Over a Quarter of the Cars on Romania's Roads Are over 20 Years Old. Warning About a Service Practice that Has Become "a National Problem" / How It Is in Other Countries in Europe - HotNews.ro.
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"There is a significant and worrying percentage of Diesel cars in the second hand. It's a real problem," says HotNews Tudor Macicășan, a mobility and transport consultant. "Romania is not the only country in Europe with an ageing car park, but in some states that have the same problem, new trends are beginning to emerge.
The handling of the mileage continues to occur on the second-hand machinery market in Romania. Approximately 7.5% of vehicles verified by carVertical in the period September 2024 – August 2025 showed signs of odometer modification, according to a study published by the vehicle history verification platform. In the cases identified, the difference was considerable: on average, about 95,100 kilometers had been [...]
Kilometraj given back to second-hand cars: 77% of Romanians do not know where to advertise fraud. What the law says Handling the mileage remains one of the problems of the second-hand car market. A survey shows that 77.5% of Romanian buyers questioned do not know where they could claim a car about which they discover that they have the modified mileage, and almost 77% do not trust that they would recover their money. In Romania, handling the odo…
Reading Time: 4 minutesA new car vertical survey among European car buyers found that most people who hit a car with a modified mileage don't know how to react. They don't know who to report it, don't expect to get their money back, aren't sure how local authorities treat mileage fraud...
Romanian second-hand car buyers are exposed to fraud that can turn an apparent good deal into a serious loss. A recent study shows that 7.5% of the vehicles checked in Romania showed signs that the mileage had been modified, and in these cases they were erased, on average, about 95,100 kilometers. The data are contained in the indexes of ... Article Romania, in the top of Europe at car mileage frauds. Nearly 100,000 kilometers can be wiped off t…
Approximately 7.5% of vehicles verified by carVertical users in Romania, in the period September 2024 - August 2025, showed signs of mileage modification, and in the cases identified here...
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