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I also been fighting my dealer and VW customer service about this problem. When I bought my car, it had under 7 miles all was great. After I hit just 100 miles, the noise started. The last thing that I found was and TCM update 37L7, which was released Nov. 2018. All it states that it addresses a vibration at 450 hz. Vw is telling dealers to apply this update to cars that are on the lot ONLY. My car was born Jun 2018. Since there is no recall the dealer will not do the update because they will not get paid for it. So something that may help If you are still collecting info, ask about this 37L7 TCM Update and what it actually addresses. We provided this ID to the clients legal rep last week! It appears to alter the shift points to prevent the RPMs from being too low. However, it appears to not actually fix the issue. The noise can also be heard in 7th in this car if you listen close. It appears that with the recent recall of the defective springs on this vehicle show a massive lack of quality control from the plant in North America producing these vehicles and 3rd party parts, too. Why is the noise still there after the update? There needs to be a recall or a buy back program. Come post about Volkswagen news and other interests. New models, old classics, whatever you want!

As a result, some people in Germany are left without work and some people are ready to work at a lower wage in order to maintain the working place. Companies need help to give more working places in a native country. Government stays powerless as a matter of course while people are afraid of losing their job places. In Germany the situation with working places is really serious. Since 1995 companies cut the staff or about 500 working places every day. Since that year German people started feeling the negative influence of globalization on their every day life. Nowadays the situation is becoming even worse threatening to reduce much more working places as even small companies follow the example of larger companies 聳 they place the manufacturing lines abroad, for example, in Ukraine, India and China. This way companies hire cheap workers saving money. According to a research, almost 87% of Germanys construction companies are going to place their production parts abroad. Outsourcing seems to German companies a good way out of the present situation. Almost 50% of car companies are placing the production line abroad. The situation will become even worse as the rest part of companies is just going to follow this example and will expand the international centers. Thus, about 1 million working places will disappear that will lead to a high percent of unemployment within Germany. Summarizing, globalization brings many challenges to Germany and other developed countries. It is inevitable process that affects every country. The impact of globalization can be positive or negative giving new challenges to Germany Companies. It is very likely that globalization will have both positive and negative effects on Germany industry. The purpose of Volkswagen, Opel and other companies is to reduce negative effects of globalization and use it as an opportunity.

In 2005, an energy bill signed by President George W. Bush offered tax credits for diesel buyers. In 2009, after the new Jetta went on sale, VW dealers initially sold out, including in California where regulations had effectively shut the market to diesels earlier in the decade. Around the same time, in Europe, regulators were skeptical. A European Commission study concluded in 2013 that European car makers were exploiting test loopholes. Separate findings by the EC's Joint Research Centre showed a discrepancy between test results and real world performance in European diesel engines. California began its inquiry after EC regulators sought to obtain American data on the on-road emissions performance of diesel engines, said Stanley Young, CARB's communications director. The Europeans had a working theory that diesels should run more cleanly in the United States, where regulations are stricter, than in Europe. To produce that data, they commissioned the U.S.-based nonprofit International Council on Clean Transportation in February 2013, which hired researchers at a West Virginia University lab. The WVU researchers placed emission-monitoring equipment on a rented 2012 Jetta and a 2013 Passat.

Over seven weeks in spring 2013, they drove the cars around Los Angeles and up the West Coast to Seattle, comparing them to a BMW X5 sport-utility with a diesel engine, said Daniel Carder, who led the WVU team. While the BMW's emission results came in under what the vehicles produced in laboratory tests, those of the Jetta were 15 to 35 times higher than the legal limit and the Passat 10 to 20 times higher. Soon after, the same rental cars tested by WVU were monitored in CARB's El Monte, California, test facility east of Los Angeles. There were no irregular emissions. Over the next 12 months, the West Virginia University researchers analyzed the data. They presented their findings at a March 31, 2014, conference in San Diego partly sponsored by California regulators and the EPA. Young, the CARB official. At meetings between California officials and Volkswagen that began in the summer of 2014, engineers from the German carmaker tried to "discredit the findings" by challenging the data and methodology of the study, Young said.