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Volkswagen Taiwan extends warranty on all cars with DSG7 gearboxes

In short: Volkswagen Taiwan extends warranty period to 5 years and unlimited mileage, for all owners of VW cars with DSG7 gearbox.
Here is Google Translate, translation of the statement.

Taiwan market will be extended to the DSG gearbox warranty period from the existing four-year unlimited mileage five ‧ Taiwan market for cars equipped with the DSG gearbox software update initiative recall (Taipei, December 27, 2012) Volkswagen The Taiwanese distributor Taikoo Motors announced Biaoda, to enhance driving safety, Swire Pacific Standard Car production for March 2012 with a seven-speed DSG dual-clutch gearbox cars initiative recall, and software upgrades. At the same time, thanks to the support of the majority of consumers, Volkswagen and Swire marked up to the car and announced that the DSG gearbox for four years unlimited mileage warranty period is extended to five years with unlimited mileage, and self-licensable day start at. According to Volkswagen, under certain conditions, especially the outside temperature and humidity is high and after a long time in parking, a minority may be equipped with a seven-speed DSG dual-clutch gearbox cars boron crystallization or due to electronic failure, causing the vehicle to the road between losing momentum or lose part of the stall or fixed gear driving will stall indicator flashes, the situation of the road between the jitter and clutch power output, a small number of vehicles may not be able to continue driving. In order to improve traffic safety, to software upgrades for cars equipped with a seven-speed DSG dual-clutch gearbox Volkswagen the Taiwan distributor Swire standard Car initiative to take preventive measures to recall. Since March 2012, the Volkswagen factory and the the Swire Biaoda car had already taken the initiative for the seven-speed DSG dual-clutch gearbox free software upgrade service. Currently only a small number of owners of the car has not been back to the factory, Swire standard car will take the initiative to despatch of the letter notice not yet back to the factory owners. The necessary software free update time is about 30 minutes. If the owners have any questions please contact Volkswagen Free :0800 -068,068.

Link to original version in Chinese: http://www.volkswagen.tw/tw/zh/about_volkswagen/news_and_event/news_index/news20121227.html