Two other victims
The problems with the emergency assistant also occur at Audi and Seat.
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Wolfsburg The problems with the electronic emergency assistant eCall concern next to the new VW-Golf other car models of the group. According to information from corporate circles, there are models of the daughters Audi and Seat face the same difficulties.
Accordingly, it is the Audi A3 and the Seat Leon, which are based on the same basic kit as the Golf 8. According to a report by the industry newspaper “Automobilwoche”, the Skoda Octavia model is also checked for problems with eCall.
It was announced on Friday that Volkswagen to a call back of the Golf 8 just started. According to the company, it was determined in the course of internal investigations that unreliable data transmission to the control unit can occur in individual vehicles of the model.
Therefore, the function of the emergency assistant cannot be fully guaranteed. “In exchange with the responsible authorities, we check the further procedure for the affected vehicles,” said a VW spokesman for the “Automobilwoche”. A decision by the Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) to recall and remedy the software update is expected in the coming days.
The company imposed a delivery freeze on the new model. The golfproduction go on for the time being – but all new cars would first be put in stock, it said. The works council warned – also with a view to the massive sales crisis in the auto industry and the full stock due to the corona consequences – against further setbacks for golf production at the main plant in Wolfsburg.
The current underutilization with several canceled shifts could worsen. The employee representative therefore calls for an additional mass model to be established in Wolfsburg in the medium term. The Golf is considered the most important product of the largest German industrial group.
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