Have you ever purchased a vehicle that turned out to be a lemon? The Lemon Law is designed to protect consumers from faulty or defective vehicles, and there are several aspects to consider when it comes to understanding the lemon law. This guide will provide you with the information you need to know about purchasing a vehicle, lemon law, and what to do if you purchased a lemon car.
Lemon law is a set of consumer protection laws that are designed to protect buyers of new and used vehicles. The lemon law is based on the premise that it is unfair for a consumer to pay for a vehicle that does not meet the manufacturer’s standards for quality and performance. In most states, the lemon law covers both new and used vehicles, although the terms and conditions may vary from state to state.
The lemon law is also known as the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act. This act was passed in 1975 and is designed to protect consumers from faulty and defective vehicles. The Act requires that manufacturers provide a written warranty on each new vehicle they sell, and it also sets forth the remedies available to consumers if their vehicle turns out to be a lemon.
The lemon law also provides consumers with certain rights and remedies when dealing with a defective vehicle. These rights include the right to repair, replace, or repurchase the vehicle, as well as the right to receive a refund of any payments made and to receive compensation for any expenses incurred as a result of the defective vehicle.
The lemon law covers a variety of defects, including mechanical defects, defects in design, defects in materials, and defects in workmanship. The lemon law also covers defects that are covered by the manufacturer’s written warranty. In addition, the lemon law may cover defects that are discovered after the vehicle has been purchased or leased.
The lemon law does not cover issues that are a result of normal wear and tear, abuse, or misuse of the vehicle. It also does not cover defects that were disclosed to the consumer prior to the purchase or lease of the vehicle.
If you believe your vehicle may be a lemon, there are a few steps you can take to determine whether you may be able to seek remedies under the lemon law. First, you should review the manufacturer’s written warranty to determine what is covered and what is not.
Next, you should document the defect and keep track of all attempts to repair the defect. This includes any repair receipts, any communication with the manufacturer or authorized dealer, and any other documentation related to the defect and the repair attempts.
Finally, you should contact an attorney who specializes in lemon law to discuss your options. An attorney can review your case and help you determine whether you may be entitled to remedies under the lemon law. We are not attorneys and this is not intended to be legal advice.
If you believe your vehicle is a lemon, the first step is to contact the manufacturer or authorized dealer to attempt to resolve the issue. If the manufacturer or authorized dealer is unable or unwilling to resolve the issue, you may be entitled to remedies under the lemon law.
To file a lemon law claim, you will need to submit a written complaint to the manufacturer or authorized dealer, as well as any documentation related to the defect and repair attempts. You may also need to file a claim with the state agency that oversees the lemon law in your state.
Once the claim is filed, the manufacturer or authorized dealer will typically review the claim and respond within a certain period of time. If the manufacturer or authorized dealer does not respond or does not agree to provide remedies, you may be able to seek remedies through a court of law. Before filing a claim, consider contacting an attorney specializing in lemon law.
The lemon law is an important consumer protection law and understanding it is essential for vehicle buyers. Understanding the lemon law is essential for buyers of new and used vehicles, as it can provide them with the remedies they need if their vehicle turns out to be a lemon. Armed with the information provided in this guide, you can ensure that you are informed about your rights and remedies when it comes to purchasing a vehicle and the lemon law.
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What’s a VIN check and why is it valuable? If you’re looking to buy a car, or learn more about the one you already have, a VIN check can provide you with the vehicle’s history using only the VIN. However, it’s important to know what you can and can’t obtain from a VIN check. Keep reading to learn what information can be obtained from a VIN check, how to get one, and how to request additional driver information.
If you’re looking to obtain basic information about a vehicle, a VIN check can be conducted on various websites. A VIN check is the process of checking your VIN against the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) database. These reports contain basic information regarding a specific vehicle without going through the DPPA process.
Not every VIN check system will provide all of the information above, and some may provide more. A VIN check will not tell you anything about the vehicle owner, or prior vehicle owners. However, a VIN check can tell you where the vehicle was last titled. If you need to obtain additional information not provided by a VIN check, you can use your knowledge of the last titled state to request the official title records from the state DMV agency via a DPPA request.
The Driver’s Privacy Protection Act (DPPA) is a federal statute that protects driver information from being accessed through public records. According to the DPPA, to obtain personal driving information, an individual or organization must submit an official form to the state DMV requesting specific information. To obtain information protected by the DPPA, you must disclose your reasoning in your official request. Just because the DMV receives your official request form doesn’t mean they will give out the information.
