New Bandit and MT-01 ... I want! How?

[feliz]

I know poeple that have purchased bikes on ebay and had them shipped across the border both ways and registered them without any problem. The one caveat is most manufactures won't honour the warranty unless the bike is repaired in the intended country of sale.

[Bazza]

Hey Feliz:

I think that is true with auto's but I have not heard it happening with motorcycles.

The big 3 auto makers were selling cars in Canada for less money than in the US and with our much lower dollar at the time, it was easy to turn a profit by running cars over the border. (I think the climb of the Canadian dollar & fall of the US dollar has taken care of this). The big 3 stopped honoring warranty to try to stop this practise as you can imagin, a lot of US dealers were complaining.

From what I have seen, Mororcycles are much less expensive in the US, so I would see no reason for the bike dealers to be involved in not honoring warranty's.

I am not 100% sure about this though. If you were going to import a bike, I would make sure you checked this out with a US dealer.

I have a friend who imported a Guzzi into Canada from the US and had no problem with warrenty work.

[Red01]

The big 3 auto makers were selling cars in Canada for less money than in the US and with our much lower dollar at the time, it was easy to turn a profit by running cars over the border. (I think the climb of the Canadian dollar & fall of the US dollar has taken care of this). The big 3 stopped honoring warranty to try to stop this practise as you can imagin, a lot of US dealers were complaining.

From talking to my friends in the Vancouver & Victoria areas, even when the exchange rate was more favorable for us Yanks, CDN market new cars/trucks were not cheaper for consumers... OTOH, on vehicles that US demand outstrips supply, either dealers or manufactures were bringing CDN vehicles down to help meet demand. I've seen lots of Jeep Wranglers and a Grand Cherokee that were sold as new here, but were originally CDN market Jeeps. Jeep did change the speedos, which in those cases was about the only difference between a CDN & US Jeep anyway - other than the CDN's got bi-lingual owners manuals and no "Wrangler" logos on the CDN YJ/TJ variants (the reason being "Wrangler" was already trademarked in Canada by GM).