Used cars from Romania
Romania abolished its charge on first registration after years of litigation and now taxes cars mainly while they are in use: annually, in bands by engine displacement, at rates each local council sets. You can see it in the stock. For years used cars came in from Germany, Italy and France because nothing was added at the border, and small engines are over-represented because moving up a band costs again every single year. There is also a home advantage: Dacia is built at Mioveni, and the workshop and parts network for Dacia and Renault reaches into small towns. Prices are formed in lei, which makes Romania the one market in this group where the exchange rate sits at the table with you.
What matters
- Nothing moves without the carte de identitate a vehiculului: the Romanian Auto Register issues this vehicle identity card, and an imported car only receives one after a check of identity and conformity. Ask for it before you travel — if it is missing, the car is not properly registered in Romania, and that is the seller's problem only until it becomes yours.
- Romania covers much of its distance on two-lane national roads and over Carpathian passes rather than on motorways. The same odometer reading therefore stands for more running hours, more gear changes and more potholes than it would in a motorway country — look at the suspension bushings, the dampers, the wheel bearings, the rim edges and the tyre sidewalls before you talk about the engine.
- The annual tax is assessed in bands by engine displacement, and the rates are decided by the municipality where the car is registered. That is why small engines are everywhere here and large ones are not — and why a conspicuously cheap big engine often says more about what it cost its previous owner to keep than about its condition.
- The price is in lei: Romania is an EU member but not in the euro area, so no customs declaration follows inside the Union, yet the amount has to be converted — and the rate can move between the handshake and the payment. Put the currency and the conversion into the contract; what your own country of registration then asks for is in the import guide below.
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How people search in Romania
- A used car is called:
- mașini second hand
- The technical inspection is called:
- ITP
- The registration document is called:
- certificat de înmatriculare
These words appear in the papers and in every listing from Romania — worth knowing before you assess a car from there. Ask where the ITP stands before you travel.
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Common questions
- What is the CIV, and what happens if it is missing?
- The carte de identitate a vehiculului is Romania's vehicle identity card, and without it a car is neither registered nor transferred to a new owner. The Romanian Auto Register issues it, and for an imported car only after a check of identity and conformity — that is the step where it becomes clear whether the chassis number, the papers and the car belong together. If the card is missing or still being processed, the seller has an open procedure and you have nothing for your own authority to build on. So look at the card and the registration certificate, match the chassis number on the car against both, and pay the full amount only once both are in hand.
- Pay in lei or in euro?
- This is not a matter of taste but of who carries the currency risk. The Romanian price is formed in lei; if you are quoted in euro, a rate is already baked in — one the seller chose. Have the contract state explicitly which currency the binding amount is in and how it converts, because a transfer in a foreign currency also brings your bank's rate and its fee, and both live in your account terms rather than in the listing. And do not plan around the rate you saw on the day you searched: days usually pass between the handshake, the viewing and the payment.
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