Diesel claims

Buttercupx

My late husband had a 2007 plate Peugeot diesel car. Can I claim against the manufacturer on behalf of his estate? 

Dr_Crypto

Depends what for? Did he die in a car accident? 

Buttercupx

No this is about the manufacturers misleading buyers on emissions and the benefits of buying a diesel car. Diesel claims are a big thing at the moment a bit like PPI was

AdrianC

Buttercupx said:

No this is about the manufacturers misleading buyers on emissions

How did they mislead him?

Diesel claims are a big thing at the moment a bit like PPI was

...and even more spurious and tenuous, too...

sheramber

Plenty of companies touting for business but no word of anybody being paid out yet.

Neil49

2007 is the very earliest date involved in the claims and the car may have been manufactured before then.

The main culprits are in the VW group whereas Peugeot has not yet been involved in any of the claims.

There is a section in the MSE website covering this and in it they say that such companies may never be implicated and no claims or payouts would occur.

Personally I think you are clutching at straws and will get no where with this but it's your choice if you wish to employ a claims agency to put your claim in. They will of course take a significant commission should you ever get compensation. 

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Buttercupx said:

No this is about the manufacturers misleading buyers on emissions and the benefits of buying a diesel car. Diesel claims are a big thing at the moment a bit like PPI was

The VW cheat device was designed to lower Nitrous Oxide emissions during testing for countries like the US which test for it and tax based on that. Cars in the UK are sold on CO2 emissions (as that is what VED is based on) and MPG, they are not sold on NOx. How were you mislead into buying a car? Do you have any evidence your husband bought the car because of NOx emissions or because of environmental concerns? Or more realistically, he bought a diesel for low car tax (which he got) and higher MPG (which you might have got depending on driving style) so he was not miss-sold.

sheslookinhot

How was he mislead ? Do you have evidence ?

Ebe_Scrooge

I think you should put in a claim.  He was benefiting from a lower rate of tax, based on the supposed lower emissions that the car was churning out.  Now it turns out that the car was actually emitting far more pollution than claimed, so you should repay HMRC the extra tax that you should have been paying each year, based on the actual emissions.

motorguy

What was his material loss?  Did you express this to you before he died as something he wanted you to persue?