Volkswagen will begin recalling Passat and Passat CC models affected by the emissions scandal in the UK, after its proposed fix was approved by the German Federal Transport Authority (KBA).
A total of 50,864 cars will be recalled in the UK, and owners of affected models are expected to be contacted this week.
VW has said the fix is free of charge, and will take around 30 minutes.
The cars that require the fix are powered by the 2.0-litre diesel unit from the EA 189 diesel engine family. This UK recall is part of a European-wide fix for around 800,000 cars, which includes the two Passat models and, outside of the UK, the Volkswagen Eos.
The manufacturer has also confirmed that the KBA, which approved this fix, found no change to fuel consumption, performance or noise emissions in the vehicles after it had been implemented.
This is the latest fix for cars affected by the emissions scandal and follows the Amarok pick-up recall in January and the Golf TDI Blue Motion recall in April.
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2011 SEAT Exeo 2.0TDi
Safe to say I won't be taking them up on their offer.
NOx is not the worst
The Passat unlike the golf I believe has the Adblue system to remove the NOX gases by urea injection. In my experience the car only uses a fraction of the Adblue it should do and suspect thats deliberate on VWs part because it was a very unpopular with owners. Turning it up full could have a significant effect.
VWs DPF system is one of the very best going and brings the newer cars to the same particulate level as petrol. A new diesel engine produces more particulates than the same engine with a few thousand miles on it, the opposite is the case with petrol engines that get worse with age. US emissions demand cars meet the standard for 5 years, not so in the EU.
One diesel car owner commented he was not getting too upset about his modern VW car when he operated a pice of plant that used more diesel every day than his car did in a year and it had no emissions control
Shipping and aviation are massive users of of heavy fuel with minimal emissions control.
Im not getting too upset by this one.
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