The problem will be once the cheat is removed and the car is how it should of been from the start is it will do less mpg and not go as well! Possibly effecting the re sale value as well. For example ive got a seat ibiza ecomotive and I brought that for the free road tax and the 74 mpg I can get out of it if due to a vw cheat it got recalssed and I had to pay £200 a year in tax I wouldnt be best pleased!:rolleyes:

I think in America the test is done with the driven wheels in a rolling road at a simulated road speed so the ECU will see from the ABS sensors the rear wheels are not moving it will also notice if the bonnet (hood) is open and maybe even detect something is plugged into the cig lighter/power socket. And I’m sure other things will let the car know its being tested so it switches the pollution control on and after the test when its back in normal use turns it off again. The same would apply for tests here even thinking about it for petrol cars as that test involves bringing the engine rpm up to approx 2500 while stationary for a minute or so! not saying other manufactures are doing it but it wouldn’t be hard if they wanted to.

It would appear the EPA have been looking into Volkswagen since early 2014! and finely threatened not to approve the affected models for sale next year before Volkswagen came um clean! that’s why Volkswagen have withdrawn them from sale as they no longer meet type approval and to add insult to injury for those that have brought them they cant sell them until the issue is fixed, they probably cant even drive them legally on the road!

Peugeot and Citroen use a similar system to the vw adblue so im not going to hold my breath! Ive topped several of them up over the past few years but strangely not one of the vw ones yet!

11 million cars world wide i cant help thinking there going to need more than the £4.7 billion they’ve put aside already!

Dont worry Jim as a car mechanic I can tell you volkswagens are very reliable cars, just not very environmentally friendly :p

The Martian by Andy Weir, for the second time after i got it at the weekend!