No More PERMANENT Vehicle Importations (Nacionalizacion))

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?

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.

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.

We all know no more imports for awhile ..... but door to door searches ?? Some examples please. I've only heard of random stops at retens

How about a few links to the Gestapo harassing Gringos? Those Retens by Migra and Aduana are not new. They stop a few cars and move on. Which communities are having this huge problem? When did this take place? Were autos impounded? By whom? If this practice was widespread I would think the net would have something to confirm your story.
If indeed you are correct there are those who need to know.

Moisheh

http://www.bajainsider.com/baja-business/importingregisteringvehicales.htm#.VTu5m410zwo

Moisheh

MW; I think when someone posts that inspectors are going from house to house I have a right to query where this info originated. You can be a wealth of knowledge on Mexico but often things tend to be exaggerated. I will never have the Mexico experience that you have but that does not prevent me from asking for sources. Most posters will provide something. You constantly refer to your friends from some agency but no real verification. "My friend told me" is meaningless. You betcha I doubt some of your posts.

Moisheh

There are several ways that vehicles are imported in to Mexico

1 Big auto makers, example Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, and some of the big three from Detroit.

2 Mexican Government and States.

3 Industrial entity's that require special vehicles.

4 Zonas fronterizas, Tijuana, Mexicali, Ciudad Juarez, Reynosa, etc.

5 Non Mexican Citizens that are travelling in non RV vehicles.

6 Recreational Vehicles, A class, B class, C class, 5th wheel trailers and pull trailers, the vehicles used to pull the last to do not have the 10 year permit, oonlythe 180 days as the Visa de Turista.

I will venture to state that the ban is on the vehicles that have the license plates from the border that are not supposed to go down to the interior of Mexico with out an importation permit as a tourist, unless the importation of all private individual vehicles are prohibited.

There have been a lot of vehicles smuggled in to Mexico, the vehicles come from the U.S.A. some are stolen some are not, vehicles in Mexico are expensive.

navegator