Mercedes-Benz Panggil Balik 670,000 Kenderaan Diesel Seluruh Dunia

Hah, panggilan balik yang ini akan susah sedikit bagi rakyat Malaysia yang membeli Mercedes AP import ‘kelabu’ kerana ia bukan kenderaan Mercedes-Benz yang sah.

Bagaimanakah mereka akan mendapat  pembaikan panggilan balik mereka di bengkel Mercedes yang diluluskan? Ini adalah salah satu daripada banyak sebab mengapa membeli kenderaan AP import ‘kelabu’ yang lebih murah memang bukan perkara yang baik apabila terdapat panggilan balik global oleh pengeluar kenderaan, peniaga AP yang menjual kereta anda tidak akan dapat memulakan penarikan balik dan tidak akan mempunyai kemudahan untuk memperbaiki isu panggilan balik itu untuk anda.

Panggilan balik diesel seperti ini mungkin tidak cukup serius untuk perhatian anda, tetapi bagaimana jika ianya berkenaan kotak gear, ECU atau ciri keselamatan? Bagaimanakah anda akan terus memandu dan menggunakan kereta anda tanpa membaikinya?

Panggilan balik ini adalah dengan perintah pentadbiran oleh Pihak Berkuasa Pengangkutan Motor Persekutuan Jerman (KBA) Daimler akan menjalankan panggilan balik wajib bagi kenderaan Mercedes-Benz dengan enjin diesel di Eropah. Kira-kira 670,000 kenderaan adalah sebahagian daripada panggilan balik di Eropah. Terdapat kira-kira 280,000 yang berada di Jerman.

Senarai kenderaan yang terlibat:

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Pursuant to an administrative order by the German Federal Motor Transport Authority (KBA) Daimler will conduct a mandatory recall for Mercedes-Benz vehicles with diesel engines in Europe. Approximately 670,000 vehicles are part of the recall in Europe. Thereof about 280,000 are located in Germany.

On this webpage below, you will find further information on affected vehicles on this topic. Additional details concerning the implementation of the recall will be provided shortly by the good people at Daimler.

The majority of vehicles were already part of the voluntary service action announced in summer 2017 for more than 3 million Diesel vehicles in Europe, which is continuing unchanged.

As already known, the recall ordered by KBA in 2018 applies solely to vehicles with the emission standard Euro 6b. The recall will mainly affect the following models: Vito 1.6-liter diesel (OM 622), C-Class 1.6-liter diesel (OM 626), ML/GLE/GL/GLS 3.0-liter diesel (OM 642), V-Class 2.2-liter diesel (OM 651) and GLC 2.2-liter diesel (OM 651). Some other individual models are also affected by the recall.

At the end of September, Daimler said it would not contest an order from Stuttgart prosecutors to pay an 870 million euro ($957 million) fine over hundreds of thousands of diesel vehicles that breached emissions rules.

The emissions-cheating scandal has had major repercussions for the car industry since it broke four years ago.

Some cars involved spewed out up to 40 times more harmful nitrogen oxide—linked to respiratory and cardiovascular diseases—than legally allowed.

To date in Germany, Volkswagen, Audi, BMW and Porsche have paid fines totalling 2.3 billion euros (USD2.5 billion) to settles probes into the companies for diesel emission issues and ‘cheat’ software.