Thursday, July 23, 2009
In our venerable Ford Focus, Jude was always kicking the back of the seat in front of it, unless it was moved sufficiently forward. This was possible only if Monsieur Jude was behind the passenger seat. The rear-facing car carrier for Le Petit Monsieur similarly required the seat in front of it to be moved forward, so there was no configuration in our car that would allow all of us to travel comfortably, especially for the long distances between Chicago and London. The solution was to purchase a new car. After a considerable amount of research, I settled on a 2009 Toyota RAV4. We really love the car, but we knew from Amy's experience last summer that they don't like to have people bringing over vehicles with liens on them. On the day we purchased the car, we mentioned this to the sales guy. We mentioned this to the finance guy. We were assured that this would not be a problem.
It's a problem.
Had they been straight with us, we would have done things a little differently. As it is, I have 7 days to pay off the balance with Toyota Financing and get some documentation that the car is paid for; after that, we're in the long weekend and then moving day.
Update: we can import the car whenever we want, but we wouldn't be able to get an illinois license plate until it's been imported. But I don't plan on doing that anyways, especially since I just spent a pile of cash on Ontario license plate renewal stickers that expire September 2010. So it looks like Rebecca can just bring that paperwork when she comes back at the end of August. Or something.
4 comments:
Ah, welcome to my world, with one foot in each country, NOTHING that crosses over the two is easy.
a. "Jude was always kicking the back of the seat in front of it". It? Really?
b. Rather than teach Jude not to kick the seat, you just bought a bigger car? I expect there was more to the decision that just this... but it seems that is what you imply.
c. I was going to ask if you could just bring the car over and just not tell them about any of that - expecting, as you say, that the license plate thing might be where you run into trouble and then asking why you needed to do that. I believe my friend Russ lived in Pittsburgh for a few years, then New York for a couple of years before bothering to get local plates for his car...
yeah. you definitely don't need to switch plates. are you changing your permanent address to illinois?!? that seems a bit extreme given that you both want this to be as temporary a move as is possible....
and it is very nice the way you "accommodate" your son...good luck with the teenage years.
Okay, it wasn't because Jude liked to kick the seat. It was because the proximity of the seat to Jude's feet left him no room, so kicking the seat was inevitable. That, and the car has 130K on it.
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