Dieselgate Scandal

**arcadelt** · 10-10-2015, 01:08 PM

Originally Posted by Hillbilly

My one has only done 24,000 so would like to think it would get a payout of more than high km one.

I don't think anyone will get any kind of payout. I think we'll get the fix that makes our car compliant with legislation and that will be it. Anything else will be subject to legal action.

**Ryeman** · 10-10-2015, 01:30 PM

Originally Posted by arcadelt

I don't think anyone will get any kind of payout. I think we'll get the fix that makes our car compliant with legislation and that will be it. Anything else will be subject to legal action.

We are certainly going to need to read the fine print before signing for it.

**The_Hawk** · 10-10-2015, 02:06 PM

Originally Posted by minke

It relates to engine placement. Any EA189 that is horizontially orientated they didn't do the 'adblue' post processing as it is assumed there wasn't enough space/cost prohibitive

The same engine placed longitudinally is fine as they did install the adblue post processing system.

Hence why the Multivan is fine, and the Golf isn't.

The Transporter/Multivan/Caravelle has AdBlue? Not that I was aware of? Happy to be shown otherwise but I don't recall seeing it on any of the services in 5 years.

Originally Posted by stevan

Back to this good question I have been wondering myself...Do they have the same block,head/valves and stroke etc with different turbos and fuel/air supply to achieve the different kw outputs? Or are they all different....

I wonder the same thing myself. Plenty of examples of VW having different models of the same thing.... like the 6sp manual gear boxes in the Golf range (at least two variants in Australia (at least three that I know of including the OS markets).

**Ryeman** · 10-10-2015, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by arcadelt

I don't think anyone will get any kind of payout. I think we'll get the fix that makes our car compliant with legislation and that will be it. Anything else will be subject to legal action.

Maurice Blackburn, I suspect have factored that in.

**Hillbilly** · 10-10-2015, 03:11 PM

Originally Posted by arcadelt

I don't think anyone will get any kind of payout. I think we'll get the fix that makes our car compliant with legislation and that will be it. Anything else will be subject to legal action.

I was just making a point when someone with extras intimated they should for instance get paid for tinting. Dream on.

We will have to fight for almost anything above what VW thinks they can get away with I would think.

**arcadelt** · 10-10-2015, 03:41 PM

Originally Posted by Hillbilly

I was just making a point when someone with extras intimated they should for instance get paid for tinting. Dream on.

We will have to fight for almost anything above what VW thinks they can get away with I would think.

I wasn't questioning your post per se, just outlining how I think it will play out: which is pure speculation in any case.

What I don't understand is why anyone thinks they will get anything other than a fix of the problem - this is not some opportunity to make money? The resale issue, which some seem to be concerned about, is a short term hit based on sentiment. Eventually the economic equilibrium will prevail, and the value of Volkswagen cars will find their natural place in the secondhand marketplace. With respect to whether the remedy (whatever it will be) reduces the driving enjoyment, performance, economy or any other factor of their car is a personal issue and something that people will need to consider going forward, either by selling the car and possibly taking a hit to distance themselves from the brand or through some legal redress to seek compensation.

**Sunny43.5** · 10-10-2015, 05:22 PM

I am a bit confused I thought the Golf and the Transporter Multivan engines were all the same orientation ie east west as most fwd's are {except the diabolical MB100}