Saturday, September 26, 2015

Mercedes Sprinter: software update is causing a stir – SPIEGEL ONLINE

Daimler has launched 11,000 Mercedes Sprinter in Germany for a software upgrade to the workshop. In these vehicles, the test equipment as TÜV and DEKRA for the main study can not communicate with the systems of the vehicles, as a company spokesman said. He thus confirmed a report of the “Welt am Sonntag”.

In 6000 vehicles, the software for data transfer is already updated. This had nothing to do with manipulation of software or of emission values, stressed the spokesman.

Daimler had called the Vehicle Operator in June by letter to go to a workshop. The company admitted to have formulated the writing unhappy. Therein it is stated that it was necessary for the vehicles’ exhaust relevant ECUs equipped with an optimized software, “writes the” Welt am Sonntag “. The formulation was given the exhaust scandal at Volkswagen “highly misleading,” said Mercedes transporter chief Volker Mornhinweg the sheet. Customers could understand the contents incorrectly.

This is according to Daimler-Mercedes Sprinter, which were delivered in 2013 and now have gradually become the premier investigation.

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