Markfoto
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Have a 10 year permit for our motorhome. And its permanently affixed. Now a large crack forces me to replace the windshield. How do I inform Mexico, and get a replacement? Anybody had to deal with this?
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Chrispy
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If it were me, I'd go to or call the below address in Tucson and ask them what I shoud do.
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Markfoto
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Thanks, tried that already, and they don't know what to do; kept referring me to the Aduana at km 21
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squirewells
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Markfoto wrote:Thanks, tried that already, and they don't know what to do; kept referring me to the Aduana at km 21
I would talk to the windshield guys...There are good at getting
the stickers off and putting them back on the new one...
I've seen it done here in Texas.
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daverich
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I agree with Eddy.
We have city stickers where I live and the glass people got it off and put on on my new windshield when I got a rock through the other one.
This was on a car, but glass is glass.
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mpfireman
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True, but around by us, if the sticker is removed, a VOID appears across the sticker. Thus you have to re-apply for a replacement sticker, for a few bucks more, with proper ID, With current Tag ID, ETC.
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tom_kat
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have the glass guy cut the winshield around the sticker instead of removeing it and take it with you next time you cross over and check at the border what they want to do about it.
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daveB110
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That was my situation last summer, when the window with the 10 year permit became badly cracked. Just prior to having the windshield replaced I removed the sticker myself, and was surprised by how easy it was. I saved it somehow, can't remember that part, and put it on the new windshield later.
I have had no one look at my decal, on either windshield. I friend installed his on the dark upper area, and later noticed it was actually invisible from the outside. Who's looking? In another instance, the person never got a ten-year decal for his windshield - but the certificate was provided him after a discrepancy in his vin number was discovered and rectified through calls from Mexico to the manufacturer- and he travels without the need to stop for importation, with no questions asked for at least five years. He has just the paper certificate but has never been challenged.
We still carry the paper certificate and that should be evidence of proof should some small areas of the decal become missing.
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Turtle-Toad
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You normally can get the sticker off by applying some heat (a hair dryer) to the outside of the window and peeling the sticker off. It takes two people to do it right.
The written procedure for when you have to replace the window or dispose of the RV in some manner is to take the sticker off and present it and the supporting paperwork to the Aduana at the border. However, no one has told the border people how to handle this. So, for cancellation of a sticker, there is a form to fill out and mail in to Mexico City (along with some supporting documentation). And it actually works.
I don't know if there is a similar form for glass replacement, but I also need to replace my windshield so will be finding out.
I think if you show up at the border with the removed sticker, the receipt for the windshield replacement, and the paperwork for the sticker, all in the same RV that was issued the sticker, you might be able to get something done at the border. But it will probably depend on who the border agent is, and how much english he can read.
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Belgique
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I'm holding fire on this until I get a warm fuzzy that mailing the hologram to DF really works consistently (we traded our MH for a new one and have the old MH's hologram pretty much intact.) I'd hate to have that thing disappear in the bureaucracy and never be able to go back...not a slam on Mexico...I'd hate to do something similar with the NC DMV.
Moisheh was going to look into this whole 10 year process with his connections but he's been busy with his eating tour of Mexico and now, I think, heading North.
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