Well as some of you may remember i wrote off my first Silvia at the beginning of this summer and since then have been trying to get another one brought over from Japan. Well the time finally came because today i recieved a phone call from my broker saying that the car has landed, however, it failed the soil test. You maybe asking yourself, as i did, what the hell is a soil test? Turns out there is mud or some kind of dirt on the car, enough that it potentially poses a threat to our entire eco-system. Well probably not but 350 dollars later for flatdeck transportation and powerwashing services in the Vancouver area. And i am one step closer to have that sweet sweet Silvia arive at my house. Fuck what a joke if you ask me.
Thats weird. When I got my car, it had probably enough mold on one seat to kill a family, but I had no quarrels with customs.
Thats fucking nasty, they must have shipped it with the window open or something. But id take dirty over mold anyday.
this is common as there is a couple inspections a car must go through in customers and soil test is one of them and I have heard of multiple cars failing this test , you need to make sure with the exporter that the car is cleaned beforehand or else it is your and thier neglegence that has caused this to happen.
thats why i like Monky’s. they plastic wrap the entire interior, and give the exterior a polymer coating and the underneath of the car a rust undercoat.
Monky’s FTW! (they are kinda expensive though, you get what you pay for)
We wash all our cars before we load them in containers. Be lucky your car wasnt in Calgary or edmonton. You power wash bill would be tripple! Sorry to hear but good to hear your car is here now!
BOO fucking HOO your car isnt currently being held in a bonded warehouse, a failed soiled test is notihng
BOO fucking HOO your car isnt currently being held in a bonded warehouse, a failed soiled test is notihng[/quote]
Don’t ship drugs over in your car then 
. Seriously though i bet our weed is better anyways.
i had to have 2 of my cars get the “special wash” but mine cost 500 a piece! it was brutal but safe and cautious is allways best! i see where they are coming from when they do it!
if I was transport canada Id be worries more about dirty Terrorists than a lil dirt on a car. Its dumb. I am pretty sure the cars that do get pulled for cleaning arnt even that bad. They might just think the dirt on the side of the car isnt 15 years old.
Its kinda like the same thing shipping wheels and tires in a container. They sometimes cut the tires but they still come in to canada. So whats the point.
they think that there might be something inside the wheels , they should xray them instead of slashing them …
there has been some dirty cars that have went through customs …but of course the shipping companies get them dirty on the trucks and trains before they make it to us as well … I remember a car that had mold on it …eww
What could dirt possibly do that mold couldn’t?
it is just like bringing a jar of sand back from Mexico … it is MEXICO and you are bringing a part of the country back as well as the health concerns …all countries worry about this stuff in export/import
Like when Bart took the bullfrog to Australia…
just like you cant bring soil over, you cant bring food over without special permission, who the hell knows what kind of special bacteria you have there growing, what if its an evil plan to destroy the beaver country!!! :axe:
“Bullfrogs?. Thats silly, we call them chazwazers”
Guess they’d better start cleaning the shoes of everyone who returns on a flight from outside of the country then… Better yet, setup a coin-op laundry service right next to customs! God knows what foreign dust, dirt and air trapped on clothing and footwear could do…
I could make millions!!
I’ve gone across borders all the time, the only thing they were concerned about was food and meat, but dirt?. Unless it was a substantial amount, but it sounds like some smelly BS to me.
I dont think customs is thinking of what is inside the tires on wheels comming over. I was told that it was just because of the dirt on the tire that gets picked up on Japanese roads. Like they never cut tires on cars comming over. Its dumb.
Also like a container. I cleaned everything in our container before loading it. If ag and transport canada opened the doors on a container and seen dirt they would de-stuff it on the spot. Im pretty sure its just the dirt they cares about. Ive herd of cars getting vaccumed on the inside aswell. Just because of the dirt…
I remember when me and a bunch of friends went to Cancun, one friend got pulled in customs coming back into canada because he had a large white rock in his bag. I couldn’t figure out why he wanted it. They let it go because they thought it was drugs at first.
my car passed the soil test somehow, and it was probably the dirtiest i’ve ever seen. the undercarriage was very clean though.