I don't like complaining about companies in this platform, but I feel I have to after my latest experience. I use Audi A3 for years. Recently I had my car's regulatory check. The car's exhaust gas emission was high. I contacted the official service of my car for a resolution. I had my car officially serviced prior to my regulatory check. What I learned was, they didn't have any exhaust gas emission tester and with my car there was no option of adjusting the software parameters to reduce the emission.
Germany is well known for their environment consciousness. Too much effort is put on reducing carbon dioxide emission. However, what I see is very little have been done by German car manufacturers to reduce the emissions of their cars. Cars require routine servicing. Even if they are perfectly build to have low CO2 emission. Some adjustments need to be made continuously as they are used and aged. However, if the car manufacturer's official service does not have exhaust monitoring and the car computer's parameters cannot be adjusted to compensate for the aging of the car, then the green movement would be doomed. Manufacturing a product is a great responsibility for the entire life of the product. Keeping their products green for their entire life, makes a manufacturer green.
My proposition for the car manufacturers is to place exhaust emission testers on their services. Each car being serviced should be checked for emission. If needed the car's spark plugs would be cleaned. Again, if needed, the car's computer parameters should be adjusted to compensate for the aging of the O2 sensor to reduce the emission of the car.
When my car is serviced by an official service, I would like to see it perform better and greener afterwards.
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