A lot of chatter overnight about diesel solutions in Germany, and what the Merkel-coalition government has decided (more or less). Some of the details....I noticed via a short piece in Focus magazine this morning.
They say.....the car companies should be 'expected' to upgrade hardware, to avoid the city ban activity going on.
Legally? The car companies haven't been that agreeable on the kit-business. Based on various discussions that I've seen in the past year....the companies just aren't that confident about how the kits will work....if the kits might cause engine problems....if the kits reduce fuel mileage....and the duration of the kits (one engineer I viewed, suggested that you might have to replace the kit every three to five years, and he wondered who'd pay for kit number two and three).
So far, the government hasn't written a law which would define how this would all work. Could the government actually make a bigger mess out of this? Well....that's the funny thing about this whole crisis that has been invited and forced on by the EU. You could be standing there with a ruined vehicle worth 5,000 Euro (6k US dollars) and the kit was forced onto you by the German government.....so the question is....would they pay the value of the car? You just don't know.
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