Cutting through canada to get to MI

[baseball24]

@BigRon

Watch your speed, they have upped the patrol over the past year or so. I make the trip about every 6 weeks. Also, they have radar detector detectors.
I like rainbow bridge and either the Tunnel or Sarina in MI.

With the Toledo bridge done in OH, the trip can be about the same amount of time if you get held up at each bridge, but it is an extra 90 miles or so to go through the states.

ya i lost my radar two years ago and i wasnt even in my car… i was next to it and the cop detected it… took it and gave me a 150 fine

[Geehee]

@Viper966

just dont want them giving me too much shit or thiking im pulling an evolve and bringin something else back wtih me because of the short stay…

:blah:

[Minglor]

@deebo

Just tell them what you’re doing.
Canada could give 2 shits what you’re doing in the country
The american side is full of all of the fggts who give you shit

My experience:

Canada: Where are you heading to?
Me: Fort Erie Race track
Canada: Have a good day! (Waved and smiled)

on the way home…

US: Where are you from
Me: Buffalo
US: Let me see your i.d etc etc
US: Why were you in canada
Me: I was selling a motor
US: You’re in the wrong line, you’re supposed to be in the commercial line if you have anything in your possesion over 300$, do you have a receipt for your purchase?
Me: No… i don’t have a receipt, because the motor is mine, and i came across with it, i’m bring it back, there was no transaction
US: Well you should still have a receipt
Me: Why would i have a receipt on me?
US: Because. How did I Know you didnt go to a chop chop and steal the motor
Me: Because… i didn’t?
US: MHM, Yea. Where are you from, where did u graduate, what year
Me: Cheektowaga, West seneca east, 2008…
US: Hmm, you live in cheektowaga but went to west seneca? Thats wierd.
Me: Uh, yea… idk? Sorry

Blah blah blah fucking blah

Then he told me that they could impound my car, take my motor, and hold me in custody. So i would be out 1800$ for my motor, all of my car and waste my time.
All because i didnt have a receipt on me for my motor. There were VIN’s on it, the motor was Stamped HMO, so it couldnt have been stolen anyways. Biggest waste of fucking 25minutes in my life. Fucking retards trying to act like hardasses

Just prepare to get all the bullshit once you cross back into the U.S. Make sure you get a receipt valued under 300$

/rant

@bing

yes americans are retards…

anyways… Viper, when you are going through the Canadian side just tell them you’re buddies with me (lies) that should take care of any issues you may have.

worked for me name-dropping our beloved miata burnout man… i name dropped and had 7 high school drop outs with their noses up my bum in less than 10 seconds…

then ask for a supervisor, they LOVE that…

ugh.

Sorry.

[Random_Hero]

@BigRon

Also, they have radar detector detectors.

WHAAAAA?

The last time I went through, they said they were illegal and I should take it down. I complied, but quickly put it back up and hauled some ass on the QEW.

Can someone elaborate? Will they really pull you over for having one? I usually toss it under the pass. seat when I get pulled over (not that its for speeding usually)

:ohnoes:

[JayS]

Yeah, Ontario has very strict radar detector laws. Many of the cop cars have the detector detectors and simply seeing the telltale suction cup marks gives them the right to search your car for one.

It’s a pretty big fine too I believe, though most of the time they’ll just confiscate it or make you drive over it.

[LAFENGAS]

so are you driving 8hrs to save $100 shipping or did they not want to ship?

put the welder in your trunk, don’t mention any transaction. If they ask why it’s in there…make up any of a million excuses as to why you would have something you own in your own possession.

[XwalkerX]

so much backwards info in this thread

:picard:

[MOBOOST4U]

I made the trip to pick up a car last year… Dint have a problem but they did however search the gutted car lol… so really, it dint take long at all.

[slow84ta]

Just tell them the truth because it is all logged. If your story is consistent at each border you’ll be given alot less shit then if you told them you going to niagara falls and a few hours later you are at the mi border :bloated:

[Viper966]

@LAFENGAS

so are you driving 8hrs to save $100 shipping or did they not want to ship?

put the welder in your trunk, don’t mention any transaction. If they ask why it’s in there…make up any of a million excuses as to why you would have something you own in your own possession.

They didnt want to ship it…

they said i would have to have a courier come and pick it up and palletize it and then have a freight carrier snag it… it was going to cost ~ 250 to get it here…

While the welder is small it weighs 200 lbs

[Anonymity]

@Viper966"

What do I tell them at the border?

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NOT stop and tell them I told you to do so…

@Viper966"

Do I just tell them the truth?

NO! LIES always work, does your g/f read the stuff you post on the internet?

[BigRon]

Yeah I got a $200 radar detector ticket and my V1 taken. Expensive night.
I was going 107 in 100 kmh (I had seen a bunch of cops that night), but he said he had his radar detector detector and that was the reason he pulled me over.

[Harvey]

@Viper966

im going to flint, not detroit… its a little north of there…

I see. You’ll go across the Sarnia bridge, which usually has no traffic and is easy in terms of the patrol people. The bridge is in the middle of no-where which is nice.

If you play hockey, there is an awesome hockey store off of exit 186 of the 401 in London.

I had my radar detector taken by the police in Montreal about 6 years ago, and they weren’t nice about it at all. It was supposed to have a device so it couldn’t be detected, but he found me from the opposite shoulder of a divided highway with a median. I ended up with a >$600 fine and they kept the radar detector. I wouldn’t use one. Going a few miles over the speed limit you should be able to get to the Sarnia bridge in less than 4 hours border to border.

[Viper966]

@Harvey

I see. You’ll go across the Sarnia bridge, which usually has no traffic and is easy in terms of the patrol people. The bridge is in the middle of no-where which is nice.

If you play hockey, there is an awesome hockey store off of exit 186 of the 401 in London.

I had my radar detector taken by the police in Montreal about 6 years ago, and they weren’t nice about it at all. It was supposed to have a device so it couldn’t be detected, but he found me from the opposite shoulder of a divided highway with a median. I ended up with a >$600 fine and they kept the radar detector. I wouldn’t use one. Going a few miles over the speed limit you should be able to get to the Sarnia bridge in less than 4 hours border to border.

yea i play hockey… whats the name of the store so i can google it?

[bigwoode]

Driving a friend of mine to Toronto tonight to pickup a fake ID, what do you think I should tell them :lol:

[XwalkerX]

@bigwoode

Driving a friend of mine to Toronto tonight to pickup a fake ID, what do you think I should tell them :lol:

perfect, im working tonite!

id be happy to confiscate that.

:lol:

[bigwoode]

Nice, we will have to come through your booth

But srsly, are souvenir ID’s even illegal?

[XwalkerX]

@bigwoode

But srsly, are souvenir ID’s even illegal?

correct they are fraudulent documents

[baseball24]

just wondering…did u make it there and back because i actually may have to go pick up a jet ski in michigan tomm

[bing]

why are people so intimidated by the border?

i cross 45 times a year without any issues.

if you’re not a criminal and don’t do shady shit you’ll be fine. Yeah you’ll have to put up with the occassional douchebag customs officer on either side but it just goes with the territory.