Scandal: VW Emissions Dieselgate Explained | Plainly Difficult Documentary

I had a toy model of the mercedes you talk about, in the yellow colour, only it was a convertible with operating doors. Loved it to death!

As a German, I'm outraged about the devastating blast to German car engeneering VW caused. The whole magement + everyone with an S in the beginning of their job description, should be in prison and VW dismantled and bought off by other companies. VW should not exist anymore, because they made a criminal mockery out of the made in Germany seal of quality.

I really wanted the GTD to come to the US…Def would have gotten one.

lol one of my good friends dad had the V10 Tourag(sp?)

Anyone that drove behind these diesel cars could smell their pollution and knew the government tests were meaningless. VW counted on the government being incompetent.

This is one of the things I like about south africa, here we just updated the ecu, and the customers were on their way, no further hassles, no paper work to be filed with the government, all just honky dory.

My jetta still has its original software and the car will never go to a dealer because after the fix is done your performance is noticeably decreased

So these greedy a$$holes somehow thought that their criminal deception would not be outed some day? Typical of so many stupid criminals. Money first before intelligence. To think this happened because of a 'branding' issue over the Mercedes technology. Winterkorn will never see the inside of a jail cell, unlike common folk whose crimes don't come close to this worldwide sham.

I live in Seattle and for 6 months lived in San Diego back in 2021. I've done that drive between Seattle and LA many, many times and between Redding, CA and LA, it's the most boring drive I've ever done (if you take Interstate 5).

Pro Tip: get off of Interstate 5 at Redding, head east over the Sierra Nevada mountains and join up with US 395. It's far, far more scenic, less traffic and you won't get stuck behind all of the semi trucks trying to pass each other. The extra distance is minimal and I've found it doesn't add more than a few more hours of travel time but it's worth it

VW would've likely lost at least as much money if their US emissions test failed and they weren't allowed to sell their cars in the US. It may have been a calculated business decision.

Do it or find, without our recommendation, another job.

i'm surprised that the US has stricter emissions standards than the EU
usually the EU has stricter everything than the US.

I hate the EPA so much it's unreal.

Every diesel mechanic I know said these are not doing what they say but nobody listened! That is including the hp claims too. Many fell short of the claimed figures on the dyno.

Haha Bosch says: "This was just inhouse testing device" - Actually what kind of inhouse testing this secondary map is for? It's completley unenessecary to do this kind of stuff really. Bosch were also lying their asses here and trying to cover themselves.

The VW thingy really does look as adolphy as possible.😂

DEF was brainchild of the Nazi Kreigsmarine. It was used in subs to hide any visible exhaust from the Allies.

A song related question, is your intro song on Spotify?
Loving your work by the way.. On a bit of a binge

LMAO imagine being germany and thinking: damn we werent controversial enough after WW2, lets go and make some controversial decisions as usual!
also i didnt know it rained Lysergic acid diethylamide when smog is too dense, TIME TO GO TO CHINA TO GET LIT BY DRINKING RAIN WATER
also i just realized if you mix the urea and water mix in the mercedes blue tech with bleach you can leave a trail of toxic gas and become bioterr0risT just by driving around your car

Things haven’t changed either.
They still cheat the emissions test, they just do it a different way.
Ever wondered why your new diesel vw won’t rev past 2.5k when stationary? Well now you know.

In my opinion the state are the culpit. They made rules too tight, and car manufactures had a hard time to comply to the strict rules. Its a non-sese making a rule from 1.0 g/mi to just 0.07. It makes no sense a redution this big.

I would really like to know exactly how reprogramming the car to give it more power, made it more fuel efficient compared to the program that ran while it was being tested.

This was the start of a revolution against the american EPA. And really was a great thing in hindsight. Because VW knew that these protocals were bullshit.

SCR, EGR, and DPF systems are highly prone to failure, can cause catastrophic engine failure in extreme circumstances (which is far more common than it should be) and these systems require the usage of highly toxic fluids to operate as designed. And have proven to not significantly alter emissions of green house gasses long term.

