The last few months have been quite eventful for California Lemon Law advocates and consumers alike. The downward trend in sales, bailouts and bankruptcy proceedings were contributing factors. The June sales figures are in and while the news isn’t good, there are signs that the market is beginning to stabilize. Of the automakers with a [...]
Congress has just passed a bill that would give consumers cash vouchers between $3,500 and $4,500 in exchange for trading in their existing gas guzzlers for newer, more fuel-efficient vehicles. The bill does not specifically mention your rights under the California lemon law or federal lemon laws, but your protection as a consumer is something [...]
California lemon law requires consumers to give the manufacturer a reasonable opportunity to repair the defect(s).The paperwork the dealership gives consumers with each repair is an important legal document for a lemon law case. Consumers should resist the temptation to toss what often seems like a confusing jumble of abbreviations, auto mechanic jargon and undefined [...]
Auto sales began a serious slide in the spring of 2008 and by the fall, several manufacturers were down as much as 30% from the prior year. What if anything will this mean to the consumers in their future lemon law claim?
A hint of what may become the prevailing attitude amongst manufacturers happened during the [...]
Good news for Chrysler consumers. U.S. customers of the new Chrysler to emerge from bankruptcy will be covered by lemon law rights accordings to the agreement reached by Chrysler and Fiat. Warranty promises will be honored as originally intended.
Under most states lemon laws, a manufacturer is suppose to either buyback or replace a lemon vehicle [...]
There is a big difference between warranties and service contracts. A warranty promises to perform needed repairs on the vehicle and that it be free of defects. A service contract offers no promise of quality.
After a reasonable number of failed attempts to repair a vehicle under warranty, you should have the right to a refund [...]
When a consumer is faced with the proposition of going to lemon law arbitration with a manufacturer over their lemon vehicle, the question looms, should I do it?
Most consumers think by so doing they are going to a neutral forum where justice will be served. However what they don’t know is that the manufacturer [...]
Will General Motors File Bankruptcy? What will happen to the millions of consumers with GM warranties? Will they have recourse under the lemon law? It all may come down to whether or not GM files for Chapter 11.
Americans are waiting with baited breath to see if General Motors will file for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy on [...]
The “lemon law community” is still waiting to see just how the Chrysler bankruptcy is going to affect lemon law claims. There are consumers who have a legitimate lemon law claim who haven’t filed yet. There are those who have filed lemon law claims and are mid cycle, and finally those who resolved their lemon [...]
A self-taught man usually has a poor teacher and a worse student.
—Henny Youngman
All right, that’s pretty harsh but it does apply if you were thinking of handling your own lemon law case. If you want to teach yourself to play the guitar, it would be much easier. You can do it evenings or weekends [...]