Florida Lemon Law? Or any state Lemon Law?

[AAP]

anyone familiar with this? Pittsbull???

Ok, here is the scenario. Friend bought a BMW brand new in 2002. Took it in last Friday for the 6th time to have the A/C fixed. This is the third time it has been in since March this year. They call him today and tell him that they haven't even looked at the car (6 days later..WTF?) and will not look at it until he pays a $1500 preservice fee. This is because he brought it in last month with the A/c problem (same thing) and they kept it for 9 days and couldn't find anything wrong with it but the A/C will not work at all. He discovered it was not fixed and still messed up the day he drove it home and called them from home. They give him the appointment on Friday to bring it back.

it was looked at / supposingly repaired for this problem 3 times while under warranty. When he took it in last March, he paid $1100 dollars for repair since the warranty had ended. When he took it back last month, he told them that he wasn't going to pay for repairs because he just paid it in march and it should not be messing up again. So they supposingly fixed it (but didn't) for free then because their previous work was suppose to be guranteed. Now it is back up there again and they want money up front before even bringing it to the shop.

What are lemon laws like?

 

[The Shadow]

Dealer has 3 opportunities to fix repair or they roll you into a new one

 

[tiger88]

i believe with a lease 3 times w/ same problem = lemon law and time to get out that lease! but not sure

 

[The Shadow]

However....Im not sure AC qualifies


BUT..most dealers have a 12month warranty on any repairs they do in-house.....so under that general rule yadda yadda yadda

 

[AAP]

Ok, but it is not a lease. She bought this car new and paid cash for it. in 2002. It has about 60,000 miles on it and the warranty is out.

according to some sites, she meets the criteria because it was never preowned, it was in more than 3 times for the same problem and she has not been able to drive it for more than 15 accumulated days. (it could be driven, but it was in the shop all that time, plus you can't drive without A/C down here, but I am not sure if they meant mechanically it couldn't be drive, like it wouldn't start or something.)

 

[The Shadow]

any repairs should have been covered under the mileage(term of warranty) by the dealer.....any addition repairs due to the same problem should have a 12 month dealer warranty

 

[Y_lifter]

Damn Germans dont know Dick about A/C.. Heaters? Hell yea..

Never had to use it but yes, 3 strikes on the SAME EXACT problem...
Usually if you file LL, the dealership will bring in a factory rep and fix the issue.

Most of the people I know have had it go this route with them finally getting someone in that know WTF they are doing.

Above all the BS some may post here , you may want to read this

http://www.800helpfla.com/lemonlaw.html

 

[covergrl80]

On this service record (repair order), there should be something that states what there guarantee is on there service and parts. Where I work there is a 12 months 12,000 mile warranty. Therefore, even though his car is out of warranty there should be some type of warranty on the service they have already preformed.

BMW has a head Quarters he may want to try them. Every dealership also has Reps assigned to them, they visit the dealer ship whenever there are consistent problem with customers cars. He should ask when the next Rep would be in.

Sometimes if a car has been in service for 30 days, it can fall under the lemon law.

Lawyer are good for these types of things.

 

[AAP]

great responses everyone

 

[covergrl80]

make sure your friend does not get another BMW (Bunch Money Wasted)