Has anyone received money from their Diesel Emission Claim

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If owners genuinely lost money, e.g after the remap the fuel economy dropped from 70MPG to 50MPG, so over the 28,000 miles they drove it they had to buy an extra 160 gallons of diesel, then they have suffered a quantifiable loss, and should be compensated for the 160 gallons of diesel they had to buy because of the fiasco.

I suggest that the majority of people claiming suffered no such loss.

Crag30

But that wouldn't cover the cost of replacing the DPF that they said was at fault, and then the following month when the light comes on again, they would have billed me again for another.
I read that if the group had lost the case against Audi, I could be liable for court costs. I haven't money to gamble with, hence not putting in a claim.
I'm stuck with the car till I've run it into the ground, for the loss I'd make selling it, and a dealer would have declined it in any part exchange deal if they plugged it in.
It wasn't the car I bought 12 1/2 years ago, its not my fault it is what it is, but my losses are a lot more than 160 gallons

ontheroad1970

I'm not sure a 12.5 year old car would qualify  in any case.

Crag30

It was 12 months old when i bought it, and would have to be over 10 years old to have the problem in the first place.

[Deleted User]

It was a hastily developed fix, and applied to older vehicles. With any kind of update or refit, a certain percentage of vehicles will experience problems, at the best of times.

The idea that people should only be compensated for the losses they can demonstrate they had is not justice. For example, how would you prove how much extra fuel will be required for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle? Nobody can know the future.

VW deliberately tried to deceive customers. They sold a product they knew was defective and doing damage. The fix was poorly engineered and the cars were devalued.

It's just a shame that more people were not able to claim, and that the government didn't take the opportunity to have VW build some EV infrastructure for us, as happened in the US.

Crag30

I could have proved how many DPF's their service centre would have fitted. Would have been cheaper to have given  me my money back.

ontheroad1970

[Deleted User] said:

It was a hastily developed fix, and applied to older vehicles. With any kind of update or refit, a certain percentage of vehicles will experience problems, at the best of times.

The idea that people should only be compensated for the losses they can demonstrate they had is not justice. For example, how would you prove how much extra fuel will be required for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle? Nobody can know the future.

VW deliberately tried to deceive customers. They sold a product they knew was defective and doing damage. The fix was poorly engineered and the cars were devalued.

It's just a shame that more people were not able to claim, and that the government didn't take the opportunity to have VW build some EV infrastructure for us, as happened in the US.

This is the very heart of justice in the UK.  You can't sue for potential losses, though VW have settled with some out of court, this isn't changed by this action.  You don't appear to know how the system works.  You can't sue for hurt feelings either.  Ambulance chasing is one of the most nefarious imports from the US.  We are all paying for it through increased prices in products and insurance.  It aint free money.

Crag30

If any compensation had to come out of the CEO's pocket instead of company profits, none of this would have happened. The same goes for  our water companies 

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ontheroad1970 said:

[Deleted User] said:

It was a hastily developed fix, and applied to older vehicles. With any kind of update or refit, a certain percentage of vehicles will experience problems, at the best of times.

The idea that people should only be compensated for the losses they can demonstrate they had is not justice. For example, how would you prove how much extra fuel will be required for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle? Nobody can know the future.

VW deliberately tried to deceive customers. They sold a product they knew was defective and doing damage. The fix was poorly engineered and the cars were devalued.

It's just a shame that more people were not able to claim, and that the government didn't take the opportunity to have VW build some EV infrastructure for us, as happened in the US.

This is the very heart of justice in the UK.  You can't sue for potential losses, though VW have settled with some out of court, this isn't changed by this action.  You don't appear to know how the system works.  You can't sue for hurt feelings either.  Ambulance chasing is one of the most nefarious imports from the US.  We are all paying for it through increased prices in products and insurance.  It aint free money.

Not entirely accurate. There are cases where future loses can be recovered. There have been examples of people claiming diminished value of vehicles after an accident, for example.

Additionally, you very much can sue for hurt feelings. Compensation for things like loss of enjoyment are pretty common, e.g. with holidays that go wrong.

ontheroad1970

[Deleted User] said:

ontheroad1970 said:

[Deleted User] said:

It was a hastily developed fix, and applied to older vehicles. With any kind of update or refit, a certain percentage of vehicles will experience problems, at the best of times.

The idea that people should only be compensated for the losses they can demonstrate they had is not justice. For example, how would you prove how much extra fuel will be required for the rest of your ownership of the vehicle? Nobody can know the future.

VW deliberately tried to deceive customers. They sold a product they knew was defective and doing damage. The fix was poorly engineered and the cars were devalued.

It's just a shame that more people were not able to claim, and that the government didn't take the opportunity to have VW build some EV infrastructure for us, as happened in the US.

This is the very heart of justice in the UK.  You can't sue for potential losses, though VW have settled with some out of court, this isn't changed by this action.  You don't appear to know how the system works.  You can't sue for hurt feelings either.  Ambulance chasing is one of the most nefarious imports from the US.  We are all paying for it through increased prices in products and insurance.  It aint free money.

Not entirely accurate. There are cases where future loses can be recovered. There have been examples of people claiming diminished value of vehicles after an accident, for example.

Additionally, you very much can sue for hurt feelings. Compensation for things like loss of enjoyment are pretty common, e.g. with holidays that go wrong.

A diminished value of a vehicle following accident is not something that is a potential loss.  it is already a quantifiable loss.  Loss of enjoyment in a holiday is quantifiable because of the context of a holiday and is demonstrable.  Neither of these back up your case.  Loss of  enjoyment is not the same thing as hurt feelings.