Volkswagen has yet to fix 390,000 of the 1.2 million vehicles impacted by the diesel emissions scandal in Britain, for more than two years since the discoveries initially came to light, according to a parliamentary committee.
The German automaker has paid compensation to U.S. vehicle drivers since the revealing of the emissions scandal but has chosen not to do so in Europe.
The British parliament’s Environmental Audit Committee stated that Volkswagen had slowed the speed of its operation in recent months and gotten in touch with the transport ministry to do something about it.
“It is more than 2 years since the VW emissions scandal was found, a third of cars have yet to be repaired and rates have slowed substantially,” stated committee Chairwoman Mary Creagh, a lawmaker for the Labour Party.
“We have written to the Department for Transport to ask exactly what action they are taking in response to the stalled progress.”
Volkswagen stated it had made technical changes to 810,134 automobiles from simply under 1.2 million in Britain however that as the process was voluntary, instead of a safety recall, it may never ever fix each and every single one.
“The campaign will stay open for the foreseeable future but the 100 percent point can never ever be reached for the following factors: Some vehicles will have been scrapped, some written off, some exported and some owners refuse or never react,” a spokesman stated.
About 6.25 million of roughly 10.5 million affected diesel cars globally have been refitted, with a great share in Europe, a representative at VW’s Wolfsburg headquarters informed on Monday, and that about 90 percent of about 2.5 million impacted cars in the automaker’s German house market have been repaired.
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Actual reality from a VW owner , the so called ‘fix’ is leaving cars in a state worse than they were bought, with lower mpg, lower power and frequent stall/cutout and limp modes leading to lengthy repairs. Not all VW owners are stupid and we realize that the so called fix can ONLY result in a worse car otherwise it would never have existed in the first place. Therefore the vast majority of the cars which have not been fixed is by us owners who are refusing to have our expensive purchases wrecked to help VW out in not getting a massive fine. There is a sensible solution which is to retrofit the adblue system to the affected diesels , however VW opted for the much cheaper option of an untested software fix and are quite happy to fight with owners when that goes wrong and pay out the odd claim instead of properly sorting the matter. Oh and VW have been systematically sending us begging letters / letters pretending to be from the DVLA and more recently one where we can refuse the fix – so they can use as an excuse just as they are doing … Sorry VW its a no from me … and a no from a third of VAG car owners. Get your wallet out your paying a big fine.
I regret having the fix on my Skoda Yeti, the car runs differently, hesitates on gentle acceleration and the DPF regenerates more. I want the fix reversed, no chance.
Looking at my next car and the Skoda Karoq ticks all the right boxes bar one. That is it is made by VW.
BMW, Mercedes here I come
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I own one of the car’s that had the so called technical solutions and I wish I didn’t because it has ruined my car. The fix VW are trying to get owners to have done is not worth doing because it doesn’t reduce nox levels. It does however, increase fuel consumption, slows the car down and makes it rattle like a bag of spanners. It’s high time we had an honest and truthful report but as per usual you side with VW. They can do no wrong
VWC why fix something that’s not broken the fix is not fit for purpose.
You treat customers with contempt
Shame on you will never touch a VW ever again.
They destroyed our car and we are unable to sell it.. (who wants to buy a car that’s knocking it’s brains out?) VW DESERVE TO BE CLOSED DOWN.
Repaired is apparently another word for rendered useless at the hands of the very wolks who are trying to raise funds by ruining cars and vans and charging their previously loyal customers for the pleasure. Mary Creagh should be more concerned with why VW are not buying back and removing from the market their cheat device vehicles which are worse for the environment after vw have #fixfail them. If America can receive compensation and buyback then why are we not pushing for the same?
The fix damages cars which VW deny
I have ‘refused or not reacted’ because the alleged rectification measure has a well documented negative effect on efficiency and reliability. Some reports even say that NOx, SOx and CO2 emissions are worse than before. VW are not technically capable of repairing these vehicles to a high enough standard and until they are, mine will not be having any ‘technical measure’ applied. The measure is only implemented by VW to appease government, they have no interest in real world improvements or customer support for owners of affected vehicles. DVSA are also culpable by allowing VW to use their logo to infer that the technical measure is mandatory. Just to be clear [fellow owners] it is not a legal requirement to have your car ruined to cover VW’s backside!
Not really surprising that people no longer wish to have the software in their ‘cheat software’ vehicles as it will render their cars unreliable, prone to damaged DPF’s, EGR’s etc,etc.etc.! Also greatly reduced performance and fuel consumption with according to independent tests, poorer emissions than pre software fix! Hence the name given to VWAG’s software change of ‘fixfail’!!!
My Skoda Yeti was ‘fixed’ that resulted in limp mode; failed EGR; constant re-gens and lacking power! And they call that a fix ! Hang your heads in shame VAG
Hi, after we had all the EGR problem’s etc and paid over £1,000 to get it fixed , we never trusted our beloved Yeti and couldn’t relax whilst driving , just waiting for the warning light’s to come on …… What a way to treat your valued customer’s , l am sure Nissan will treat us better .……..