The main reason for driver information being kept private is to keep vehicle owners safe from abusive drivers on the road. Without the protections in place by the DPPA, your license plate is essentially your home address taped to the back of your car. The beginning of the DPPA was sparked by the 1989 murder of actress Rebecca Schaeffer. In 1989, a man named Robert Bardo obtained the address of 21-year-old actress Rebecca Schaeffer through the California DMV. He then used this information to stalk her and ultimately took her life. Sadly, this is one of many cases that lead to the enactment of the DPPA.
First and foremost, to obtain DPPA-protected information, you must have a legally valid reason. Additionally, be prepared to provide an explanation as to why you should be allowed access to this information and what exactly you plan to do with it. Just because you request the information doesn’t mean the DMV has to give it out if they’re unsure of your intentions.
As long as you have a legally valid reason, to submit a DPPA request you’ll need to know the state where the vehicle was last titled. Use this information to research the DPPA request form for that particular state, even if it’s not the state where the vehicle is currently located. Motor vehicle records are federally protected, but housed by each individual state so wherever the vehicle was last titled is where the vehicle records are physically located. You won’t be able to obtain motor vehicle information from the California DMV if the vehicle was last titled in Texas.
A VIN check is a powerful tool that anyone, regardless of ownership status, can access online. Before purchasing a vehicle, consider running a VIN check to ensure the vehicle you’re about to purchase is represented to you properly. If you are interested in additional information about a vehicle’s history, such as the chain of ownership, you can request this information through the state DMV agency where the vehicle was last titled.
If you are a Mississippi resident, a bonded title can be an effective way to recover your vehicle title if you don’t have sufficient evidence of ownership.
A bonded title is a type of title recovery method that requires the purchase of a surety bond, also known as a vehicle title bond, to secure the ownership of the vehicle. This is because, in order to receive a bonded title, you must have a major lack of proper documentation. The DMV in your state is essentially taking your word that you are the owner of the vehicle. The vehicle title bond provides security for the DMV to assign ownership in the event that there is an ownership discrepancy after the bonded title is issued.
Before beginning your bonded title process, make sure that your vehicle meets the eligibility for a bonded title.
If your vehicle meets the eligibility requirements of a Mississippi bonded title, begin the application process by completing the Affidavit of Ownership (MS DOR Form 78013). This form must be notarized. Do NOT sign this form unless in the presence of a notary.
Verify the bond amount
Before continuing the application process, you must first verify with the County Department of Motor Vehicles & Revenue Office that your vehicle qualifies and if so, confirm the amount of the bond. Visit the County Department of Motor Vehicles & Revenue Office and bring your notarized Affidavit of Ownership, along with your driver’s license, bill of sale, fees, and all other supporting documentation.
Title bond
If the County Department of Motor Vehicles & Revenue Office approves your request, you may then purchase your surety bond. This value is typically based on the book value of the vehicle. Most title bonds are required to be 1.5x the value of the vehicle, however, that doesn’t mean it costs that much to purchase. Most title bonds cost around $100-$150 for average-value vehicles. Print and bring the form Certificate of Title (Form 78016) to your bonding agent so that they are able to complete their required portion.
Once you’ve completed the official documents and obtained your title bond, submit all of your documents and any additional fees or requirements to the County Department of Motor Vehicles & Revenue Office. They will process your application and return to you a bonded title in your name.
After 3 years of having BONDED stamped on your vehicle title, the bonded title brand will dissipate and you will have a clean Mississippi title in your name.
Today, we’re talking about auto dealership fraud and “buy here pay here” dealerships. Here’s a press release from the Department of Justice (DOJ) that is a very good example of how small used car dealerships can use an internal financing function to collect millions of dollars that they are not entitled to have. This article has to do with the dealership in Tennessee called Auto Masters. Remember, this is all alleged right now, innocent to improve and guilty. Basically what happens is when a small car dealership finances cars as a buy here pay here dealership. When they have ads that say “we finance anybody”, here’s how it works. When a dealership advertises itself as a “buy here, pay here” dealership or “we finance anybody”, here’s how it works:
The customer goes to the dealership and let’s say they buy a $10,000 car. They put down $2,000 and they finance the remaining $8,000. As a “buy here pay here” dealership, that dealership is the original lender of that loan. So the customer pays the dealership directly for their car payments. It’s not paid to a bank, it’s not paid to a finance company, it’s actually paid to the dealership. Because of that, the dealership is allowed to make its own credit decisions on financing, which sometimes allows for less qualified buyers to get credit. So the dealership will finance the loan and they get their payments. Usually, it’s a weekly payment system where the customer comes in every week when they get their paycheck and they pay their weekly payments. It’s not a monthly payment, it’s a weekly payment. So instead of paying $400 a month, you pay $100 a week.
