It started in September 2015, the message that VW have unauthorized software installed in the US in its diesel vehicles to tweak the emission values. Here you can read the history of the gas scandal and all the news on the topic.
03. May 2016: The recall of 15,000 Golf TDI with 2.0 liter engine starts. The owners of the affected vehicles are informed by mail about the recall start. Subsequently, the holder
can at the VW-authorized workshops dates for the approximately 30-minute conversion software compatible. With the Golf, a model in the
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Volkswagen represents the second generation of the Tiguan before
should Originally due to exhaust scandal around 160,000 Passat models already end February to be recalled. The Federal Motor Vehicle Office refused so far but the release. Official reasons there is no, but there will be problems with the fuel economy.
28th April 2016. VW will offer affected by the gas scandal Passat drivers in Europe no surrender of the model.
In view of massive problems in exhaust recall the VW Passat Volkswagen are also now the golf preference. “The decision is like this morning,” said VW CEO Matthias Müller. Which variants now get from Golf preference so far as unknown as the start date and the date of the Passat recall.
The Passat was with the first models already at the end of February in the workshops. But there were lengthy delays and problems persist because some values - would have been worse with the workshop update than before – unlike promised.
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VW anniversary model Golf GTI Club Sport
19th April 2016: According to “Handelsblatt” exhaust scandal comes at Volkswagen back on subsidiary Audi and the year 1999th At that time, the Ingolstadt subsidiary had developed options, how to tackle the increasingly stricter thresholds, the paper wrote. been planned consequently requires the use of an illegal shutdown, as it was ultimately used in VW from the year of 2005. Neither Volkswagen nor Audi would comment on demand Reuters on the facts.
13. April 2016: In the dispute over the multi-million dollar bonuses for the VW board, a solution is emerging with concessions on the part of top managers “Supervisory and Executive Boards are agreed that given the current situation of the company a sign also. must be set on the subject of Management Board compensation, “said a person familiar with the discussions person. According to information of the German Press Agency currently “various models discussed and voted, representing a reasonable and fair solution for all parties” are. What the cuts could turn out, at first remained unclear.
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10th April 2016:. Given the exhaust affair VW CEO Matthias Müller intends to propose a bonus reduction for board members by nearly a third want to have as Reuters learn by insiders, want the Group top managers respond to the proposal and waive part of their performance-related pay for, 2015.
. 9 April 2016: The Supervisory Board of Volkswagen postpones discussions on the annual financial statements 2015 The fact, scheduled for April 20 meeting would be moved by two days to April 22, it said in supervisory circles.. The reason is, therefore, that the Panel wants to wait, among other important dates in the US in the wake of the gas scandal. The US District Judge Charles Breyer had Roche and the US environmental authorities an ultimatum until April 21 set to find a solution for more than half a million rigged vehicles in the US.
Earlier the “Handelsblatt” reported on the shift in the important meeting of the supervisory body. A VW spokesman said, the Group generally not expressed itself on dates of board meetings. Also the state of discussions with the US Environmental authorities he wanted to say anything.
. 8 April 2016: As a result of the problems with the trade in diesel recall likely VW, other engineered models like the Golf to pick first in the workshops “Volkswagen will follow the solution for the Passat at full speed while trying. , preferable to another cluster “, it said in a statement the group to the workshop.
the recall of the Passat was supposed to start as soon as the end of February. But the responsibility for approving the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) denied for weeks the release. intend to establish Officially this far neither VW nor the KBA.
. 8 April 2016: power struggle between management and works: The “Spiegel” reports that VW brand board member Herbert Diess have against the VW group works council asked the trust question. However, A spokesman for the council disagreed with this view. The fact is that council boss Bernd Osterloh and six Chairwoman different VW sites had spoken in a letter to the staff of a “serious problem of trust” between the brand managers and employee representatives.
They fear job cuts under Diess, the wants to bring the main VW brand with austerity measures to scratch: “we have the impression that the diesel scandal from behind should be used to make personnel cuts, which until a few months, no subject was,” it says in the letter sent on Thursday approached various media.
