Market experts presume that about 120,000 Volkswagen and Audi vehicles might have been manipulated in South Korea by the same software found by the USA environment regulators and be subject to a recall.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has said that 10 to 40 times the legal nitrogen oxide limit is emitted from the VW diesels. The software is at the heart of the global emissions cheating scandal that has prompted Volkswagen AG to recall millions of cars.
However, the defeat devices have been installed in millions of vehicles.
The news will be welcomed by Volkswagen management, which has been investigating all diesel engines built after 2012 for emissions cheating software. Volkswagen has publicly announced plans to spend at least $7.3 billion on fixing the emissions issues, and the company’s U.S. CEO Michael Horn was recently grilled by Congress about said plans.
A list of vehicles included in the communiqué said models manufactured in the country from 2009 to 2014 were affected. They are used in a few Golf, Beetle, Passat, and Jetta cars from the Volkswagen brand. Urea tanks will be fitted in these cars to exhaust diesel engine vehicles. But the recycling system can also hurt acceleration and fuel economy. The EA288 engines replaced the EA189 engines which have plunged Volkswagen into the storm of a worldwide scam. This will be the best October sales performance since 2001.
EA stands for “entwicklungsauftrag”, or “development order”, and signified a major new engine line. Here in America a combination of software updates and hardware retrofit of a urea tank may have to be applied to about 325,000 of the 482,000 TDI equipped VW and Audi cars in the United States. It also wants to focus on its foremost development goals – which will mean greater emphasis on hybrids and full electric vehicles in its future planning. According to auto and Driver, there was also a 1.6-liter version of the EA 288 that was not sold in the United States.
All owners of the affected cars will be contacted by the automaker and vehicles will start being fixed in January 2016, at no cost to the owners.
The diesel emission scandal that Volkswagen now finds itself embroiled in has been a huge financial blow for the German carmaker.
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