Italian Consumer Group says Volkswagen Recall Fix is “ineffective”

It’s not getting any easier for the Volkswagen Group…

We already act for thousands of UK victims of the scandal, and we already have reports from experts, and from our own clients, about the adverse affects that the recall is having, and is going to have, on vehicles.

The latest reports from Italian consumer group Altroconsumo are even more damning – their testing revealed that the fix for the Q5 actually INCREASED NOx emissions by 25%!

The Volkswagen Group are saying to customers that the fix will NOT adversely affect vehicles, and that it works because of new technology that was not available when they decided to cheat. Yet independent experts – and science itself – continue to dispute these claims, with the latest tests conducted actually resulting in NOx emissions being higher after the fix.

According to the reports, when the defeat device was removed from the Audi Q5, NOx emissions actually rose by a quarter. This once again cast serious doubts over the effectiveness of the fix, with consumer groups and experts asking Volkswagen and testing agencies to, again, review the fix that has been commissioned for use.

It’s bad enough that the fix is possibly going to adversely affect vehicles, from what the reports we have seen say, but it’s even worse if vehicles will STILL be non-compliant with emissions restrictions even after the fix. It’s always worth remembering that this isn’t just some tick-box exercise to keep within a bunch of bureaucratic pollution restrictions – NOx is a serious pollutant that can cause massive problems to human health.

There are very good reasons it is subject to restrictions. Volkswagen decided to put profits before people with the use of the defeat devices, with NOx being known as a harmful pollutant.

In a word from our team:

Delays and setbacks

It’s been nothing but delays and setbacks since the very beginning. Volkswagen originally said the fix would be rolled out in January, yet it took another six months on top of this to start – very gradually – rolling out the recall.

It took longer than expected to get the fix approved in the first place, but with problems arising since the fix has been rolled out, we expect more delays and more setbacks.

We will keep you posted!