According to Volkswagen, Audi, Daimler and BMW, the diesel scandal has reached the car manufacturer Opel, where today’s search took place. The Federal motor transport authority wishes to order a recall of 100 000 Diesel vehicles.
Due to a concrete suspicion of fraud in connection with diesel cars, the police premises of the manufacturer Opel in Rüsselsheim and Kaiserslautern searches. “I can confirm that there are police measures in the case of Opel,” said a spokesman for the Hesse state office of criminal investigation. This had started in the morning. For more Details, the spokesman mentioned.
95.000 vehicles of the models of the Insignia, Zafira and Cascada for the years 2012, 2014 and 2017, were affected, it was said to the online portal “Bild.de”.
Opel, since last year, part of the French PSA group, countered: “The company confirms that its vehicles comply with the applicable regulations.” To could not Details of the ongoing process to manifest itself at the present time. “The company is cooperating fully with the authorities.” PSA is not expressed.
The Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) wants to arrange for the car manufacturer Opel a recall of about 100 000 Diesel vehicles. After locating a shut-off device of the exhaust gas purification, which classified the KBA as inadmissible before the official recall, “briefly,” said the Federal transport Ministry in Berlin on Monday
The tripping device also for Opel?
In the summer, there had been media reports that the authorities had against Opel tampering is suspected and the rüsselsheim automaker under pressure to act. The Kraftfahrt-Bundesamt (KBA) have found evidence that Opel shutdown on some vehicles the exhaust gas treatment is not technically explainable reasons during travel completely, wrote at the time “image on Sunday”. The suspect’s car had exceeded the limit values for nitrogen oxides by more than ten-fold, it said in the report, in the world’s 60,000 vehicles. The Federal Ministry of transport, the KBA, then explained that there is an “official hearing” because of three Opel models with Euro-6 standard. The car maker stressed at the time of his voluntary actions.
In the case of Audi, the investigators are in March 2017 a number of times to search moved. Daimler was pursuing in may of last year, the target of a nationwide RAID by the Stuttgart Prosecutor’s office, the suspected fraud with manipulated exhaust gas aftertreatment. In the case of BMW, the investigators were in March 2018 in front of the door.
The auto maker shut-off facilities to justify the so-called motor protection, especially in cold or heat. In many models, but there are doubts as to whether this is really necessary. If the exhaust gas purifier is not working properly, launch the Diesel more harmful oxides of nitrogen. Since air limit values are exceeded in many cities, threatening bans on driving diesel cars.
hb/bea (rtr,dpa)