Hi there, thanks for your answers,
Due to a lack of Internet y some connection that has speeds of post millennium and does not open a page for 30 minutes, I was actually lazily fishing for some wide raged answers. According to the hits, this might actually be of a general interest.
But yeah led me try to narrow it down a bit for you:
I live in Chile, well I´m moving around the neighboring country’s quite a bit, all this without a proper visa, just tourist visa right now applying for an exchange visa of one year for Chile.
There is pro´s and contras in buying a Chilean licensed car. You do won´t get nice German quality , sometimes custom made camper, 4x4 here in Chile and you can only sell them in Chile, that means while traveling you would always have to come back and depend of the seasonal market.
On the other hand buying a international car, you can sell it almost in any country in SA, but it seems quite difficult to do that totally legal and without having to get scared a every border crossing!
So to be more specific:
Buying an international Car, that has run in SA for quite some time and changed owner in whatever way legal o medio illegal, what is the most legal way to do the transfer, (Notary, Photoshop and changing paper in-between boarders, swapping license plates, all of the above)?
How can I make sure, that I will be able to resell it the same “legal” way to the next?
How will I know that my plates run out of permission and might have to be “swaped”?
How can I be sure that I could ship the vehicle back to Europe without getting in trouble over there, because the vehicle might not be in the books anymore?
How can I make sure that I can cross any crossing without having to research the smallest, least frequented crossing in order get by because the might not have computer yet?
How could I attach the entering vehicle to my one year internship visa, so I don´t have to take it out of the country every 3 months?
If it is illegal to sell a car in SA from other parts in the world, how do they expect us to do it then, in the least illegal way possible?
Because if every would actually have to take their cars back to their country the already very poor and empty market would even be emptier right! And I´m sorry the local markets have only crap to over, mostly anyway!
Ok this for my part, I´m asking these kinds of questions, because I do actually need a car, have found some but can’t buy them until really sure that one dos not pay mountains of money, only in order to dig its own grave with it right!?
Cheers Samuel
And thx for your patience
And for all of you that redeem any action like that, please spare us with the moral attitude, as you can actually see, it’s not the most illegal way that we search, it’s a way to be able to buy a good car, in order to actually see something of this beautiful country without having to spend months in the mechanics workshops for having bought a crappie car.