[S5T]

it should also be noted that getting binder insurance while you are in the U.S. is a PIA, or cannot be done.

in order to get binder insurance you must have the VIN# of the car you are buying.... but what are you supposed to do, if you do not know the VIN# of the exact car? what if you are driving or flying down to the U.S. somewhere and will be looking at a few different cars, and deciding while you are down there which car you want to buy?

i tried phoning from seattle, with the VIN# of the car i bought, to ICBC to get binder insurance over the phone, or through faxing documents... IT DID NOT HAPPEN. you have to be present in an Autoplan agent to get the binder insurance...

so i kept asking my self 'how can they expect you to be two places at once?'

or is this just another way to make it a P.I.A. to import a car?

luckily, the car i bought was only in Seattle. So the guy i bought it from was kind enough to let me keep it at his house, after i had bought it so i could drive back up to BC and get binder insurance and come down a few days later to drive the car to the Border to have it parked for 3 days.