. 7 April 2016: The Federal Motor Vehicle Office has completed its investigations in diesel vehicles according to a newspaper report The respective results underlie the producers concerned with a request for an opinion before, reported the newspaper “Handelsblatt”, citing government and industry circles.. “As part of the investigation is also spoken with manufacturers,” said a spokesman for the Federal Ministry of Transport of the newspaper.
Since September, more than 50 vehicles were tested on the test bench and in road maintenance. It should come out, there appears to have been tampered with only at Volkswagen exhaust emissions by means of a ‘cut off, reported the newspaper “Handelsblatt” Next
However, accordingly recognized the vehicles of other car makers in the road testing irregularities. You have to protect components which deactivation of the exhaust gas purification used intensively. This move is however under the statutory rules.
The Federal Transport Ministry wants the final report with test results and submit reform proposals in late April, as the “Handelsblatt” with reference to coalition circles reported. “The overall result will be published after completion of the investigations,” the ministry said.
Triggered by the exhaust-manipulation in Volkswagen had the KBA late September tests of more than 50 vehicles of domestic and foreign manufacturers in the way passed. About two-thirds of the measurements had already been made in mid-November. Here were “partially elevated levels of nitric oxide” has been found, as the Authority announced then. Then still talking with the producers and the regulatory authorities should follow.
. 7 April 2016: In order to eliminate the manipulation Software the Federal Motor Vehicle Office (KBA) in Flensburg gives clearance for several Audi models and Seat Exeo The models of the A4, A5 and Q5 with 2.0 liter engines and manual transmissions. may now be called into the workshops. “This is the first wave of recall for Audi,” said an Audi spokesperson.
The also located in this recall shaft 2.0-liter cars of the model VW Passat and Skoda Superb must hand continue to wait for approval by the KBA. For the business community it is, the tests would still go on at least until next week.
1,. April 2016: The recall for the VW Passat in the exhaust gas scandal has been four weeks late The first diesel variants of the sedan VW Passat with the scandal-engine EA 189 had been intended already in the ninth calendar week from the end of February in the workshops. , But the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) has still not given approval for the elimination of fraud software.
The VW group wants to liberate this country alone 2.5 million vehicles of illegal software this year. This should be done by the end of the year. Now already a quarter has passed. So far, only a few thousand VW Amarok are converted. The pick-up had made the beginning of the recall a few weeks ago
An invoice shows how great the time delay for the Group is already. For 2.5 million cars Volkswagen takes every single day in nearly 7,000 convert cars in the workshops. As expected on the days it would be even more. In the previous three months of the year, the carmaker has reached only one day target.
For background of delays, the parties are silent. According to reports, there are problems with a possibly higher fuel consumption. The tests to could take even longer.
The pending with the first big wave callback variants include not only around 160,000 VW Passat also nearly 90,000 Audi and Skoda. The holders of these cars are not yet written – for that it needs the final KBA released. So far, the holder of the diesel 2.5 million affected have received only letters with basic information.
29th March 2016. VW calls its e-Golf in the USA back. While there are only 5561 cars by the recall affected. But this is so that all previously sold in the United States Vehicles of 2015 introduced on the US market model, such as a VW spokesman confirmed on demand.
The problem lies in an overload protection, the too fast anspringe and can lead to sudden failure of the electric motor. The possible defect concerns because of different current system, however, only the United States, the spokesman said. An update of the battery software is now to help. Because the exhaust affair, the Group will continue to make increased use of electric cars.
28th March 2016. VW wants with loyalty rewards customers – hefty discounts – hold. As to a survey of the CAR-Institute of the University of Duisburg-Essen, is currently a golf with 28 percent of discount on the list price. This action falls outside the framework as a whole declined the discounts in the German market.
Background is a loyalty bonus of up to 2000 euros, which was granted in exchange of a VW used car and simultaneous purchase of a VW model.
in the VW discounts of industry expert Ferdinand Dudenhöffer provides a response to the displeasure of German customers because of redress action in the United States, which did not exist in this country.
