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Crossing into Peru with new tires strapped to bike.
I know Peru has a faitly high import tax on new parts being shipped over so I am curious if I should expect to pay aduana fees if I cross into Peru with two shiny new tires strapped to my bike.


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Oh come on! Swap them over 1000 km before xing border.
I milk all I can from tires
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Then swap them back, if you must. Import used tires for free.
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Splatter a little engine oil on the tires, then dust them. No one will make an issue of it.
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Personally, I'd clip off the little rubber injection mold remnants too--at least in the center of the treads.
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About a mile after crossing into Panama from Costa Rica I encountered a checkpoint. Showed the TVIP papers and whatever else was needed. Next the official asks me for paperwork on the new two tires strapped across the backseat of my bike. I explained that they are spares, no intention to sell. He looks dubious until I noted that they were the exact same size as the tires I was riding on.

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Really there is never a need to carry spare tires when traveling in South America, unless you need a wide 19 inch front or something weird like that!
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I decided not to buy them afterall.

Now I wonder if big bike tires can be bought in Cusco... really want to aboid Lima.
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I crossed the border from Bolivia to Peru at Copacabana in 2016 with a back tyre I purchased in La Paz tied on the back of my klr. Nobody checked. Nobody cared. Even had to open the barrier myself as the customs ossifer couldn't be ar$ed.

Having also observed the procedures at the main Panam highway border from Chile into Peru and into Ecuador near Vilcabamba, I feel the OP and others predicting problems are worrying unnecessarily.
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I decided not to buy them afterall.

Now I wonder if big bike tires can be bought in Cusco... really want to aboid Lima.
CUZCO. Honda shop on Incahuasi street has the best option on tires.
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I bought a new tire in Guatamala, took it all the way to Ushuaia. Never even was asked about it.
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I bought a new rear tire in Santiago, thinking I'd find nothing but down time (wasted time) waiting for something to be shipped out of BA once I was in lower Argentina. Weighed the new tire out of curiosity = 30 lbs. Stupid, I thought, dragging an extra 30 lbs. for X amount of days trying to get the last 1,000 miles out of the existing rear tire.

Had the new tire installed in Orsono, tossed away the used tire with good tread left but less the 30 lbs.

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Really there is never a need to carry spare tires when traveling in South America, unless you need a wide 19 inch front or something weird like that!
Although schlepping spare tyres does add to the hardcore ultra extreme adventure look some of us aspire to View it as non shiney black rubbery "bling"


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CUZCO. Honda shop on Incahuasi street has the best option on tires.
Thanks a lot! Do you happen to know what brands they carry? Do you think they stock 150/70-17 and 19 fronts?

Have you bought $ from them in the past?

I am currently in Sucre and will enter Peru in the next week or so.
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I bought a new rear tire in Santiago, thinking I'd find nothing but down time (wasted time) waiting for something to be shipped out of BA once I was in lower Argentina. Weighed the new tire out of curiosity = 30 lbs. Stupid, I thought, dragging an extra 30 lbs. for X amount of days trying to get the last 1,000 miles out of the existing rear tire.

Had the new tire installed in Orsono, tossed away the used tire with good tread left but less the 30 lbs.

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Carried one from Santiago to TDF. Kinda glad I did because if I had swapped it in Santiago it would be done already today and the dealer was out of stock on the tire I wanted when I came back up.
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