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I owned an Octavia estate for work from June 2007 till June2010 and theoretically should be able to make a claim regarding Emission figures. Neither VW or SKoda forums seem to offer any advice.
Can i claim as an individual or do I need to claim via one of the agencies advertising this service, no doubt at a significant fee.. ,
Anybody got any experience of this. I probably did about 100k miles in the 3 years which I will be able to check through my accounts
Eddie Buckley
 
A good measure of how successful these things are likely to be are the fees the lawyers will charge. I gather that the percentage they will take of any settlement they get you out a massive so it’s very unlikely to happen.


As has been said, you’re going to find it nigh on impossible to claim any pecuniary losses. Rather, you got more power, less VED to pay and better fuel economy. I‘d not waste my time.
 
Having never owned one of those nasty diesel's I can't really answer your question. However, when it comes to making claims I say 'why not' as long as it's a 'pay for win' contract or there's a way of making the claim yourself. This was the case when we had the PPI fiasco, I originally wasn't going to bother, after all, if I did have any that could be claimed on, they would be very old, I certainly couldn't remember paying PPI on anything bar one which was a very long time ago. We first went through one of those no win no pay outfits, they came back with a list of possible accounts that had PPI, clearly, I had been a bad boy in my past. We left one with them and now having more info investigated the others ourselves. We thought, why not, might get a few quid out of it, you could have knocked me down with a feather when the first came back saying I was entitled to over £4k? In all i received over £15k back from the various banks, I didn't realise that they were also liable for any interest that could have been earnt on the amount.

happy days...:)

So my advice is to go for it....look into how to do it yourself to save the fees, with me they originally wanted 33%, I knocked that down to 25% and then having learnt much more about the process did the others myself. Sometimes it's good to be frugal with your money when young...:)

Pete
 
Hi Peter, nice to hear from you.
My sentiments tend to agree with your views. i got £700 from the PPI debacle. In my view its better in my account than paying pensions for some of the retrobates that were at the top of RBS.
i also believe its a pretty unfair world out there when it comes to running cars and their attendant costs. I pay , I thinks its £555 tax for my Cayman and I know thats based on emissions relating to Diesel engines. Given I do about 2K miles pa, and a lot less last year, it's a pretty expensive beast to run. Anything within reason to keep my motoring costs down and preserve my marital relationship is welcome
In the case of the Skoda i have all the data i would expect to have to make the claim .... dates bought and sold mileage per annum etc

regards Eddie
 
So lets assume the VW/Audi/Skoda/BMW/Mercedes et al diesel gate wins and proves we all bought diesel cars due lower advertised C02's which were all wrongly cheated by the brands, and we all paid less BiK as company car drivers, we then trouser to money/compensation 'owed' to us because of the cheat devices, does that mean the governments can then claim lost revenue as we paid too little taxes due to these devices? Given the government's encouraged lower taxes for lower C02's, the car companies aimed their cars to achieve the lower C02's and we bought them to save taxes, who is at fault here?????
 
Well I suppose they used their systems to manipulate the figures and cheat the MOT testers. Maybe sell more cars? That means that the companies not involved were disadvantaged......Jaguar/ Land Rover, Citron /Renault Fiat etc. I'd not heard that BMW were involved and I've not seen any publicity about their involvement. [had 2 x 220D Tourings each with 200K miles on them in the relevant period]
Eddie
 
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