Nearly every manufacturer in Spain was fined for exchanging pricing information for seven years. Courts are awarding buyers 5–15% of the purchase price. But prescription is closing brand by brand: after the EU Court of Justice ruling of September 2025, the last deadlines fall between September and December 2026. Checking whether your case is still alive takes two minutes and costs nothing.
Pick your brand, tell us when you bought and what paperwork you keep — and you'll see whether your claim is still alive, what it could be worth and what to do first. Free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your browser. (Tool in Spanish.)
In 2015 Spain's competition authority (CNMC) fined manufacturers and distributors covering most of the car market for exchanging commercially sensitive information — prices, discounts, margins, after-sales conditions — between 2006 and 2013. The Supreme Court upheld the sanctions. The practical effect for you: whoever bought a new car in that window paid an artificially inflated price, and the law lets you claim that overcharge back. Court awards are running at 5–15% of the purchase price — on a €20,000 car, between €1,000 and €3,000. Private buyers, self-employed and companies (including fleets) can all claim. Every case is its own case: nobody can honestly guarantee an outcome, and we won't.
The EU Court of Justice ruled on 4 September 2025 (case C-21/24, Nissan Iberia) that the five-year limitation period starts when each sanction becomes final in court — for most brands, with the Supreme Court rulings of 2021. That means most brands' deadlines already expired between April and June 2026. Four groups remain open, because their sanctions became final later: Honda (until 17 September 2026), Mercedes-Benz and Smart (27 September), Opel (5 October) and Toyota-Lexus (1 December). And one more live scenario: if you (or a claims platform on your behalf) sent the manufacturer an out-of-court claim before your brand's deadline, prescription was interrupted and your case is still alive — whatever the brand, BMW and all the rest included. Exact dates depend on when each sanction became final; we verify your brand's date, in writing, before anything else.
The core evidence is the purchase invoice or contract. Lost it? A case can often be rebuilt: vehicle report from the DGT, the dealer's records, financing paperwork, even the technical card. What we do: check your deadline brand by brand, assemble the evidence file, estimate the claim value, and prepare the out-of-court claim. The court claim itself — where these cases are won — is always filed by a practising lawyer: we prepare your file so that step is fast, and we refer you with everything ready. Small fixed fee for the file work, told in advance; no percentage of your compensation.
Neither matters: the damage happened when you bought. Selling the car later doesn't erase the overcharge you paid, and financed purchases claim the same. What matters is the paperwork trail — which is exactly what we build. If your brand's window has closed and you never interrupted prescription, we'll tell you so honestly, in one sentence, for free.
Updated daily from official sources (BOE, ministries and public bodies).
The EU Court of Justice (judgment of 4 September 2025, case C-21/24, Nissan Iberia) ruled that the limitation period for car-cartel damages claims starts not with the CNMC's 2015 decision but when each manufacturer's sanction becomes FINAL in court. Practical effect: deadlines expire brand by brand through 2026 — most have passed, the last fall between September and December.
Under the EU Court's doctrine, the indicative deadlines still open are: Honda until 17 September, Mercedes-Benz/Smart until 27 September, Opel until 5 October and Toyota/Lexus until 1 December 2026. For all other brands the general window closed between April and June — but if an out-of-court claim was sent in time, prescription was interrupted and the case remains alive. We verify your brand's exact date in writing before claiming.
