As a Canadian who owns a Ford Focus that I've driven in the US, and has a friend who owns a US Ford Focus who has brought it into Canada before, there is one interesting thing about Ford in particular that will allow you to tell if it was a US car or a Canadian car; cruise control. Even when I switch my car to MPH, the cruise control speed is still displayed in KM/H. My buddy with a US Ford has the opposite, even when his car is in KM/H, his cruise control still displays in MPH.
I have a 2017 Ford Mustang and it displays cruise speed in whatever units are selected in the gauges. If I switch it to MPH, it shows the set speed in MPH. Same with Km/h.
My experience is that where a used vehicle spent its life is important. Given the weather in Canada, I'd look very, very closely for rust before buying a car from there.
Depends on where it came from. Saskatchewan and Alberta don't use salt as much as say Ontario Quebec and Maritimes. I have an 04 that came from Vancouver island and it's minty because it barely gets below freezing there. Prairies opposite prob, it gets so cold salt doesn't work. Manitoba they salt though
Sports cars are usually fine because they get garaged in the winter. Daily drivers and trucks are riskier for rust for sure. Alberta is okay. Ontario is a huge no.
Maple syrup is no problem but if the vehicle is from Newfoundland and is set up to run on Screech a dark high test Jamaican rum we won't give a estimate and have to charge by the hour. Thanks for understanding...
@@randoir1863 if they sold the cars to a Canadian dealer ship that would be okay but chances are they were sold to a US dealer ship witch again hurts Canadian car prices and keeps our prices up.
@TheRealStrikerofLife that's kind of why I left the comment. I've seen videos on YT about new car prices in the USA and always wondered how complicated it would be if an American came north to buy a car and had it delivered down south . Two long-standing dealers in what is essentially downtown Victoria sold to real estate developers and moved elsewhere in the city .
Michigander here... The Mrs bought a 10 year old low mileage Mustang import that came out of Ontario last year. It's still the cleanest example I've ever seen and has been trouble free, so for us, the savings were worth it.
I live in Sarnia, Ontario - home of Progressive Auto Sales (not Budds, they’re 2 hours away). There’s a constant fleet of car haulers delivering cars across the border. And being that $1 U.S. = $1.35 CDN, you’d be silly not to consider a CDN vehicle. Progressive is also a great community supporter here locally. Southern Ontario has the same climate as all the northern U.S. states (including Northern California) here and we use less salt on our roads than you might assume. More skepticism exists here in Canada for cheap exotic U.S. cars that magically appear 6 months after major hurricanes in Florida or tornadoes in the Midwest. #cartrek #cheapgallardo 🇺🇸🇨🇦🚘🚙
We bought a GMC Yukon XL Denali that was imported from Canada. My wife's sister was going to buy from the same dealer a different Canadian imported Yukon. Then a used dealer she knows talked her out of it convincing her that Canadian imported vehicles were just junk and covered with rust. Mind you this is a one year old vehicle we're talking about. She ended up buying one through the used dealer that he bought on an auction out of Texas. Guess who has had countless issues and who has had a flawless vehicle? Our Canadian import has been an excellent buy, and her Texas Yukon that had fewer miles has been a nightmare. Every vehicle is different, but just because a vehicle is coming from Canada doesn't mean it's automatically bad.
@loganburdett4287 I'll agree on an older vehicle, but if it's only a couple years old it should be a non issue. There is a lot of road salt/chemical use in the States, too.
@drj4170 iv seen 3 year old cars with corrosion issues here definitely don't assume it's a non issue because of the age heavily inspect the vehicle first
Here in Canada nice diesel trucks are next to impossible to find. As soon as any here come up for sale they are immediately bought and sent to the US. So we are left to pick through the rusted out lemons that the exporters don’t want
*Looks out his Oregon kitchen window at his Canadian F150. One thing to note, Canadian vehicles, including my Canadian F150, have daytime running lights turned on permanently, and they can be deactivated via the OBD port, once in the United States.
I bought a XTR f-150 last year and have noticed a few more things. It has a factory block heater dangling by the right front tow hook. It has a 36gallon tank that isn't listed anywhere as an option. It developed a leak on the transmission from a line that runs from what looks like a transmission cooler mounted on the tranny back up to the motor. It is super hard to find part and isn't even supposed to have one. But it leaks engine coolant not tranny fluid. Turns out its not a cooler but a warmer to get the transmission up to temp using engine coolant. Reminds me of the loggers back in the day that would quick connect coolant lines from the truck into frozen equipment to get them up and running. Cold weather features ill never use in upstate NY but might have been useful on the bitter cold Canadian winter days.
Im sure the people in Canada used to -60⁰f cold starts think boy since its only 15⁰f in southern Ontario I'm glad i didn't opt for those cold weather options on my truck. .@@loganburdett42874:44
This is interesting. Many years ago, the Canadian dollar was very strong, at or slightly above the USD, and we had a major influx of US cars being imported since they could be bought cheaper south of the border. Now things have flipped and it's going the other way.
My 2008 Suburban 2500 4x4 is imported from Canada and you would never know it as mentioned they changed the cluster over so it has MPH over km visually over km over MPH. But if you disconnect the battery you have to switch it to MPH as the computer system still defaults to km. No problems getting it insured or anything as the VIN is what North America uses.
(Ohio) Got completely screwed on a 2017 GMC Sierra Denali warranty due to this issue. The warranty I purchased was void due to it being a Canada original sale.
I export vehicles from canada to the U.S. lots of happy American customers as they save significantly. I sell late models to avoid any rust issues. Ford & GM only. No ram garbage
Summer 1979, living in a northern tier state....Dad was shopping for a new car and was checking out the recently released GM X-Cars...at a Buick/Olds/Cadillac dealer, we were looking at the Skylark and Omega they had in stock. They were Canadian market cars that were bought in as the cars were in short supply on the US side of the border. The cars didn't have factory AC and the dealer would install if the customer desired...so it would appear this was happening back in the day.
Not only was this happening back in the day, it's the reason we have the 25 year rule. Gray market luxury cars were brought in at a fraction of the cost of what dealers were selling them for.
@@rwdplz1 The rule about importing from Canada is a bit fuzzier. If the car is manufactured to comply with US regulations and is the same as a car sold in the US, it can be imported to the US outside of the 25-year rule. As Canadian-spec cars are largely identical to US-spec, it's a lot easier to import Canadian cars to the US.
You have confirmed my suspicions. Around 2020, driving around Vancouver I noticed that there were almost no US brand passenger cars on the road. While I know they stopped making them around 2018, there should have been plenty of pre 2008 models on the road. And there was virtually nothing. So few that the number one brand of US cars on the road here was Tesla. It still is. Sure there would be people like me driving their old beaters but it seems that when they get traded in, they just disappeared from here. In 2021 when I decided to give away my old Focus to a friend and het a newer small SUV, it took me quite a while to find a CR-V I liked. Going out to the Abbotsford Auto Mall, in 2021 most of the dealers had nothing. The Honda dealer has just 2 used CR-Vs. But had a whole bunch of Toyota Tacoma pick ups. When my needs changed in 2023 and I needed to trade in the CR-V on an Odyssey, I had to go to a dealer over 80km away in Chilliwack to find one in a tolerable colour. There were only about. 10 used ones in the entire lower mainland in Autotrader and most were Black or grey.. I still observe cars. Even today, there seemed to be little on the road that is over than 4-5 years on the road. It seems that when Canadians trade in their cars or light trucks, they mostly disappear and my assumption is that they have been going to the USA. Now, when there are more than around 12 cars stopped at a traffic light, one will be a Tesla. US brands are limited to very old cars or next to new pickups and SUVs.
