Volkswagen Adds VIN Lookup to Diesel Information Site

Aaron Cole
by Aaron Cole

Weeks after European Audi owners could look to see if their cars were affected by the Volkswagen cheating scandal, Volkswagen of America added a VIN lookup to its diesel scandal site (which is buried by Google) for U.S. owners, Auto Guide reported.

The service redirects to Volkswagen’s recall site, where owners can enter their vehicle’s VIN. During congressional testimony Oct. 8, VW of America chief Michael Horn admitted that the U.S. site didn’t include the VIN tool and agreed with representatives who said it would be a “good idea” to include that for American customers.

More than 482,000 vehicles in the U.S. are affected by the diesel scandal involving Volkswagen and its 2-liter diesel engines.

In September, the Environmental Protection Agency notified Volkswagen that its cars violated the Clean Air Act by polluting up to 40 times more nitrogen oxides than allowed by law. Volkswagen admitted in September to officials that it had included an illegal “defeat device” that allowed its cars to pass emissions tests, even though the cars polluted far more.

Affect vehicles include:

• VW Jetta TDI (2009-2015)


• VW Jetta SportWagen TDI (2009-2014)


• VW Golf TDI (2010-2015)


• VW Golf SportWagen TDI (2015)


• VW Beetle TDI and VW Beetle Convertible TDI (2012-2015)


• VW Passat TDI (2012-2015)

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  • TMA1 TMA1 on Oct 19, 2015

    "the emissions issue". That's cute. Why not "the emissions fiasco" or "the emissions malfeasance"? Could they make any more effort to distance themselves from the responsibility?

  • Sportyaccordy Sportyaccordy on Oct 19, 2015

    Disappointed in the missed Vin Diesel joke opportunity.

  • Brettc Brettc on Oct 19, 2015

    Looks like my car needs 23O6 (aka the "nothing to see here" fix) and also the new 23Q2 fix (aka "the Holy $h1t, they found out" fix). I don't intend for my car to see the dealer again unless the HPFP or exhaust flap fails, so I'll elect to skip both of their campaigns.

  • MaxHedrm MaxHedrm on Oct 20, 2015

    Uh. No link to the site? The other articles don't seem to link to it either. That's probably why it doesn't show up on google. That & all the ads for slimy class action lawyers. Thanks for being a useful resource. :-/ The propaganda site: https://www.vwdieselinfo.com/ The Recall VIN Lookup tool: http://www.vw.com/content/vwcom/en/owners-recalls.html

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