FU: Anyone successful with a Lemon Law buyback?

[saintyohann]

Follow up to: http://forums.macresource.com/read.php?1,1446350

I did win my arbitration with Nissan and I'm going to give it back to them on Tuesday. Even after the decision they kept dragging their feet. They waited 10 days after the decision to finally accept it, then they tried to short change me (they said I had only been making the minimum payments, while I had actually been over-paying so I'd get out of debt quicker). Then I had to wait for one thing or another for another 2 weeks.

Meanwhile all the good deals for the replacement car I had been looking at ended 10/31. I guess I'll try public transportation (and Car2Go) for the next month or two and hope for a new deal.

Just a note on the arbitrator. In his final decision, he presented the "facts" he used to decide the case. He had almost no grasp of what was said in the arbitration, and his positions were almost the opposite of what was actually said. And I'm saying this as the guy that won, Nissan cannot be happy with this guy at all.

[space-time]

Congratulations!

[saintyohann]

I've really been leaning towards the Volt, I would have grabbed it up last month because of the great Lease and Purchase options.

Now that I have time to wait, I've been waiting for the Ford C-Max Energi, and checking out the Rav4 EV and Ford Focus EV.

[The UnDoug]

Congratulations home slice!

[Speedy]

Congrats! And superb choices:

saintyohann wrote:
I've really been leaning towards the Volt, I would have grabbed it up last month because of the great Lease and Purchase options.

Now that I have time to wait, I've been waiting for the Ford C-Max Energi, and checking out the Rav4 EV and Ford Focus EV.

[samintx]

I do autoline arbitrations for the BBB. there are certain requirements that have to be met with the BBB and the particular car company to be awarded a repurchase. Best of luck.

[M A V I C]

I've never heard of anyone having a good outcome from arbitrations. Glad yours was in your favor.

I knew one person who did arbitrations to receive back child support. After everything was submitted, the arbitrator went ahead and met again with the guy even though she wasn't supposed to. The arbitrator suddenly changed directions after this. Said the woman wasn't due any of the many thousands of dollars of child support because he would cause him hardship.

He drives a Ferrari.

[Mr645]

I did Lemon Law once here in Florida, sort of. I had a 1998 VW GTI and had a lot of problems. Suspension, paint, wheels, rattles, leaks. Anyway I applied to have the car bought back under the Florida Lemon law and VW offered to settle with me by paying me $4500 and buying back the car for the balance owed. The rep from VW actually met me at a Honda dealer with a check for me and took the car. So technically it was not a Lemon Law case, but that's how it started.

On my last VW, a 2008 R32, VW paid 8 lease payments over the 4 years I drove the car. This time mostly transmission related, but a few other things as well.

[Mr645]

Another tip. Chevy is having some Black Friday deals. Like a lease on a Cruze for $1000 at signing, $179 a month.

[mjgkramer]

Back in 2000 we bought a new Winnebago Rialta RV from a dealer in Buda, Texas. After a couple of short shakedown trips we headed out in June for a five week 7000 mile trip to the Pacific Northwest and western Canada. We had lots of small problems and a couple of biggies including an exploding A/C line going over a mountain pass in BC and a thrown fan blade in southern Utah. The latter required a 250 mile tow to the nearest VW dealer in Flagstaff, AZ. We were going to have to wait a week for a new fan, but the kind sales manager agreed to robbing a fan blade off a new unit in their lot. We were unable to get the A/C fixed during the trip in spite of stops at many Winnebago and VW dealers due to long waits for parts and disagreement between VW and Winnebago as to who was responsible for the repair. The trip from Flagstaff back to our home near San Antonio with no A/C was pure hell with temperature reaching 125 in the cab.

We sued Winnebago, VW, and Crestview RV under deceptive trade practices rather than the Lemon Law to avoid having to pay for miles driven. We won in mediation after three long years of hassling and were given a new Ford based model, which we promptly traded on a Monaco diesel pusher.