The same type of car has previously exploded during refueling – Göteborgs-Posten

Angered Monday. Photo: READER PHOTO

Gothenburg Two people were injured and a dog died when a car suddenly exploded during refueling in Angered. Now it is clear that the same car had problems with the risk of explosion, and it has happened before it slammed refueling. Now recall the Volkswagen car model and urges motorists not to fill up the car with gas.

It was at 17 o’clock on Monday that there was a loud bang from the gas station with the vehicle in Angered. The first study showed that the problem should be in the car, the gas tank must have exploded, and not in the filling station.

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Representatives from Volkswagen headquarters there on Tuesday morning in Göteborg to make a technical examination of the accident vehicle.

– But when the result of it is finished, I can not answer, says Marcus Thomas People, CIO of Volkswagen in Sweden.

Marcus Thomas People. Photo: Volkswagen

At the car that exploded yesterday, Volkswagen Touran, have had problems with that explosion. In 2012, was recalled cars were produced between autumn 2005 and spring 2009 after an accident in Germany. Even then there was an explosion during refueling, it reports all about cars. The car that exploded yesterday was made in 2007.

In a press release on Tuesday writes Volkswagen that they now urge all owners of the Touran EcoFuel 2006-2009 to leave the car at an authorized Volkswagen -workshop. There should be inspected and possibly made a change in the car’s front gas tanks.

The revocation action was according to the press release already scheduled, but after the accident in Gothenburg on Monday now adds Volkswagen “particularly large effort to reach the owners of the affected vehicles”.

Volkswagen also invites customers to not refuel the cars with gas before the tanks inspected, but instead drive the car brand of gasoline on the gas tanks are empty.

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the driver who was injured in Angered conducted on Monday evening to the hospital. His injuries characterized as mild, and Volkswagen currently has no new information about his condition.

– No, we’ve searched the car owner but have not yet succeeded.