Am I wasting my time claiming compensation for buying diesel?

mobileron

Ive just sold my skoda superb,it was 8 years old and for the last 5 years averaged 5k miles a year.   It had 60 k on the clock and never had any DPF problems.
There is a learning curve on driving these cars when doing low mileage,Good italian tune once a month and keep at high revs.

Mickey666

mobileron said:

Ive just sold my skoda superb,it was 8 years old and for the last 5 years averaged 5k miles a year.   It had 60 k on the clock and never had any DPF problems.
There is a learning curve on driving these cars when doing low mileage,Good italian tune once a month and keep at high revs.

Isn't the main part of the 'learning curve' to simply pay attention to the 'DPF Regeneration' warning light and follow the guidance in the handbook?

I suspect that most DPF problems are confined to town/city drivers poodling around.  My 10 year old diesel is about to turn 100k miles and in my 8 years of ownership the DPF Regen indicator has never come on, but then I live in the sticks and rarely do less than 20 miles each time I use the vehicle.

The ironic thing is that it's in towns and cities that a DPF is most valuable

Marvel1

Mickey666 said:

neilmcl said:

cattom said:

thanks for all the replies. the point of my original post was to find out if I had been mis sold a product. ie a peugeot diesel. and maybe as someone said in this thread, get some free cash. the emmisions on my car are euro6.1. which is within the latest emmisions bracket. I have now put in a claim with a 'no win no fee' company. and I will keep you updated on that,via this forum.

You've still failed to tell us on why you think you were miss-sold your car?

You're missing the point.  It's not necessary for the OP to justify their loss (if any), that's for the ambulance chasing scumbag lawyers to argue and if they win the OP gets a share of some free money.  If they lose then the OP gets a share of nothing, but doesn't have to pay the lawyers a fee.

I just hope the OP has checked that they will not be liable for a share of the legal costs if the case is lost and the defendent's costs are awarded by the court.

I hope they are, after all they want to pursue a claim in the first place.

p00hsticks

Grey_Critic said:

Did I tell you my car runs very well on Jaffa cakes.

What a waste of Jaffa cakes.....

lemondrops69

p00hsticks said:

Grey_Critic said:

Did I tell you my car runs very well on Jaffa cakes.

What a waste of Jaffa cakes.....

yes and I signed up to a 'no win, no fee' lawsuit as I believed I had been mis-sold jaffa cakes as 'cakes' but were in fact biscuit's. Turns out I was wrong, lost, and as i hadn't read the small print i was in fact liable for the legal costs! 

Grumpy_chap

lemondrops69 said:

p00hsticks said:

Grey_Critic said:

Did I tell you my car runs very well on Jaffa cakes.

What a waste of Jaffa cakes.....

yes and I signed up to a 'no win, no fee' lawsuit as I believed I had been mis-sold jaffa cakes as 'cakes' but were in fact biscuit's. Turns out I was wrong, lost, and as i hadn't read the small print i was in fact liable for the legal costs! 

But you were not mis-sold the Jaffa Cakes.  This has been established through the courts that they are cakes and not biscuits.
 It was a VAT case.  Jaffa Cakes are "cakes" because a cake starts soft and goes hard when stale.  Conversely, a biscuit starts crisp / hard and goes soft when stale.
Any solicitor should have known this distinction and not taken on your mis-selling case against Jaffa Cakes not being a cake but being a biscuit, given the legal status is previously established.
You may have a case against the "no win no fee  solicitor who took the case.  Maybe another no win no fee solicitor.

AdrianC

The Jaffa Cake VAT case was thirty years ago...

Grumpy_chap

Still case law.
Still stands
It's clear that Lemon drops was mis-sold the no win no fee legal case and should have a route to resolution and compensation.

lemondrops69

AdrianC said:

The Jaffa Cake VAT case was thirty years ago...

And? Do you get our much Adrian?

AdrianC

Enough that I recognise a third of a century is quite a long while ago, ta...