Thinking about selling, donating or scrapping your U.S. or Canadian license plate car in Mexico?
This blog post opinion is to plan to tow your American or Canadian licensed car back to the U.S.
9/6/20231 min read
You may not sell nor donate a foreign plated vehicle in Mexico.
If a foreign plated car is unable to be driven may it be left in Mexico?
NO, it must be towed to the border.
To legally scrap a foreign plated car it is only done so at about 6 locations and you pay the cost. Once scrapped, you then deliver proof of the vehicle being destroyed to the proper authorities in Mexico City. The requirements are very specific.
The other issue with taking a vehicle to a scrap yard is that the vehicle may be restored. Mexicans are very creative. Or, parts such as the motor ends up in another vehicle and on a motor is a VIN. The vehicle with that traceable VIN ends up in an accident or it is involved in committing a crime. That vehicle is now traceable to the owner who thought the vehicle was destroyed.