Now begins the Volkswagen recall scandal cars – Expressen

Finally it starts to move in the diesel gate and finally do car owners start getting their cars åtgärdare.

VW has been okay from the German energy agency, KBA to start picking up cars and the measure is approved throughout the EU.

Volkswagen has acknowledged that there are improper software in a total of 8.5 million cars sold in Europe. And now, the German energy agency, KBA started work to accept VW’s action program for cars.

In a first stage, KBA approved the measures on the VW Amarok with the two-liter diesel. We can expect that the same authorization will shortly be provided for the VW Passat with the same engine.

The engine’s over 5 million cars

The engine now be addressed is approved to Euro5 and accounts for a very large part of the cars have problems. According to some data are the engine of the total of 5.2 million cars from the VW group in Europe. The recall is expected to take about a year to complete.

According to Volkswagen, the measure to correct the software does not mean that the engine receives more or less horsepower or altered fuel consumption.

Representatives of the EU and Volkswagen has ended up in a ordbråk around the recall as VW claims that they had done nothing wrong under EU law, but the abandonment of the cars anyway. EU representatives on the other hand argue that VW made a mistake.

VW still talks about how the cars sold in the US must be addressed when there is about to bring down NOx values ​​to the correct levels, and can do it without fuel consumption changes.

1.6-liter diesels have to wait until this fall

During the second quarter of 2016 is expected to recall 300,000 cars with 1.2-liter diesels start and the first under the third quarter to be 1.6-liter engines fixed. 1.6-liter diesel needs a software update plus a plastic tube should be installed in order to change the air intake.

The measure of the largest and smallest diesel engines should take approximately 15 minutes for the workshop to fix, while assembly of the hose 1.6 -litersmotorn can take as much as an hour.