looking for Mexican nationals! Nationals with those phoney plates and paperwork that states they have applied for a registration are also not hassled. Same as always.Moisheh

Moishe ya gotta learn the easy way or the hard way I do not report garbage. Check with a SERVICIO ADUANAL. Opinions without facts are worse than useless. They are deceptive. Aduana CEASED allowing importation of extraneous cars. How long it's going to last is anyone's guess. Aduana is most non communicative.Facts are what are hard to come by in this country. Many representatives of the government imcluding cops spout rumors. Digging out facts is a bit tougher. The folks I turn to for facts have an enviable track record for accuracy.

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moisheh
Explorer
Apr 25, 2015
Late yesterday I went to 3 heavily used ex pat Gringo forums. I went back to the middle of March. Nothing unusual! Some of those gringo communities are full of illegal cars. If anything had changed they would have been whining loudly. Presently there are no vehicles being imported. The Mexican association of car dealers has been crying to the Gov. There is some sort of moratorium on importing. Where exactly have the Gov. agencies been examining paperwork of foreign owned vehicles? I go through some of their retens and have always been waved through. They are looking for Mexican nationals! Nationals with those phoney plates and paperwork that states they have applied for a registration are also not hassled. Same as always.

Moisheh
bighatnohorse
Explorer II
Apr 25, 2015
moisheh wrote:
Chicken Little, the sky is falling!! Which Gringo communities are having this problem?

Moisheh

We met a Gringo guy in LaPenita that had an odd vehicle with Washington State plates and a 2002 registration tab on it. He was drinking all the time and said that the local cops knew him and it didn't matter.
moisheh
Explorer
Apr 24, 2015
Chicken Little, the sky is falling!! Which Gringo communities are having this problem?

Moisheh
Mountaineer42
Explorer
Apr 24, 2015
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
Keep tour TIP papers and your FMM permit with you when traveling on federal roadways. The SSP is auditing car permits, and FMM paperwork for drivers and passengers at roadside retenes.

In some towns with large gringo enclaves Mexican immigration is stopping cars on the street and requesting FMM documents. IMN migras are also going from house-to-house in such gringo areas, knocking on doors and requesting to see valid paperwork.

Actually, I consider this to be good news! There are far too many people driving around in illegal vehicles that have been brought across the border and never properly imported. They are unlicensed and carry no insurance. This refers to NOB people who know that ,up till now, there would be little or no checking. The same thing goes for RV trailers and 5ths that have been brought in and left in Mexico without a valid TIP. I personaly know of several units that have been left in Mexico and sold to new owners which is illegal. Hopefully they will start checking on TIPs for RVs similiar to the checks they did on boats in the Acapulco area several months ago.
It just irks me that most of us follow the rules of the land while so many others feel they are above the law.

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