Volkswagen India has announced a recall for 3,877 Vento cars powered by the 1.5-litre diesel engine and manual gearbox.

The recall, according to Volksagen India is "due to inconsistent Carbon Monoxide (CO) emissions that were observed to be sometimes exceeding the threshold limits during the Conformity of Production (COP) tests done by the Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI)."

The carmaker is also holding back sales of the manual gearbox version of the Vento with the 1.5-litre diesel engine with immediate effect.

Volkswagen India says it is analysing the issue and will propose technical measures to ARAI to solve this inconsistency at the earliest. Once approved and confirmed by the competent authorities, it will implement the measures and resume production and sales of the car. The same technical measures will also be implemented in the impacted vehicles that are already with customers.

The company says, “this problem impacts only the manual gearbox version of the Vento with 1the .5-litre diesel engine and is not connected to the global NOx emissions topic. All other diesel models and variants of Volkswagen India, including the Vento 1.5TDI with Automatic Transmission (DSG) and all diesel Polo cars, conform to the norms and will continue to be produced and sold in India.”