If you bought a new car in Spain between 2006 and 2013, you could be eligible for a refund of up to 9,000 euros, thanks to a Supreme Court sentence.
It appears that there was a price-fixing arrangement amongst several car manufacturers during those years. Therefore clients of Spanish car dealerships should look at the conditions of purchase if they purchased their car within that time frame.
This has set into motion a legal case against over a hundred car dealerships involved that will see them having to return part of the price charged to their clients.
The refundable quantity is around ten percent, not only of the purchase price, but also work done in dealership workshops post purchase.
There are two ways of obtaining a refund from the car dealer: customers can either act individually by hiring a lawyer (which is the obligatory option if the quantity is over 2,000 euros) or join with other claimants through the Consumidores Afectados por los Fabricantes de Automóviles (CACC). In fact, the OCU has written up a questionnaire to see if your car is eligible for obtaining a refund.
Editorial comment: I’ve checked; today is not April Fool’s Day but even so this news seems too good to be true – time and developments will tell.
(News: Spain)
Thanks, Dave 😉
Cheers Martin, I have fired off an email to Afectados por los Fabricantes de Automóviles (CACC) and await clarification.
Keep up the good work.
Dave.W
It’s the car manufacturers that did the price fixing, the results of which were obviously passed on through car dealerships; i.e., their outlets. From what I can understand from the source article, if you bought a new car, by which I mean, it wasn’t second hand, then you could be in for a refund but you will have to check with the association that is dealing with it.
Does this apply to a new car only purchased through a dealership?
I bought a demonstration model which was 12 months old from a Granada dealership.