The automaker Opel said to have manipulated the exhaust values of its diesel model Zafira containing unprecedented shutdown. The report the ARD magazine “Monitor” and “Spiegel Online”.
The auto maker Opel will use in its Diesel vehicles previously unknown defeat devices, to result in the emission of vehicles in normal operation occasionally we switched off, whereby the emissions increases.
this accusation raise the ARD magazine “monitor” and “mirror” by common tests with the German environmental aid (DUH .) to Opel Zafira vehicles
According to the research, the emission equal worked in several test scenarios inadequate: for example when the engine speed 2400 rpm passed when the car was accelerated to more than 145 km / h or even at an ambient air pressure of less than 915 millibars.
Opel Zafira and Insignia also showed at the KBA tests Auffäligkeiten
that the Zafira engines something is wrong, but is not new allegation. Even when tests of the Federal Ministry of Transport in cooperation with the Federal Motor Transport Authority was a Zafira diesel with 1.6 liter engine to the eye-catching vehicles. There, the nitrogen oxide emissions (NOx) were in the NEDC test cycle at 10 degrees Celsius, according to reports, “6.5 times above the limit. Even in the NEDC road cycles exceed the vehicle this more than 5 times” m wrote the KBA Examiner . in its opinion
faced by KBA with these values, said Opel that “EGR and SCR injection in the range of 20 ° C – 30 ° C in full” worked. This temperature range defined Opel as “normal operating conditions” in accordance with regulation. Also noted the auditors that the urea dosing (AdBlue) to reduce the NOx content, even on the street “from -30 ° C to 50 ° C” works. However, it is “returned outside temperature drops below 17 ° C”.
According to Opel happens “for reasons of component protection”. The carmaker Sayagyi declared thereupon to the KBA willing “to improve the effectiveness of its combined EGR and SCR system over a wide temperature range up to its physical limits.” Meaning: The vehicles retrofitted. “If the manufacturer shall take the measures envisaged and the KBA is convinced of the effectiveness, of suspected illegal reduction in effectiveness of the emission control system of component protection grounds would not continue to exist,” wrote the KAB in its evaluation.
the Opel Insignia 2.0 l fell examiners negatively on and now has to be retrofitted.
Opel, the accusations
Opel had in a statement to the KBA tests from April 22, 2016 stresses that its vehicles have no unauthorized shutdown. Here, the text of that message:
“The report confirms that the tested cars of our house have no facilities that detect whether a vehicle is subjected to a gas test The published yesterday by the British government report. is also proof of this.
the line with our expectations. We have always said that Opel has no facilities that detect whether a vehicle is subjected to an emissions test. Our software was never designed to deceive, or .. to cheat We meet the exhaust emission standards “
No insight into the offending data
the new allegations to the Rüsselsheim carmaker expressed similarly: “Opel reiterated again at this point that we do not use software that detects whether a car is subjected to an emissions test,” Opel said in a statement with. That would have shown “in different countries extensive test series” – The report of the Federal Ministry of Transport and digital infrastructure of 22 April this year. “This report of the Authority concludes that – apart from a few cars a competitor -.. In any other vehicle an illegal shutdown was detected commissions in France and the UK also come to this conclusion”
Opel emphasizes that “the methods and protocols of the testing activities of DUH / monitor / mirror Opel not provided” were such that one could not evaluate their results. “Based on our own and independent measurements – and the experience gained with the experiments published by DUH – we do not believe that these recent results are founded objectively and scientifically.”
DUH demanded in January, Zafira from to draw the traffic
the German environmental aid (DUH) had the Federal motor transport Authority (KBA) invited in January 2016 to draw the Opel Zafira with the 1.6 CDTi engine from circulation. The vehicle does not meet the requirements of European Directive 715/2007 approval, argued the DUH, therefore, the approval must be revoked. This states that the emissions “during the normal life of the vehicle under normal operating conditions” must be effectively limited.
The DUH had determined with measurements on the test bench and in control mode strong variations in emission levels. but yet they came, the environmental aid could not then realize.
The ARD television magazine “Monitor” had traveled a few months ago reported that Opel had in its own examination clearly excessive CO2 levels have been found in a vehicle , Opel had dismissed that report at that time. “Monitor” then relied on a protocol of three measurements to have shown that consumption and CO2 emissions were 15 percent above the official information from the manufacturer in an Opel Zafira diesel on average.
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