VW Diesel Emissions Claims

jilllamerton

I have a car that is affected by this. I have seen a company ‘Claim for me’ is it safe to use this company? 

Or is there a better way to claim?

AdrianC

The only outfit who are actually claiming are Slater and Gordon. Everybody else is a chancer on their coat tails.

S&G are not taking on new people to their class action, and haven't been for a while.
https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/commercial-and-group-litigation/vw-nox-emissions-group-litigation/

What are your actual losses?
Did you own your car prior to September 2015, when the news broke?

Mercdriver

This is the one that is appearing regularly on facebook.  

OP - be aware that this is not no win no fee, so they will be recovering costs if they lose, and they will take a substantial cut if they are successful.  You will need to quantify your losses.  No such thing as free money.

The_Rainmaker

Mercdriver said:

  You will need to quantify your losses.  

What losses?  As we all know nobody in the UK has suffered any losses apart possibly from the greedy being scammed by some charlatan outfit.

Dr_Crypto

Stay well clear. I doubt these claims will succeed and you’re on the hook if they don’t. 

jilllamerton

I bought my Jetta when it was 10 months old in July 2008 thinking I was doing a good thing for the environment. When all this broke the value plummeted. I still have it but feel that I should change to electric. 

Thanks for all the advice, I’ll steer clear of this company. 

AdrianC

jilllamerton said:

I bought my Jetta when it was 10 months old in July 2008... When all this broke the value plummeted. I still have it...

So your losses are zero. A 13yo Jetta is no less valuable than any other 13yo car - the (pretty near to nominal) value is entirely in the condition. The average age of a car at scrapping in the UK is just under 14yrs.

And did the value really "plummet"? Not that it made any difference to you, of course, because you weren't selling at the time.

[Deleted User]

Hard to quantify health damage due to emissions.

AdrianC

[DELETED USER] said:

Hard to quantify health damage due to emissions.

Absolutely impossible, especially the damage to your health from the emissions from your car, which is the only relevant metric here.

Especially since the VW "cheat" was related to NOx, and the cars were well within the relevant Euro limits and passed the relevant Euro testing regime.

DoaM

Some people are simply lured by the thought of £££ and don't actually think. My previous car was a Golf GT 2.0tdi which was affected by this "issue". Did I jump on the bandwagon? No, because I didn't actually suffer any loss (that could be attributed to the "issue").