关于自美国开车到渥太华

[SarahCheng]

我是中国公民,将自美赴CU学习。如果以学生身份把在美国的车开到渥太华（将在此停留至少一年），是否需要在海关付税、重新注册、更换牌照？费用大概是多少？请分享你的经历。十分感谢！

 

[gmxiong]

We drove here at the end of May, about two months ago. As we were not PRs coming here for landing, we did not take care about the car import issues, and did not meet any problem at the entry border. But one should change driver's licence and the plate of the car if one will live here in Canada longer than 45 days. We did that because we did not want to face any trouble here. Driver's licence changing cost $50(CAD)/per person, plate changing cost totally more than $600(CAD). Because one has to do safety and emission check in order to get ones car be registered. For our case, even though our car runs great, it still did not pass the safety check at Canadian Tire (one of the companies appointed offically), the companies sure will ask you to change something so that they can earn money. The safety and emission check finally cost us about $450(CAD). It is not very bad, anyway.

 

[shusheng]

I believe cars sold in US don't have its light auto-on
when the car is started. Canadian Regulation request the
light at 30% whenever you start your engine.

So you have to pay to modify your brought-in-US car.

 

[gmxiong]

For our case, actually they did nothing about the front lights, instead they asked us to change some lines for the front brake ( I even do not know exactly what they are) and some small parts related to the exhaust system. The money mainly pay for the labor to change these stuffs.

 

[maid]

不用注册，不用交税,不用做任何更改，只要在报关的时候说明是学生，学完后带车回美国就可以了。