The average service life of a car in Russia reached 27 years in 2023. This is stated in a joint study of the Fit Service car service network and the analytical agency Gruzdev-Analyze (available from socialbites.ca). Since the beginning of 2022, this figure has increased by three years.
“The average active life of vehicles in the country is increasing. In 2023, the average lifespan of automobiles will be 27 years. If from 2019 to 2021 this figure is stable – 24 years of active use of the car, sharp growth began from 2022. Therefore, the rate of vehicle retirement from the Russian vehicle fleet has also decreased,” the study says.
According to Fit Service director Tatyana Ovchinnikova, the share of car service customers with cars over 20 years old is increasing every year. In 2019, this rate was only 9%, and according to the results of the three quarters of 2023 it was already 14%. The expert explained that this is because car owners have become frugal and strive to extend the life of their vehicles, because they do not know what they can replace the car with tomorrow.
In general, while the average age of cars arriving at service stations for repair in the country is currently 12.4, this figure was 11.9 last year and 10.7 in 2017.
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