Audi STILL using Defeat Device to SCAM Emissions – ordered to recall 127,000 cars

Audi has been ordered by the German Authorities to recall A4, A5, A6, A7, A8,  Q5 and Q7 models with the 3.0 litre V6 TDI diesel engine which turn off emissions controls in the real world.

It’s more than two years since the Volkswagen Dieselgate crisis surfaced and the world discovered VW had been scamming emissions by fixing their cars so full emissions controls only worked in lab testing, not in the real world.

Since then the crisis has rumbled on, with the Dieselgate ‘fix’ being applied in the UK and Europe – not always successfully – VW buying back huge numbers of cars in the US and even a recall for the VW Touareg just a month ago.

But despite the huge corporate fraud, VW has gone from strength to strength as it seeks to reinvent itself as a fluffy- bunny car maker heading in to a bright new future of electrification and clean petrol engines.

But now Germany’s KBA Transport Authority has delivered another blow to VW after it discovered that the 3.0 litre V6 Diesel engine fitted to Audi models – A4, A5, A6, A7, A8,  Q5 and Q7 – is still using a Defeat Device.

It seems the Audi models in question were still using a device, which changes emissions controls depending on steering angle, up until as recently as the middle of 2017, effectively giving different levels of emissions when the steering wheel was in a fixed position in the lab.

The recall ordered by the KBA covers 127,000 Audis built from 2015-17 – 77,600 of which are in Germany – and is threatening to withdraw type approval for the affected cars.