Shortly after the announcement of the diesel VW scandal had granted US customers $ 1,000 on credit cards and coupons.
27th March 2016: Influential checkers on the VW board want a new strategy committee for the reconstruction at the Volkswagen Passenger Cars The core brand to the Golf and Passat will receive an advisory board, similar to a board of works.. The committee will assist strategic decisions in future issues such as electric mobility and digitization.
But also hot iron as layoffs or work focuses on individual factories could be debated in the Council before the final vote in the 20-member Board of the VW Group land. Working on the committee is against the background of a stronger separation of Group and brand.
The company declined to comment on details of the council idea. Unlike sister brands Audi and Porsche VW Passenger Cars not have its own supervisory board. Den could not enter because brand and group are not formally separated enough.
25. March 2016: The investigation by the public prosecutor to go further than previously known , writes the “Mirror”. In October officials had searched the premises of Auto Technology Developer IAV headquartered in Berlin. VW hold 50 percent shares in the company, the 6500 employees worldwide. IAV is involved in the development of motor control of VW cars.
Neither the prosecutor nor IAV wanted to comment on the situation.
16th March 2016: The conversion of approximately 2.5 million VW cars in Germany will be delayed for at least six weeks VW has yet to get the green light from KBA for its conversion plans for the model Passat
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“Current is the technical solution for the Passat by KBA in the test,” confirmed a KBA spokesman. It is not sure, among other things, whether the engine after retrofitting the emission standard Euro 5 yet fulfilled.
Originally VW with the conversion of more than 500,000 affected Passat models on February 29 want to start. This should be according to the newspaper, the retrofitting of golf vehicles that are to be recalled to the Passat, move significantly back.
16th March 2016: VW customers can not rely on a return claim by a decision of the Landgericht Bochum The defect of a VW Tiguan with manipulated exhaust emissions are not so great that the buyer can withdraw from the purchase contract, judge Ingo Streek said on. Wednesday
in one of Germany’s first rulings in connection with the exhaust gas scandal before the Landgericht Bochum.
the case could deal justice now on. The applicant’s lawyer had already announced plans to call the next higher instance – then the dispute may just as well end up at the Federal
13.. March 2016: After the revelation of the scandal in September to the Group have destroyed evidence in the US, report NDR, WDR and “Süddeutsche Zeitung”. The media refer to a former employee of the United States. The Ex-VW employees has thus lawsuit against his former employer filed in a US court. He had been released end of 2015 because VW had believed that he would inform the US authorities about an obstruction of justice.
The US subsidiary of VW had initially ignored an order from the US Department of Justice, once all stop routine deletion of data, reported “SZ”, WDR and NDR on. Until the end of September, early October further data had been destroyed – despite an opposite arrangement with VW. The deletion of backups was founded at VW with the Note, the US subsidiary did not provide sufficient space.
11th March 2016: In the VW -Abgasaffäre according to a magazine report more board members back into the spotlight Volkswagen boss Herbert Diess and Executive Board Francisco Javier Garcia Sanz should have learned already in August 2015 by the use of illegal engine software, weeks before Volkswagen the violation of law. officially acknowledged. At a meeting of the VW brand board on 24 August last year, the then Head of Development Heinz-Jakob Neusser should have reported the installation of the software in the US models, such as the “Mirror”, citing the US law firm Jones Day. Volkswagen explained the details of the diesel issue would be further elucidated. The current status of the Group will report in the second half of April.
The “mirror” report, according to Garcia Sanz is a guest who attended the meeting of the VW brand board. This would witness against the firm Jones Day testified that examines the exhaust scandal. Garcia Sanz is responsible for the processing of the consequences of fraud on the board of Volkswagen. He negotiated with the authorities responsible for law and integrity Christine Hohmann-Dennhardt with the US Environmental Protection Agency on compensation for customers.
