Lemon Law Tips

Just thought I would post up these tips on ways to help organize your proof and speed up your claim processing if you are ever unfortunate enough to have to contact an attourney about your vehicle.

Lemon Law Tips:

KEEP A COPY
of all documentation you have regarding your vehicle and its history. This includes all repair orders, purchase contracts, warranty book and owners manual that came with your car.

TAKE WRITTEN NOTES
of all conversations you have with your dealership and repair technicians concerning your vehicle and its “lemon” potential. Include the date, time and what specifically was discussed. This includes phone calls and in-person contact.

ASK ABOUT TSB’s
or Technical Service Bulletins, instructions from the manufacturer that alert dealerships of specific defects or necessary repairs in certain models. If you don’t ask your dealer might not present you with this information, so speak up and ask your technician to write your request on the repair order.

PREPARE A TIMELINE
if you have many repair orders in your possession, to organize each repair attempt by date, the number of times the vehicle has been in the shop, and how many days total your vehicle has been out of service.

DO NOT BE DISCOURAGED
by your dealer, repair technicians, or others who might tell you the problems you are experiencing with your vehicle are minor and that you do not qualify under the lemon law for any sort of relief. ONLY AN ATTORNEY who is licensed to practice law in the state where you purchased your vehicle and has some familiarity with the lemon law, can make that determination!

For more information on the Lemon Law see the website: www.lemonlawamerica.com

If you need some information on lemon law in Canada try this...

Canadian Motor Vehicle Arbitration Program tips (http://www.camvap.blogspot.com)

Canada doesn't have lemon laws, but it has CAMVAP.

I was surfing this Law Library for articles on DUI and also came across a quite a few articles that deal with Lemon Laws. On article is called Vehicle Lemon Law Lawyers (http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/vehicle-lemon-law.html) that is applicable to this topic and another interesting one is called Secret Auto Warranties (http://www.legalmatch.com/law-library/article/secret-auto-warranties.html) that states that often manufacturers pay for problems after a warranty has expired.

The website that this library is at is called LegalMatch and it looks like if you have a problem they can find you lawyer.

Old thread. In the future, please start a new thread with your info rather than resurrect a2+ year old thread.