Fun fact, when Ford brought back the Boss 302 in 2012 they couldn't sell the 2012 Boss 302 Laguna Seca in Canada because Canada had a law requiring day time running lights. The regular Boss 302 just used fog lights as day time running lights but the Laguna Seca has a fog light delete for Brake cooling. In 2013 Ford updated the face of the mustang allowing them to sell the 2013 Boss 302 Laguna Secca in Canada.
Well done video! I was going the the other direction years ago buying a US car in Canada . I was looking at a Chrysler minivan until I discovered the warranty didn't transfer . I ended up with a Ford minivan instead which involved a simple switch to change from miles to KM's . Great car and a good savings because the Cdn dollar was strong then.
I bought a 2019 Canadian Ram in 2023. Purchased a good aftermarket warranty. Dealership has had no problem honoring the warranty. What has been a problem is getting Mopar to recognize me as the owner. Says the VIN doesn't exist. SiriusXM had a hard time at first with the VIN and radio ID being in the US instead of Canada where it was registered. They kept transferring me to a Canadian Rep. Lol. Also, when the dealership is running a service special for say, an oil change, it excludes Canadian vehicles. That's just stupid! Also, my Uconnect system won't update to US, even though it is the same. There have been a few US updates including to the Nav system, but mine is still the same version a year later. All and all, I'm very happy with the truck. I got a great deal from an independent wholesaler I know that buys cars for dealerships. Got the friends and family discount.
I also own a Canadian market car. My C Class came from Alberta, but it was brought down to the US by a relative of the original owner. The always on headlights are a nice touch, my car also has a block heater installed. My car has analog gauges, so my passengers get confused sometimes when they see my speed😂
Pre pandemic and early pandemic I was a detailer at a local car wash in a northern midwestern college town. We had a Mainstreet used car dealer that imported a large amount of their inventory from Canada. I ironically found out about the XTR trim level because that trim and similar f150s seemed to be that dealers choice import. Easiest way for me to tell if it was a Canadian vehicle was maple leaf security stickers on the windows or obscene amounts of rust never before seen on that new of a YR/MK/MDL of a vehicle. I presume they got them for steals of a deal due to the latter.
I never buy Canadian vehicles outside of the Southwestern part of British Columbia. I don't live in Canada, but have a car there for my visits. It's a totally rust free 27 year old Mercedes, bought in Vancouver. The third or fourth now.
We see a lot of rams and wranglers coming across the border and dealers not disclosing that the warranty does not cross over. Leaves a lot of customers upset that their low mileage used vehicle has not warranty
Enterprise car rentals are the only company that have a CAN - AM warranty arrangement with Chrysler. If it's an enterprise vehicle, they'll have warranty. If not, then that dealer is greasy.
I've heard Toyota has stopped providing the paperwork needed to import a vehicle from Canada to the US and vice versa as of a year or two ago. I guess they don't like people doing this.
I nerd out over Canadian cars here in the states, especially Canada exclusive models/trim levels. Being down in Texas they’re rare but I do see them occasionally!
I'm a mechanic in Canada and it's always a pain to work on Canadian only cars because our American databases have no info on them. Mercedes b class, Nissan Micra, Nissan Qashqai, Chevy Orlando, probably more I don't know of.
i bought a camaro about 4 months ago that came from canada. my oil pressure gauge is in kPa and the analog oil and coolant temp gauges are in Celsius. but the digital ones are fahrenheit
I’ve owned a US ‘16 f150 and a ‘17 Canadian f150 with the analog cluster. A couple of things I’ve noticed on the Canadian is the MPH is slightly off even with stock tires. You don’t have the option to turn off daytime running lamps. If you ever take the battery out, you’ll need to go in and switch from the default L/100km and KPH. You can forscan most if not all of these though
Here in Maine, buying cars from Canada was pretty common for a while, but recently dealers will not service cars bought from Canada, especially warranties and recalls, You would think that would not happen, as you keep saying "North American".... but its pretty tough. I think that dealers were finding it hard to get reimbursed from the factory
Actually there is a difference between American and Canadian cars, that is we have higher safety standards here. There are American cars that weren't allowed to be sold in Canada like the Pontiac GTO years ago. We have higher bumper standards here, that is why the GTO wasn't allowed to be sold. We also implemented daytime running lights many years ago way before the USA.
It was the complete opposite about 15 years ago. I’ve imported probably a hundred or more US spec cars into Canada. My friend owned a CPO Volvo he had to drive back to the US for warranty work.
I remember about that time period, my aunt private party sold her e93 328i to someone from Canada on autotrader. She thought it might've been a scam at first but it was a real buyer, purchasing because apparently in some way it was cheaper for him. Don't know the details
Oh yeah I drove lots of work trucks from around then where the Speedo was in MPH. I had an 01 Tahoe that came from Kansas originally. The US gmt800s had a cool feature the Canadian ones didn't. If you hit the dome light shutoff switch by the headlight switch four times quickly it killed the automatic headlights and drls. Canadian ones you had to shut it off and click the emergency brake on a notch and start the truck again to kill the lights while the engine was running at night.
My parents bought a 2018 Nissan Maxima that was a Canadian car. The temperature display on the dash is still in Celsius, which is kind of neat. It came with both the French and English manuals, with the French manual being much more thoroughly used!
I sold cars from in Canada 18-22 and during the pandemic/lockdowns there were transport trucks lined up at local franchise dealers. An exporter leased a huge gravel lot and had it usually full of units to ship to America Things were slow for us locally, and we began wholesaling units for higher than our retail number if it was something like a low-km late-model diesel 1-ton etc. Or even just take advantage selling our punched new-cars for relatively strong money.
Changing the odometer in Canada is a falsehood that the ONLY Canadian Tire which is a RIV approved inspector. Canadian Tire would try to make you change the odometer lol. But if you read the regulations in Canada as long as it has KM per hour speedometer you were fine! This has been in place since I was importing them in since 1990 lol. No there are 3 in total RIV complainant inspection facilities. Dealers always think that they know everything to scare ordinary people form importing or exporting cars into Canada or the US. He for got to mention some cars cant be imported into either country due to were they are made and certain models that are banned from import and export as well. Plus anything older than 20 years i believe is exempt from a lot of rules as well.
I feel like the majority of my cars were all previous Canadian or originated from Canada with the exception of a 2020 Chevy sonic that came from Orion, Michigan
It would also matter where in Canada the car came from… Ontario and eastern cars have hard winters, Vancouver on the other hand is like Seattle and an easy province to buy from - heck, bc cars are bought by easterners!
Either the Americans have got too much money or absolutely no sense, which is it? I’m actually here in the UK, my friend has just sold his 1998 BMW 323i Uk car Right hand drive, to an US importer, it is a good example of a 25 year old BMW, but over here it’s worth about $5500. It’s now in America with an asking price of $15000!
