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California Rejects VW 3.0L Diesel Fix

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) rejected a recall plan for the 3.0L TDI engine that the Volkswagen Group proposed. The fix could have potentially saved VW billions, but now they’ll have to go back to the drawing board.

The fix, claimed VW lawyer Robert Giuffra last month, was relatively simple, but without it, VW may have to buy back 85,000 premium cars that were sold between 2009 and 2016 with the V6 diesel engine.

CARB rejected the fix in a letter yesterday, saying that the proposal was “incomplete, substantially deficient, and [falls] far short of meeting the legal requirements to return these vehicles to the claimed certified configuration.”

VW’s proposal was aimed at fixing 3.0L TDI engines that were mainly fitted to premium models like the Touareg, the Porsche Cayenne, and the Audi A8. Even though there are fewer of them than there are 2.0L TDIs, a buyback plan similar to that one would still be expensive for VW because of the high price of the vehicles.

Volkswagen may continue to try and fix the V6 diesel engines, and a source tells Automotive News that VW and Audi will resume talks with US regulators later in the month to determine the fate of the vehicles.

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