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Hi i already have a post on here regarding time limit for LMO but was alos wondering if anyone has had any experience in exporting their car out to Manitoba/Canada. We are hoping to bring our Landrover with us in a container (its a R reg so qualifies for the age limit) just wanted to know how strict they are before it goes into the container ie what it involves and when it gets off the container, what is expected... does it need some sort of inspection on arrival? what it all involves etc! Its already kitted up for extreme cold weather (went to Nord Kapp in april in it) and its a offroader so would love if the old girl came along with us. Any info much appreciated again :thumbsup: xxx

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Read this for CFIA requirements
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/animals/.../1323826425974

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"its a R reg so qualifies for the age limit"...what the f@€# does that mean???

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I see you're from Ireland. That explains it. UK number plates started by ending in an A (A reg) in I think 1963. An "R reg" I count out on my fingers is roughly 16 year after that, so circa 1979. More than 15 years old therefore OK to bring (all things being equal).

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I can't tell you about a Landrover, but I brought my 2CV this summer. I did a full garage inspection prior to leaving, as I thought it would simplify things on arrival, and I had the bottom steam pressure washed by a specialist garage....Canada is very sensitive about loose soil or earth being on the bottom of the vehicle. I put my car in the container and all went well. When the container arrived it was pulled off for inspection by customs, which is apparently the norm for a container with a vehicle, so that costs extra. Then when the container arrived at the house, the customs man came to verify it was the correct vehicle, he gave me the necessary import forms. I got a provisional insurance on her, whipped her to a garage who did a vehicle check, filled in the forms, which I took to the vehicle department and paid the vehicle tax and got my new number plates. Hey Presto. Good luck.

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A Deux Chevaux? Magnifique! Bien fait Madame. (I bet that turns a few heads in New Brunswick).

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Novo, I could have sold her a thousand times over. The Francophone customs chap rocked up with his mates and they all had their photo taken in her, as did all 8 removal men, and I get bits of paper shoved under the wipers with 'cool' and 'cute' and smiling emoticons; it's all very sweet. I've taken her off the road now till spring, when I am going to have a leaflet to hand out about her explaining about her engine, I get sick of repeating myself. I admit I'm a nut on 'em, I've have always had one or an Acadian hanging around in the hinterland.

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can you remember what your paid to ship your car over, as i to am thinking about shipping mine out when i move,
and is there any problem with the speedo reading mph and kph as ive seen a few comments about involving needing new heads due to the mph being the larger of the 2 digits?

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Eek, sorry but I moved from France! So the km bit would not have been a problem. However I used a UK Shipping Company, The Moving Partnership and they were brilliant. Bearing in mind I had a container anyway, the additional space was £400 for the car. There is a hell of a lot of information available around, and if you know a specific make and model query, I will get my husband to respond...I'm not useless! But he's better.

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I've brought cars from the US and registered them. There's never been an issue over the size of the numbers on the speedo.

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shipping costs vary considerably depending on exactly what service you buy. For a car with sole occupation of a 20' container, loaded by driving into said container at the freight forwarders' Southampton yard, shipped to Montreal, CFIA inspected, transferred by rail to Toronto, customs cleared at railhead, trucked to a yard where I could drive it out and to its new home, it cost somewhere around 5k GBP. It would have been less if it had come over at the same time as all our other worldly goods, more if we'd taken a door-to-door service.

No difficulty at all with RHD, mph-dominant speedo, or (though there should have been; the safety inspector was not exactly diligent) with the wrong-sided headlamp dip pattern.

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Of course, I'm now tempted to ask, "How many removal men can you get in a 2CV?"

:)

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But I couldn't tempt you too far could I Novo? You must remember that these were all clean living good Canadian boys...so probably two!

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Enough nonsense, but you really have tempted me. How much does a 2CV cost in France these days? I've always wanted one.

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Oh wow, you're just the right person I was hoping to discover here!...much respect to you for bringing over your 2CV!!!:thumbsup: I desperately don't want to sell my old Toyota Liteace MPV/camper when I move to Canada, it 's very special...could you give me some further guidance as to importation?
Mine is a 1988 Toyota Liteace, it came from the factory as an MPV and I converted it to a campervan. DVLA class it as a 'Van with windows' (to keep the police happy) but my insurance company class it as a campervan because I use it as a campervan.
I understand it will need a Canadian MOT and all that rigmarole but I no nothing about getting it into a shipping container :eek: I'd be very grateful for your advice........

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Fantastic, you get the odd Disco, Freelander and even Range Rover but I haven't even heard of (I'm guessing) a Series 3 in Manitoba never mind Brandon. Is it a swb or lwb, petrol or diesel? Used to have a couple of Series 3 swb myself, we love them.
Hope you get it over, would like to give it a onceover.
Good luck with that one :fingerscrossed:.

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YES THATS CORRECT! x

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Fab thank you, i knew already about the steam cleaning etc but wasnt sure how hard it was once we got out there, sounds pretty much straight forward then xxx

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Its a landrover defender 90 (diesel) built for extreme offroading ;) she is a beauty!!! When you say you would like to give it a once over does that mean you are a garage then or just a spectator lol? x

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Eh? A Defender from 1979? 1997 surely?

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yes 1997 not 79 lol x

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This old beast lives just a few miles east of you in NW Ont. Circa 1955 Series 1 originally owned by the province of Ontario, it was one of two that originally broke trail for sections of what is now Hwy. 11 between Hwy. 11/17 and Fort Frances, Ontario. My Dad bought it in 1971 and it still runs today but more or less just for snow ploughing now. "The Antichrist" has been a godsend for moving tons of snow over the years. I keep nagging my Dad to restore it properly, perhaps one day he'll listen to me.

