Emissions-related control devices: Daimler Sprinter calls for software update – n-tv.de NEWS

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 Sunday, 27 September 2015

 
 
 

 
 Daimler gets 11,000 Sprinter in the workshops to bring software up to date. The concerns precisely “emissions-related control devices”. With the VW scandal that everything should still have nothing to do.
 

 
 

In the midst of the exhaust scandal at Volkswagen According to a press report 11,000 Transportation type Sprinter to optimize the software for “emission related ECUs” recalled Daimler. It is, according to Daimler-Mercedes Sprinter, which were delivered in 2013 and now have gradually become the premier investigation. The control units affected would “provided with an optimized software to nullify any inconveniences with authorities and testing organizations”, the Stuttgart automaker wrote according to a report of the “Welt am Sonntag” in a letter to 11,000 vehicle owners. According to the newspaper, the company denied the authenticity of the letters first, they later confirmed, however.

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The Mercedes van boss Volker Mornhinweg assured, the process had “nothing to do with manipulation of software”. Some of the diagnostic equipment for general inspection the inspector could not communicate with the systems in the vehicles. Therefore, among other things, emission values ​​were not transferred. The software for data transfer was therefore now updated Mornhinweg told the “Welt am Sonntag”. The wording in the letter was “highly misleading”, the sprinters owners would now be informed again about the precise state of affairs.

Daimler CEO Dieter Zetsche assured, Daimler considered himself “principle to the legal requirements” and had “made no tampering with our vehicles.” A function, “which restricts the effectiveness of the exhaust after-treatment inadmissible, does not come at Mercedes-Benz to use,” Zetsche told the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung”. He acknowledged that the consumption information from the manufacturers are lower than in road transport is indeed the case. But this was because that the prescribed tests were taking place under laboratory conditions.

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