DSG woes in The Age

[spikeyboy22]

New age story ...

Drive: Volkswagen owners could lose thousands

[OilBurna]

bring on the class action and compensation. This could drag out for years with VWA fighting tooth and nail. The only ones that will win are the lawyers. What does ACCC need to do to force a recall? Can the minister step in? Come on someone stand up please.

[Ideo]

bring on the class action and compensation. This could drag out for years with VWA fighting tooth and nail. The only ones that will win are the lawyers. What does ACCC need to do to force a recall? Can the minister step in? Come on someone stand up please.

One firm of solicitors has already dumped the case, which gives you a decent idea of how workable it is.

Stamping up and down and shouting "IT'S NOT FAIR" is not a winning legal argument.

[wai]

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[wai]

bring on the class action and compensation. This could drag out for years with VWA fighting tooth and nail. The only ones that will win are the lawyers. What does ACCC need to do to force a recall? Can the minister step in? Come on someone stand up please.

The ACCC cannot do anything to force a recall. I know. I have already put in a formal submission. The answer came back that if it is a claimed safety issue, then the Department of Infrastructure and Transport has to determine whether it is a safety issue. If it is and can be substantiated then the DIT will notify the ACCC who will then announce the recall.

If it is not a safety issue, then it is just a dispute between a buyer and seller and there are plenty of existing avenues for this (i.e. the courts and tribunals).

The minister simply does not have the power to step in for a dispute.

If VW digs its heels in, then it is simply the reaction of the public that impact on sales that will see them change their stance. As things stand, they have acted in markets where a sales are significant or where regulations required them to act. Australia does not have the same regulations and they apparently feel they can lose the entire Australian market and it would be like a mosquito bite on an elephant.

Of course, we will still have to buy spare parts from VW (unless the Chinese can be good friends and allies and knock them off at super discount prices ).

[Hail22]

Now the BRW is taking a business swing at VW:

Volkswagen: why silence can be deadly

[Spook]

Now the BRW is taking a business swing at VW:

Volkswagen: why silence can be deadly

BRW is published by Fairfax, so that doesn't surprise me. For a business magazine, there are a few unforgivable typos in that article. see if you can spot them.

“When a brand is silent in an issue like this, the vacume is filled with assumptions being made on social media.”

“But would it be realistic for a company like VW to issue a recall of potentially thousands of card on the assumption that there might be a problem...perhaps not.”

[Hail22]

BRW is published by Fairfax, so that doesn't surprise me. For a business magazine, there are a few unforgivable typos in that article. see if you can spot them.

“When a brand is silent in an issue like this, the vacume is filled with assumptions being made on social media.”

“But would it be realistic for a company like VW to issue a recall of potentially thousands of card on the assumption that there might be a problem...perhaps not.”

Only a few?

I'm amazed the FIN hasn't written an article yet xD