Am I wasting my time claiming compensation for buying diesel?

cattom

HI. I bought a diesel peugeot about 5 yrs ago. it was a year old at the time. I'm wondering if I should claim compensation for being sold a diesel. the thing is, its environmentally friendly. so much so that I pay zero road fund license. so I dont think I have a case really. or do I?.

Sandtree

To claim you must show you have suffered financial loss as a consequence of any misrepresentation 

I've not looked at the cases at all but my guess would be that they are claiming the resale values are going to be lower.

GeordieGeorge

cattom said:

HI. I bought a diesel peugeot about 5 yrs ago. it was a year old at the time. I'm wondering if I should claim compensation for being sold a diesel. the thing is, its environmentally friendly. so much so that I pay zero road fund license. so I dont think I have a case really. or do I?.

So, to check, you actively didn’t want a diesel, but someone forced you to buy it, and you now want to be compensated?

By whom, and for what?

Grumpy_chap

Look here:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6263092/emission-claim#latest

AdrianC

You bought it "about five years ago", so in full knowledge of the "dieselgate" scandal that hit the headlines in 2015...?

neilmcl

cattom said:

HI. I bought a diesel peugeot about 5 yrs ago. it was a year old at the time. I'm wondering if I should claim compensation for being sold a diesel. the thing is, its environmentally friendly. so much so that I pay zero road fund license. so I dont think I have a case really. or do I?.

Compensation for what exactly?

macman

It's not 'environmentally friendly'. It's either a Euro 5 (worse) or Euro 6 (better) diesel, depending on when in 2015 it was registered. Its zero rating for road fund is a consequence of its low CO2 output. Nothing to do with it's NOx output.

BOWFER

neilmcl said:

Compensation for what exactly?

People don't want 'compensated'
They want free money.

elsien

neilmcl said:

cattom said:

HI. I bought a diesel peugeot about 5 yrs ago. it was a year old at the time. I'm wondering if I should claim compensation for being sold a diesel. the thing is, its environmentally friendly. so much so that I pay zero road fund license. so I dont think I have a case really. or do I?.

Compensation for what exactly?

Poor decision making? 

boobyd

Why is it they want to claim compo for emissions when the most likely reason they got a diesel was ,MPG and low ved and the reason for  low ved was not emissions but a perceived £ saving on petrol ved?

Mickey666

boobyd said:

Why is it they want to claim compo for emissions when the most likely reason they got a diesel was ,MPG and low ved and the reason for  low ved was not emissions but a perceived £ saving on petrol ved?

I thought the low VED on diesels was because at the time the focus was all about CO2 emissions and diesels emit far less CO2 than petrol engines, so petrol cars were the bad boys.  Then the focus changed to NOx emissions and diesels became the bad boys again (and recently joined by domestic stoves burning carp fuels that add to particulate pollution).

As the focus moves increasingly onto EVs, we can expect all forms of ICE to be increasingly demonised, probably with higher VEDs across the board as well.  Later, when the true environmental impact of battery production and disposal comes to light we can expect EVs to become the bad boys.  Our grandchildren will be fortunate if they're allowed bicycles by the end of the century