Let me get this right.

You've checked if your cars are affected, and they aren't. So instead of being grumpy about that, you're grumpy about ther fact that you MIGHT not be getting compensation.

And just where do you get this magical figure of £2k from anyway ?

As a solicitor you'd be earning money from your clients. Doesn't mean your expectations or your claim would be realistic, and not laughed out of court.

The initial drop in prices from VAG diesels appears to have been 3-5% over what the market in general was going through. However, that's from a knee-jerk reaction from fleets and private buyers, which will probably be mollified over the next few months, especially if VAG dealerships start offering decent deals on cars.

However, that loss would only be realised on selling the car. So, going by all that, you could only really claim that money from VAG as and when you did sell the car, and actually could definitely say what the loss (over and above the expected depreciation) had been. Even then, a court may well turn around and say that you expect depreciation when owning a car, and, unless you could prove that the value of the car after a few years of ownership was the driving factor in your initial purchase, then you had no 'reasonable expectations' of what the eventual value would be. Furthermore, if you'd owned the car for (say) 4 years, that £2k figure (which is composed of the financial loss in value, the adblue costs and any other sums) would equate to less than £10 per week.

Finally, as HJ pages have pointed out, the 'cheat' software ONLY runs when the car is undergoing tests, and the ECU detects that. The cheat software DOES NOT operate during normal driving. So your claims of a 'reduced driving experience' would, on that basis, be thrown out of court, probably to the sound of laughter.

You have said that you have checked if your cars are affected, and they are not. You sound grumpy about it. If I can make a terrible generalisation about the worst type of solicitors, maybe you thought a nice little payday was coming your way (a la "where there's blame, there's a claim"), and have now found out that isn't the case.

I may well be wrong. If so I apologise. But that's what it reads like to me.

It seems we will both be missing out on compensation that could be in the order of £2k!

What a disgusting money grabbing attitude. You should be pleased that neither of your cars has an issue and thus continue to enjoy the cars.

Did you buy them with the expectation of getting compensation in 2 years time, of course not, you were simply hoping to jump on the much discussed compensation bandwagon which may never exist.

As I said, totally disgusting.