Mercedes diesel group action PGMBM

at1cadmen

I have read that there is legal action being planned against Mercedes for their Diesel cars for illegal emission defeat devices. It is suggested that owners should join the claim with a potential compensation payout of up to £10000.
One of the big firms is PGMBM
is this legitimate and should I join the claim with one of these groups?

AdrianC

More ambulance chasers...
The original 2018 story...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-44444361

And now...
https://www.leighday.co.uk/News/Press-releases-2020/May-2020/Mercedes-face-legal-action-over-AdBlue-emissions-c

Do/did you have one of the recalled cars?
What are your actual losses?

facade

Unless you can prove a financial loss caused by the adblue being switched off when it is cold*, you will be entitled to nothing.

In fact, they have saved you money by eking out the adblue a bit more in cold weather

*So more people died of respiratory disease because of your car than otherwise- you can't prove it, and it didn't cost you a penny, unless they were your relatives. I live near to one of the largest toxic chemical disposal sites in Western Europe, and the localised spike in respiratory diseases is merely a statistical spike, and nothing to do with the plant. Apparently there is no Scientific evidence whatsoever that the plant is involved.

Ganga

Are the above allowed to post/promote their business on this forum?

k3lvc

Ganga said:

Are the above allowed to post/promote their business on this forum?

Of course not - in the same way as they're not allowed to get peoples hopes up that they'll get compo or a free car - doesn't stop the shysters doing it though 

AdrianC

Ganga said:

Are the above allowed to post/promote their business on this forum?

If you're suggesting this thread is some kind of astroturf marketing, then it's not very good...

RichardD1970

AdrianC said:

Ganga said:

Are the above allowed to post/promote their business on this forum?

If you're suggesting this thread is some kind of astroturf marketing, then it's not very good...

There were a load of posts from a new user "PGMBM" defending and promoting the legal action. 

AdrianC

Ah, I missed those. But still not exactly likely to convince anybody to sign up...

wmat983

I came across this on a sponsored ad on facebook earlier, would you not even bother trying?

AdrianC

welshmatt983 said:

I came across this on a sponsored ad on facebook earlier, would you not even bother trying?

No, I wouldn't.

Because I'm not an entitled money-grubbing git.
Because I don't like ambulance-chasing sleaze-bag lawyers.
Because I'd read the small print and know there's a reasonable chance it ends up costing me.

Mufulira

I share Adrian C’s opinion. I would perhaps have expressed it more forcefully. Why anybody would consider signing up with these bottom feeding legal ‘compensation’ experts is beyond me. Every time I get into my Mercedes I think - what a great car. My advice to the would-be money grabbers is reserve your outrage for the true moral dilemmas of our world, not the phony indignation of sleazy lawyers.