Still tampering with mileage used cars – NOS

There are some in the Netherlands 163.000 cars around with a illogical count. That will cost about 160 million euros per year, the RDW. That the counter reading is not correct may be because the counter is reversed. In the past, analog counters, did that manually. Now there is cheating with the software.

The RDW is together with the automobile business, started a campaign against the fraud with meter readings. Attackers are turning the mileage back as a used car with a low mileage for more money at the sale. Since 1 January 2014 is that rollback is prohibited, but, nevertheless, has two percent of the cars in the Netherlands, the undone counter. That can be dangerous, for example because there are parts in the car according to the maintenance schedule to replace had to be.