{"id":241,"date":"2019-04-27T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-27T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/driving-our-car-in-mexico-part-1\/"},"modified":"2019-04-27T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-27T20:00:00","slug":"driving-our-car-in-mexico-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/messysuitcase.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/27\/driving-our-car-in-mexico-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Driving Our Car in Mexico, Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSince we were moving to Mexico with three people, three cats
\nand three musical instruments, we wanted to take our Toyota Tacoma with us.
\nMany people just hop on a plane with a couple of suitcases, but we needed more
\nspace. So before we left Colorado, we ordered a topper for the back of our 2012
\nToyota Tacoma. When an accident totaled the truck, we replaced it with a newer
\nmodel that still fit the topper.<\/div>\n
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The car and all the stuff.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Car Rules in Mexico<\/h3>\n
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\nThere are strict rules surrounding the importation of
\nvehicles into Mexico. You\u2019re OK if you only plan to take a vehicle within
\nMexico\u2019s Free Zone (Baja peninsula, large parts of Sonora and up to 20-26
\nkilometers from the border). However, if you want to go further than that, you
\nneed to get a Temporary Import Permit(TIP). You can get this online or at the
\nBanjercito at the border crossing. <\/div>\n
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\nUnfortunately, due to a long delay in getting a title from
\nColorado for the new truck, we didn\u2019t have the title or registration when we
\nleft. We eventually got the title, but we needed to have some physical presence
\nback in CO to get the registration document. So we changed plans. Since we were
\ngoing to be spending time at one of our vacation homes in Ludlow, VT, before
\nheading to Mexico, we decided to register the truck in Vermont, expecting to get
\nthe plates and registration on the spot. It didn\u2019t happen that way. Vermont
\ntook our Colorado title away and told us that they would mail the new
\nregistration and title. Unfortunately for us, they entered an incorrect address
\ninto their system and these two documents ended up floating around the Postal
\nSystem for a long time. So we were forced to drive to the Mexican border with a
\nhandwritten registration application from Vermont and hope for the best.<\/div>\n
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\nTurned Away at the Border<\/h3>\n
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\nAlas, Mexican authorities wouldn\u2019t let us enter with the
\ntruck without a permanent Vermont registration. We turned around and
\nfrantically called the Vermont DMV, trying to get a copy of the registration
\nthat had never arrived. After getting a couple of robotic bureaucrats who
\noffered no assistance and told us they could not help, we were fortunate to
\nreach a helpful woman who told us that our registration had been returned. She
\noffered to FedEx a replacement to us that day. We therefore spent an additional
\ntwo days in Laredo, Texas, navigating this paperwork before heading back to the
\nBanjercito.<\/div>\n
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\nTrying Again<\/h3>\n
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\nAt the Banjercito, they remembered us and quickly processed
\nour paperwork. The cost ended up being about $1,150 MX pesos (about $40 US) for
\nthe permit processing and another $7,800 MX pesos (about $400 US) for a
\ndeposit, which we should get back when we return the Temporary Import Permit (TIP)
\nsticker upon crossing the border back into the U.S. We were told that our TIP
\nwas tied to our Immigration permit, so it expired in 30 days. This meant that
\nwe would have to get our TIP renewed when we got our Visas processed.<\/div>\n
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Bob putting the temporary sticker on the truck<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
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\nWe also had to get Mexican insurance for the truck, as American
\ninsurers don\u2019t insure vehicles in Mexico. We got ours through Sanborn\u2019s, and canceled
\nour US car insurance.<\/div>\n
\n<\/div>\n
\nTo be continued …<\/i><\/div>\n

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Since we were moving to Mexico with three people, three cats and three musical instruments, we wanted to take our Toyota Tacoma with us. Many people just hop on a plane with a couple of suitcases, but we needed more space. So before we left Colorado, we ordered a topper for the back of our … <\/p>\n

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