Hi, I´m actually trying to help out a friend here, not planning to do this trip myself, but the principle is what matters.. so here goes:
The Finnish AA no longer issues carnets. This is taken from the Swedish AA (Motormannen) website, and that is the body, which we are nowadays forwarded to, when it comes to carnets:
https://www.motormannen.se/resan/bil...on-in-english/
“ The deposit will be refunded when your vehicle is back in the country of registration and the carnet has been returned to us. - See more at: https://www.motormannen.se/resan/bil....IGB8BxR8.dpuf “
I remember from my own experience, that when the Finnish AA was still issuing carnets, they demanded exactly the same thing – that the vehicle returns home first.
Is this the same thing all over, or only the Finns and Swedes happen to play it this way (we are both ´nanny states´, so this would not be so hard to believe)??
SO, if you plan to leave, or sell, your vehicle in a country, that is
not in the carnet system,
and your carnet is clean (it has appropriate entry AND exit stamps from every carnet country, that you visited), then you
still do violate your agreement with your carnet issuing body, and will not get your carnet bond back...? That does sound a bit over the top for me. One would think the carnet issuer has to worry about the vehicle staying
in carnet countries, but it seems they worry about staying in all other countries as well.
Yeah I know – I´ll have to ask the Swedes directly. In fact I already did that, but so far no answer. I will probably ask the German ADAC as well, but currently unsure, if they would issue carnets for Scandinavians... just posted this, in case someone else has already faced this same issue, and how did you handle it?? Anybody got their carnet bond released before the customs of your home country have physically seen the vehicle?
Thank you in advance for any comments on this!