I looked into that once and was told that in Florida at least the lemon law only applies to new cars. Also, in this situation, they are in the business of cars and you are not so the presumption would be that it is the consume who needs protecting. I
On 11/16/05, Ray Champagne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Like a reverse lemon law? That's an interesting one, never heard of it. > > Does your state have a lemon law in the first place? > > Raymond Camden wrote: > > So, two weeks ago, my car died while my wife was driving. The tow > > truck guy started it up no problem. We brought it to the car repair > > shop. They did a full check, and while they were able to reproduce a > > problem once, they found -0- wrong with it. They did a transmission > > check as well. I mean, they checked -everything-. > > > > So, after the shop had it for 4 days and found nothing (oh, and they > > drove it every day w/ no problem), we decided we would just trade it > > in. At the new car place, I kinda mentioned the problem, but said that > > nothing was wrong. That was dumb of me, but, was honest. That night, > > we traded in the car and bought a new car. One that wasn't cheap. > > > > My sales guy called me today. He said the transmission died on them > > and that his boss was mad and said we shouldn't have gotten the trade > > in amount that we did. > > > > Now - I feel like I was honest. I had told him we had had it in the > > shop, and that they didn't find anything, but my wife just wasn't > > comfortable. We just called the repair shop again. They confirmed they > > checked the transmission and that it was ok, and that -everything- > > about the car seemed fine. > > > > So... question is... am I in trouble? Can the new car place make us > > return our car, or is this just 'bad luck' for them? > > > > -- > > ======================================================================= > > Raymond Camden, Director of Development for Mindseye, Inc ( > www.mindseye.com <http://www.mindseye.com>) > > > > Member of Team Macromedia (http://www.macromedia.com/go/teammacromedia) > > > > Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Blog : ray.camdenfamily.com <http://ray.camdenfamily.com> > > Yahoo IM : cfjedimaster > > > > "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Find out how CFTicket can increase your company's customer support efficiency by 100% http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=49 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:182494 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
