| When we think of a lemon car, we often think of | | | | whenever they present one of two scenarios: a |
| an economy car whose low price would seem to | | | | non-life threatening yet chronic malfunction that |
| indicate a lower grade of workmanship. Never | | | | affects vehicle performance or a life threatening |
| would we consider that a luxury car-a vehicle | | | | safety defect that makes the car dangerous to |
| whose status seems to imply its top-notch | | | | drive. In the case of the former, state lemon |
| mechanics-could be subjected to lemon laws. But | | | | laws usually require that a vehicle must undergo a |
| the fact is: luxury cars can fall within the lemon | | | | certain number of repairs for the same problem |
| law definition the same as less expensive cars. In | | | | within a certain time frame or within a certain |
| fact, a quick online search of a luxury car brand | | | | number of miles after its delivery date to qualify |
| paired with search term, "lemon laws" should | | | | as a lemon car. But some states also consider a |
| receal plenty of instances where elite auto brands | | | | vehicle lemon worthy if it spends a certain |
| delivered anything but elite performance. As an | | | | number of hours being repaired since its delivery |
| example, consider the online story of Angela, a | | | | date. In either case, lemon car owners are entitled |
| resident of North Hollywood who purchased a | | | | to either a full refund of the car's purchase price |
| 2006 Mercedes Benz E350 in 2005. | | | | or a replacement vehicle. |
| Roughly two years after its purchase, Angela's | | | | Although luxury cars are just as susceptible to |
| Mercedes began experiencing power steering | | | | lemon laws as other vehicles, sometimes our |
| problems. But after she took to the dealership for | | | | perception of them can keep us from considering |
| repair, the problem returned, and would return | | | | that we might be better off contacting a lemon |
| again after subsequent repairs. In total, the vehicle | | | | law attorney instead of trying to rectify a |
| was delivered for repair to a Mercedes Benz | | | | mechanical problem. As witnessed by their selling |
| dealership 30 times in one year, and the problem | | | | points, luxury cars woo us with "luxury", whereas |
| kept occurring. Finally, Angela decided to contact | | | | lower priced autos mainly provide us with utility. In |
| the Mercedes Benz corporate office to achieve a | | | | other words, we can become so obsessed with |
| resolution, and she plans on filing a lawsuit through | | | | the fineries of a vehicle that we fail to consider its |
| a lemon law attorney if the corporate office | | | | ultimate worth to us. If there is one thing that we |
| doesn't come through with an offer that ends up | | | | can learn from Angela's experience, it's this: don't |
| putting her behind the wheel of a luxury vehicle | | | | repair a luxury car for the same problem multiple |
| that operates like clock work. | | | | times. Because in many states, a problem that |
| Like vehicles that are far less luxurious, autos like | | | | isn't resolved within three repairs is enough to |
| Mercedes fall within the lemon law definition | | | | qualify a car as a lemon. |