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Originally Posted by pbarry
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A long but interesting article. It puts things in order, and perspective, for the whole mess.
The one tech thing I found interesting was that at some point VW did an ECU reflash on these cars in a supposed effort to bring them into compliance. I recall bringing my 2013 TDi in for it's free service and the service manager told me that they performed a routine ECU reflash while it was in having the oil changed. My memory is fuzzy on stuff like this but I seem to recall that after the ECU work that my car ran rougher and that the cooling fan seemed to come on much more often.
If I understand it right this reflash made it so the car ran cleaner for the first 23 minutes of driving. Well it turns out that the CARB emissions test lasts 22 minutes so in essence they were piling on another defeat device on top of the first one.
I guess they must have figured they were in for a foot so they may as well go in for a mile. Clever but stupid.
dave