Lemon laws

Lemon law is a law obligating manufacturers or sellers to repair, replace, or refund the price of motor vehicles that prove to be defective. (1. Thefreedictionary.com). A new car typically qualifies as a "lemon" when it has a defect that substantially affects its use, safety, or value (2 expert law.com) The law for lemons changes from state to state. In our state Pennsylvania it cannot be waivered, meaning that the company that is selling a lemon vehicle cannot put responsibility on a customer for their faulty car.

            The positive sides of the lemons law is it extremely helpful to anyone that purchases a car that is not up to regulation. The claims are not towards the people that sell you the cars but towards people who manufacture the cars, this is good because it is targeting the people most in charge of the safety of the driver. It targets the big company that should be the ones testing and making sure the car meets safety regulations and if they don’t they should have to pay the costumer who bought the car. One more positive side is that when you buy a car from somebody you can ask a lot of questions and figure out what is wrong with the car how many accident it’s been in and also how new it is. Another positive side is that there are a lot of sites and people to help with your lemon car, like 1800 my lemon (3. Mylemon.com).These people working at these kind of places will help you get money for whatever is wrong with you car.

            The negative side of lemon law is that the violation to the lemon laws must happen before the warranty is up. This may be unfair because the warranty may be a very low number and be completely unreasonable without you knowing. A lot of people are not really certain about the lemon laws for their state. They might be tricked into buying a lemon car and having to pay for the damages without the owner/seller of the car to take responsibility for their sketchy selling ways. Lemon laws also vary from state to state meaning something’s may be legal in one state and completely illegal in the state you live in which will cause major problems One other problem is if you don’t get a mechanic to check out the internal part of the car you might not be told what’s wrong with what’s inside the car. (4. statelemonlaw.org)

My personal opinion is that lemon laws are a good thing because they have rules so that you don’t get ripped-off. I think that you should know about state lemon laws before buying a car or else you will get in some trouble, but I think there is help for people that are ignorant before they buy a car so that they will get compensated for what they deserve. Personally I think lemon laws should be a federal law not a state to state law because it seems a little bit unfair.

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