Canadians are running out of time to claim chunk of $50M car settlement
The deadline for Canadians to cash in on a massive nationwide auto parts class-action settlement is this month.
In June 2023, courts in Toronto, Vancouver, and Quebec approved an auto parts settlement totalling approximately $78 million in 23 class actions, alleging that “automotive part manufacturers conspired to fix the price of certain automotive parts.”
While the defendants did not admit any wrongdoing or liability, there were extensive criminal investigations around the globe surrounding price-fixed auto parts, according to a statement from the law firms.
āPrice-fixing conspiracies are prohibited by the Competition Act. They are harmful to the Canadian marketplace, causing businesses and consumers to pay too much for goods and services,” stated David Jones, a partner at Camp Fiorante Matthews Mogerman LLP in Vancouver.
The deadline for that round of settlements was January 2024, and Canadians received payments last year.
If you weren’t able to submit a claim or your car wasn’t listed in the previous round of the auto parts settlement, you may still have a chance.
A third distribution of settlement funds, which totals approximately $50 million, was approved in nine auto parts class actions.
This is in addition to the approximately $104 million of funds previously distributed, law firm Siskinds told Daily Hive.
The deadline to submit a claim is Tuesday, May 12, 2026, so check to see if your car is included.
Who’s eligible for the auto parts settlement?
Canadians must have purchased and/or leased a new passenger car, sport utility vehicle, van, and/or light pick-up truck (up to 10,000 pounds) from the applicable car makers during the relevant period.
For this final round, class members fall into two categories.
The first is those who purchased “newly included vehicles.” These class members have not previously been given an opportunity to apply for the settlement in the auto parts class actions.
The newly included vehicles are:
Siskinds LLP, Sotos LLP, Siskinds Desmeules, CFM LLP
The second category of class members includes those who bought “previously included vehicles.”
According to Siskinds, these people will “be automatically included in this distribution if they consented to their information being used in subsequent distributions, or they can now consent to their information being used by responding to the email sent by the claims administrator.”
The previously included vehicles are:
Siskinds LLP, Sotos LLP, Siskinds Desmeules, CFM LLP
The class action notes that no wrongdoing is alleged against any of these automakers and that they are not defendants in these class actions.
How do you submit a claim, and how much could you get?
If you think you’re eligible, you can submit a claim through the class action site. It says payments will be distributed on a proportional basis, based on the value of your claim relative to the value of all approved claims.
“It is anticipated that all claims will receive a minimum payment of $25 per claim, NOT per vehicle,” reads the site.
More details can be found on the auto parts class action site.