Carnet
My travel mate had the same problem in Austria some years back. My bike was already in Australia on a Swiss Carnet with minimum deposit. The plan was for her to join me six months later. Since she has a Austrian registration she had to organize the carnet over there. The first answer was that she will have to deposit the full value of the bike. This would have meant that she cant go on with the trip since she didn't have the money. I then sent her all the documents from the Swiss Automobile Club, where it's perfectly explained how the carnet works and how the deposit is calculated. She then went back to her agent and told him the story; the result was that she got a carnet without paying a deposit at all...
It's always worth trying a second time.
Greets from Kinshasa
Claudio
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