Americans have good sense like anybody else. The issue is insanely cheap Canadian collectors that always want the deal of the century. I would sooner sell Rolex watches in the bowels of Calcutta than deal with a local "collector". They're tighter than bark on a tree..two coats of paint or a ducks **shole. Take your pick. @@iaing9028
There is an exporter group that regularly ships out cars from Canada to the US, but also to other parts of the as well. My friend’s Mustang GT500 was bought by them from his Autotrader ad and they told him it would be exported to the UAE.
Working at Acura as a tech first and then as a service advisor I can tell you that warranty is a pain when its a Canadian car. I used to handle the added paperwork to get the claims approved but the other advisors used to just flat-out deny coverage which was great for me as I would get all the snowbirds warranty work and make the extra bank. That's the 7% savings you get as a buyer... crappy warranty coverage. I would buy canadian cars if they are already out of factory warranty, at that point they are essentially the same thing.
There’s a dealer here in Atlanta, ALM that loves Canadian vehicles. In searching for vehicles they have for sale over the years and looking at the carfax, I have noticed them selling a lot of cdn vehicles. My mom purchased one of them from them years back. It was an infiniti with 20k miles and whoever did the instrument cluster swap didn’t do it properly. She was getting some electrical gremlins on the dash. I directed her to take it to my buddy at an Infiniti dealer. He looked up the VIN and it was “blacklisted” in their system not to warranty any work on that vehicle. He sent me screenshots of their system. My mom took that back to ALM and demanded they buy the car back and find her a replacement. They gave her some hassle at first but eventually caved and agreed. They bought it back for what she paid for it and found her a comparable US car of the same year and model, just different color at a discounted price.
I'm here to tell you guys, after having worked on a lot of newer Canadian vehicles, some of them are real duds. The biggest issue is with trucks: a lot of them are fleet vehicles that have been driven exclusively on the dirt roads more in northern CA and they are rot buckets.
FYI - moved to the US and brought our Audi down. Correct, the warranty carries over. The maintenance plan did not, but since we had not used the maintenance plan, the Canadian dealer gave us a full refund on it.
The ford Xtra is the Canadian fx4. I work at a dodge dealer just south of Canada in NY. A lot of warranties can be transferred. Just has a specific process.
The only good cars to come out of Canada 🇨🇦 would be the Canadian Muscle Cars like the 66-67 Acadian Canso SD and the 66-69 Beaumont SD, 68-70 Acadian SS, Meteor Montcalm, Mercury M100, The Plodge Viscount l, and Fargo pickup
Canadian vehicles also have daytime running lights that are mandatory as many U.S. states do not require them. Also, the child seat anchor is secured to the vehicle differently and when bringing in U.S. vehicles to Canada, require a different anchor connection to the vehicle.
Depends what you are buying. If you are buying a sports car that is stored for 4 to 5 months every year, you ard getting a low mileage car. If I sold mine, it will get listed in the US.
While I don't know if Honda's warranty will transfer, I have found a Canadian 2019 CRV with a panoramic moonroof never available in the same vehicle in the U.S. market. Could definitely throw a wrench into the works
One of my brother in law's recently bought a used Sierra that was originally sold in Canada. The MSRP on the sticker was a lot higher than a comparable US model. I didn't want to ask what he paid but I hope he didn't think that was the original MSRP was in US Dollars.
The problem is, they are rusty, corroded and nasty. The Ford dealer by me has to undercoat the chassis' as they look terrible. Also, most are XTR's which is a dead give away, as you said.
I had 2 Toyota Highlander’s, 02 Limited I sold in 2009 and a 08 Sport I sold in 2014. The 02’ ended up in Benin in 2015 , the 08’ ended up in Nigeria in 2021. It’s not only the USA hurting our used car market!
My favorite Canadian cars are those old GM rebadge jobs like the Pontiac Ventura (Chevy Nova) and the Pontiac Parisienne which is a Chevy Caprice down here lol
Canadian here. Have seen a 1964 Pontiac Parisienne with a 400 hp factory 409 motor. Had a 3/8 inch chrome plated fuel line from the tank to the motor bay...
As like in the US the province that a Cdn car or truck comes from makes a big difference, not much of a difference between Ont/Que and Mich/Min. Typically out east they use salt on the roads which makes them rust like crazy if not undercoated. Out west we use sand on the roads. You still get rust if you do not take care of your vehicle but takes much longer. It is correct though you probably get a lot of oilfield/gas/mining trucks but they have been fleet maintained so not always a bad risk if you use due diligence.
The irony is all those "American" versions of F-150s, Civics, CRVs, Corollas, RAV4s, Pacificas, American's are buying, are made right here in Ontario Canada, all those plants withing 5-6 hours driving distance of each other!
I started sending trucks to the US back in 2015 when our dollar crashed and everyone in Alberta lost their job. I could pick up an F150 for 25-30K pay no tax on used vehicles in Alberta. Then send them down to the states and get 25-30K USD and with the exchange rate, make 6-8k per truck in a week or two. Due to NAFTA at the time, no import duties on NA mfg vehicles. Canadian gauge clusters dont need to be changed, they always have both mph and kmh. Some other guys i know were going way bigger, and sending down mining and rig equipment. Excavators, etc. And making 6 figure profits. There was one guy a few years ago from texas that bought up almost a 400 car lot at an auction to send back down there.
I worked at a US dealer that did all the conversions. We had a shipment like every week of only Canadian cars. My brother and I bought a Canadian bmw 340.
Looking at the history on one of the cars I'm considering and saw it was originally sold in Canada. Thought it was weird but I guess it's no problem. This video was very informative.
Canadian Pontiacs in Canada, were just Chevys, Dodges were Plymouth and Ford had their own division in Canada, called Meteor, which wre a cross between Fords and Mercurys.
I can confidently tell you that warranty and data services (bmw app etc) does NOT transfer to US nor can you get factory warranty added so this is incorrect. You can do 3rd party warranty but that's about it.
There are different lighting requirements in Canada than the US. Some of the programming used to change that when selling across country lines can cause issues (different lighting operation) down the line if future programming is completed. Recalls and some wiring are different between countries as well. For most things they are the same vehicles.
True but most of the lighting issues is daytime running lights that’s mostly it. I have found that to export to the US is pretty easy which most I did was GM truck and Tahoes, Yukons and some Escalades. There is a daytime running light module that can be removed to fix that issue. But if you are importing them into Canada an to prevent his GM has made that DRL module very expensive lol. The other thing US cars dont have but not all is theft deterrent which is needed in Canada and again GM made that package almost 5 grand to stop us from importing these vehicles into Canada. the price of these was much cheaper in the US than in Canada even with the exchange. Harley Davidson motorcycles where another one that was a good imposter to Canada as well.
When working at a local Ford dealership, I remember having trouble looking up parts for Canadian-made Ford vehicles. The US Ford catalog would not populate the Canadian VIN number; our solution was to call a Ford dealership in Canada lol.
I’ll never buy a Canadian rust bucket I almost have a few times but the frames are rusted and the paint was bubbling from rust on a 2013 ish Jeep wrangler.
I am on my third f150 only because of the awesome trade in I would get since my trucks went to the US (Plus its good to be good friends with the dealer owner) where it actually benefitted me to trade in even though I didn't need to.