11th March 2016: The ailing carmaker VW likely evident in his austerity program to delete the line workers part of their work clothes. “Volkswagen has seriously endeavors, the T-Shirts abolish as part of the work clothes”, had the head of the works council, Bernd Osterloh, at a meeting before good 20,000 employees said. but calls for Tee-Off are initially inconclusive, the debate was adjourned.
Osterloh had at the staff meeting the plan to abolish the T-Shirts rejected as “unacceptable”. dpa there is a transcript of his speech. Accordingly Osterloh announced if necessary alternatively, the IG Metall for T-Shirts to leave care. “I know what then on the is written T-Shirts :” The IG Metall does not like shirtless stand “,” Osterloh said accordingly
What is the negotiations on the T-Shirts hanging and whether the advance might represent a personal opinion or is actually officially approved by the management as a savings proposal, initially could not be cleared on Friday. A VW spokesman declined to investigate the matter.
. 8 March 2016:. In the investigation of the Braunschweig public prosecutor in the diesel affair carmaker Volkswagen, the number of suspects has increased you had “increased from six to 17 people,” said Attorney General Klaus Draw. He confirmed a report of the “spark” media group.
Among the accused were “no former or current board members,” Draw said. The investigation remained unchanged in the matter, the investigators were working “at full throttle” to educate the affair.
The prosecution had late September an investigation against unnamed employee of the car manufacturer introduced. Even VW itself had asked in September criminal complaint with the public prosecutor. Early October searched the investigators that VW’s main plant in Wolfsburg and several private homes in different places.
. 7 March 2016: The VW group has it set to be able to keep the scandal over manipulated readings secret from the public. The board of the car manufacturer was entitled to take the US authorities was a “solution” with reasonable penalties possible without informing the public. The reported the “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” and NDR and WDR, citing a statement by VW for the Landgericht Braunschweig.
The former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn and his colleagues are the verge of unveiling of illegal practices by US environmental Protection agency have been reported violations in the picture. It was then but a “confidentiality interests” of the group, where it hot.
The VW Briefs for the Court suggests that the board wanted to keep open the chance that violations of the law on permanent secret be able to keep. In the paper stand, in the United States were at other companies such manipulations with “manageable fines” have been punished, “without the offense publicly known, was let alone supported by the US authorities proactively to the public”.
Only by the “unexpected” announcement of the violation of the law by the US environmental Protection agency on September 18th and the Notice of the EPO on the “theoretical maximum penalty” in the billions had it come to the high losses of VW shares, ie it according to the report.
. 5 March 2016: VW Passat drivers can look forward to the recall of their vehicle probably left. The VW dealer and honorary president of the North Rhine-Westphalian Association of the German automotive industry, Ernst-Robert Nouvertne, does not expect queues. “We have appropriate staff trained and passing through the normal operation by,” he said from his dealership in Solingen. However, it could be that you must work longer here and there, or on Saturday.
4. March 2016: Volkswagen expects to launch its first major recall wave in Diesel scandal rather for mid-March. “The final measurements of the Federal Motor Vehicle Office for Passat is still ongoing,” VW said.
The associated with remeasurements technical KBA released for recall in which the Passat is the beginning, is however expected nor for this week. The beginning of the action itself is then realistic for the following or the week after next in March.
First, VW needs but only write to the customer, which still because of the lack of green light from KBA in Flensburg currently is not carried out.
2. March 2016:. Manufacturer and VW dealers must by the Landgericht Bochum considers that the rigged cars not take back Although lying well clearly a defect, said Judge Ingo Streek beginning of a civil action. However, this deficiency is not relevant in the legal sense, because it could be parked with relatively little effort. “The sharpest possible means not holding the court here is appropriate,” said a court spokesman.
The Bochum process is the nationwide probably first process in which a private VW drivers because of exhaust affair in court claims contends. The regular customer of a car dealership sought the withdrawal of its less than a year old and 38,000-euro VW Tiguan, because the car considerably more pollutants might drive as specified by the manufacturer.
Volkswagen According to the problem with the car of the applicant a software update will resolve themselves within 30 minutes. A decision is available in the specific case, not yet.
