Chapter 3 A Used Car Lemon Story

If anyone tells you, you can't lemon a used car get the truth in chapter 3.

There are hundreds of books and articles on how to purchase a used car. There are only a few that talk about what happens when you buy a used car that is a lemon.

Lemon Law, The Standard Reference Guide has the facts.

Ms. Peters Buys a Used Car

Ms. Peters was a single-mother of three small children and not well off financially. She needed to replace her vehicle because it stopped running altogether. Raising the money for the purchase was difficult. Ms. Peters went to a dealership and selected a used vehicle that met her needs.

Do you think the salesmen at the dealership would take advantage of Ms. Peters?

Lemon Law The Standard Reference Guides expose the underhanded behavior of crooked dealerships in this chapter.

What you don't know can really hurt. We mean that! Bad people do crooked things because people don't recognize it when it's happening.

There was so much she didn't know.

The dealership played games. Here are a few.
• The car had an interesting history before Ms. Peters bought it:
• A rental car company leased the vehicle, new, early in 1997.
• The car rental company sold the car in February of 1998 to a used car dealer. At that time it had 18,000 miles on the odometer.
• Why didn't the used car salesman tell potential buyers that the car was a rental?
• When Ms. Peters arrived to purchase the car, the salesman didn't mention that the car had been a rental. She didn't know this is illegal.

Many other important questions are answered in this chapter

• The significance of the original warranty.
• Why did the dealership do so little to correct the defects?
• Do you understand the warranty problems when purchasing a used car?
• Learn how Ms. Peters was blamed for all the problems. This may have happened to you. It's not unusual for dealerships to make it seem like everything is the consumer's fault.
• The original new car warranty runs out. This does not mean the vehicle no longer qualifies as a lemon?
• She finally gets the problem resolved and out of the lemon car with the help of an attorney.

Read this chapter and you'll discover that you have rights even when you have a used car.

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