So the dealership lends this money out but at some point, they don’t have millions of dollars to have out financing on the street. So maybe once a month, they take the package of loans that they have out and package them up and they have a line of credit from what’s called a backup lender. They tell that backup lender “we have this package of loans, it totals to $152,000, here are all the loans, here are the contracts, and I want you to lend us money based on these loans” They’ll sign an authorization affidavit saying “we really have these loans that people are making payments and we want to use that as collateral to get a loan from you so we can go buy more cars”. At some point, if you finance all of your cars, you don’t get cash for that $10,000 car you only have $2,000. You can’t go buy another $10,000 car because the customer still owes you $8,000. So you can get this line of credit. You get the money from the bank and then you go buy more cars. Well, there are some requirements.
First of all, you have to actually have that loan out on the street. Second of all, it has to be performing where you have to represent to the lender that the person’s actually making payments. Some of these lenders require that the dealer gets two or three payments first so it’s not a first payment default before they can get money or refinance from this backup lender. Well, what this dealer did was they went to the backup lender and said “we have all these loans out on the street and we want to get financing for it” and they actually collected almost $30 million from this backup lender without having proper loans in the street, they may have been made up from scratch, they may have been non-performing, they may have been delinquent. For whatever reason, they weren’t real loans that were qualified to get them financing. So how does this affect consumers?
Well, what happens is for many of these loans, the titles are secured by the backup lender or maybe they’re not even acquired at all from the trade-in customer. So if you are a buy here pay here dealership or a small dealership that does your own in-house financing and you don’t pay off your lender, the customer might be in jeopardy of getting their title. So there are a lot of dominoes that could fall for a dealer that doesn’t do the paperwork the right way. So small used car dealers that do their own financing have these financial structures behind them that are usually invisible to the public but may create consequences both for the lender because now they’re out of their money and for the retail public that may have title problems.
We work with government agencies quite a bit on investigations and vehicle title issues. Here’s a case from the Department of Justice (DOJ) where several individuals were caught engaging in vehicle title and odometer fraud in Chicago, Illinois. What happened was the Department of Justice (DOJ) found that these three people allegedly had a vehicle title fraud scheme that involved hundreds of used cars over the course of many years. And what’s the takeaway from this? Well, anytime you’re getting a vehicle title, if somebody else is doing it for you, make sure that you see the paperwork make sure that you understand what process is being used to get a vehicle title. If you just tell somebody to get you a title and it shows up in your name, you don’t know if the method was titled fraud that was used to get you your title. You want to be the one that sees and signs all the documents. You don’t want anybody forging your name because for many of these vehicles, hundreds of used cars over many years, these vehicle titles are going to get revoked.
So if you received the vehicle title through a method that was fraudulent, you’re at risk of that title being revoked. According to court documents, these three people allegedly altered vehicle title documents to reflect false low mileage and also reflect false scenarios of how that title was obtained. They’re charged with conspiracy to make counterfeit securities meaning titles. The vehicle title is considered a security because it is a legal government document. And these people are subject to years in prison for conspiracy. This type of fraud results in an estimated $1 billion annually, this type of fraud, not these particular people. And they even have a hotline for this type of fraud. This is the DOJ, this isn’t your local police department or your state police, this is the US DOJ that investigated this.
We see this quite a bit. We see a lot of attempts at obtaining a vehicle title using improper methods. You don’t want to use an improper method. There is almost always a legal good way to get a vehicle title for your vehicle. Almost always, unless you have a stolen car or a car that’s not supposed to get a vehicle title, then forget about it. But if you have a legitimate vehicle that’s clean, that doesn’t have any red flags on the title record, you can get a title if you do it the right way. A lot of times a client or actors like this allegedly want to use alternate methods because it seems a little easier. It seems like it’s some kind of a shortcut. It might be cheaper might be faster. You might not have to do as much work. But if it’s going to result in problems, in the long run, you want to avoid it. This scheme out of Illinois went on for two years. There are people that two years ago thought they were in the clear with their vehicle title and come to find out that now they could be at risk.
So make sure when you’re getting a vehicle title that you recognize that title is not just a piece of paper, you are signing documents that say that what you’re claiming is true and correct. And if you make false statements, just to try to get a title, it could result in serious problems. Again, we’re not attorneys, we’re not giving you legal advice. You know if you’re concerned about anything with a vehicle title you might want to get a qualified legal opinion from an automotive attorney or law enforcement, but keep in mind there’s always a good legitimate way to get a vehicle title. If you take a shortcut, at the very least it could result in aggravation, at the very most it could result in different types of serious legal liability.
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