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VW Ready to Recall 324,000 Diesels in India
Volkswagen AG plans to begin this month to recall as many as 324,000 Audi, Skoda and Volkswagen brand diesels in India to update software it had installed to cheat on emission tests.
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Volkswagen AG plans to begin this month to recall as many as 324,000 Audi, Skoda and Volkswagen brand diesels in India to update software it had installed to cheat on emission tests.
The campaign involves models powered by 1.2-, 1.5-, 1.6- and 2.0-liter members of VW’s “EA 189” family of diesel engines. A source tells The Economic Times the targeted callbacks will begin with some 198,000 VW brand Passat, Polo, Jetta and Vento cars over the next 10 months.
VW also will recall about 36,500 brand A4 and A6 sedans and Q3 and Q5 crossovers; and 88,700 Skoda brand Fabia, Laura, Rapid and Superb sedans and Yeti SUVs. The timetable for those callbacks is not clear.
The recalled vehicles are among 11 million diesels VW admits it rigged to meet government emission tests but then spew several times the allowable amounts of nitrogen oxides under real-world driving conditions.
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