VW staff, supplier warned of emissions test cheating years ago - reports

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Source: Reuters

India Top News | Sun Sep 27, 2015 9:47am EDT

VW staff, supplier warned of emissions test cheating years ago - reports

BERLIN/ROME | BY ANDREAS CREMER AND STEVE SCHERER

Volkswagen's own staff and one of its suppliers warned years ago about software designed to thwart emissions tests, two German newspapers reported on Sunday, as the automaker tries to uncover how long its executives knew about the cheating.

The world's biggest automaker is adding up the cost to its business and reputation of the biggest scandal in its 78-year history, having acknowledged installing software in diesel engines designed to hide their emissions of toxic gasses.

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The Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, citing a source on VW's supervisory board, said the board had received an internal report at its meeting on Friday showing VW technicians had warned about illegal emissions practices in 2011. No explanation was given as to why the matter was not addressed then.

Separately, Bild am Sonntag newspaper said VW's internal probe had turned up a letter from parts supplier Bosch written in 2007 that also warned against the possible illegal use of Bosch-supplied software technology. The paper did not cite a source for its report.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/09/27/volkswagen-emissions-idUSKCN0RR0LB20150927

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1. I do have to wonder about Bosch

They provided the code with the warning that it violated regulation and should not be used for normal operation. What was the engineering justification for providing it in the first place. Is the code flashed at VW or does it arrive from Bosch in its components.