Opel reports compliance with emissions limits and recalls 210,000 cars. Above all, a current mass model is affected.
Current model of the Opel Corsa
Monday, 13.05.2019
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The carmaker Opel has around 210,000 throughout Europe small car with petrol and LPG engines because of possible nitric oxide problems in the workshops called. Affected are the small car Adam and the volume model Corsa of the model years 2018 and 2019 with 1.2 and 1.4 liter capacity, confirmed a company spokesman.
In Germany, a good 54,000 cars are affected. Internal quality controls have shown that the Lambda probe malfunctions at high speeds in the models concerned. “As a result, it may come in vehicles with more than 50,000 kilometers of mileage over the life of the vehicle may exceed the nitrogen oxide limits,” said an Opel spokesman to Spiegel Online. The error should be corrected via a software update.
“Since the malfunction is not a safety-related problem and can occur only in vehicles from a corresponding mileage, it requires the recall no monitoring by the Federal Motor Transport Authority,” said the Opel spokesman.
The discussions around high nitrogen oxide emissions In the past, they had always been about diesel engines. Many German cities already have bans imposed against older diesel cars.