taffy
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Post by taffy on May 27, 2022 11:40:44 GMT
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Post by minionbob on May 27, 2022 18:25:01 GMT
you can try, I'm amazed that VW are paying out in the UK so anything else is possible.
I have formal complaints in for collateral and moneything which are being kicked down the road, no great expectations but feel they are valid and provide a level of embarrassment to the FCA (not that would ever apply to the likes of andrew bailey, following the sound principle of promoting incompetency).
Lendy seemed like a far slower car crash and I managed to get out without any significant loss.
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on May 29, 2022 13:28:22 GMT
I'm amazed that VW are paying out in the UK so anything else is possible. Out of court payment to settle the claims, rather than go to court. A little over £2.5k/claimant. Would they have lost? Who knows. Even if they hadn't, would the reputational damage have cost more? Probably.
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Post by aj on May 30, 2022 12:45:41 GMT
TBH, the government should have imposed a fine on cheating carmakers. 2* the total VED that was evaded by their lies seems a fair amount. Then all cars to be rebanded for their real CO2 emissions. VW should then be on the hook for paying the subsequent increase in VED for the lifetime of the vehicle.
The revenue from this should then have been put towards green energy projects.
The victims here are everyone who breathes air, not a few VW owners.
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adrianc
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Post by adrianc on May 31, 2022 14:19:12 GMT
TBH, the government should have imposed a fine on cheating carmakers. 2* the total VED that was evaded by their lies seems a fair amount. Then all cars to be rebanded for their real CO2 emissions. Yeh... You do know it wasn't about CO2, right...? It was NOx that they were found to have cheated on. In the US. Where the NOx limits were FAR stricter at the time (a decade and a half ago) than they are here even now (and that's a lot stricter than they were then). The UK case was about having a second mode in the ECU that detected when the emission cycle was being followed - which wasn't actually illegal. If the cycle was being followed, the engine ran leaner (more air, less fuel) and used the EGR less, which increased performance and economy, but also increased NOx. The fix was to put it permanently into that low-NOx mode.
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