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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I do hope Autocar will be
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Only 50K car, and only VW ?
If there's to be no effect on fuel economy and power output then why did they have to cheat in the first place.. ?
I don't trust diesel cars in general, people take off the filters, even f you follow a new diesel car, the waft of black smoke that bellows when they put their foot down after crawling in slow traffic shows diesels are diry no matter how you filter it as they have to clean off the filters.
scotty5
Have we all forgotten?
Cheat device wasn't on engines supplied to UK market.
to stay within maximum allowed NOx levels.
It's just not true. What is true though is whenever I see the driver of a brand new petrol car put their foot down, I know it's emitting more CO2 than it's brand new diesel equivelent.
As if nobody plays around with petrol engines. Something I have failed to understand from day one in this country - UK public up in arms about this VW cheat device yet NOBODY was interested in NOx prior to the US investigation, most (including me) had never heard of it. And the number of people calling diesel's dirty. Are we all forgetting that our VED is based upon C02 levels and it encouraged us to by cars with lower C02 emissions? A modern diesel emits lower C02 than it's modern petrol counterpart, but eveyone simply ignores that now. Why? Isn't lowering CO2 levels no longer a good thing?
Shrub
I'll take the CO2
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carty
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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