Also, early versions of the successor to the VW scandal engine EA189 are potentially affected by the exhaust affair. Currently investigating Volkswagen also the initial version of the EA288 used from 2012 with Euro 5 standard, a company spokesman said on Thursday.
This means that the consequences of the scandal wide further. VW also needs to renew the engine technology in addition to the software at three million engines. This number of 1.6-liter engines is affected by the recall, said a VW spokesman, confirming a corresponding report of the “Handelsblatt”.
VW had already declared, sufficient for larger and smaller engines a software update. At the 1.6-liter engines on the other hand, the technology needs to be adapted. This motor technical adjustment is not expected before September 2016, according to Volkswagen.
The recall is scheduled to begin early next year. The spokesman added that a total of eight million cars would have in Europe with Euro-5 engines will be launched in the workshops. Not least because of the specific problems with the 1.6-liter engines experts doubt the fact that the engine conversion is to create next year.
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