For imported vehicles, the date of first registration in Belgium will not be filled out on the Car-Pass, or it will be more recent than the date of the first use. The following is also stated at the bottom of the Car-Pass: “This used vehicle was imported from abroad.” Car-Pass does receive foreign odometer readings in two ways:
- Cars imported from the Netherlands. Car-Pass asks the RDW (the Dutch agency that manages the central odometer readings database in the Netherlands) for the odometer history and displays it on the Car-Pass document.
- Most vehicle manufacturers have a central database in which odometer readings are registered by their dealers at home and abroad. Manufacturers and importers are obliged to forward the odometer readings from their database to Car-Pass when a vehicle of their make(s) is imported into Belgium.
However, it is still possible no odometer information is available from abroad. In such a case, the first odometer reading recorded in our database is the one recorded during the import inspection. Unfortunately, there are fraudsters who clock odometers before the technical inspection. So be careful before buying a used vehicle imported from abroad.