Opel complains against Transport Minister Scheuer

Federal Transport Minister Andreas Scheuer (CSU) wants to force the companies to pay for the retrofitting with nitrogen oxide catalysts on diesel vehicles. A company that is right after the diesel compromise of Federal government On the other hand, in the beginning of October it has resisted Opel , You will not retrofit, announced the Rüsselsheimer already in the morning after the agreement in chancellery ,

In his political distress showed scouring muscles : He ordered the official recall of 92,000 Opel diesel cars of the models Insignia, Cascada and Zafira on , with immediate effect. But the car maker, which is now owned by the French PSA group, does not simply accept the attack of the CSU man.

Opel resists the obligation recall. The company struggled with Schleswig-Holstein administrative court an express procedure. Opel wants to prevent first that the middle of October from motor Vehicles Federal Office (KBA) ordered recall must be completed immediately.

Manufacturer denies the allegations

Upon request, the automaker confirms that it has appealed the KBA’s decision. In order to escape the recall, the so-called voluntary service action will continue: A good 9000 vehicles have not yet received the software update, the technicians play it.

The traffic authorities had accused Opel, in diesel models from the years 2013 to 2016 are installed inadmissible defeat devices. Some of these manipulations had the SPIEGEL, the ARD magazine “Monitor” and the German environmental aid discovered (SPIEGEL 20/2016). The Frankfurt public prosecutor therefore had a raid on Opel in mid-October carried out ,

The manufacturer denies the allegations. A ruling in the lawsuit between Opel and the traffic authorities should be issued by the beginning of December at the latest, said the court in Schleswig.