As of last week's Supercrew purchase, I am now a truck owner. I have learned that my truck was originally packaged as a Canadian vehicle (DRL's french/english manuals). According to the dealer (and I KNOW how honest THEY can be...) the truck was bought from a dealership in Canada and brought back to my Michigan dealership. Apparently at this time, the metric speedo was replaced with a standard one. The truck had 500 miles on it when I bought it, which makes the story sound believable. Anyone ever heard if this is a typical practice? Luckily I have already read about how to disable my DRL's. I was just curious if anyone knew if it was common for Canadian trucks to be sold back to US dealerships. Do I drive an import now?
Patrick

 

a2pfunk

There are a lot of canadian units that are rolling in the usa. Many of the used ones are sold at auction to american buyers, especially crew cabs and diesels. As far as one dealer buying your truck from a Canadian one, that is very possible, when it's resold in the usa, it needs to have the imperial dash on it, replacing the metric mileage with the imperial equivalant.

If you look at a bunch of f150's, including all lightnings, you will see their VIN starts with 2FT - they are all ones built in Oakville, Ontario.

one of the few advantages of free trade i guess

Bambino

 

Yes it common for this type of practise to go on. I know the dealer where I purchased my HD was going to ge my truck from the states. It's more common for Americans to purchase from Canada because of how useless our dollar is.