Sorry Gord, I may have confused you.

What GM is saying is that if you are CDN and you want to buy a "US" car, then the car has to be 'used' or else they will not do warranty work in Canada. Their definition of "used" is that it be at least 6 months old - registered ownership not build day - AND have 7500 miles.

If the car was three years old and had 6000 miles and you imported it to Canada and went to get warranty work done, then too bad. If it was four months old with 10,000 miles and you bought it, too bad.

If the car is 7 months old, with 8,000 miles and you imported and registered the car in Canada then you could go to the local GM dealership for warranty.

That being said, I do not know if the warranty would still be recognised in the US even AFTER the car was imported and registered in Canada (suggesting a road trip to the US for warranty work)

 

They will still honor the original US warranty in the US. Well at least Chrysler and Ford will and it sounds like all the other manufactures that won’t let you transfer the warranty into Canada will. So I can’t really see GM not honoring the warranty in the US when they let you transfer it into Canada.

So on a side note; if you drive your original Canadian car in the US and something happens to it that would be covered under warranty in Canada. And just because you’re in the US you have to pay for it?? If so seems really stupid to me, when the same car for the US market is manufactured in the same assembly plant!

 

its not about the car, its about the cost of fixing it

i'm an accountant, so i'm about to bore you all, but...
when a car is bought, a warranty expense is set up, with a warranty payable..

when you get warranty work done, the 'warranty payable' account is where the 'money' comes from to pay it... these amounts are calculated beforehand, and usually would end up beign right (on average, say they think 4% of cars value will go to warranty - purely an example)

the thing is, if you got work done in the US for a canadian sold car, why should Honda US 'pay' for the warranty work - and you'd never get Honda canada to 'pay' for the repairs... thats why you can't get warranty work done in a foreign country - i was hoping it wouldnt be the case, but i was fooling myself

 

Exactly, each region has an allowance or budget for warranty work so the "CDN" guys don't want to see their budget hit up for "US" cars.

Whilst travelling, the dealers DO recognize the warranty. Its when you RE-REGISTER the car that you have the problem.

I've got a copy of the Chrylser policy and this issue is specifically addressed.