Nearly five months after the scandal first broke, Volkswagen still doesn't have a way to fix all the non-compliant diesel cars it sold in the United States. With fixes already available for European TDI models and no solution in sight for the U.S., rumors have been swirling that the German automaker will be forced to buy back some of its older cars. Now, it appears Volkswagen had begun doing exactly that, just not from private owners.

The Truth About Cars reports that Volkswagen has begun to buy back affected diesels—but only from certified dealers' pre-owned fleets. Citing an anonymous source, TTAC says that Volkswagen is buying back first-generation TDIs that have lean NOx traps and and exhaust gas recirculation. What it's reportedly not buying back are second-generation cars with selective catalytic reduction systems.

Complicating matters is the fact that there's no one point at which VW switched systems. First-generation TDIs first went on sale for 2009. The Passat and Touareg TDI switched to the new system in 2012, as did the Audi A6, A7, and A8. The rest didn't make the switch until the 2015 model year.

Cars from that used the first-generation system would have apparently required $2,500 in parts alone to retrofit, whereas later versions should be much more simple to fix. The source didn't say, however, whether Volkswagen would eventually begin making buyback offers to private owners or if this was going to stay limited to just CPO dealers.

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