Quote: LRTDI > At some point, NHTSA will have to reach an decision.
Something may be imminent. A link I had for search of EA11003 documents, which formerly returned a couple of dozen hits, is suddenly returning nothing. The former PE, now an EA, may be about to become whatever phase is next (which might be: close with no action, recall, or something else).
A translation of a large dump of responsive documents, including answers to pointed NHTSA questions, was due from VW on 01 June. Obviously, the public did not see anything on that date.
There's pretty much no upside for VW in having any part of those documents made public. If they can get away will not submitting, they will. If they can stall or submit late, they will. If they can submit on paper, they will. If they have to submit PDF, and can get away with egregious redaction, they will.
Quote: LRTDI > At some point, NHTSA will have to reach an decision.
Something may be imminent. A link I had for search of EA11003 documents, which formerly returned a couple of dozen hits, is suddenly returning nothing. The former PE, now an EA, may be about to become whatever phase is next (which might be: close with no action, recall, or something else).
A translation of a large dump of responsive documents, including answers to pointed NHTSA questions, was due from VW on 01 June. Obviously, the public did not see anything on that date.
There's pretty much no upside for VW in having any part of those documents made public. If they can get away will not submitting, they will. If they can stall or submit late, they will. If they can submit on paper, they will. If they have to submit PDF, and can get away with egregious redaction, they will.
Evidence is consistent with a last minute settlement of the case just before VW was due to give more documents to NHTSA.
What I do know for certain, despite Bosch revising that HPFP that runs in Vw TDI's from 2009 to 2012 three times to "make the design more robust for US quality fuel" the last revision we are aware of was in October of 2010, ALL year model pumps continue to have complete failures with complete destruction of the whole fuel system and everything in it. Either Bosch or VW doesn't care about safety or reliability. This is in the piezo injection models for Jettas, jetta sportswagens and Golfs, and probably will include the 2013 Beetle TDI model also.
How long VW will warranty all these failed pumps to keep NHTSA off their backs to avoid anything of a recall with VW's name on it remains to be seen. VW is a real stinker about previous******designs in their motors, like chain driven oil pump failures, pumpe dusse cam failures, sun roof drain failures, dual mass flywheel failures, and on and on and on.
I have a feeling, with all that paperwork... there's got to be a hell of a lot on HPFP incidents to generate that kind and level of paperwork and CYA douchebaggery in house at VW. Just the in house overhead for VW with all these failures generated by Bosch has to be a huge financial drain on VW... they should send Bosch the bill for it. Keep in mind, Bosch engineers, produces, sells and warranties the whole fuel system... subcontracted by VW.
NewsW wrote: VW ask for extension to respond to NHTSA!
Quote: Volkswagen indicated that each of the packets will contain between 50-80 documents:
• Packet 13-003 / 13-010 / 13-011 / 13-012 / 13-013
• ETA @ NHTSA: June 29, 2012
• Packet 13021 / 13024 / 13026 / 13028 / 13033 / 13037
• ETA @ NHTSA: July 20, 2012
• Packet 13022 / 13025 / 13029 / 13030 / 13034 / 13036 / 13039 / 13043
• ETA @ NHTSA: August 3, 2012
• Packet 13023 / 13027 / 13031 / 13032 / 13035 / 13038 / 13040 / 13041 / 13042
• ETA @ NHTSA: August 17, 2012
NewsW wrote: Is BMW pulling out of the US diesel market?
Not sure is this is true or not but I have been seeing a lot of TV Commercials here showing the "New" BMW DIESEL SUV.
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