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Tequila
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Dec 11, 2017

Went home for christmas and left my truck behind

Always been mixed info on this. Whether you can fly out & leave a 180 permitted vehicle behind. I have asked Banjercito officials and also got mixed responses. One told me that that is what $400 deposit is for. I left my truck & trailer at Villa corona and flew out of guadalajara. The airline did notice I had driven in, and sent me to customs. The guy looked at it, stamped it and all was well. He did not ask to see my vehicle permit (which I had with me). Had he done that I was going to show him the trailer permit first as, I cannot see anything that distinguished it from a motorhome, but he never asked.
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    Tequila
    Explorer
    Dec 13, 2017
    I will get a new one on the returning flight. I always mail them back after leaving mexico. If I get it inspected on the road in spring and they notice the discrepency, I can say it must be a mistake. I have to walk acrtoss th eborder in Nogales in Jan and come through with a caravan. I wonder if I should just get a new one at km 21?
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    MEXICOWANDERER
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    Dec 12, 2017
    The only thing uniform in Mexico is the complexity of interpreting any given law. When returning via commercial sir flight, be prepared to surrender your FMM, or easiest, pretend you don't have one and go with the herd and fill out another in flight. I would not operate a motor vehicle down here with a disagreement between the transportation status and temporary import permit. If the SSP Policia Federal catch conflicting documents at a roadside Reten, things can get dicey. I'd torch the airlines FMM myself.

    Citizens with a Mexican driver license and plates undergo exactly the same scrutiny at the SSP roadside inspection points.

    Hope This Helps

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