VW Emissions Group Action – Scotland

I have just filled in my details to be part of the Group Action against VW in Scotland.

from the website,

We’re bringing a group action in Scotland on behalf of car owners who’ve been affected by the defeat device that VW installed in their vehicles. If you purchased your vehicle in Scotland and its one of the affected models you may be eligible to join the claim.

Slater Gordon in Edinburgh are taking on the case on a no win, no fee basis.

Only takes a few clicks and a few bits of information.

https://www.slatergordon.co.uk/register-your-interest/vw-nox-emissions-action-scotland/

what was your loss?

Yeah, all of those people who bought VW’s because they read the eco-testing results and thought “That’s made me want to buy that car” *rolls eyes*

what was your loss?

a no win, no fee basis.

Certainly got nothing to lose :D

Applied months ago.

If it upsets you, compare it to PPI claims. Loads of people got rewarded for being stupid enough to have to rely on masses of credit to live their lives and/or not being able to read.

The difference with PPE is that it was either sold as a solution when it wasn’t, or sold as mandatory when it wasn’t, or just added on without anyone saying anything (apart from it being in the small print, which, yes, people should have read) and, crucially, people paid extra for it when they needn’t have.

No one paid extra for a VW because of the dodgy eco-figures (there are many reasons people pay extra for a VW, emissions testing results are not one of them).

sorry for your loss, perhaps we could have a stw group hug for the distress caused.

No one paid extra for a VW because of the dodgy eco-figures (there are many reasons people pay extra for a VW, emissions testing results are not one of them).

Guessing that the primary argument will be that a major one of those many reasons was resale value of a “premium brand” car and that that has been devalued
(IANAVWO)

If it upsets you, compare it to PPI claims. Loads of people got rewarded for being stupid enough to have to rely on masses of credit to live their lives and/or not being able to read.

Except there’s no comparison in being told you can only have a certain rate if you take out PPI and that you must have it to cover sickness, funnily enough the law agreed with me.

I do find this hard to understand. To an individual owner, the VW cheating was beneficial since it enabled VW to make a more economical engine, so the owners saved money. The price was paid by the planet and by the respiratory systems of us bystanders. So the owners are the last people to have a case.

If it inflicts more pain to VW for their rank dishonesty, then all’s good.

Guessing that the primary argument will be that a major one of those many reasons was resale value of a “premium brand” car and that that has been devalued

And I guess they’d have to prove that, as it seems unlikely that the resale value would be affected, as someone buying a second hand VW gives as many shits about the emissions tests as someone buying a new one, i.e. none.

My Passat was a lot cheaper to buy as a result of the over zealous media campaign… I’can’t complain and I still get 60mpg! Mind you the car has been in the garage for 2 months now :(

what was your loss?

Dignity through buying a diesel VW

I just dont get this…..Why are VW singled out?
Do you honestly think VW engineers have to cheat and other manufacturers dont? Do you really think they dont take each others cars apart?
You only have to look at how some of them have quietly recalled thousands of cars to know what’s going on.

I just dont get this…..Why are VW singled out?

They got caught.

No Individual has lost out because of dodgy emissions figures, so all of these are pure greed lead and nothing less.

Also, it wasnt VW that we’re the real naughty boys, they just didn’t check thing s quick enough I stead of relying on a 3rd party. That said every OEM has massaged fugues to an extent..

Also, for those that say it makes more pain, its diverting serious money and resource away from major sustainability projects, so all the greed is screwing over the PLAnet again!

Don’t understand why so many people are still driving about in these racistmobiles.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-52733444
https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47566898
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/volkswagen-super-bowl-ad-accused-of-being-racist/2013/01/29/36d81e38-6a60-11e2-95b3-272d604a10a3_story.html

and of course where it all began

https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/how-volkswagen-aided-nazi-germanys-world-war-ii-effort-98382

I suppose you all subscribe to the Daily Mail as well.

I keep meaning to subscribe to the Daily Mail, but I keep spending all my money on copies of Mein Kampf.

Shouldn’t VW owners pay the extra road fund for the extra emissions they actually coughed out?

I never knew cars could be racist.

I so wish it had been called ‘VAG Emissions Group Action’…

If it upsets you, compare it to PPI claims. Loads of people got rewarded for being stupid enough to have to rely on masses of credit to live their lives and/or not being able to read.

Complete bollocks.
Wow, thanks, kahl, for pointing out something that nobody knew, that VW was set up to produce a cheap car for the people, a volks wagen, after AH came to power, I mean, who do you think they would be building cars and other vehicles for, exactly?
The company was remarkably progressive in its worker care, more socialist than one might expect.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen

I do find this hard to understand. To an individual owner, the VW cheating was beneficial since it enabled VW to make a more economical engine, so the owners saved money.

It only work when the car was started from cold and stopped once the driving behaviour wasn’t like the behaviour at a test centre…so the poorer emissions happened far more often…so didn’t save any money as the real-world figures wouldn’t be close to stated (same as every other car).