As a former car salesman that sold at a dealership in the u.s. that really needed a Canadian flag out front since the majority of our cars came from our native loving friends to the north. While this video is totally true, it does not address the corrosion and rust you encounter on even a 2 year old truck.
That’s why you use a waxed based spray. To be fair, the F-150s nowadays don’t have their differentials immediately painted from factory which makes it paramount to get rust protection that is waxed based. Not that rubber based shit.
My recollection (?) of this was that transit companies (BC Transit?) started experimenting by having drivers of buses keep their low beam headlights on at all times, and found that it reduced collisions significantly. And here we are today, as all vehicles since 1990 require them. I believe the Nordic countries were even earlier.
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along. Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along. Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along. Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along. Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Truly, TRULY, the ONLY way to tell if it's a Canadian vehicle vs an American vehicle, is the Airbag stickers under the sun visor, or in the engine bay. FRENCH TRANSLATION. If there is a dual language sticker, or the stickers has both French and English, it is a Canadian vehicle. He's not wrong when it comes to value, there is purely no difference mechanically, and Canadian cars have different features, such as, higher valued speedometers, and sometimes better ("higher") trim levels when compared to the American vehicles, think mid 2000's Honda SI's which was nothing more then a badge 😂
What this tells me. Dealers in Canada are having a tough time selling their overpriced vehicles in Canada and opt to sell them in the U.S. rather than lower the price at home. Greed is going to destroy this world.
Canadian trucks made their way to GA. Nearly bought one till I looked underneath and I saw 40 years of corrosion in a truck that was less than 5 years old.
purchased a car that came from canada and now multiple different dealers wont take it on a trade in because theyre saying its going to take over a year to acquire the title? were essentially stuck unless we can private sale it.
As a Canadian and a family member in the export business it is the best. Their are requirements for the vehicles to be shipped, for example GM's need to be 6 months old and driven 12,000 kms. We would buy certain model vehicles that are in demand in the US and drive them for 6 months. After 6 months sell that and buy another. For the past few years it has cost us nothing to drive a brand new vehicle.
I did phone support for a luxury car manufacturer here in the US and we would get calls from customers who purchased cars with Canadian vins . I would really avoid it , having any warranty repairs done or any sort of recall/campaigns completed is gonna be a nightmare , lots of phone calls, escalations, waiting for the go ahead . It’s gonna take at least twice as long if not more than if it were an American vin. I think this is the case with most manufacturers .
Thank you for your excellent analysis. As a Canadian we are so accustomed to getting bent over on any purchase we actually look forward to it. I consider it a morbid form of entertainment. Please Sir...May I have more...
For a while, a lot of guys were buying new trucks, using them for a year then selling them for more than they paid. They would only buy trucks with a US VIN because they could be exported without paying fees. And this would all be done at the dealership , the dealers would buy them back and ship them to the states after a certain amount of Km's. This has come to an end with the rising price of new trucks.
New cars are cheaper in Canada after you do the currency conversion. They are priced to the market and we are a much poorer country thanks to our socialist government. It got so bad at one point that car dealers in Michigan were buying their inventory from car dealers in the Windsor area cheaper than they could buy them from their own manufacturers. GM , Ford , Chrysler put a stop to it by threatening their franschise dealers with loss of their dealerships if they continued that practice...
Conveniently forgets about the rust bucket factor with Canadian cars(except those from British Columbia). That's one of the FIRST things I look at when buying a used car, automatically off my list if its from up north where they salt the roads. Unless its something like a low mile Corvette, aka a toy/garage princess.
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As a Canadian it's killing our used car market.
Cool
Good, they rust out there, we keep them in better shape
The used car market is dying everywhere to be honest.
@@chuk2795 I think bullet holes drop value a lot faster than rust.
@@chuk2795 Yeah, especially in Minnesota and Michigan. Not! 😜
As a Canadian who owns a Ford Focus that I've driven in the US, and has a friend who owns a US Ford Focus who has brought it into Canada before, there is one interesting thing about Ford in particular that will allow you to tell if it was a US car or a Canadian car; cruise control. Even when I switch my car to MPH, the cruise control speed is still displayed in KM/H. My buddy with a US Ford has the opposite, even when his car is in KM/H, his cruise control still displays in MPH.
Not true for my 15 mustang
@@Emm2004 But does your Focus show the cruise control in MPH or KPH?
Officer I had it to 120kph didnt know it was 120mph in reality
Stop driving a toy car. Easy.
I have a 2017 Ford Mustang and it displays cruise speed in whatever units are selected in the gauges. If I switch it to MPH, it shows the set speed in MPH. Same with Km/h.
As a Canadian, this is kinda frustrating. We also need cars😂
You don't need cars in Canada. All you need is more indian students
Trudeau’s voters from the Middle East need them and will buy them with your tax dollars
Next you’re going to say you need houses up there.
My experience is that where a used vehicle spent its life is important. Given the weather in Canada, I'd look very, very closely for rust before buying a car from there.
Depends on where it came from. Saskatchewan and Alberta don't use salt as much as say Ontario Quebec and Maritimes. I have an 04 that came from Vancouver island and it's minty because it barely gets below freezing there. Prairies opposite prob, it gets so cold salt doesn't work. Manitoba they salt though
some Canadian vehicles will have much less rust north mid west US.
Sports cars are usually fine because they get garaged in the winter. Daily drivers and trucks are riskier for rust for sure. Alberta is okay. Ontario is a huge no.
To add to this. Generally Canadian bikes are much better than us ones as we can only ride 6 months. Low miles pristine classics are all over Canada
I was truck shopping recently, and when I researched the VIN, about 70% of them came from Ontario or Quebec.
Same, was recently shopping for an F150 in the US and more often than not, the used trucks I was finding were from Canada
3 years ago when I got my truck I found out later that it was originally from Canada
They rust fast from those two provinces. The crap they put on the roads eats them.
As a Canadian I can Agree. A 2016 Edge can rust more then most normal cars😂 0:48
Same! And the underside of them were destroyed!
How much is the conversion fee to change the fuel system from maple syrup back to gasoline?
we'll do it fer a dozen timmies and a double double
@MrZippy052 here in canada we get our doubble doubbles from tummies but avoid the food unless it's donuts or timbits
Maple syrup is no problem but if the vehicle is from Newfoundland and is set up to run on Screech a dark high test Jamaican rum we won't give a estimate and have to charge by the hour. Thanks for understanding...
It took me 3 years to find a suitable 2011-2014 F150 in Canada because dealers were simply shipping them all to the US.
Yeah I hate that this is murdering Canadian used car market
There's a few dealerships in Victoria BC that have either sold the lot they were on to another dealership or have no stock on the lot .
@@randoir1863 if they sold the cars to a Canadian dealer ship that would be okay but chances are they were sold to a US dealer ship witch again hurts Canadian car prices and keeps our prices up.
@TheRealStrikerofLife that's kind of why I left the comment. I've seen videos on YT about new car prices in the USA and always wondered how complicated it would be if an American came north to buy a car and had it delivered down south . Two long-standing dealers in what is essentially downtown Victoria sold to real estate developers and moved elsewhere in the city .
