– It will not överdramatiseras, Volvo a task that no incident reported provides support for it. But cracks in a fuel line is of course not acceptable. Diesel is a flammable fuel, however less so than for example gasoline. Leaking petrol is with its sharp odour at the same time, more evident for the exposed to it, than leaking diesel.

– Yes, seen over a long period of time, it is obvious so. What comes to the USA so it was revoked annually during the 1980s a total of around five million cars, spread over diverse manufacturers. The corresponding ratio in 2015 was 51 million, according to an overview as the newspaper Technology World published in the autumn of 2016. The number of återkallandeprocesser 2015 landed on the 900, about 100 more than in 2014.

– at all the american authorities in this area accurate documentation of the errors that it is all about and what are the action programmes drawn as follows when withdrawals are made. In the tip, go to the National Highway Traffic Safety (NHTSA), the federal authority involved, for the safe traffic of vehicles on u.s. roads. The authority has considerable powers to impose high fines to companies who do not comply.

– Volkswagen’s fiddling with the control of emissions in their diesel cars is definitely one of them. New software that gave the low emissions in the laboratory environment where the cars were tested before the launch, realizes the authorities to approve the cars. But it was then in the united states, beginning in september 2015, as the trick was revealed by the environmental protection agency EPA. VW has to deal with huge damages to the authorities and car owners in the united states, both at the federal as the state level.

– Also on a European level, acting authorities and ngos on the legal path towards the Volkswagen, not least in Germany. At the same time, we have to keep in mind that even other manufacturers announced similar dieselmanipulering as the VW indulged in.

the Crack in the fuel line – Volvo is recalling 200,000 to cars the world over

BMW is recalling over 320.000 cars in Europe

the Honda recall of 2.1 million cars.

Toyota is recalling 1.43 million cars.