Skoda diesel - should I reject it in light of the scandal?
I took delivery of a new Skoda Octavia 1.6 TDI yesterday, the day the VW scandal broke. Can or should I reject it? Is there anything I should do? I have only driven the car home and love it but should I continue to drive it?
Asked on 23 September 2015 by Concerned
Answered by
Honest John
It does have an EA889 engine, but why should you reject it? A massive fuss is currently being stirred up over not very much. If VWG is guilty then every other manufacturer with approximately the same size engines, power outputs and official emissions must be guilty of something similar. One engine simply cannot churn out 40 times as much NOx as another engine the same size.
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