I bought a 2014 fx4 f150 in 2019 and it turns out that it originally came from Calgary lmao.
I bought an Audi last year that originated from Canada and I thought that was bizarre at the time. Glad to know the story behind it.
Michigander here... The Mrs bought a 10 year old low mileage Mustang import that came out of Ontario last year. It's still the cleanest example I've ever seen and has been trouble free, so for us, the savings were worth it.
I live in Sarnia, Ontario - home of Progressive Auto Sales (not Budds, they’re 2 hours away).
There’s a constant fleet of car haulers delivering cars across the border. And being that $1 U.S. = $1.35 CDN, you’d be silly not to consider a CDN vehicle.
Progressive is also a great community supporter here locally.
Southern Ontario has the same climate as all the northern U.S. states (including Northern California) here and we use less salt on our roads than you might assume.
More skepticism exists here in Canada for cheap exotic U.S. cars that magically appear 6 months after major hurricanes in Florida or tornadoes in the Midwest.
#cartrek #cheapgallardo
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We bought a GMC Yukon XL Denali that was imported from Canada. My wife's sister was going to buy from the same dealer a different Canadian imported Yukon. Then a used dealer she knows talked her out of it convincing her that Canadian imported vehicles were just junk and covered with rust. Mind you this is a one year old vehicle we're talking about. She ended up buying one through the used dealer that he bought on an auction out of Texas. Guess who has had countless issues and who has had a flawless vehicle? Our Canadian import has been an excellent buy, and her Texas Yukon that had fewer miles has been a nightmare. Every vehicle is different, but just because a vehicle is coming from Canada doesn't mean it's automatically bad.
As a Canadian I will confirm rust is a very big issue to look out for
@loganburdett4287 I'll agree on an older vehicle, but if it's only a couple years old it should be a non issue. There is a lot of road salt/chemical use in the States, too.
Once the vehicle is contaminated with salt, the corrosion clock is ticking.
@drj4170 iv seen 3 year old cars with corrosion issues here definitely don't assume it's a non issue because of the age heavily inspect the vehicle first
Here in Canada nice diesel trucks are next to impossible to find. As soon as any here come up for sale they are immediately bought and sent to the US. So we are left to pick through the rusted out lemons that the exporters don’t want
I have bought almost all my vehicles in Michigan, almost all my cars were imports from Canada and a lot of them came in French 😅
Must have came from Quebec cause that's the only place in canada that would use French in that circumstance
Michigan is one of the largest Canadian Automobile Importers that literally brings in thousands of vehicles each day.
Most come from Ontario.
*Looks out his Oregon kitchen window at his Canadian F150.
One thing to note, Canadian vehicles, including my Canadian F150, have daytime running lights turned on permanently, and they can be deactivated via the OBD port, once in the United States.
I had to learn how to use forscan to turn off the low beam drl's on my Canadian f150
Why would you want to deactivate an important safety feature?
@@mexicanspec I use the amber parking lights. Plus I don't want my headlights on all the time.
Why what does it change? It's a safety feature and I assure you truck drivers in the rain are greatful for it. @@EarlPickle
@@TheRealStrikerofLife It's trivial to turn your headlights on when you need them and turn them off when they're not needed to prolong bulb life.
I bought a XTR f-150 last year and have noticed a few more things. It has a factory block heater dangling by the right front tow hook. It has a 36gallon tank that isn't listed anywhere as an option. It developed a leak on the transmission from a line that runs from what looks like a transmission cooler mounted on the tranny back up to the motor. It is super hard to find part and isn't even supposed to have one. But it leaks engine coolant not tranny fluid. Turns out its not a cooler but a warmer to get the transmission up to temp using engine coolant. Reminds me of the loggers back in the day that would quick connect coolant lines from the truck into frozen equipment to get them up and running. Cold weather features ill never use in upstate NY but might have been useful on the bitter cold Canadian winter days.
Upstate new york is not far from ontario the weather does not differ that much
Im sure the people in Canada used to -60⁰f cold starts think boy since its only 15⁰f in southern Ontario I'm glad i didn't opt for those cold weather options on my truck. .@@loganburdett42874:44
This is interesting. Many years ago, the Canadian dollar was very strong, at or slightly above the USD, and we had a major influx of US cars being imported since they could be bought cheaper south of the border. Now things have flipped and it's going the other way.
My 2008 Suburban 2500 4x4 is imported from Canada and you would never know it as mentioned they changed the cluster over so it has MPH over km visually over km over MPH. But if you disconnect the battery you have to switch it to MPH as the computer system still defaults to km. No problems getting it insured or anything as the VIN is what North America uses.
(Ohio) Got completely screwed on a 2017 GMC Sierra Denali warranty due to this issue. The warranty I purchased was void due to it being a Canada original sale.
I export vehicles from canada to the U.S. lots of happy American customers as they save significantly. I sell late models to avoid any rust issues. Ford & GM only. No ram garbage
Summer 1979, living in a northern tier state....Dad was shopping for a new car and was checking out the recently released GM X-Cars...at a Buick/Olds/Cadillac dealer, we were looking at the Skylark and Omega they had in stock. They were Canadian market cars that were bought in as the cars were in short supply on the US side of the border. The cars didn't have factory AC and the dealer would install if the customer desired...so it would appear this was happening back in the day.
Not only was this happening back in the day, it's the reason we have the 25 year rule. Gray market luxury cars were brought in at a fraction of the cost of what dealers were selling them for.
It's always been happening my father had to US cars he bought here in Canada at a used dealer
@@rwdplz1 The rule about importing from Canada is a bit fuzzier. If the car is manufactured to comply with US regulations and is the same as a car sold in the US, it can be imported to the US outside of the 25-year rule. As Canadian-spec cars are largely identical to US-spec, it's a lot easier to import Canadian cars to the US.
You have confirmed my suspicions. Around 2020, driving around Vancouver I noticed that there were almost no US brand passenger cars on the road. While I know they stopped making them around 2018, there should have been plenty of pre 2008 models on the road. And there was virtually nothing. So few that the number one brand of US cars on the road here was Tesla. It still is. Sure there would be people like me driving their old beaters but it seems that when they get traded in, they just disappeared from here. In 2021 when I decided to give away my old Focus to a friend and het a newer small SUV, it took me quite a while to find a CR-V I liked.
Going out to the Abbotsford Auto Mall, in 2021 most of the dealers had nothing. The Honda dealer has just 2 used CR-Vs. But had a whole bunch of Toyota Tacoma pick ups. When my needs changed in 2023 and I needed to trade in the CR-V on an Odyssey, I had to go to a dealer over 80km away in Chilliwack to find one in a tolerable colour. There were only about. 10 used ones in the entire lower mainland in Autotrader and most were Black or grey..
I still observe cars. Even today, there seemed to be little on the road that is over than 4-5 years on the road. It seems that when Canadians trade in their cars or light trucks, they mostly disappear and my assumption is that they have been going to the USA. Now, when there are more than around 12 cars stopped at a traffic light, one will be a Tesla. US brands are limited to very old cars or next to new pickups and SUVs.
