Diesel compensation Genuine or Scam?

Mark67710

Because I own a diesel car a Citroen I’ve read that lots of makes of diesel cars from certain years there was diesel problem and the cars concerned and you can claim compensation? Is this genuine or a scam as the companies you register with what a whopping 30% of your claim if successful. Seen nothing on the news so can anyone shed some light on this? Many thanks Mark R

Grumpy_chap

You may find this helpful:
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6263574/my-diesel-claim-com/p1

When did you buy the car?
What loss did you suffer?

Grey_Critic

Lots of ionformation and discussion but basically this was a problem in the USA that the **Where there's Blame there's a Claim** brigade have latched onto. As the emmissions fiddle was in the USA not the UK nobody knows if a claim **would** succeed and it has yet to be tested. My view is it is a Scam.

[Deleted User]

Utter scam, no-one in the UK was miss-sold diesel based on the emissions cheat tests designed to beat tests that aren't used in the UK

NaughtiusMaximus

The reason VW and others fiddled the tests was so their vehicles would fall into a lower tax band in countries who operated a vehicle taxation system based on NOX emissions. Britain does not do so therefore no financial loss has been incurred by anyone in this country.

I suppose there's nothing stopping you lying and claiming knowing the true NOX emissions would have affected your decision to buy diesel over petrol, now that would be a scam.

Ectophile

A bunch of ambulance chasers have got tired chasing ambulances. So they are going for a speculative punt suing car manufacturers over an emissions "scandal". And that includes manufacturers for which there's no real evidence they fiddled the figures at all.

If they get lucky, they keep a big chunk of every claim. If they lose, I don't suppose they will be the ones paying the car manufacturers' expenses.

Herzlos

The financial losses involved are peanuts, so the only people who'd make money from a class action lawsuit are the lawyers.

sheramber

Some peanuts is more than none peanuts.

AdrianC

NaughtiusMaximus said:

The reason VW and others fiddled the tests was so their vehicles would fall into a lower tax band in countries who operated a vehicle taxation system based on NOX emissions. Britain does not do so therefore no financial loss has been incurred by anyone in this country.

Not quite.

MB and VW were the only manufacturers to even attempt to sell diesels into the US market.
The US market's emissions regs simply didn't differentiate between diesel and petrol - which meant FAR stricter NOx caps than the then-current Euro limits.
VW were found to have explicitly cheated in the US tests.

Some manufacturers have been found to have used software which detected the NEDC test cycle used by the Euro tests, putting the engine management into a different mode and map.
That was not explicitly against the rules of the NEDC testing...

Nowhere bases their taxation on NOx.
Many European countries do and did on CO2 - which is not directly involved in "dieselgate" at all.
US registration fees did not involve emissions at all.