<![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws - Jalopnik Comments]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> In Texas, another law that might be helpful besides those mentioned above is the Texas Deceptive Trade Practices Act (DTPA) -- it theoretically has a longer statute of limitation/deadline to file a claim.

I am an attorney and I handle these cases routinely in Texas. [www.texaslemon.com] I offer a free case review.

Shadowman615 is correct -- it is not Kate Moss, it is Frank Edward Moss, a senator from Ohio who passed away in 2003.

texaslemon

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> I was in Sales at a Volvo Dealer (2002 Models) and only for a short time. However, I did sell a Cross Country to a guy who was trying to decide between a new BMW 5 Series, and the Cross Country. Well, he took the Cross Country, but a little over 2 weeks after he had the car, It started to not run right. I took a loaner to him, and brought the XC back, and yea, it ran like crap, pinging, no power, but I was able to drive it back. After some diagnostics, it was determined by the Volvo Service Rep (a few days later) that this was an engine that should have never been installed in this car. There were over torqued bolts, engine timing was way off, and there was other problems. I had another XC on the lot in the same color, with one additional option, so the Volvo Sales Rep said swap the vehicle. I was surprised! The car we took back in, went back overseas to Volvo Corporate.

UDMan

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> @Shadowman615: ha, yes. victory

Matt Hardigree

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> My little sister had her Land Rover Discovery bought back by Land Rover after catastrophic engine failure occured 5 times within a year. She actually got another Disco and proceeded to drive it for 6 years, putting more than 150k miles in the process. So I guess that's good customer service?

cadkev

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> Kate Moss? The model? Are you just checking to see if we're paying attention? ;)

Shadowman615

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> My wife and I had a lemon suit against a certain European car conglomerate that I can not name thanks to an NDA. Thanks to the system of open bribery that is our government several very pro-consumer portions of GA state law no longer exist and we ended up settling for what amounted to a decent down payment on the replacement car and had to eat the monumental depreciation on a car that was in the shop 22 times in 18 months.

It should also be pointed out here that Mag-Moss protects your right to modify your car. That is, it states that a warranty claim can be denied due to a modification only if that modification can be showed the have caused the defect. That is, to say if you install a new stereo and the shop can show that it killed your car's computer thanks to a short, they can deny you a warranty claim. They cannot, however, deny your warranty claim if you put in a new stereo and your transmission blows. They also can't specify , for instance, that you only get your car serviced at a dealer (although they can specify that you get your car serviced).

Spoondizzle

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> My brother had an A6 quattro with a faulty fuel sending unit. He logged the first repair at the dealer at something like... 50 miles or something and by the 5th time they replaced the unit they said "This car is a lemon. Here is the money you paid us, we are even"

The process was really easy because it was all documented (at the dealer and with my brother) so he bears no ill-will toward the manufacturer at all. I asked him about it the other day and he likes Audi even more because they took care of him like that without punching him in the gut about it.

DokterDitka

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> *waiting for someone to make a 'snakes on a plane' joke*

UpsetPanda

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> @Bizzy: That's good advice, thanks for sharing. Hope the smell went away.

Matt Hardigree

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> I actually won a lemon law case up here in Washington state. It was a Landrover Freelander (surprise) that would constantly smell funny when you used the A/C. I was leasing the vehicle and had it in a number of times for the same problem, they finally told me that I wasn't using the A/C correctly (I didn't know that there was a correct and incorrect manner in which to use A/C, who knew?).

I was able to win the case due to my tracking down service bulletins related to the problem, and bring that to the hearing. And in the hearing, they never even showed up, preferring to call it in (which I think helped as well). I also believe that most people don't take it to the level of getting a hearing in front of an adjudicator. If you've gotten the proper paper trail, and outlined your case in a substantial manner, I believe you can win. You can't get emotional in the whole ordeal, exclaiming that "It's not fair" won't win the case.

Bizzy

]]> <![CDATA[Jalopnik's Guide To Lemon Laws]]> This happened to my parents a long time ago. My father bought only GM until this point. The reason for that was that the sedans were all basically the same and this made repairs easy for him. He got two conversion vans, one Olds, two Buicks, and two Chevys. Then the last conversion van developed a steering problem immediately after purchase, meaning it just stopped being able to steer three days after the brought it home. We hardly ever got to use the car. GM even sent people from Michigan to look at it.

After a terrible process my parents got a chunk of the money back under the lemon law but the GM lawyers were hideous. The car had less than 3000 miles after nearly a year and they used this to only return a portion of the money. The reality of the situation is not good. GM was able to really drag the whole process out and only return a portion of the money.

My father then bought a Chrysler and never set foot into a GM dealership again. The owner and him had a falling-out, and they ended-up going to different Churches after that. They knew each other well before that.

mzs

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