Fun fact, when Ford brought back the Boss 302 in 2012 they couldn't sell the 2012 Boss 302 Laguna Seca in Canada because Canada had a law requiring day time running lights. The regular Boss 302 just used fog lights as day time running lights but the Laguna Seca has a fog light delete for Brake cooling. In 2013 Ford updated the face of the mustang allowing them to sell the 2013 Boss 302 Laguna Secca in Canada.
I have a 2013 F150 XTR and U. S. auto parts stores don’t recognize this trim level. It’s now nice to know exactly why😂😂thanks👍
Well done video! I was going the the other direction years ago buying a US car in Canada . I was looking at a Chrysler minivan until I discovered the warranty didn't transfer . I ended up with a Ford minivan instead which involved a simple switch to change from miles to KM's . Great car and a good savings because the Cdn dollar was strong then.
I bought a 2019 Canadian Ram in 2023. Purchased a good aftermarket warranty. Dealership has had no problem honoring the warranty. What has been a problem is getting Mopar to recognize me as the owner. Says the VIN doesn't exist. SiriusXM had a hard time at first with the VIN and radio ID being in the US instead of Canada where it was registered. They kept transferring me to a Canadian Rep. Lol. Also, when the dealership is running a service special for say, an oil change, it excludes Canadian vehicles. That's just stupid! Also, my Uconnect system won't update to US, even though it is the same. There have been a few US updates including to the Nav system, but mine is still the same version a year later. All and all, I'm very happy with the truck. I got a great deal from an independent wholesaler I know that buys cars for dealerships. Got the friends and family discount.
I also own a Canadian market car. My C Class came from Alberta, but it was brought down to the US by a relative of the original owner. The always on headlights are a nice touch, my car also has a block heater installed. My car has analog gauges, so my passengers get confused sometimes when they see my speed😂
Canadians don’t turn off the headlights?
@@sagew7377 Canadian law says that you need to have your lights on all the time, so when you put the car in drive, the lights turn on
Pre pandemic and early pandemic I was a detailer at a local car wash in a northern midwestern college town. We had a Mainstreet used car dealer that imported a large amount of their inventory from Canada. I ironically found out about the XTR trim level because that trim and similar f150s seemed to be that dealers choice import. Easiest way for me to tell if it was a Canadian vehicle was maple leaf security stickers on the windows or obscene amounts of rust never before seen on that new of a YR/MK/MDL of a vehicle. I presume they got them for steals of a deal due to the latter.
I never buy Canadian vehicles outside of the Southwestern part of British Columbia. I don't live in Canada, but have a car there for my visits. It's a totally rust free 27 year old Mercedes, bought in Vancouver. The third or fourth now.
We see a lot of rams and wranglers coming across the border and dealers not disclosing that the warranty does not cross over. Leaves a lot of customers upset that their low mileage used vehicle has not warranty
I cant imagine buying a car without asking about the warranty. Seems like something you should know, and not make assumptions about.
Enterprise car rentals are the only company that have a CAN - AM warranty arrangement with Chrysler. If it's an enterprise vehicle, they'll have warranty. If not, then that dealer is greasy.
Easily get a warranty,just buy a extended or after market one..Every RAM I owned never needed any warranty work anyways.
I live in Sarnia Ontario and see trucks and cars going across to the US by the trailer load all the time.
My last TRD Tundra was a Canadian import, a fantastic experience and dealer help here! Have a great day.
Out of curiosity, did you use a broker ? Or did you directly purchase from a dealer?
I've heard Toyota has stopped providing the paperwork needed to import a vehicle from Canada to the US and vice versa as of a year or two ago. I guess they don't like people doing this.
I nerd out over Canadian cars here in the states, especially Canada exclusive models/trim levels. Being down in Texas they’re rare but I do see them occasionally!
I'm a mechanic in Canada and it's always a pain to work on Canadian only cars because our American databases have no info on them. Mercedes b class, Nissan Micra, Nissan Qashqai, Chevy Orlando, probably more I don't know of.
Only one I can think of off the top of my head is the Nissan X-trail
The F-150 XTR is more or less what is called the XLT Chrome Package in the US.
i bought a camaro about 4 months ago that came from canada. my oil pressure gauge is in kPa and the analog oil and coolant temp gauges are in Celsius. but the digital ones are fahrenheit
I’ve owned a US ‘16 f150 and a ‘17 Canadian f150 with the analog cluster. A couple of things I’ve noticed on the Canadian is the MPH is slightly off even with stock tires. You don’t have the option to turn off daytime running lamps. If you ever take the battery out, you’ll need to go in and switch from the default L/100km and KPH. You can forscan most if not all of these though
Here in Maine, buying cars from Canada was pretty common for a while, but recently dealers will not service cars bought from Canada, especially warranties and recalls, You would think that would not happen, as you keep saying "North American".... but its pretty tough. I think that dealers were finding it hard to get reimbursed from the factory
Which brands were these that were refusing to service the Canadian card?
Actually there is a difference between American and Canadian cars, that is we have higher safety standards here. There are American cars that weren't allowed to be sold in Canada like the Pontiac GTO years ago. We have higher bumper standards here, that is why the GTO wasn't allowed to be sold. We also implemented daytime running lights many years ago way before the USA.
It was the complete opposite about 15 years ago. I’ve imported probably a hundred or more US spec cars into Canada. My friend owned a CPO Volvo he had to drive back to the US for warranty work.
I remember about that time period, my aunt private party sold her e93 328i to someone from Canada on autotrader. She thought it might've been a scam at first but it was a real buyer, purchasing because apparently in some way it was cheaper for him. Don't know the details
Oh yeah I drove lots of work trucks from around then where the Speedo was in MPH. I had an 01 Tahoe that came from Kansas originally. The US gmt800s had a cool feature the Canadian ones didn't. If you hit the dome light shutoff switch by the headlight switch four times quickly it killed the automatic headlights and drls. Canadian ones you had to shut it off and click the emergency brake on a notch and start the truck again to kill the lights while the engine was running at night.
My parents bought a 2018 Nissan Maxima that was a Canadian car. The temperature display on the dash is still in Celsius, which is kind of neat. It came with both the French and English manuals, with the French manual being much more thoroughly used!
And it's not just the manuals, take a look at any label or sticker in the car, airbag warning, tire inflation sticker, etc, they're all bilingual.
Unfortunately that car is from quebec who is considered the lowest form of canadian car
@georgejames6376 lol, we've had some issues with it, so you must be right
I'm from Quebec, the reason cars rust so bad is because they use salt on the roads instead of sand like the rest of Canada.
Just remember, the Chevy Orlando was never sold in Orlando.
I sold cars from in Canada 18-22 and during the pandemic/lockdowns there were transport trucks lined up at local franchise dealers.
An exporter leased a huge gravel lot and had it usually full of units to ship to America
Things were slow for us locally, and we began wholesaling units for higher than our retail number if it was something like a low-km late-model diesel 1-ton etc.
Or even just take advantage selling our punched new-cars for relatively strong money.
Changing the odometer in Canada is a falsehood that the ONLY Canadian Tire which is a RIV approved inspector. Canadian Tire would try to make you change the odometer lol. But if you read the regulations in Canada as long as it has KM per hour speedometer you were fine! This has been in place since I was importing them in since 1990 lol. No there are 3 in total RIV complainant inspection facilities. Dealers always think that they know everything to scare ordinary people form importing or exporting cars into Canada or the US. He for got to mention some cars cant be imported into either country due to were they are made and certain models that are banned from import and export as well. Plus anything older than 20 years i believe is exempt from a lot of rules as well.
