Volkswagen settles UK ‘dieselgate’ claims with 193m payout

Volkswagen settles UK ‘dieselgate’ claims with 193m payout

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LukeBrown66

4,479 posts

45 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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I am sure many of you will have watched the documentary about this, cant remember where, but at he very end a journalist I think is sitting over the road from Hanover telling the reporters that they managed to do a similar test on the move as the ones that revealed all this did in Jetta's in America, he tested a few cars, and they were all giving out significantly higher figures than stated, so I would imagine this has legs for many years and many billions of pounds, in fact I am amazed it has not already, Merc, BMW< Ford, Vauxhall, they must all have been at it in cars, vans for some time.

Yet no huge court case, I wonder why...

MrBarry123

6,025 posts

120 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Llandudno said:
I got 1700 too. Skoda Roomster 1.6 TDI. Don't begrudge Slater and Gordon getting their share, it's not like I did any work.

For me, it was about making VW pay for their corporate law breaking.
If you got in on the action for this reason and not because you fancied a little payout (for something which has impacted you no more than it has everyone else), I assume you’ll be donating the money to charity?

98elise

26,381 posts

160 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Llandudno said:
I got 1700 too. Skoda Roomster 1.6 TDI. Don't begrudge Slater and Gordon getting their share, it's not like I did any work.

For me, it was about making VW pay for their corporate law breaking.
They already paid for their law breaking, what you wanted was compensation. Surely you knew that when you put your claim in?

Ahonen

5,015 posts

278 months

Thursday 26th May 2022
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Llandudno said:
I got 1700 too. Skoda Roomster 1.6 TDI. Don't begrudge Slater and Gordon getting their share, it's not like I did any work.

For me, it was about making VW pay for their corporate law breaking.
Which charity did you give the money to? If you kept it then it's simply personal greed.

Jim the Sunderer

3,238 posts

181 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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I'd use that payout on Montecristos to smoke at hospital entrances.


Pan Pan Pan

9,777 posts

110 months

Friday 27th May 2022
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Adrian W said:
used car values have increased and VW fixed the cars, so owners have not suffered any loss, the money should have gone to fix any additional environmental or health damage this may have caused.
Except they didn't `fix' the cars, because at best, those that did get taken into the dealers, came out with worse fuel consumption, than they had before they were taken in, or at worst, in some cases, the dealers did not make the amendments at all, because the glow plugs which formed part of the remedial work, could not be removed, and the dealers didn't want to take the risk of damaging the cylinder head in the removal process, which they would have to pay for to put right. At the very least it meant the owner lost the use of their vehicle for a day. which for some, was a PITA.

808 Estate

2,079 posts

90 months

Saturday 11th June 2022
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Seems a bit stingy when they paid American owners between $5K & $10K

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-volkswagen-emis...

Volkswagen paid more than $9.5 billion to U.S. consumers, while VW diesel supplier Robert Bosch [ROBG.UL] paid more than $300 million to U.S. consumers.

Most of the vehicles covered were 2.0-liter diesel vehicles. VW agreed to offer owners and people who leased the 475,000 2.0-liter vehicles between $5,100 and $10,000 in compensation, in addition to the estimated value of the vehicle.

Monkeylegend

26,227 posts

230 months

Saturday 11th June 2022
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We don't do class action like the Yanks.

MC Bodge

21,552 posts

174 months

Saturday 11th June 2022
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What are they compensating for?

What will a few quid do?

33q

1,550 posts

122 months

Saturday 11th June 2022
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I'm getting SM feeds and emails suggesting I should check to see if I'm eligible to claim.

Both my EA189 cars return 'not eligible'.

I thought the action was complete so why are some law firms still pushing people to claim.

mikebradford

2,483 posts

144 months

Saturday 11th June 2022
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Which firms are saying you can still make a claim?
And are they legit?

33q

1,550 posts

122 months

Saturday 11th June 2022
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mikebradford said:
Which firms are saying you can still make a claim?
And are they legit?
Same ones as Martin Lewis has mentioned so I assume they are legit.

hepy

1,260 posts

139 months

Sunday 12th June 2022
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Is this available for company car users? Some mixed messages on this.

I had an Audi A3 as a company car during the period and the economy was nothing like what VAG suggested.

Willhire89

1,327 posts

204 months

Thursday 18th August 2022
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Interested to know if other claimants have actually been paid - all I get is the odd email asking for patience and that they (Slater & Gordon) need to do more id checks.

I suspect they are sitting on the settlement just as long a they can and then a good bit longer for good measure

Boringvolvodriver

8,634 posts

42 months

Thursday 18th August 2022
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Keep hearing ads for Volvo drivers to come forward to be part of a claim……… I bought the car in the knowledge that the economy figures were in all probability on the optimistic side.

Happy with the economy seen so won’t be bothering to help give the lawyers some more money.

skwdenyer

16,183 posts

239 months

Thursday 18th August 2022
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98elise said:
Llandudno said:
I got 1700 too. Skoda Roomster 1.6 TDI. Don't begrudge Slater and Gordon getting their share, it's not like I did any work.

For me, it was about making VW pay for their corporate law breaking.
They already paid for their law breaking, what you wanted was compensation. Surely you knew that when you put your claim in?
No, the whole point of class-action lawsuits is to punish them financially in proportion to the scale of their wrongdoing. They're a company selling cars; the US example shows us this type of action is one of the few ways to get very large companies to pay attention.

Previous

1,434 posts

153 months

Friday 19th August 2022
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Monkeylegend said:
Interestingly Mercedes have issued recalls for their cheating diesels and the software changes they have implemented have made many cars worse, with poor running and reduced economy, to the point where I and many others have refused to have the changes made.

They also said they would not accept any responsibility for any subsequent issues with any car with more than 100k miles as a result of the software updates.

Talk about looking after your customers smile
As others have said, the VW 'fix' had this effect as well. Something to do with the re-map changing the combustion temperatures, in order to lower the emissions, but not working well with DPF etc.

I refused it.

Monkeylegend

26,227 posts

230 months

Friday 19th August 2022
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Previous said:
Monkeylegend said:
Interestingly Mercedes have issued recalls for their cheating diesels and the software changes they have implemented have made many cars worse, with poor running and reduced economy, to the point where I and many others have refused to have the changes made.

They also said they would not accept any responsibility for any subsequent issues with any car with more than 100k miles as a result of the software updates.

Talk about looking after your customers smile
As others have said, the VW 'fix' had this effect as well. Something to do with the re-map changing the combustion temperatures, in order to lower the emissions, but not working well with DPF etc.

I refused it.
I sold mine March last year but there is still a recall on it so the current owner has also not had it updated.

Ntv

5,177 posts

122 months

Friday 19th August 2022
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Wasn't the practical effect of the cheat software that many of the affected cars were taxed lower than they would otherwise have been?

In which case isn't it the rest of us, who didn't drive those cars, but had to pay proportionately more tax to make up the necessary revenue for HMG, who were also cheated?

cuprabob

14,424 posts

213 months

Friday 19th August 2022
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Ntv said:
Wasn't the practical effect of the cheat software that many of the affected cars were taxed lower than they would otherwise have been?
As I understand it the "cheat" impacted N0x value and not the C02 value, which is what VED is based on.

I have owned one of the affected VWs since new and I refused to have the "fix" done as for me it wasn't worth the risk as I heard too many horror stories of the impact of the "fix".



Edited by cuprabob on Friday 19th August 13:37