VW emissions payout

scottiescott

atw1979 said:

I was told it was a significant amount to find out it was only £1700. 

Is that before or after the ambulance chaser takes his cut?

atw1979

scottiescott said:

atw1979 said:

I was told it was a significant amount to find out it was only £1700. 

Is that before or after the ambulance chaser takes his cut?

Haven’t got a clue what ambulance chaser means. But that’s after fees

atw1979

[Deleted User] said:

atw1979 said:

[Deleted User] said:

I think the owners of the VW's should have actually been fined instead and the money donated to the people that had to inhale the nasty NOx such as pedestrians, cyclists and cars behind VW's.

And the government should be compensated for lost tax on fuel revenue that they would have earned if the cars were actually tuned as they should and consuming more diesel.

VW owners have got a lot to answer for.

So that’s the whole point in the claim. We have been miss sold. When you buy something you expect it to work within the set guidelines set by the manufacturer 

You didn’t notice or care when your car was knocking out twice as much NOx and contributing to over 30,000 deaths per year. 

You should be grateful that independent testing revealed the problem and the tweaks done to the engine management are now reducing your contributions to those deaths by half. 

Independent testing revealed up to 3 mpg reduction after the fix which costs about £10 per 1000 miles at current fuel prices. 

That is a small price to pay to know you are now contributing half as much NOx towards the 30,000 deaths. 

So VW owners doing 12k miles per year were saving £120 a year whilst spewing out twice as much NOx so you were saving money during the time you were contributing to more deaths. 

You haven’t lost anything financially but the families of those that die through NOx emissions have and they should be compensated, not VW owners. 

I find it selfish that you are complaining now your NOx has been halved, you should be delighted. Some VW owners refused to have the adjustment made and are still pumping out double NOx and getting the fuel savings and killing people and getting free money. 

Like I said before I was just asking other owners what they thought. I wasn’t complaining and to blame drivers of killing people that is stupid. So you must have never contributed to pollution in your whole life if that’s the case. You must also be the richest man on the planet. As anyone who has never contributed to greenhouse gases would be worth a fortune selling their method to the world 

facade

atw1979 said:

Haven’t got a clue what ambulance chaser means.

It is a derogatory term for a personal injury lawyer.  It comes from when lawyers would literally follow the ambulance from a disaster/road accident to hospital to sign up clients (This was before TV advertising )

Nowadays the meaning is being extended to any lawyers touting for "compo" claim clients.

Grey_Critic

Like I said before I was just asking other owners what they thought. I wasn’t complaining and to blame drivers of killing people that is stupid. So you must have never contributed to pollution in your whole life if that’s the case. You must also be the richest man on the planet. As anyone who has never contributed to greenhouse gases would be worth a fortune selling their method to the world 

You asked a question - so just because you do not like the replies is no excuse for not being polite when you replay.

If £1,700 is not enough then just how greedy do you want to be - particularly as VW could have fought the case and possibly won - then you would have got nothing

lordmountararat

I think £1700, net of fees, is extremely generous, considering that any financial loss would likely have been minimal.

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] said:

atw1979 said:

[Deleted User] said:

I think the owners of the VW's should have actually been fined instead and the money donated to the people that had to inhale the nasty NOx such as pedestrians, cyclists and cars behind VW's.

And the government should be compensated for lost tax on fuel revenue that they would have earned if the cars were actually tuned as they should and consuming more diesel.

VW owners have got a lot to answer for.

So that’s the whole point in the claim. We have been miss sold. When you buy something you expect it to work within the set guidelines set by the manufacturer 

You didn’t notice or care when your car was knocking out twice as much NOx and contributing to over 30,000 deaths per year. 

You should be grateful that independent testing revealed the problem and the tweaks done to the engine management are now reducing your contributions to those deaths by half. 

Independent testing revealed up to 3 mpg reduction after the fix which costs about £10 per 1000 miles at current fuel prices. 

That is a small price to pay to know you are now contributing half as much NOx towards the 30,000 deaths. 

So VW owners doing 12k miles per year were saving £120 a year whilst spewing out twice as much NOx so you were saving money during the time you were contributing to more deaths. 

You haven’t lost anything financially but the families of those that die through NOx emissions have and they should be compensated, not VW owners. 

I find it selfish that you are complaining now your NOx has been halved, you should be delighted. Some VW owners refused to have the adjustment made and are still pumping out double NOx and getting the fuel savings and killing people and getting free money. 

They bought the car thinking that it was not killing so many people, more similar to the deaths from other types of engines. VW lied about that, the blood is on their hands.

What's screwed up is that they aren't compensating the people harmed by the emissions. In the US the money was used to install EV chargers, which at least reduce future harm.