Well, after driving mine a good 75+ miles since the "recall", my butt-dyno can't report any difference, still pulls how it did before, and whilst I can't guarantee that I was driving in exactly the same manner (it won't be vastly different, I tend to try and be as smooth as possible when I'm claiming the mileage back), I'm getting the same MPG figures as I was pre-recall.
I'll keep an eye on it in the coming week as I'll be doing a good 700+ miles in the next 5 days, a good mix of urban, countryside and motorway, so should be able to get a better grasp of the overall economy.
VW emissions recall, anyone had it?
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I've got a 2011 Octavia VRS CR170 Diesel.
No chance i'm having the recall done.
Far too many people have been screwed with this. EGR valves failing days after update...
Plenty of forums/owners groups have posted about it.
On the other hand, i'm not big on compensation culture and won't be pursuing. Lots of law firms involved now though asking for 30% of whatever you get if VW end up coughing up
No chance i'm having the recall done.
Far too many people have been screwed with this. EGR valves failing days after update...
Plenty of forums/owners groups have posted about it.
On the other hand, i'm not big on compensation culture and won't be pursuing. Lots of law firms involved now though asking for 30% of whatever you get if VW end up coughing up
I have a VW Golf 1.6 TDI which had the recall work done by my local VW garage (Stoke Volkswagen) on Monday 23rd January.
Since then I have had several errors and warning lights on my dashboard, on Thursday 2nd Feb my car came to a complete stop and put itself into "limp mode" - I don't know enough about cars but someone explained to be that basically my car had put itself into limp/safe mode to prevent any damage to my car, a diagnostics was ran (not by VW) and a problem with the EGR was flagged.
I went back to Stoke Volkswagen on Friday 3rd Feb and explained that whatever work they had done has caused my car to become unreliable. They have assured me that the work they did is not related to the issues I am having now, yet I keep reading a lot on other forums about people in the same situation.
VW will not help me in anyway and want £51 just to run a diagnostics to see what issue they caused!
The car has only done 19K miles, I don't know where to go from here... please help!
Since then I have had several errors and warning lights on my dashboard, on Thursday 2nd Feb my car came to a complete stop and put itself into "limp mode" - I don't know enough about cars but someone explained to be that basically my car had put itself into limp/safe mode to prevent any damage to my car, a diagnostics was ran (not by VW) and a problem with the EGR was flagged.
I went back to Stoke Volkswagen on Friday 3rd Feb and explained that whatever work they had done has caused my car to become unreliable. They have assured me that the work they did is not related to the issues I am having now, yet I keep reading a lot on other forums about people in the same situation.
VW will not help me in anyway and want £51 just to run a diagnostics to see what issue they caused!
The car has only done 19K miles, I don't know where to go from here... please help!
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Then you traded it for a S3 saloon. That says it all.
All that says is that my life moved on, and I wanted something quick.
I've put less than 2,000 miles onto it so far, a diesel was utterly pointless as I tend to only drive for leisure now, not work.
From what I've read you could be faced with a bill of about a grand for the EGR, which is why I'm keen to avoid having the 'fix' applied to my wife's car. My mechanical knowledge is extremely limited but my understanding is that it is very unlikely to get an EGR failure in less than 20k miles under normal circumstances, so the finger of blame should be squarely pointed at this recall.
As I mentioned earlier it really staggers me that the media are not making more of this issue (given the overall publicity dieselgate has had) as you look online and quite a lot of people have been hit with 'limp mode' / EGR issues. The actual impact of this fix to individual consumers is far, far worse than the original issue of test cheating that got blanket press coverage and from what I've read VW are really battening down the hatches and denying everything, dealers saying they've never heard of it causing any problems despite anecdotal evidence to the contrary.
Good luck, I would push very hard with VW to get them to take responsibility for this (they will be expecting you to pick up the repair bill) and have a read of the honest john thread I linked earlier (doubtless other examples available online) to help build your case.
Only 19,000 miles? Is this fault not covered by warranty regardless? I'm assuming you didn't buy a diesel in which to do 5k miles a year over four years, obviously.
That what I was thinking ..
plus: Do VW only have a 3 year engine warranty ? Surely anyone that buys a brand new car has the warranty extended to 5 years
3 years is pretty standard across most car manufacturers.
Not everyone extends the warranty after 3 years.
When I bought my car brand new I paid £260 to extend the warranty from 3 year to 5 years
I think it would have been crazy not to...
£260 is very low for 2 years in my limited experience.
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For the current Golf it is £565.
https://www.volkswagen.co.uk/assets/common/pdf/pricelists/golf-gte-vii-pricelist.pdf
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Ouch that a fair bit more
Someone at my work had around £32,000 of warranty work done on his 20k VW Passat...
And another person from my work just had a 1k+ sensor replaced on his audi under warranty
But How true them prices are I have no idea
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I did not buy the car brand new, I bought it in October 2015 when it had done 10K miles, I also bought this car because I was travelling further for work at the time every day but now I am not.
The issue still stands that VW certainly caused this issue and they are not taking responsibility for it.
I didn't buy the car brand new.
VW/Audi love to design cars so that the engine has to be removed to carry out many jobs. Which is mega expensive work in itself.
They are financial time bombs out of warranty. Especially high end models. Do a search for the Audi S4 timing chain issue, for example
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You will have to prove that. You mentioned I think VW are willing to investigate under the assumption it isn't the software, for now.
A software change causing a mechanical fault, whilst possible isn't as likely as the EGR system getting a fault on its own (perhaps being under greater load under the new software). If for example , replacing the EGR valve solves the issue, was the software at fault?
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The car was serviced by the same garage in December 2016 and no problems came up, suddenly in January when Stoke VW did not only a software update but fit something new to the car (I believe the 1.6 specifically is more than just software update) I am now having problems with EGR.
Surely you can't say it is a coincidence?