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Originally Posted by lebesset
my daughter has an A6 Avant with the EA189 diesel engine
she has just received a letter from MK saying how sorry they are that her vehicle is involved in the NOx issue [ perhaps they can't spell scandal ]
they state that on her particular engine [ 2.0 TDI ]the solution will involve a software update to the engine management system and that they expect that this will take around 30 minutes
they then state
OUR OBJECTIVE IS TO ACHIEVE THE APPLICABLE EMISSIONS TARGETS WITHOUT AFFECTING ENGINE OUTPUT , FUEL CONSUMPTION OR PERFORMANCE .HOWEVER , AS ALL MODEL VARIANTS HAVE TO BE MEASURED FIRST , WE CANNOT GIVE A FINAL CONFIRMATION JUST YET
How insulting is that !!! having disregarded their obligation to be truthful in the first place they now expect their customers to accept work when they are not sure of the results but also expect them to believe that they implemented their cheat programmes when they could have done it correctly in the first place !
you will not be surprised to know that we both ended up ROFLOAO
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I wouldn't be first in the queue to have my car mucked about with, that's for sure.
It reminds of the an update I think Sony Ericsson put out about 15 years ago, I think it was for the t68i or something similar. If memory serves me well, they billed it as some great update that had an animated splash screen or something quite meaningful at the time.
Turned out their motives for eagerly 'updating' everyone's phones was they'd been unsuccessful in securing continued rights to the game Tetris or never had the right to distribute it as part of the phones firmware in the first place. When the phones came back the SW was almost identical, yet a certain game was conspicuous by its absence.
Corporations are amazing
