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  • parody@lemmings.worldEnglish
    3·
    14 hours ago

    That emissions cheating soured me on them

    (Though I do believe they used a clever method)

    Glad it’s so good!

    • anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.caEnglish
      1·
      12 hours ago

      The dumbest part is that after I got my car updated (the Passat only needed a firmware update) the fuel economy was not even one MPG worse. It’s been a decade and I’m still regularly getting slightly better than 50MPG on the highway and low-30s in the city. There was no reason to cheat.

      • parody@lemmings.worldEnglish
        1·
        9 hours ago

        No way!

        Was the cheat focused on the rest of the fleet (larger cars?), but applied to all [JIC]? 🤔

        50+ wao

        • anotherandrew@lemmy.mixdown.caEnglish
          2·
          8 hours ago

          It’s my understanding that the cheat was in all TDI models, but the smaller Jetta was particularly bad because it didn’t have a urea system and the fix for that model was to retrofit one. My Passat may have needed a more robust urea injector and not just software, but I can’t remember now. Either way on my year/model the fix was barely noticeable.