VW emissions claim - genuine?

ivrytwr3 · 3 Mar 2020 at 21:06

A colleague sent this through as they knew I owned a skoda for 10yrs. Anyone know if it's genuine or a scam?

https://claimfor.me/vwclaims/

Rroff · 3 Mar 2020 at 21:21

Seen it doing the rounds on Facebook not looked at it or any idea if it is genuine but if there is something to it I'd have thought you'd be able to approach VW directly or their officially appointed management firm and cut out what I assume is a middleman.

jpaul · 3 Mar 2020 at 21:23

I don't know -
but my neighbour with a diesel yeti, told me two days ago he got peanuts for it trade in, because following the 'fix', the dpf was continually registering as needing a regen, so he had to regularly go out for Italian tune-ups ... first victim I've spoken too. .. he wasn't aware of any redress

Nasher · 3 Mar 2020 at 21:51

The "fix" was a bodge to meet what they were ordered to do. They don't GAF about the customers.

Best thing to do is remap it to remove the "fix".

a1ex2001 · 3 Mar 2020 at 22:11

Nasher said:
The "fix" was a bodge to meet what they were ordered to do. They don't GAF about the customers.

Best thing to do is remap it to remove the "fix".

Or like millions of customers simply don’t have it applied our Golf has not and will not be done despite repeated letters from VW.

Nasher · 3 Mar 2020 at 22:13

a1ex2001 said:
Or like millions of customers simply don’t have it applied our Golf has not and will not be done despite repeated letters from VW.

Just don't take it to them for a service

a1ex2001 · 3 Mar 2020 at 22:17

Nasher said:
Just don't take it to them for a service

I fell out with the local VW dealership when they tried to give my wife an MOT failure as a courtesy car so no danger of that a local specialist gets all my business!

Rroff · 3 Mar 2020 at 22:21

a1ex2001 said:
I fell out with the local VW dealership when they tried to give my wife an MOT failure as a courtesy car so no danger of that a local specialist gets all my business!

Our local VW car specialist is pretty decent but the main dealer I'm less impressed with and the commercial dealer I'm definitely no fan of - so glad now I didn't go in there spend new Amarok money with them as I'd been somewhat tempted to do (nice enough people to deal with - until you need them to call you back :S but I have an increasingly long list of failures by their service department).

a1ex2001 · 3 Mar 2020 at 22:33

Rroff said:
Our local VW car specialist is pretty decent but the main dealer I'm less impressed with and the commercial dealer I'm definitely no fan of - so glad now I didn't go in there spend new Amarok money with them as I'd been somewhat tempted to do (nice enough people to deal with - until you need them to call you back :S but I have an increasingly long list of failures by their service department).

I won’t bore you with the details but our local dealership were incapable of writing a simple letter apologising for twice trying to send my wife and baby out in an MOT failure courtesy car despite the involvement of VW U.K. and two attempts at the letter! They were happy to offer discount servicing etc but didn’t have the morals to admit the mistake.