Crossing the border with a temporary registration

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@JayS

Bottom line, you want as little wrong as possible. The main concern of Customs and Immigration is contraband and illegal immigrants. It’s not really their problem if you don’t have a front plate, or have an illegal exhaust, or illegal tint (assuming you roll the windows down so they can see in the car) but they CAN make it their problem.

You want as few red flags as possible. You’ve already got one minor one with the paper registration that may or may not show up correctly on their computer depending on how quickly their info gets updated. Do you want to add on missing front plate to that? Anything else illegal? Customs has to move 1000’s and 1000’s of cars each day and they don’t have nearly the manpower to pull each one over. So each little thing that’s “off” about you gets you more attention.

true.

Me and Josh got pulled over on Sunday because the guy couldn’t figure out why we would be leaving stuff in Canada for a week, then coming back for it the following week. He wanted us to pay tax on the Grill and Propane :lol:

After he took a look around the back end and saw that nothing was out of order with the vehicle he just crumpled up the paper and let us roll.