In Germany it will be mandatory to get the recall done, otherwise the car will be illegal to drive. Denmark follow Germany on this.

 

I UK, you have spy cameras with license plate recognition everywhere, so good luck trying to evade the castration of your engines.

In Denmark and Germany, the recalls will be done through and by the car registration authorities, which know exactly which person or company owns each individual car affected by the recall.

We can't opt-out if we want to keep a valid registration.

VW will simply send a list with VIN-numbers of all affected cars to the authorities in countries who apply for them, which then again will cross check them with their registered owner database. The owners will then get a deadline for castration and a list of authorized dealers to chose from, and the dealers' computers will automatically report back to VW when the castration takes place, and finally VW will make a new list of vehicles who have escaped.

Cars standing without plates at the dealers will be red flagged when they apply for registration.

 

 

Here in Denmark we don't even get a letter, just an email in our e-boks, a government run web mail service for communication with the authorities, mandatory for all adult citizens, except handicapped or elderly people who can apply for exemption. It's our own responsibility to check our e-boks mailbox weekly. All for the sake of convenience and penny saving for the government.

Failure to get the castration done will be no different than driving without MOT, unpaid insurance or unpaid road tax. A criminal on the run.

Edited 16 October, 201510 yr by Tranberg

My car is affected. As the recall work is not going to be enforced upon us here in the uk, i might not even bother getting the work done.

According to the department of transport, there will be no extra road tax to pay, and owners are not obliged to get there cars fixed.

There is a lot of talk in the media regarding emissions and fuel efficiency after the s/ware upgrade - not much mention is made regarding the effect on performance. I think that the majority of VRS owners, like myself, would be horrified to have a loss of power imposed on them. Over on the VW forum the threat of a downgrade to 140bhp from 170bhp has been mooted....in media speak "that is simply not acceptable".

Perhaps in all this compensation frenzy Skoda will be able to offer an attractive part/ex package on a new VRS for those who wanted to take that route should their car suffer a performance reduction.

Perhaps in all this compensation frenzy Skoda will be able to offer an attractive part/ex package on a new VRS for those who wanted to take that route should their car suffer a performance reduction.

Dream on son!

1. Put new software on the car that reduces output power with no hardware changes..

2. New software with hardware changes that make the exhaust/DPF cleaner with regards to emmisions but more restrictive with regards to performance..

They have to do something and as far as i can see any change they make will negatively affect the car.

So do not return any cars to the dealers until you are 100% sure of what they are going to do..

Option 2 is not happening on 2.0 cars only on the 1.6.

Option 1 is happening but nothing has been comfirmed about a drop in bhp (just a load of scaremongering).

You've got to realise that the software is just a map and the original software was produced in 2008 (7 years ago!). Since then there have been many software updates carried out under warranty to fix various issues in the software and this is just another one of those software updates.

They have had plenty of time to produce a better map that reduces emmissions without loosing power. And if they do loose power then its not hard to get more power from a map (they are all detuned from factory hense you get 30-40bhp just from a remap!).

The reason they cheated in the 1st place is the car/ engines were designed to pass the European Emmissions (which they do without the cheat software). They wanted to sell more in America and America created a harder emmissions test to pass. The cars were already designed so they added the cheat software.

Im sure they wont struggle to get the same bhp/ mpg after the emmissions software update.

But as said many times on here already.

***In the UK this software update/ recall will NOT be mandatory and will NOT be enforced***

Thanks for that mattvrestate - seems like a good summary and had me wondering whether the 'cheat' software could simply be erased without actually affecting anything else, as my normal emissions will be within legal tolerances anyway.

Shark were charging £499 for a map which was listed on their site so no they didn't see me coming. Where you get your map from, Aldi or Lidl lol!!

£500 expensive you should try performance torque Wombourne , no where near that expensive and Will the owner is bloody good , writes his own maps and maps a lot of race cars , i have had 6 done now and all perfect

Yes. I took my octy vrs to him. £345. Cqr has been spot on and gains were great. Id recomend him and his work too

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I'm just waiting for the barrage of calls offering me compensation for my VW engined lemon. I suppose it makes a change from PPI, Pensions and Solar Panels.

It all depends on what vw do to our cars. I for one will not be rushing into any software updates until i know what they are and what the effects are. I didnt buy the car for a bunch of liars to ruin it

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Not one, but two letters...

 

Seems the Fabia will be a simple deletion of the dodgy software that tells the engine to cheat when only the drive wheels are in motion.

 

However, the 1.6 4x4 appears to need new injectors as well as the software removed.

 

Got a good mind to tell my dealer to come to my home, with a courtesy car, and take it away themselves. Why should I be inconvenienced in any way?

 

Already given my details to a firm of solicitors in Glasgow in the event of any Class Action.

 

Not a happy bunny...

Rab, your 'h'issing against the wind on any case with a multi national like VAG.

Save your money and chill, It'll all sort it's self out in the end.

Edited 20 October, 201510 yr by Wayne Kerr

And still the value of my Octavia Blackline continues to plummet using WBAC as a rough gage. £1600 now in around 4 weeks it's dropped.

And still the value of my Octavia Blackline continues to plummet using WBAC as a rough gage. £1600 now in around 4 weeks it's dropped.

 

Just wait. I'm sure it will be over soon. People usually forget soon about everything and probably this won't be an exception.

It's catching ,,, now if you've modified your glove box to Vauxhall specification your in deep deep s***e.

Edited 23 October, 201510 yr by Wayne Kerr