I feel like the majority of my cars were all previous Canadian or originated from Canada with the exception of a 2020 Chevy sonic that came from Orion, Michigan
It would also matter where in Canada the car came from…
Ontario and eastern cars have hard winters, Vancouver on the other hand is like Seattle and an easy province to buy from - heck, bc cars are bought by easterners!
Because in Canada a car like my Trans Am is worth about $5000… down south it’s worth about $15,000$
Either the Americans have got too much money or absolutely no sense, which is it?
I’m actually here in the UK, my friend has just sold his 1998 BMW 323i Uk car Right hand drive, to an US importer, it is a good example of a 25 year old BMW, but over here it’s worth about $5500.
It’s now in America with an asking price of $15000!
Americans have good sense like anybody else. The issue is insanely cheap Canadian collectors that always want the deal of the century. I would sooner sell Rolex watches in the bowels of Calcutta than deal with a local "collector". They're tighter than bark on a tree..two coats of paint or a ducks **shole. Take your pick. @@iaing9028
There is an exporter group that regularly ships out cars from Canada to the US, but also to other parts of the as well. My friend’s Mustang GT500 was bought by them from his Autotrader ad and they told him it would be exported to the UAE.
Working at Acura as a tech first and then as a service advisor I can tell you that warranty is a pain when its a Canadian car. I used to handle the added paperwork to get the claims approved but the other advisors used to just flat-out deny coverage which was great for me as I would get all the snowbirds warranty work and make the extra bank. That's the 7% savings you get as a buyer... crappy warranty coverage. I would buy canadian cars if they are already out of factory warranty, at that point they are essentially the same thing.
There’s a dealer here in Atlanta, ALM that loves Canadian vehicles. In searching for vehicles they have for sale over the years and looking at the carfax, I have noticed them selling a lot of cdn vehicles. My mom purchased one of them from them years back. It was an infiniti with 20k miles and whoever did the instrument cluster swap didn’t do it properly. She was getting some electrical gremlins on the dash. I directed her to take it to my buddy at an Infiniti dealer. He looked up the VIN and it was “blacklisted” in their system not to warranty any work on that vehicle. He sent me screenshots of their system. My mom took that back to ALM and demanded they buy the car back and find her a replacement. They gave her some hassle at first but eventually caved and agreed. They bought it back for what she paid for it and found her a comparable US car of the same year and model, just different color at a discounted price.
I'm here to tell you guys, after having worked on a lot of newer Canadian vehicles, some of them are real duds. The biggest issue is with trucks: a lot of them are fleet vehicles that have been driven exclusively on the dirt roads more in northern CA and they are rot buckets.
That's because the export the garbage that they can't sell locally
FYI - moved to the US and brought our Audi down. Correct, the warranty carries over. The maintenance plan did not, but since we had not used the maintenance plan, the Canadian dealer gave us a full refund on it.
The ford Xtra is the Canadian fx4. I work at a dodge dealer just south of Canada in NY. A lot of warranties can be transferred. Just has a specific process.
The only good cars to come out of Canada 🇨🇦 would be the Canadian Muscle Cars like the 66-67 Acadian Canso SD and the 66-69 Beaumont SD, 68-70 Acadian SS, Meteor Montcalm, Mercury M100, The Plodge Viscount l, and Fargo pickup
Canadian vehicles also have daytime running lights that are mandatory as many U.S. states do not require them. Also, the child seat anchor is secured to the vehicle differently and when bringing in U.S. vehicles to Canada, require a different anchor connection to the vehicle.
Depends what you are buying. If you are buying a sports car that is stored for 4 to 5 months every year, you ard getting a low mileage car. If I sold mine, it will get listed in the US.
While I don't know if Honda's warranty will transfer, I have found a Canadian 2019 CRV with a panoramic moonroof never available in the same vehicle in the U.S. market. Could definitely throw a wrench into the works
I'm surprised he didn't explain that U.S. manufactured cars sold in Canada are also duty exempt coming into the U.S.....
This is destroying the used car market in Canada. Anything decent gets sucked up by the wholesalers and shipped south.
One of my brother in law's recently bought a used Sierra that was originally sold in Canada. The MSRP on the sticker was a lot higher than a comparable US model. I didn't want to ask what he paid but I hope he didn't think that was the original MSRP was in US Dollars.
Exchange rate will get Ya. Lol
The problem is, they are rusty, corroded and nasty. The Ford dealer by me has to undercoat the chassis' as they look terrible. Also, most are XTR's which is a dead give away, as you said.
Worse than any northern U.S. state? Have you seen cars from “the rust belt”?
I have a 2017 Durango without any rust due to proper undercoating.
@@kriscote3295 they are about the same IMO
Took me over a year to find a half decent truck for a decent deal. And by decent deal I mean 40.000 cad for a 2020 Colorado z71 what a rip off
I had 2 Toyota Highlander’s, 02 Limited I sold in 2009 and a 08 Sport I sold in 2014. The 02’ ended up in Benin in 2015 , the 08’ ended up in Nigeria in 2021. It’s not only the USA hurting our used car market!
Were they sold or stolen?
As someone who lives in Sarnia, I would have never thought I’d hear it on VinWiki lol
Same here🤣
My favorite Canadian cars are those old GM rebadge jobs like the Pontiac Ventura (Chevy Nova) and the Pontiac Parisienne which is a Chevy Caprice down here lol
Canadian here. Have seen a 1964 Pontiac Parisienne with a 400 hp factory 409 motor. Had a 3/8 inch chrome plated fuel line from the tank to the motor bay...
As like in the US the province that a Cdn car or truck comes from makes a big difference, not much of a difference between Ont/Que and Mich/Min. Typically out east they use salt on the roads which makes them rust like crazy if not undercoated. Out west we use sand on the roads. You still get rust if you do not take care of your vehicle but takes much longer. It is correct though you probably get a lot of oilfield/gas/mining trucks but they have been fleet maintained so not always a bad risk if you use due diligence.
Quebec cars are usually in a lot rougher of shape. As an Ontarian I would never buy a car from Quebec
The irony is all those "American" versions of F-150s, Civics, CRVs, Corollas, RAV4s, Pacificas, American's are buying, are made right here in Ontario Canada, all those plants withing 5-6 hours driving distance of each other!
It’s destroyed the market up here
I started sending trucks to the US back in 2015 when our dollar crashed and everyone in Alberta lost their job.
I could pick up an F150 for 25-30K pay no tax on used vehicles in Alberta. Then send them down to the states and get 25-30K USD and with the exchange rate, make 6-8k per truck in a week or two. Due to NAFTA at the time, no import duties on NA mfg vehicles.
Canadian gauge clusters dont need to be changed, they always have both mph and kmh.
Some other guys i know were going way bigger, and sending down mining and rig equipment. Excavators, etc. And making 6 figure profits.
There was one guy a few years ago from texas that bought up almost a 400 car lot at an auction to send back down there.
Made a lot of money flipping Canadian cars in Detroit on a consumer level back in the day.
