VW Recall: workshops get 60 euros per software update – Handelsblatt

Software update for the Amarok

Volkswagen has started the recall of its diesel models

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Wolfsburg The Volkswagen Group will pay its authorized workshops for the eradication of illegal exhaust software 60 euros per vehicle. The learned, the German Press Agency in Hanover on Thursday by a recognized side. It deserves a VW partner “virtually nothing”, it said. The Group specifies the pure working to update the diesel Software with half an hour for the workshop still being added documentation and administrative work.

In addition to the 60 euro for the update (without VAT), the provide workshops if necessary a lump sum a fetching and delivery service for the cars of customers invoiced or – if necessary – the cost of a replacement car. A Volkswagen spokesman declined to comment on details of the remuneration. The Group and its dealers a common destiny, so that’s in the industry anywhere

documentation .: The writes VW Amarok Owners

In a letter Volkswagen has in the exhaust gas scandal the owners of affected models Amarok asked to make an appointment to call back. The text of the letter in the text. More …

Cost for callbacks are usually always among the sets other workshop work. VW had started the largest recall in the company’s history on Wednesday with the pick-up truck Amarok – it is about Germany’s 8,000 cars

In a few weeks should first versions of the Passat follow.. They are also part of the first wave callback for diesel models with the engine EA189 in the Euro 5 emissions standard with 2.0-liter displacement. Later in the year then affected engines follow with 1.2 and 1.6 liters. Altogether have 2.5 million cars of the Group for rectification, including the VW sister brands Audi, Seat, Skoda and Volkswagen Commercial Vehicles.

The Wolfsburg reaffirmed, “the rectification process for our clients as pleasant as possible” customize want to. This included also requested “the free and adequate replacement mobility”.

VW writes all holders of gradually. The cars are technically roadworthy and safe for traffic in spite of prohibited software. The VW-partners may retain the holder addresses and use them later for actions, such as for evidence of impending major investigations. Customers can opt to request you save your address.