THE battle to secure compensation for Brits over Volkswagen's cheating diesels is set to begin tomorrow.

More than 50,000 claimants have signed up for the class action in a bid to get a pay out for their dodgy diesels.

2 1.1million cars were affected by the scandal in the UK

Volkswagen was found to be cooking the books on emissions testing over two years ago - and has faced billion dollar payouts in the US since.

Some top level bosses have even been jailed for fraud in the States.

But Brits have been denied any compensation despite claims the fix to remove the cheat devices had made cars sluggish.

And thousands of owners are furious their cars are far more polluting than they believed when they bought them.

2 Dieselgate has cost VW more than £20billion worldwide - but there's been no payout for Brits Credit: AFP

A three-day court hearing is heading to the High Court on March 27 where several law firms will bring cases and a judge will rule who will take the lead against VW.

The lawyers are expected to bring a Fraudulent Misrepresentation case under EU law - as well as the UK’s Unfair Trading Regulations 2008.

Lawyers will seek to prove higher fuel consumption and higher pollution than advertised, lower trade-in value after the scandal and costs for taking the vehicle to be fixed.

Aman Johal, director of one of the claimants - Your Lawyers - said: “Over a million Volkswagen owners have been lied to and deserve compensation.

"The level of deceit perpetuated by the Volkswagen group is beyond comprehension and amounts to one of the largest corporate scandals of all time.

"However, we are now reaching a critical turning point in the UK to give innocent owners a means of achieving compensation."

The 50,000-plus owners signed up is just a fraction of the total 1.1million cars affected by the emissions scandal.

Drivers of all VW Group cars - including SEAT, Audi and Skoda - were dragged into the scandal for motors made between 2008 and 2015 with the 1.2, 1.6 and 2.0-litre diesel.

And lawyers said even second-hand vehicle owners have a case against VW - potentially increasing the claims to 2.1million drivers.

Owners who want to be part of the no-win, no-fee action can join here or here - by providing personal info, car details and comments on their case.

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A VW spokesman said: “The latest statements made by the claimant firms do not raise anything new – they are a revival of their campaign to recruit claimants into their group.

“The claimants’ application for a Group Litigation Order (a GLO), which is the subject of the hearing at the end of March, was filed 14 months ago.

“The delay to the progression of the GLO is the result of both a lack of coordination between the claimant firms and a legal dispute which arose between two of the claimant firms involved in the litigation.

"Our consistent position has been that the instigation of legal proceedings in England is premature for a number of reasons. As we have said all along, we will defend these claims robustly, and we have made it clear to the claimant law firms that we do not anticipate that any of our UK customers will have suffered loss as a result of the NOx issue.

“We have implemented the technical measures in approximately 820,000 vehicles in the UK and in over 6 million vehicles across Europe, with the overwhelming majority of customers in question fully satisfied.

“Given the English High Court proceedings have commenced, it would not be appropriate for us to comment any further at this time.”