Shopping across the boarder

[Hardy_Boy]

I'm new to cross boarder shopping, so please bear with me. The lease on our Car is up this year and were looking at purchasing an Audi Q5. After quickly building a model, the price here in Canada is roughly $56,000. After building the same model on the American website the price was about $48,000. Can any one give me some insight to what taxes or extra fees I would or could face at the border? Will the $8000 I'm saving just be dwindled away with little extra bs fees? From the small amount of research I've done the factory warrenties are honoured in Canada. Has any one heard otherwise?

Any help or advice would be great thank s guys!!

[martin13]

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You will pay tax of 5% on any vehicle imported, you will also pay 6% (I believe) because the vehicle is made in Germany. On top of that, you will need an out of province inspection and you will need to get the dealer to activate DRL (or somebody with vagcom).

[P Arkus]

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I'm not sure about the exact law, but I was under the impression to buy a brand new car from the states, you need to be a resident. Again not exactly sure, but something worth researching. Also there was alot of dealerships that would not transfer warrantee across borders. With that in mind, is it worth the savings?

Car: 48000
Tax: 2400 (48000 x 0.05)
Duty: 3074.4 (50400 x 0.061)
OOP: 150
Flight out: 250-500
Gas and hotels depending where you pick it up: 250-1000

So you final price is roughly $54124.4 - $55124.4

Its up to you whether its worth the hassle to save 1-2 grand, but potentially lose the warrantee. Check out www.RIV.ca if you need any more info about importing cars from the US

[Hardy_Boy]

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My sister is a US resident and I'm driving a load of her stuff down in a uhaul come September, so there wouldn't
Be a flight or hotel associated with the trip, so I would save a little more there. Still not worth not having a warranty though.

How about buying used (private sale) would the warranty transfer?

[martin13]

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Yeah I forgot about warrantee, VWoA won't transfer it across the border. I think Pat is right too, you might have to have a US mailing address to buy a car there. Now, if you wanted to buy a slightly used car, there are tons of super low mileage ones close by in the states. You will save a ton if you buy a slightly used car as compared to a brand new one.

[CGY_GTI]

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Yeah I forgot about warrantee, VWoA won't transfer it across the border. I think Pat is right too, you might have to have a US mailing address to buy a car there. Now, if you wanted to buy a slightly used car, there are tons of super low mileage ones close by in the states. You will save a ton if you buy a slightly used car as compared to a brand new one.

This.

As for warranty, I googled it quickly... Audi will honour the warranty on American cars here. VW won't for any car after 2009, but I'm not sure if that's inclusive or not... not that the VW warranty is really relevant here.

[bart]

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you need an american drivers license, its not a law but its what the dealers do to prevent canadians buying them

used cars are no problem

[jacktown]

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If your planning on owning the car forever and can save some money then perhaps it's worth it. However, if your likely to sell the car in 2-3 years then expect your used value to be less than a Canadian model.

[stuvy]

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The car must be USA registered for 6 months to be able to import it to Canada.

[Parts Erik]

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The warranty will transfer to Canada. The only thing that will not transfer is the Audicare and CPO if the vehicle has it.
So 90% of the vehicles sold here have Audicare on them which cover your services until warranty is up on the vehicle, this is also a sticking point when we get american vehicles in for service. As service costs while under warranty can be a little steep if you aren't used to the normal costs of upkeep on european vehicles. Think $300.00 - $650.00 for the mid-high level services on a 2.0 Q5. Plus $200.00 worth of Brakefluid flushes that it also covers.

Yes the value of the vehicle when you go to sell it is quite a lot less than Canadian market vehicles. We get a lot of angry people who want to trade in thier vehicle and are shocked that the vehicle they "saved" 8-10 thousand dollars+ on when they bought it from the U.S. is worth 8-10 thousand dollars+ less than a similar Canadian vehicle. It is often worth even less as they generally have poor dealer maitenance history that go along with them.

Hope that helps.

Erik

[Ur0Drivr]

Re: Shopping across the boarder

The warranty will transfer to Canada. The only thing that will not transfer is the Audicare and CPO if the vehicle has it.
So 90% of the vehicles sold here have Audicare on them which cover your services until warranty is up on the vehicle, this is also a sticking point when we get american vehicles in for service. As service costs while under warranty can be a little steep if you aren't used to the normal costs of upkeep on european vehicles. Think $300.00 - $650.00 for the mid-high level services on a 2.0 Q5. Plus $200.00 worth of Brakefluid flushes that it also covers.

Yes the value of the vehicle when you go to sell it is quite a lot less than Canadian market vehicles. We get a lot of angry people who want to trade in thier vehicle and are shocked that the vehicle they "saved" 8-10 thousand dollars+ on when they bought it from the U.S. is worth 8-10 thousand dollars+ less than a similar Canadian vehicle. It is often worth even less as they generally have poor dealer maitenance history that go along with them.

Hope that helps.

Erik

On a side note... Shouldn't you be Service Erik now?

[Parts Erik]

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On a side note... Shouldn't you be Service Erik now?

It doesn't flow as nice.

[R_Ethug]

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^ha!

[Hardy_Boy]

Re: Shopping across the boarder

The warranty will transfer to Canada. The only thing that will not transfer is the Audicare and CPO if the vehicle has it.
So 90% of the vehicles sold here have Audicare on them which cover your services until warranty is up on the vehicle, this is also a sticking point when we get american vehicles in for service. As service costs while under warranty can be a little steep if you aren't used to the normal costs of upkeep on european vehicles. Think $300.00 - $650.00 for the mid-high level services on a 2.0 Q5. Plus $200.00 worth of Brakefluid flushes that it also covers.

Erik

Does audi care come standard, and is included in the vehicles price? Or is it tacked on after?