Too expensive, waiting too long, poor communication and no explanation if your car is rejected. In 2022, a record number of complaints were received about the car inspection. The Flemish ombudsman is fed up, the minister is starting an audit. And yet the same six private companies have been allowed to carry out these inspections for almost a hundred years. What’s going wrong? Are you paying too much or not? And are they too strict? Our research editors examined the car inspections.
Jonas Muylaert
The car inspection
For three months, the research cell of HLN and ‘VTM Nieuws’ has made an investigation of the companies that inspect our cars. We were especially curious about how they work and why so many Flemish people are dissatisfied with the car inspection. But our main question was: how come the same six private companies have been allowed to test our cars for almost a hundred years? Part 1: Record number of complaints
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