VW recalls 3,877 units of Vento over emission issues

Volkswagen India has recalled 3,877 units of the Vento sedan with the 1.5-litre diesel engine and manual transmission due to inconsistent Carbon Monoxide (CO) emissions that were observed to be exceeding the permissible limits during the Conformity of Production (COP) tests done by the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI).

Volkswagen is also temporarily suspending sales of the manual gearbox version of the Volkswagen Vento with 1.5-litre diesel engine with immediate effect. The company is analysing the issue and will propose technical measures to ARAI to solve this inconsistency at the earliest.

Once approved and confirmed by the authorities, Volkswagen will implement the measures and resume the production and sales of the vehicle. The same technical measures will also be implemented in the impacted vehicles that are already with customers.

Volkswagen claims that this issue is not related to the global NOx emissions topic.

All other diesel models and variants of Volkswagen India, including Vento 1.5 TDI with automatic transmission (DSG) and all diesel Polo cars, conform to the norms and will continue to be produced and sold in India.