VW Group recalls over 58.000 different Volkswagen, Audi, Seat and Skoda due to transmission problems with the Direct Shift 6 Speed gearbox !

Due to the many reader’s letters, complaints as well as phone calls to our weekly live program on Radio Masr 88.7 (every Sunday from 4pm to 7pm) about several Volkswagen models as well as the Volkswagen & Audi service center in Egypt, we decided to republish the following recall which was announced by the Volkswagen Group a while ago:

VW announced a problem with the Jetta, Golf, EOS, Passat, Scirocco, Touran & Caddy (with direct shift 6 speed gearbox), as well as the Audi A3, Audi TT, Seat Leon, Seat Altea, Skoda Octavia and Skoda Superb, affecting over 58.000 vehicles worldwide, including Egypt and the Middle East.

In rare cases an incorrect interpretation of the clutch temperature can occur which results in the clutch operating inadvertently with unexpectedly loss of drive. Vehicles built from 1/9/2008 to 31/8/2009 are at risk.

The following remedial action is necessary to address this problem: Recall affected vehicles and update/reprogramme gearbox control unit.

More information to be published shortly here on www.autoarabia.org

MS

28.06.2011