What is A Lemon Automobile?

Lemon is a citrus fruit with a distinctive sour taste. In slang usage, ‘Lemon’ stands for a worthless or inferior quality product or thing, which the manufacturer/seller passes off as a quality product or item (of course, the buyer is in the dark). The purchase deal, therefore, leads to an unpleasant experience. Adjudged from this angle, a defective automobile, which has some severe concealed manufacturing defects or requires repeated repairs, rendering it unfit for use, is termed a LEMON Automobile. Automobile Lemon Law

Once used merely as an expression, ‘Lemon Automobile’ is now used in legal contexts and that due to the enactment of the Automobile Lemon Laws. Automobile Lemon Laws were formulated to protect the interests of the buyers should they bump into fraudulent automobile purchase deals where the vehicle fails to meet quality and performance standards due to some concealed defect.

Automobile Lemon Laws exist in every state in the United States and the rules vary from state to state. Thus, Lemon Laws in some states do not cover used or leased vehicles and are applicable for new purchases only.

Generally, consumers are permitted to demand full refund for defective vehicles from manufacturers and the law makes it binding that the company either fixes the problem or takes back the automobile making a full refund. Some state-rules, however, allow the manufacturer to tender replacements for the Lemon Automobile. The replacement, of course, has to be in the form of a brand new, fully functional car. In any case, the protection rights that the buyers are entitled to go beyond warranty periods.

What Flaws Are Deemed Manufacturing Defects By The Automobile Lemon Law?

The list of defects is extensive; however, brake problems, electrical problems, engine problems, steering defects and transmission problems are considered as serious defects.

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