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Oh just a keen spectator though I do have a 40'x40' workshop where your welcome to store it. You would of course have to leave the keys with it, just in case ;).

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Oh, "R" at the beginning, not the end then.

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Oh yes I understand that the Reg/year thing, I didn't understand the 'more than 15 years' thing, now I do :thumbup:
Hold on though, my dad had a Simca in 1972 which was K reg...onwards from there (omitting the O and Q reg because there were not any) would make an R reg 1977...not trying be picky :D

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Novo, go to leboncoin.fr there are generally a few on there every week, in all areas. An all bells and whistles job is going to be 10 to 12 thousand, but a reasonable 'runner' about 3 to 5 thousand. Parts and pieces are still affordable, and because they are popular and much loved garage mechanics are much more amenable.

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OK just to clear this mess up LOL, i made a mistake it is a N reg 1995!!! (having a blonde moment and was thinking of another 4x4 we had previously) xxx

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Whoo i love it, we must get a snowplough for our too when we get there :thumbsup:

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Haha im sure the hubby would love to show it off to you, leaving the key, hmmm he wouldnt part with her lol xxx

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Not quite!, there were no O and Q reg so R reg = 1977 ;)

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It goes something like... Contact a local shipping agent in the UK. Tell them you want to ship your vehicle to Canada and emphasise that it's over 15 years old. They'll give you the advice you need, quote you a price, tell you where to take it, handle the export paperwork and engage an import agent at the far end (Canada) if required. Once imported (as an object) you then need to see about registering the vehicle locally.

Shop around as prices will vary considerably.

We're going to ship a 20ft container anyway... our Jeep will go in with all my tools and big boys toys... after that the wife can squeeze in all the non essential items what she wants like furniture, electrical household items and clothes etc. :D

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That's great thanks, It's really not rocket science after all is it...just a case of asking others :thumbup: All my belongings will actually fit in to the back of my Toyota...I had visions of it being lifted on to a boat with straps around the wheels, but container makes sense because it will protected inside for the voyage. Now I'm going to find someone to share a container with or find something else to fill up the container...hmmm...I've heard Walker's Cheese & Onion crisps are hard to find in Canada...a new business venture... how exciting! :thumbsup:

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don't bring it
landrovers are dreadfully expensive on parts and insurance, many garages won't touch them plus if you really really want one of the useless heaps of trash that let you down all of the time, buy one here and save the cost plus we drive on the other side of the road
I would save my money and buy a toyota

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As a current Land Rover owner in Calgary i agree with the above!!!!!

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Right!, I'll bring my Toyota :D:thumbsup:

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You have no idea how disheartening it is to hear this (again and again).
when it's time for the old Red Chev to be retired I've told hubby I want either a Land Rover or Range Rover (obviously not a spanker!) but more so because - well to me there'll always be 'Brit' vehicles and it'll be my stand against all of the 1 ton dually's and 3/4 ton jacked up hd's that congragate at family do's.

Please tell me they won't be laughing in public at me when I complain I need to spend $5000 on a window regulator or whatever :confused:

As they go (aside from those very sweet but not for me defenders) what IS the most reliable of the lot?????

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um the landy is one of the most reliable vehicles we have had, give me a older landy anyday to the new electronic crap nowadays (we had a nissan nevara outlaw, modern etc always let us down and cost 20x more to fix), my hubby does all the work him self on it and he knows the vehicle inside out, it is also build for offroading (which is his passion) (and sadly the Toyota will NOT do what a landy does) the landy will have had everything new on it so hopefully wont need any parts for a while. We have to send out a container anyway so it wont cost any extra to bring it along! xxx

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Sadly whatever you go for you'll find trouble maintaining it. A friend of mine bought a brand new landrover in 2006 and had to send it back to the garage six times because of major mechanical problems. Earlier models of Discovery, Freelander or P38 Rangies all had their own issues too.

I'd have to say if you must, then go only for a classic Range Rover, 1995 or older which is NOT an air-suspension variant. Air suspension appeared from 92 onwards but may owners saw the sense in converting them back to springs as the airbags were notoriously troublesome.

You'll often find a very well looked after example of the classic if you look around. I had a 1991 Range Rover Vogue which was awesome..OOPS:eek:, sorry, there's that Canadian word again!... Even though I had no trouble with mine they can be a pain to work on when there is a problem. Many mechanics who have had previous experience of them will not want to even look at them..."take it away!" is response you could get...:thumbdown:
If you don't have a moderate amount of mechanical aptitude yourself, or a big pit of money, i'd think about something else that would be equally as quirky to the natives but less troublesome to maintain.

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That's exactly the most important point!, 'my hubby does all the work him self on it and he knows the vehicle inside out'... You must have some mechanical aptitude yourself if and a passion for the old landrovers if you're going to own one.

'The landy will have had everything new on it so hopefully wont need any parts for a while'... Don't be so sure!, new landrovers are not built to the same standard as the older Defenders were.

'and sadly the Toyota will NOT do what a landy does'... I Don't want to gloat here but :) I got my old Toyota stuck in a hole in a field just last week after I'd filled it with logs and a friend came with his landrover to pull me out...however, once out of the hole my Toyota climbed easily to the top of the field but his landy got stuck and I then had to help him out!: :eek::thumbsup:

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I really do think on this one occassion i'll have to listen to what seems to be the overwhelming concensus. :(

That sucks because I don't want the same kind of SUV or truck like all the other girlies in the family :thumbdown: