What will the VW diesel scandal mean for Skodas in AUS

[Eaglen00b]

If you want to show the extent to which your fuel consumption has been compromised, you should start recording ALL your fuel purchases using the online tool at fuelly.com or similar.

This.

I have fuel records and consumption for every refuel since the day the car rolled off the dealer's lot. I will be VERY interested to see what impact any "fix" will have.

[Transporter]

I think it's a hurricane in a teacup blown up more up by the misinformed media.

it's media circus or The Circus Media bringing you the news and some people just can't have enough of it.

The Adelaide's Advertiser wrote in the Saturday's Cars guide or shall I call a misguide, that the VW was first time caught with emission cheating in 1974, though they conveniently forgot to mention a great number of other car makers caught with the same, including almost all US ones.

...and then the Fairfax complained that the VW Au didn't answer their questions yet.

[ParaBul]

The engines are fully capable of meeting the emissions requirements in the test laboratory, but they're disabling / altering the emissions controls when they're not in a test laboratory - presumably for reasons of fuel economy and / or reliability (of emissions hardware, amongst other things).

All VAG would need to do is produce new software that fully enables the emissions controls at all times, and they should be able to resume selling. But as this version of their engines won't be as economical, these diesel engines will have reduced appeal in the market - and, if reliability is compromised, that won't help VAG's reputation either.