Buying a car with dollars

[citygirl]

I was missing a word in my post - but you got the jist from the following. Exchange at a cueva (which is commonly used here) and get the pesos.

Do you have resident status? If not, how are you insuring your car here? (There are ways but I don't know exactly how one goes about doing it).

To the person that asked - no, fees I mentioned don't include the inspection fees, etc. I also paid, IIRC, around 2500 pesos to do the transfer of the ownership. And I think 5 visits to get all the paperwork done correctly

And the tolls - have I mentioned the tolls? 24 pesos r/t into town. God forbid you have to get off the highway to get something and then get back on. It's a flat fee, whether you go 1 exit or 25.

(The only good thing about them - as earlyretirement said, they do hold their value quite well if/when you need to resell).

 

[earlyretirement]

He does need the idiot proof place indeed.

Huh? I'm not sure I understood this part of your post? Just to clarify, I didn't sell the car with the same dealership that I bought it from.

I sold it with the father of one of my close friends. His dad has an exotic car dealership and had some wealthy buyers so I agreed to give it to him. But this place was pretty idiot proof as well as it only took me going into some government office to get the paperwork signed as well as well as pay some old fines that I had but never knew about. But after that it was simple.

It really helps having close local friends that are trustworthy living in Buenos Aires. Without them, long-term it's much more difficult to live in Argentina for many years. After they got the cash (US dollars) they arranged to wire it to me to my account in the USA. So from start to finish I had my funds in about 2.5 weeks from the time I wanted to sell it.