VW

[MacV2]

Getting a bit peed off with all these new cold calls & txt's asking if I have TDi & would I like to make a claim...

[Wicky]

I bet Volkswagen owners are secretly fuming...

[lloydie]

Only if there road tax goes up

[Wicky]

secretly fuming...

[Pete.L]

Or not so secretly anymore as they have now been "outed"

[countrymick]

at the end of the day dose it matter a toss if your still getting 70mpg.....

[MacV2]

[macdee]

wonder whos going to be found out next

[MacV2]

I've finally managed to stop smoking.




























I just sold my VW on Autotrader.

[Wicky]

VTRs and the TPS

I wonder how they caught out the naughty software responsible. My understanding is bikes are slightly rejigged to perform well for their emissions test at certain steady rev ranges but as we know the unsophisticated mechanical TPS can be reset with relative ease at the turn of a screw. With these computerised devices it seems they were quite clever and adaptable depending on the situation but the the inbuilt code presumably holds the incriminating evidence of what they were up to.

The device sounds like a sophisticated piece of kit
Full details of how it worked are sketchy, although the EPA has said that the engines had computer software that could sense test scenarios by monitoring speed, engine operation, air pressure and even the position of the steering wheel.
When the cars were operating under controlled laboratory conditions - which typically involved putting them on a stationary test rig - the device appears to have put the vehicle into a sort of safety mode in which the engine ran below normal power and performance. Once on the road, the engines switched from this test mode.

[MacV2]

VTRs and the TPS

I wonder how they caught out the naughty software responsible. My understanding is bikes are slightly rejigged to perform well for their emissions test at certain steady rev ranges but as we know the unsophisticated mechanical TPS can be reset with relative ease at the turn of a screw. With these computerised devices it seems they were quite clever and adaptable depending on the situation but the the inbuilt code presumably holds the incriminating evidence of what they were up to.

The device sounds like a sophisticated piece of kit
Full details of how it worked are sketchy, although the EPA has said that the engines had computer software that could sense test scenarios by monitoring speed, engine operation, air pressure and even the position of the steering wheel.
When the cars were operating under controlled laboratory conditions - which typically involved putting them on a stationary test rig - the device appears to have put the vehicle into a sort of safety mode in which the engine ran below normal power and performance. Once on the road, the engines switched from this test mode.

I would have thought it more likley that when the as is normal these days diagnostic computer was plugged in the ''magic'' softwear would regonise this & kick in with the smokefree engine map...then again I could be smoking up the wrong tree ...I'm suprised that no one in the test industry picked this up earlier as surely the 'smokefree' mode would reduce the power or make the engine run like a bag of shite...

[sirch345]

Getting a bit peed off with all these new cold calls & txt's asking if I have TDi & would I like to make a claim...

very good that one Mac

at the end of the day dose it matter a toss if your still getting 70mpg.....

It probably does matter, as every little bit helps apparently.

I was watching a TV program recently about super planes, passenger carrying aeroplanes that is. The super plane carries 500 passengers and cargo, and this one was going from LA to Paris. According to the program the plane took on board 165,000 litres of fuel, if my maths is right that's 36,295 UK gallons for one flight.
And they say the biggest culprits are the shipping industry for pollution, it certainly makes you wonder how high up the list aeroplanes are,

Chris.

[Varastorm]

I read this a few days ago, its from J1m St0ne Fr££lance....

http://82.221.129.208/ag3index.html

Two big reasons why Volkswagen got busted:
1. They produced the world's most fuel efficient cars, and when the XL1 hit production, represented a huge threat to the climate change scam. Think about it - if all of a sudden fuel economy increased even 5x, (rather than the 10X the XL1 did) it would destroy the entire notion of us destroying the planet by driving.

Consider this: The biggest threat the climate hoaxers claim is CO2. Volkswagen cut that in half with the TDI, in part by breaking the emission system rules that would make it impossible to do if followed. Volkswagen proved the emission standards and systems are a scam that is feeding the climate change hoax. How would a powerful elite climate hoaxer respond to being exposed?

2. They were about to release an electric car, at full production levels, that would destroy the Tesla with a cheaper price, better range, and lower operating cost. Additionally, they evidently had a way to do a 15 minute full charge and an infrastructure plan to deliver it. That would cost what? $15 - 20 billion to do, approximately the amount of that fine? BINGO: Volkswagen was about to invest $22 billion Euros into electric car manufacturing in China! That's way too close to the amount of that fine! DING DING DING!

Now all the news reports are saying how much the scandal benefited the electric car future, but if Volkswagen gets bashed into oblivion the moment they were about to bring it forward, what does that really say? MORE CO2 FOR EVERYONE, CARBON TAX PLEASE!

Food for thought

[Big_Jim59]

VW was going after the green car market with a diesel. Does anyone see the inherit problem with this? VW is guilty of telling a lie that people desperately wanted to hear, that they could drive a fuel efficient car, have the power they wanted and think of themselves as heroes of the planet in the process. The problem is it was all marketing smoke a mirrors. There is no free lunch when power, emissions and efficiency are up for grabs.

[Wicky]

The cure for VW's emissions woes could involve literally 'pissing' up the exhaust...

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn ... cted-cars/