Volkswagen Agrees To Pay Each Affected Diesel Owner $5000 In Damages

Thank you VW. I will look forward to getting my check! Well, what the lawyers doesn't take.

I'm affected with an Audi Q5 3.0 TDI. I'd welcome that check. It's like 10% of the vehicle's purchase price. I typically hold on to my vehicles for a long time, so I'm not worried about resale value.

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IMPORTANT NOTE!

This forum's subject says "Volkswagen Agrees To Pay Each Affected Diesel Owner $5000 In Damages"

This is not true. The story in the link simply says:
"...Germany's Die Welt newspaper reported Wednesday that the deal to settle the case would involve it paying each affected customer $5,000. But a person briefed on the matter said no decisions on how individual compensation will be awarded have been made..."

In other words, the $5,000 compensation figure has been thrown around, a newspaper reported it as fact, but VW has not confirmed that this is the case.

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Also if you note the article say it doesn't apply to the 3.0 TDI, so you may be SOL for now on your Q5.

jeffy210: Yeah, I caught that one :-( I'm not holding my breath. I'm just waiting for the dust to settle.

Stolen from elsewhere: Das Fraud

Other press stories outline a buyback for the 2.0 liter models that will pay the owner what the vehicle was worth a few months before the Dieselgate news hit, plus some cash compensation, or fix the vehicle plus cash. Not clear what VW will do with the cars it buys back. Announcemnt soon.

The cash solution is not a solution for the EPA problem. VW still must come up with a way to reduce the pollution caused by the cars.

TomM: According to law, VW must pass only the in-lab-only emissions tests without anything that's considered a "cheat device." As far as I know, there aren't any laws for emissions outside of the lab.

In a related story, "All cars tested by UK exceeded lab emissions limits on road": http://finance.yahoo.com/news/cars-tested-uk-exceeded-lab-160001411.html?.tsrc=applewf

They, too cite that even though ALL vehicles tested exceed lab-legal levels on the road, there's no law for that.

So we must all recognize that VW's crime was cheating on a useless test. That's the law they broke. The fact that they generate many times the lab-legal emission limits while under normal operation is not relevant, according to law. Personally, I feel the law is stupid, as it lets manufacturers *appear* to be clean (lab-only test) while actually being terrible polluters (on the road), but that's a different matter.

VW should do that right after the EPA itself comes up with a fix for all the arsenic and other nasty chemicals it dumped into a river after an EPA team botched a clean up in a gold mine. The EPA had been warned not to do it the way they went about it. They did it anyway. Now downstream drinking systems are threatened and the EPA is doing nothing. What is good for the goose is good for the gander.

Sweet. Are affected Audi owners also included?

I have a 2010 2.0 A3 TDI. After what I heard today, I am looking at the buy back option all the way....