Volkswagen Group today posted a video on its YouTube channel detailing its plan for fixing the EA 189 diesel engines, the 1.6 and 2 liter engines were found to have cheat devices that cook results on emission tests. Millions of the company’s cars were found to be cheating emissions tests in North America and Europe, Volkswagen has now proposed two steps to fix these engines.
The group proposes installation of a “flow transformer” aside from an engine control software update. The flow transformer is a plastic grating which is said to even out the flow of air that’s going into the mass flow sensor, it’s the component of the engine which measures the amount of air going into the intake, the measurement is instrumental to determine how much fuel should flow in the engine.
Volkswagen has proposed a completely different strategy for these power plants as opposed to the 3 liter diesel engines which it says can be fixed with just a software update. Volkswagen has limited this proposition to European vehicles only at this point in time.
It promises that the fix won’t take much time, owners can take their vehicles into a dealership and have the flow transformer installed in under 30 minutes, aside from the software update which should take too much time anyway.
It’s not known right now how the proposed fix will affect mileage and if this proposal will stick with diesel regulators in the United States, owners of affected cars in the U.S. may have to wait for a while to find out precisely how the group proposes to fix their emissions cheating cars.
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