VW Defeat Device: UK car checker for VW and Audi cars now LIVE

Both Volkswagen and Audi have created VIN checkers for UK owners of cars who want to see if their cars are affected by the VW emissions scandal. SEAT and Skoda expected soon.

It’s bad enough that VW has been scamming emissions tests for at least the last six years – delivering different emissions results in official test from those in the real world – but their slowness to attend to the understandable concern of owners of affected cars – those with the EA 189 engines used during EU5 tests – is unacceptable.

But now, more than two weeks after the scandal broke, owners of Volkswagen and Audi cars do at least now have an online VIN checker to confirm if their car is caught up in the mess (Audi Defeat Device checker and VW Defeat Device checker). It’s believed that sites for checking both SEAT and Skoda are imminent.

All you need to do is grab your VIN (which you;ll find on your service book or at the bottom of the windscreen looking from outside) and you should get instant confirmation.

That said, it will make no difference to the feedback you get from VW; they still haven’t revealed a fix (although they have been given only until tomorrow (7/10) to outline it by German authorities) and, as their website says, they will contact owners of affected cars as soon as possible. But this won’t be a quick fix – it will take many, many months – perhaps even years – to sort out the mess.

More on the VW Emissions scandal:

• OFFICIAL: NO extra tax on VW defeat device cars in UK
• VW Defeat Device Emissions Scam is a ‘One-Off’ says SMMT boss. REALLY?
• VW Defeat Device: 1.2 MILLION UK VW, SEAT, Audi & Skoda cars affected
• VW Defeat Device: Political OBSESSION with CO2 is the root cause
• Now 2.1 MILLION Audi cars confirmed with VW Defeat Device
• VW Defeat Device: Bosch WARNED VW it was only for ‘Testing’ purposes
• Volkswagen Defeat Device Scam: 5 MILLION VW-badged cars affected
• Matthias Mueller is new VW CEO as it’s revealed 2.8 MILLION German cars affected by Defeat Device Scam
• £100 BILLION bill if VW forced to buy back defeat device cars
• BMW DID NOT use defeat device to scam X3 emissions
• Volkswagen DID use defeat device to scam emissions tests in UK & Europe
• VW suspect emissions revealed 18 MONTHS ago – BMW was ‘Clean’ in the same tests
• VW CEO Martin Winterkorn RESIGNS over emissions scandal
• VW defeat device software in MOST diesel cars – Porsche, Audi, SEAT and Skoda in the frame too
• “We totally screwed up” says VW as it reveals 2016 Passat in the US
• VW’s Martin Winterkorn apologies for emissions “defeat device” scam. Well, he would, wouldn’t he?
• Volkswagen fitted ILLEGAL “defeat device” software to SCAM emissions tests