This is by definition, a lobbying effort with no real motive aside from greed and ignorance. I applaud VW for their actions and wish they would've continued to be defiant.

at least 5 people here in germany told me this in 2013 before it was on the news

Prior to being exposed, VW could be confident that their hidden emissions test cheating software would work because ECU code is proprietary and covered by the DMCA.

In prior years there had been petitions to add exemptions to the DMCA for ECU software so that it could be tested for safety.

Those exemptions weren't added however, their opposition prevailed by claiming that this would be burdensome and hamper innovation.

One of the groups who petitioned against the exemptions? The EPA

Go figure.

The ironical aspect is that it was a "wolf biten by the sheep" case, because germans - followed closely by french - are considering americans, including specialists and scientists, being too dumb compared to europeans to figure out such top-of-the-notch fraud :)

It's kinda sad in a way how public opinion about the company barely changed probably due to the fact that the scandal didn't directly affect the general public negatively.

NOx are those things that have a net lowering effect on the greenhouse effect and result when fuel is burned more completely, or in other words, when fuel is burned in the way that lowers CO2 emissions and fuel consumption to the greatest extent possible more NOx is produced.
it is always interesting how concerned we get about health risks as soon as the solution to those concerns results in an immediate and significant profit increase for oil companies.

$Billions in penalties but I wonder how much of that money benefitted the car owners or was put toward reducing air polution? As always the poor sods at the bottom of the management pyramid carry all the blame. Jail the "directing minds" and watch that change, and let's start with the big banks!!!

And the "fix" made the car get almost 15mpgs less and burn more def. That definitely is better for the environment.

The deceit VAG did doesn't make me feel as bad now driving my insignia 2.0 diesel with a dpf/egr delete and an eco map to pass emissions during MOT 😂

Fuck that pollution laws! Make ICE great again!

The top execs people didn't go to prison, but the common man was "punished" through the hit our pension funds took due to the drop in VW's share price.

An important part of the diesel kerfuffle is that the EU subsidized the development of diesel engines for general purpose because diesel was an excess byproduct of oil refinement and there was a legend an diesel engine could be developed that was on par w gasoline engines but has higher efficiency. The fact is that the public sunk insane amounts of resources in to developing a diesel engine that, if set to same emissions standard as gasoline one, will never have greater efficiency. Just another time ecology was the purported reason for making everything worse for everyone.

Bring back the 1.9 pd engine sod this modern emissions crap.

It was a very smart move. And funny that acid rain seems to be not there anymore after the 80-90

Diesel engines love heat(run better right up till things melt) which produces NOx The idea to reduce NOx completely destroyed diesel as a viable fuel. The economy and power they HAD were eliminated by cooling the combustion chamber (egr etc.)
The VW solution (shutting the emission controls off when not being tested) was pure genius I would love to own one with the original software.

I have a 2018 civic. I had 2 recalls. 2nd for the fuel pump. It's getting changed next week. Japanese is kinda losing there touch. I mean look at Nissan. Haha great video though, I still love my civic

I love plainly difficult but this one I just don't care. If I was gonna buy a Volkswagen I would buy it anyway.

My city used the money for new school buses for the whole dostrict and new public buses, all low emissions

As deleted emissions enthusiast I find this entertaining

Fake news. much higher power and fuel economy

My friend had one of these cars and I didn't know it was not gasoline until he told me. I still didn't believe him until he showed me on the dash .
It was so smooth, quick, quiet, and powerful.
He kept it, got thousands of dollars, a simple computer reprogram that didn't change anything according to him.
It was political elements that made VW have to "buy back" the cars. They could have simply did a recall.... But they wanted that money. Those billions to launder.
Those people caused more harm to the environment by crushing all those cars instead of just reprogram.
Criminals IMHO.

As of 2025 my ev is going to be road taxed £200 a year, but if I buy an old vw £0 a year great, sell my ev by old vw

bro, no offense, but it sounds like you’re reading a script and pause at the wrong time in sentences, because like the row you’re reading is over or something. it’s really annoying, just spend some time reading the script first, if you have one, or i dunno… otherwise great content, really detailed, informative, but it sounds like you have no idea what you’re reading sometimes lol

Hmm vw with there history now there harming people with gass who colud of guessed it

This makes me like VW even more, screw the EPA

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