Volkswagen may convert another 1.1 million diesel cars – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Volkswagen is proceeding with the conversion manipulated diesel vehicles. After the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) had given last week ahead for the repair of 800,000 vehicles, the Flensburger Administration issued the now released for further 1.1 million cars with 2.0-liter diesel engine. The KBA had confirmed that change neither consumption nor power and noise emissions by upgrading, Volkswagen said on Wednesday.

For owners of models such as the Tiguan compact SUV and the Caddy VW can now be written. Even with the Audi subsidiary of recall is underway. There, the KBA had given clearance for models A4, A5, A6 and the Q5 SUV with two-liter engine. The conversion of the Exeo Seat with the same engine type (EA 189) run already.

The Passat disaster took time

According to VW, the Federal Motor Vehicle Office to date the repair of more than 2.5 million vehicles of various brands of the Group has approved. The recall began in February with the SUV Amarok, but was subsequently stalled because the KBA demanded improvements in the Passat.

The recall of 800,000 copies of this model should begin in late February / early March. But apparently there were repeated problems with fuel economy. So to be slightly increased, among other things, the fuel consumption by installing the new engine software. Beginning of June could VW presented the KBA a satisfactory solution. At the same time VW had, however, informed that the planned for the second quarter recall the models with 1.2-liter engine was delaying.

By the end of the Wolfsburg want to convert the 1.6-liter cars. These must in addition to a new software, a new component to be mounted in the engine.

Affected customers now get workshop dates

The owners of diesel cars whose conversion has now been released, to be contacted successively according to VW and get an appointment from her workshop.

The repair is approved by the Flensburger authority by types, because depending on the design another software is necessary. You should replace the illegal shutdown, which ensures that the car exhaust emission limits adhere only to the test, but not on the street.

Situated Flew was the diesel scandal in the US, where it is still negotiating a solution for a total of nearly 600,000 vehicles. Worldwide Volkswagen has eleven million diesel vehicles call or take back to the workshops. The majority is attributable to 8.5 million in Europe.