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Icecake you need to befriend a politician who is going to have some power in 3 to 5 years time, assuming that is that we leave the EU and our politicians become reponsible for ruining our country all by themselves again.
We have an inkling they are going to hit Diesels hard somehow, and start banning older Diesels in particular, London already effectively does this with commercial vehicles with the emissions zone, and if i were to second guess them i would expect this type of thing to roll out to other towns and cities more and more, plus congestion charging which is an excellent revenue raiser and that is the only reason for it, i suspect we'l see road charging in due course.
Will it affect the value of your car in 3 to 5 years, maybe but seeing as it loses more than half its value in 3 years anyway and more again by year 5 can it really make so much difference.
I think the fact it's Diesel and the complication and increasingly worse long term costs of keeping the things going will have larger effects on used values as the used car buying public become generally aware of the problems, DSG box may not help its desirability when another 3 to 5 years of used car knowledge is available to that public.
Dieselgate will, as with all these storms in teacups, soon be forgotten, i don't read of VW group dealers closing down.
In another 3 to 5 years we might well have interest rates of 8+% again, the national debt might well be over £2Trillion and we may well find ourselves in a real depression with a genuine population of 80+ million, the tiny difference in value this emissions non event makes to your car will pale into insignificance beside the tumbling value of property which is what the whole ponzi scheme of our so called economy appears to be based on.
An optimist :-)
Edited by gordonbennet on 25/04/2016 at 08:43
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