Re: VW caught cheating emissions tests
fritz:reginos:fritz:reginos:My two TDI Audis are officially on the list "Winterkorn's List"
Apparently dealers have no clue as to if, when and how these engines will be rectified, if at all.
I shall be delivering a legal letter to them for good measure.
I sold a 2.0l TDI VW just two months ago and replaced it with a turbo petrol engined car from outside the VW Group, so I guess I'm lucky to avoid the hassle.
Had the hassle of having to reject the first new car as a lemon and wait for a replacement from the factory instead.I am sure you had some inside information
No, just an old car whose next generation was taking longer to be introduced than I was prepared to wait.
I do have some (vague) information here though which is "hot off the presses":
"WOLFSBURG (dpa-AFX) - Nach dem Abgas-Skandal beiVolkswagen werden Techniker bei einigen Autos auch direkt an den Motoren Hand anlegen müssen. Teilweise werde eine Überarbeitung der Software zwar ausreichen, sagte der neue VW-Chef Matthias Müller am Dienstag laut Mitteilung. "Bei einem Teil der Fahrzeuge werden dagegen auch zusätzliche Eingriffe an der Hardware notwendig sein." Der Konzern hatte mit einer Software Abgaswerte von Diesel-Autos in den USA manipuliert. Weltweit sind 11 Millionen Autos betroffen - 2,8 Millionen davon in Deutschland./fri/fbr"
VW has just announced that fixing some of the cars will just involve uploading new software to the cars' ECUs, whereas where other cars are concerned it will additionally be necessary to make hardware changes to the engines.
That simple? Wishful thinking, perhaps?
If it had been so easy why did they cheat in the first place or why they didn't rectify at a later stage?
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"Form follows function"