Hi all,
I searched but couldn't find information about this.
My wife and I live in both the US and Japan. It's a long story, but she loves Japan too much to leave permanently and I love the US too much to leave permanently and we love each other too much to live apart permanently, so I made a stupid financial decision and bought houses in both countries, got her a green card and me a 永住権 and we are doing our best to have the "best of both worlds".
While in Japan, we did everything we could to prepare for being in the US. I put a deposit down on a Model Y, saved money for a down payment on a house and set up all our online accounts and banking to be automated so that we don't have to transfer money to Japan or worry about mortgage payments being late.
Now, we've had our Model Y since December and my wife doesn't want to commute in Japan with our boring Aqua anymore. I too would feel more at ease if she were behind the wheel of a Tesla. I pushed hard at our mansion's board meeting to get them to "modernize" and install EV chargers and we will now have two DC chargers at our building and we hope to take advantage of it.
Unfortunately, since I no longer work for a Japanese company, I won't qualify for financing in Japan. On top of that, I know there will be tax disadvantages to transferring $50k to $60k to Japan to buy a car there, so my consideration is to purchase a used Model 3 here and ship it over. The price delta between the US and Japan is so huge that even after import fees, a US Tesla is still considerably cheaper. I also have a bank I work with that has agreed to giving me "non title lien" car loans for up to $75k. This means the entire title would be under my name.
My main concerns are:
I searched but couldn't find information about this.
My wife and I live in both the US and Japan. It's a long story, but she loves Japan too much to leave permanently and I love the US too much to leave permanently and we love each other too much to live apart permanently, so I made a stupid financial decision and bought houses in both countries, got her a green card and me a 永住権 and we are doing our best to have the "best of both worlds".
While in Japan, we did everything we could to prepare for being in the US. I put a deposit down on a Model Y, saved money for a down payment on a house and set up all our online accounts and banking to be automated so that we don't have to transfer money to Japan or worry about mortgage payments being late.
Now, we've had our Model Y since December and my wife doesn't want to commute in Japan with our boring Aqua anymore. I too would feel more at ease if she were behind the wheel of a Tesla. I pushed hard at our mansion's board meeting to get them to "modernize" and install EV chargers and we will now have two DC chargers at our building and we hope to take advantage of it.
Unfortunately, since I no longer work for a Japanese company, I won't qualify for financing in Japan. On top of that, I know there will be tax disadvantages to transferring $50k to $60k to Japan to buy a car there, so my consideration is to purchase a used Model 3 here and ship it over. The price delta between the US and Japan is so huge that even after import fees, a US Tesla is still considerably cheaper. I also have a bank I work with that has agreed to giving me "non title lien" car loans for up to $75k. This means the entire title would be under my name.
My main concerns are:
- Has anyone here opened up the infotainment to swap out the sim card to keep connectivity?
- Does standard Autopilot work? Not FSD or EAP/NAP but just the standard lane keeping assist?
- I understand it will be a gray market car, but if the sim card is swapped, do updates start working again?
- Is there anything else we should consider?
