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January 19, 2016 06:45 am PST

GM's Dieselgate: mechanics privately admit software update removes crimeware from Opel cars

General Motors Warren Transmission Operations Plant in Warren, Michigan, 2015. REUTERS

Luc Pauwels from Belgium's VRT News took his Vauxhall (GM) Opel Astra in for service, and a mechanic there disclosed that Vauxhall had asked him to flash the firmware of any diesel Opel Zafira to remove a defeat-device that caused it to emit 500% of the legal NOx limit -- an order that came down right after the Dieselgate scandal broke.

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