29th February 2016: The Passat could properly begin this week the VW recall. A spokesman for the KBA said it had no evidence of a delay known. For details such as a specific date but am currently not yet been fixed. So he can neither exclude nor confirm that there was still green this week light.
VW needs the green light from KBA, which approve the solution for repaired diesel cars msus to affected customers write allowed. The Amarok pickup had a few days ago made a start -. With well 8000 cars but it was only a start on a small scale
28th February 2016: Does VW violated the Securities Law? A VW managers had the former VW CEO Martin Winterkorn informed in a letter dated 4 September 2015 that executives of the car manufacturer had the use of manipulation software added in a meeting with the US Environmental Protection Agency CARB 3 September. The reported the “Bild am Sonntag”.
The letter was internally gone directly Winterkorn. but became public on September 18, tampering, as the US Environmental Protection Agency declared that VW has willfully emission regulations circumvented.
A VW Group spokesman said the investigation into the operations were still ongoing. “If the results are available, we are to be informed accordingly. All supposedly present information is pure speculation.” The lawyers of Winterkorn were not immediately available for comment reachable.
The German Securities Trading Act obliges listed companies, information that can significantly affect the share price, to make immediately public.
21 , February 2016:. Audi calls affected by exhaust scandal cars from March in the workshops back The start doing the A4 with 2-liter TDI engine, a spokesman said. By mid-year, the engine software of other Audi models with the same engine will then gradually renewed.
The recall of cars with 1.6-liter diesel engines follow from September. The aim is to provide a significant percentage of these in Germany 531,000 Audis later this year with a new engine management system.
19th February 2016: Volkswagen has called more dates for its callbacks. According to the car with the smallest affected engine – the 1.2 liters – from calendar week 22 and thus from 30 May to the workshop. The date is clear from the first general letter to the this country around 2.5 million affected holders. The letter goes on to say that the medium-sized motors with 1.6 liters from September 5 (Week 36) for their turn.
In the mid-size 1.6-liter engines, are the last of the three big waves, in addition to a software update, a component has to be used. The letter is, each holder get again a second letter, which calls for a specific date in the workshop. “We deeply regret that we have your confidence disappointed and this irregularity be corrected as quickly as possible,” writes Volkswagen. All vehicles were also without rectification “technically safe and roadworthy”.
15th February 2016: In March Seat begins in Germany with the recall of those affected by the exhaust affair vehicles, diesel engine EA189 From February 15th to the concerned customers will be informed by letter about the process to the required service measures.. All vehicles are independent of irregularities in emissions absolutely roadworthy and safe, says Seat.
. 8 February 2016: While have stabilized since the middle of last year stable at more than 35 percent of the price of the price of cars, three year old lease cars, the exhaust affair within the VW Group, the residual values of affected vehicles affected significantly negative This reports the trade journal kfz-operation and refers to the association of brand-independent fleet management companies (VMF).
“Because of the VW affair in recent weeks significant deterioration in the sale of lease-back runners occurred with the affected manipulated diesel engines, “the paper quoted the CEO of VMF, Michael Velte. As recalls and repairs have not been carried out, bought used car buyers a presumably defective, at least not nachgebessertes vehicle and expected a corresponding concessions on the price.
. 3 February 2016: The now launched Giant recall Volkswagen takes in March at full speed. Then, the first copies of the solid model Passat will be launched in the workshop. The Group in Germany must recall approximately 2.4 million diesel cars, in which the nitrogen oxide emissions do not meet the legal requirements.
The two first recalled models include a 2.0 liter four-cylinder engine equipped. Other models with the same engine will follow afterwards. The Umrüstmaßnahme consists in a software update, which should only take half an hour working time to complete. A similar procedure is in the 1.2-liter engines, which will be launched at the end of the second quarter in the workshop.
A little more complicated to work on the 1.6-liter engines, which are to start in the third quarter. There next to new software and the installation of a so-called laminar flow element in the intake pipe is necessary. VW calculates the time with 45 minutes.
1,. February 2016: ADAC makes pre-post testing.
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