The Volvo XC40 owner’s lawyer explained, a model worth R$250,000 Itatia Because your customer didn’t claim the insurance after the car caught fire and turned into scrap metal. The episode gained repercussions after the owner of the car parked the body outside the dealership where the car was purchased, on Avenida Raja Gapaglia, Sao Bento district, in the Central and South District of the capital, last Thursday (11).
The luxury car caught fire during a trip to Rio de Janeiro. Lawyer Mateusz Drobski said that the client did not contact the insurance company because his goal was to hold the manufacturer responsible for what happened.
“There has been no response from the automaker. The next step is to legalize the procedure to try to repair the damage,” the lawyer warned.
However, according to Drobsky, the burned corpse has been taken to a patio in Juiz de Fora, in the Zona da Mata de Minas, where it will undergo an examination to determine the cause of the fire.
He explains, “A month later, they reported that no manufacturing defect had been discovered. A week later, they explained that the fire would have occurred due to a hot fluid leak in the engine, which had cracked due to rainwater aspiration.” .
According to him, the reasons that prompted the man to “turn off” the corpse were lack of assistance and disregard for the situation.
“Volvo calls itself the safest car in the world, and he bought one to ride in with his two kids, ages 1 and 2. Unfortunately, this happened with the car still under warranty and the manufacturer disclaiming any liability. He wanted to make his case because it’s not the case. The first.
According to Mateus, the customer did not contact the insurance company because his goal was to hold the manufacturer accountable for what happened.
“There has been no response from the automaker. The next step is to legalize the procedure to try and repair the damage,” the lawyer continues.
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Profile with complaints
In addition to the protest, the XC 40 owner created a profile on the social network in which he describes, in chronological order, what was going to happen. He uses the fictitious name of Joao and says he was “very happy” with the vehicle, and because it is “the safest car in the world” his wife has always traveled to the interior of Minas. “Revisions were done at the dealership, due to warranty which was up to 5/23,” says an excerpt from one of the posts.
The owner says he lent the car to his father in January this year for a trip to the coast of Rio de Janeiro.
It happens that near Juiz de Fora the car lights up a lamp on the dashboard and immediately his father (who is a road traveler by profession) (sic(nearly 40) pulls the car to the side of the road…but it is almost not saved, because unfortunately there was only time to remove some of the belongings, as the engine spontaneously burned out…”, says the text, which contains the image of the car burning.
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