chuckie
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More legalities
If an American leaves a car here in Baja and tells a mexican that he can drive it while he is gone, what are the liabilities?
Would the insurance be any good?
Or
If an American gives a Mexican a non imported car, how would title etc. be transferred? Is it legal to do that?
FYI: I am not considering any of this but a friend is...
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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The PFP sees the car with no decal implying the vehicle has applied for FRONTERA status and the car is impounded.
I know of no Surplus line broker that would authorize anyone not having a valid USA driver license to drive a vehicle.
To obtain permission to APPLY for Frontera plates, an ownership certificate transfer is needed, proof of purchase price, import fees and taxes must be
paid THEN the automobile is eligible to apply for FRONTERA plates.
Hope This Helps
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chuckie
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Thanks DE, thats about the conclusion I have come to. I did call the insurance company and they said the same...except that if the US owner driver
were IN the vehicle at the time. They also said they would not pay for loss in the case of impounds.
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The other challenge is that a US plated car can not be driven by a Mexican Drivers license. If they have an ONAPAFFA registration (which now includes
plates in addition to the window sticker) or an ANOPROMEX plates they get a drivers license which allows them to drive those plated vehicles.
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Illegal to sell or give a foreign plated car here unless you give/sell it to another foreigner and use a foreign location as the location of
transaction. You can't drive a Mexican plated car without a Mexican driver's license (other than a rental car) and you can't drive a US/Canadian
plated car with a Mexican driver's license.
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shari
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Mood: there is no reality except the one contained within us "Herman Hesse"
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I bought my american plated car from a Mexican in Mulege and went to the Anapromex office there and for a fee, they gave me a decal sticker plate and
an Anapromex drivers license to drive it...didnt even ask if I had a mexican license...which I do of course...I've had several gringo plated cars and
done the very same thing for 10 years now...seems to work here in the boonies.
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chuckie
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Thanks all....Issue has been resolved.
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Since you have to buy $300,000 dollars liability coverage for any vehicle operated on Federal Mexican highways, you are gonna have problems rounding
up some insurance for Oonapafa or Anapromex cars -- it has nothing to do with your driver's license. We couldn't do it so we had to import. Now we
have Mex plates and Mex. Liability insurance coverage for the highway. Had to do it because we must drive an hour or two on the Federal Highway every
time we go south to shop in San Jose del Cabo or San Lucas.
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MitchMan
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| Quote: | Originally posted by shari
I bought my american plated car from a Mexican in Mulege and went to the Anapromex office there and for a fee, they gave me a decal sticker plate and
an Anapromex drivers license to drive it...didnt even ask if I had a mexican license...which I do of course...I've had several gringo plated cars and
done the very same thing for 10 years now...seems to work here in the boonies. |
Shari, what is your Mexican immigration status?
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DavidE
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Mood: 'At home we demand facts and get them. In Mexico one subsists on rumor and never demands anything.' Charles Flandrau,
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Boy what a difference 20 years made with the Mexican highway patrol. Before they were laid back looking for occasional speeders, or cars without
plates to gain a few pesos,
Today when one passes by I can feel their eyeballs rubbing up and down my seat belt.
On the mainland on federal roadways, they hide behind freeway overpass center supports with their instant on radar gun. Parked at the top of freeway
overpasses, driving 85 mph trying to sneak up behind speeders. Hijos sometimes I feel the PFP has hired Mexican American CHP no-hires 
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