Mercedes Energy Emissions

Aylesbury_Duck

Mickey666 said:

Aylesbury_Duck said:

AdamTrotter said:

Hi, 
I've seen a lot lately about the diesel emissions from Mercedes models and that there is an opportunity to claim. As a Mercedes driver I'm obviously curious but also sceptical. Has anybody gone through the process or got any advice/recommendations? 

What would you be claiming for?

Isn't it a mis-selling claim?  Mercedes owners are obviously concerned about the environment so they chose to buy their particular model because it was advertised as having lower the lowest emissions of all the other cars they had considered.  In short, they have been misinformed, so they have been mis-sold.  Even worse, Mercedes (if it's like the VW scandal) will have cynically manipulated things for the express purpose of mis-informing their customers about the emissions.  Seems like a reasonable case for a claim don't you think?  Or it is ok for manufacturers to behave this way?

An American friend bought a new VW Jetta shortly before the VW emissions scandal broke and he eventually received his money back!  Of course, Brits are more timid than most Americans and our lawyers are pussycats compared to US lawyers sniffing a class action claim!

I have a hard time believing that to be anything other than absolute rubbish.  I don't believe there's a single person who chose to buy a Mercedes diesel car because the environment was a major concern of theirs.  It's laughable.

Of course it's not ok for manufacturers to manipulate tests, but to suggest that compensation for owners is acceptable is pushing it.  Fine the manufacturers by all means, but the proceeds from that should go towards addressing the environment to make up for their actions, not to line the pockets of car owners who suddenly remembered their deeply- and long-held concern for air quality when the word "compensation" was bandied about.

Greed, pure and simple.  Satisfying customers' greed is not the right way to punish manufacturers for theirs.

MinuteNoodles

Mickey666 said:

MinuteNoodles said:

You haven't lost anything financially so there's nothing to claim for, just the same as the VW furore.

Most of the people caught up in the PPI scandal didn't actually lose anything financially

Actually they did which is why if you win a claim you get a letter detailing the exact amount you had lost out by to the penny along with details of how much interest is applied at the statutory rate of 8%.