I sold my 2015 duramax to a wholesaler and they shipped my old truck off to Texas
I worked at a US dealer that did all the conversions. We had a shipment like every week of only Canadian cars. My brother and I bought a Canadian bmw 340.
Looking at the history on one of the cars I'm considering and saw it was originally sold in Canada. Thought it was weird but I guess it's no problem.
This video was very informative.
Canadian Pontiacs in Canada, were just Chevys, Dodges were Plymouth and Ford had their own division in Canada, called Meteor, which wre a cross between Fords and Mercurys.
I can confidently tell you that warranty and data services (bmw app etc) does NOT transfer to US nor can you get factory warranty added so this is incorrect. You can do 3rd party warranty but that's about it.
I bought a used f150 last year and when shopping I was shocked the number of Canadian trucks that were for sale
There are different lighting requirements in Canada than the US. Some of the programming used to change that when selling across country lines can cause issues (different lighting operation) down the line if future programming is completed. Recalls and some wiring are different between countries as well. For most things they are the same vehicles.
True but most of the lighting issues is daytime running lights that’s mostly it. I have found that to export to the US is pretty easy which most I did was GM truck and Tahoes, Yukons and some Escalades. There is a daytime running light module that can be removed to fix that issue. But if you are importing them into Canada an to prevent his GM has made that DRL module very expensive lol. The other thing US cars dont have but not all is theft deterrent which is needed in Canada and again GM made that package almost 5 grand to stop us from importing these vehicles into Canada. the price of these was much cheaper in the US than in Canada even with the exchange. Harley Davidson motorcycles where another one that was a good imposter to Canada as well.
I wonder if these dealerships know about W. Virginia's new title transfer program. Low price, any state and they do all, if not most, of the work.
my 1994 chevy impala came from canada,headlights stay on anytime the car is running,something that was added later on with u.s. made cars
I work for a dealer in upstate NY, we import a bunch of Canadian market cars for sale for our lot
When working at a local Ford dealership, I remember having trouble looking up parts for Canadian-made Ford vehicles. The US Ford catalog would not populate the Canadian VIN number; our solution was to call a Ford dealership in Canada lol.
I’ll never buy a Canadian rust bucket I almost have a few times but the frames are rusted and the paint was bubbling from rust on a 2013 ish Jeep wrangler.
I am on my third f150 only because of the awesome trade in I would get since my trucks went to the US (Plus its good to be good friends with the dealer owner) where it actually benefitted me to trade in even though I didn't need to.
As a former car salesman that sold at a dealership in the u.s. that really needed a Canadian flag out front since the majority of our cars came from our native loving friends to the north. While this video is totally true, it does not address the corrosion and rust you encounter on even a 2 year old truck.
That’s why you use a waxed based spray. To be fair, the F-150s nowadays don’t have their differentials immediately painted from factory which makes it paramount to get rust protection that is waxed based. Not that rubber based shit.
My favorite part about Canadian cars is how they are legally required to have DRLs.
My recollection (?) of this was that transit companies (BC Transit?) started experimenting by having drivers of buses keep their low beam headlights on at all times, and found that it reduced collisions significantly. And here we are today, as all vehicles since 1990 require them. I believe the Nordic countries were even earlier.
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along.
Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along.
Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along.
Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Back in my days in Europe in 90s I allways used my lights on during the day along.
Especially in Germany and Italy where Long Beam Lights are very useful in the Fast Lane so slower drivers can see you earlier and move over to mid lane…
Truly, TRULY, the ONLY way to tell if it's a Canadian vehicle vs an American vehicle, is the Airbag stickers under the sun visor, or in the engine bay.
FRENCH TRANSLATION.
If there is a dual language sticker, or the stickers has both French and English, it is a Canadian vehicle.
He's not wrong when it comes to value, there is purely no difference mechanically, and Canadian cars have different features, such as, higher valued speedometers, and sometimes better ("higher") trim levels when compared to the American vehicles, think mid 2000's Honda SI's which was nothing more then a badge 😂
What this tells me. Dealers in Canada are having a tough time selling their overpriced vehicles in Canada and opt to sell them in the U.S. rather than lower the price at home. Greed is going to destroy this world.
Canadian trucks made their way to GA. Nearly bought one till I looked underneath and I saw 40 years of corrosion in a truck that was less than 5 years old.
I live right next to Bridgewater, MA and have never heard of or can find anything on this dealership he speaks of
What’s funny is in some of these cars, depending on the brand, you can’t change all the temperature readings from Celsius to Fahrenheit lol
All the cars I bought/sold you can change them..What off brand car are you talking about?
0oC is freezing temp, 21oC is room temp. That's all you need to know, no converting necessary.
@@mypronouniswtf5559 Toyota & Lexus
purchased a car that came from canada and now multiple different dealers wont take it on a trade in because theyre saying its going to take over a year to acquire the title? were essentially stuck unless we can private sale it.
As a Canadian and a family member in the export business it is the best. Their are requirements for the vehicles to be shipped, for example GM's need to be 6 months old and driven 12,000 kms. We would buy certain model vehicles that are in demand in the US and drive them for 6 months. After 6 months sell that and buy another. For the past few years it has cost us nothing to drive a brand new vehicle.
I own a 2021 Ford F150 that came out of Ontario my in-laws live in Paris and with the US to Canada rates i saved $18,000
I did phone support for a luxury car manufacturer here in the US and we would get calls from customers who purchased cars with Canadian vins . I would really avoid it , having any warranty repairs done or any sort of recall/campaigns completed is gonna be a nightmare , lots of phone calls, escalations, waiting for the go ahead . It’s gonna take at least twice as long if not more than if it were an American vin. I think this is the case with most manufacturers .
Thank you for your excellent analysis. As a Canadian we are so accustomed to getting bent over on any purchase we actually look forward to it. I consider it a morbid form of entertainment. Please Sir...May I have more...
For a while, a lot of guys were buying new trucks, using them for a year then selling them for more than they paid. They would only buy trucks with a US VIN because they could be exported without paying fees. And this would all be done at the dealership , the dealers would buy them back and ship them to the states after a certain amount of Km's. This has come to an end with the rising price of new trucks.
BMW warranty transfers
however the maintenance does not
But you can pay some portion qt the local dealer and have it transferred to you
New cars are cheaper in Canada after you do the currency conversion. They are priced to the market and we are a much poorer country thanks to our socialist government. It got so bad at one point that car dealers in Michigan were buying their inventory from car dealers in the Windsor area cheaper than they could buy them from their own manufacturers. GM , Ford , Chrysler put a stop to it by threatening their franschise dealers with loss of their dealerships if they continued that practice...
We have 1/10th the population spread out over a much larger geographic area, put down the kool-aid jug.
My parents bought a 2002 f250 that my parents bought new in canada and brought it back to the US. it had a Canadian speedo and odometer still
This hurts canadian car economy
VIN no. that starts with 2 is Fabrique au Canada., 3, Hecho in Mexico, 1,4,5,7 were U.S Vehichles.
In the southern states you'll sometimes see the Ford Lobo (F-150).
Conveniently forgets about the rust bucket factor with Canadian cars(except those from British Columbia). That's one of the FIRST things I look at when buying a used car, automatically off my list if its from up north where they salt the roads. Unless its something like a low mile Corvette, aka a toy/garage princess.