The Volkswagen Group announced Thursday that call review about 800,000 cars in the world for a possible problem pedal in Volkswagen and Porsche models. It is 391,000 Volkswagen Touareg and Porsche Cayenne 409,477, all assembled between 2011 and 2016, the group said in two separate statements.
The problem concerning a safety component installed on fixing a pedal, “was detected during an internal control and is already corrected in current production,” said the group.
Owners of the vehicles in question “will be contacted directly by Volkswagen”, continues the group, which states that control will require less than half an hour.
Volkswagen announced a few days he called to review 177,000 cars Passat that can be done an electrical problem. In February, he reported on the other hand, like other German builders, called to review other 680,000 cars in the US due to a potentially faulty airbag.
a month
Meanwhile, Volkswagen managed on Thursday to delay a month presentation to a US judge in the solution for about 600,000 vehicles circulating in the country with diesel engines rigged to hide their emissions real.
on February 25, the district judge in San Francisco, Charles Breyer, gave a deadline of March 24 for the German manufacturer appear before the court, which oversees all actions against the mark, a clear answer on what remedy established to solve the problem.
Then, Breyer said that Volkswagen had been six months since the scandal broke in September 2015, with the revelation of the Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States that the manufacturer used an illegal software to hide emissions, to decide on a solution.
But Thursday 24, Breyer acknowledged that the directors of Volkswagen and US authorities are engaged in tough negotiations and that they are progressing, albeit slowly, so it decided to extend until April 21 the deadline for the company to give a solution.
at a hearing in San Francisco, the manufacturer German and the Justice Department told Breyer that hold intense negotiations to reach an agreement to remedy the problem, local media reported.
for its part, Volkswagen said in a statement that it “is committed to resolving the investigation of US regulators on the issue of diesel emissions as fast as possible and implement a solution for the affected vehicles “.
” we continue progressing and we are fully cooperating with the efforts of the Justice Breyer, working with the Director (Robert) Mueller, to establish a swift and fair to civil litigation in the United States resolution, “the statement added.
negotiation process
in January, Breyer appointed former director of the FBI Robert Mueller as a mediator between the Volkswagen Group and hundreds of customers who have filed lawsuits against the car company for fraud diesel engines. Although Breyer acknowledged at the hearing the progress in the negotiations, the judge also made it clear that if the company does not appear before the court on April 21 with a solution to the problem, could start mid-year trial in his against him for fraud and violation of US regulations.
on January 12, US authorities rejected an initial plan to repair Volkswagen souped diesel engines. According to leaks published in recent days, the company and US authorities are in the midst of intense negotiations focused on the creation by Volkswagen two compensation funds. One of them would be at the federal level and the other for the state of California, whose environmental authorities discovered the trick of the engines.
The agreement between Volkswagen and the US It is essential to stop the demand that the Department of Justice presented on Jan. 4 for violating the environmental laws of the country and that could cost tens company billions of dollars in fines.
time, Volkswagen has hired lawyer Kenneth Feinberg, who specializes in compensation programs as established by General Motors (GM) to address demands by the defect in the ignition system of millions of vehicles.
Feinberg is preparing the design and administration of “an independent program claims resolution” to compensate vehicle owners in the United States circulating with engines truncated.
the scandal, which has caused serious economic losses Volkswagen worldwide and exit of many senior company executives, was discovered on September 18, 2015.
EPA and environmental authorities in California (CARB) announced that day that the manufacturer installed a illegal software in their vehicles equipped with diesel 2-liter to detect when they were being subjected to inspections and alter actual emissions engines.
authorities discovered through the work of university researchers without software, vehicles Volkswagen emit nitrogen oxides, a carcinogenic product in amounts several times higher than those permitted by US law
. Source: AFP and EFE
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