Polo 1.6 TDI Emissions.

[Sydneykid]

Id imagine all VW cars effected you will have to goto the VicRoads or equiv and produce the paperwork to say its been fixed. You think that VW are going to forge those papers without doing the work as well?

Other than for driving licence renewals I haven't been to an RMS office for about 10 years and I have 6 cars, everything is handled on line these days. They simply don't have the capacity to handle 90,000+ face to face contacts to check paperwork. Safety recalls are surely more important than emissions, has anyone ever had to take their paperwork in to prove that the safety recall has been done? I have 2 cars currently with airbag recalls outstanding, haven't had any problem registering them online. It's just not going to happen over what is after all a minor emissions issue, not a safety issue, no on is going to die if their recall isn't done.


Cheers
Gary

[gavs]

May I just add....

Polo GTI High Oil Usage - Discussion Thread

This one thread which was started almost 5 years ago has over 216 pages of information on JUST THE 6R POLO GTI on how it burns too much oil.

If you are surprised that there has been dodgy stuff coming out of the tailpipes of VW's that is being masked in the diesels and VW have been getting away with it, I don't know how you are all surprised. Think about what is coming out of the tailpipes of all the oil-burning Petrol TSi engines.....

[maxrob200]

If the current emissions conform to Aust standards, then the dodgy software is not going to matter if it is not compliant with US rules over here. VW Aust may simply recode new software without the dodgy US stuff in it for local cars. It would be interesting to see if the US VW CEO is aware of the dodgy software since it was primarily coded to slip under US emissions rules. Also, if Mk 7 Tdi variants are not part of the dodgy software, is it because there has been a workaround using AD Blue Urea filtering.

[alexaescht]

If the current emissions conform to Aust standards, then the dodgy software is not going to matter if it is not compliant with US rules over here. VW Aust may simply recode new software without the dodgy US stuff in it for local cars. It would be interesting to see if the US VW CEO is aware of the dodgy software since it was primarily coded to slip under US emissions rules. Also, if Mk 7 Tdi variants are not part of the dodgy software, is it because there has been a workaround using AD Blue Urea filtering.

My understanding is that the Mk7 Golf diesels (which are Euro 6 compliant, over the Euro 5 of the ones in the Mk6 Golf and current Polo) are a complete new generation of engine which can comply with emissions, while the Euro 5 ones weren't developed very well and the only way they could easily pass tests was to cheat with code. Not entirely sure how the Eu6 engines do it, but I know they have an entirely new gen of DPF and cat converter etc.