willardguy
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bringing a used engine into mex
on a pallet in the back of a pick-up, SY bueno or do I have to use Otay?
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Bob and Susan
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you HAVE to use otay mesa for all engines
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willardguy
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gracias!
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bajabrant
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brought mine thru san y. 6 mo.s ago on a pallet--paid small duty
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Bob and Susan
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if you use otay mesa you will be sent back across and over to otay mesa...
I know this...don't take an engine to tj crossing
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bajaguy
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Bob - You never cease to amaze...
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willardguy
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well here's how it went down yesterday.......
three agents involved, all said 4 cylinder engines no problemo 6 cylinder engines you have 3 options:
1...use the return lane and you and your engine go back to the U.S.
2...you import the engine via a broker
3...you take this bag of candy over toward the bathrooms and then you return it to me with $120 in it and you go on your way
mexico!
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BornFisher
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Was it a Payday candy bar?
"When you catch a fish, you open the door of happiness."
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AKgringo
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Unless that candy came with a receipt for the duty paid, I would have gone back into the US. Imagine getting stopped by a fellow extortionist a block
later with undeclared merchandise. What are you going to do then, admit to bribing your way across the border?
If you are not living on the edge, you are taking up too much space!
"Could do better if he tried!" Report card comments from most of my grade school teachers. Sadly, still true!
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pacsur
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Whoa, you mean that being told Otay was the only crossing you were allowed to use to bring your engine across wasn't accurate information?
As I said in another post paying an importer made sense to me since I did not want to waste time and more gas money by driving up crossing it myself.
I have personally brought 3 engines across over the last 10 years, 2 were buggy motors and 1 v-8, all through Tijuana, I would never say my
experiences are the only way to do things with such a short track record, even though I probably have 80+ crossings total heading down to Los Cabos
loaded up, maybe 10 or 20 crossings with engines would be some proof?
From what I recall, the only time I have ever been sent to Otay while trying to cross Tijuana was when I brought more than $1000 usd worth of goods,
with receipts or not.
Ever since that time I made sure my receipts were always under $1000 usd, I believe the aduanas use the $1000 usd as a limit for commercial, anything
under $1000 usd I paid around 20-22% of the value on the receipts that I provided less the $300usd allowance that you are allowed to bring into Mexico
as personal items, if I had to pay, not sure about the current limit?
I think if you want to bring things into Mexico you should consider how hard it would be to take things up north to the USA and how much you would pay
before you complain about paying a duty on bringing your goods down south.
I also cross 30-60 minutes before day light and have all my papers ready if I can't just talk my way through it, I have only paid a tip one time and
that was when nobody was in the office to access the receipt book, which I always ask for also.
I hope in the future people would try and stick to proven facts or offer a suggestion about what worked for you, and not deem that as the final word
and proven fact.
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Bob and Susan
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last winter I took an engine to tj///
no engines imported at tj
I got escorted to the "secret gate" that returns you to the usa and
told to drive to otay mesa
took 2 hours
at otay mesa...no sweat...paid the tax and crossed
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Think I would cross at Tecate
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+10
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J.P.
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Engine
A while back there was a pickup truck ahead of us headed south through Tecate crossed with a huge diesel truck engine tied in the back.
They waved him through and pulled us in and checked our Suburban. I remember commenting that. That pickup had one heck of a load in it
[Edited on 12-30-2016 by J.P.]
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