For those of you that know, i financed a truck in march. since then, i have had nothing but problems with the truck, shifts rough, oil was 2 quarts overfilled (came from the dealer like this), so now its leaks from above the oil pan, muffler fell off, and they reprogrammed the computer twice and it resolved nothing.
my question is, how can i get out of this lease. i know someone is going to say stick it out pay it off, well, i dont want to. truck has let me down too many times in the month ive had it.
lemon law??? what kind of warranty does it have? it should have something seeing that your making payments and just got it. Why wont they fix the problems. I would be raising hell.
Do you have a specific complaint with the vehicle? maybe a certain problem that continues to re-occur? if so you could file a complaint with the dept of motor vehicles. they may be able to help you out. www.NYSDMV.com, look up how to file a complaint or division of vehicle safety, as far as lemon law that is through the attorney gen office. (and mostly fowarded to dmv from them) and the speficis on filing a lemon law complaint are strict (out of service certain numbner of days, attempt to fix a problem certain number of times etc…). I would first contact the owner of the dealer and tell him your story and see if he will do something for you.
If you purchase a used car for more than one thousand five hundred dollars, or lease a used car where you and the dealer have agreed that the car’s value is more than one thousand five hundred dollars, from anyone selling or leasing three or more used cars a year, you must be given a written warranty. New York Used Car Lemon Law Statutes - AutoPedia® - The Automotive Encyclopedia
So was this thing leased or purchased? New or used? If it’s a new truck and they don’t fix it after 3 tries they owe you a new truck under the lemon law.
Its hard to fall under the lemon law clause. The same thing has to break a certain number of times and the car has to be out of service for a certain amount of time each occasion. I doubt it actually qualifies.
I would just bitch until you get out of it. If they absolutely say no, threaten them in a way that would give them very bad publicity.
That and news has been slow besides the sabres, threats of bad publicity or anything that will cost them money will get it done. Try to see if you can get a news channel in on it though around here unless you find more than one person with similar issue you probably won’t get far.
The only way you are going to get anything done is by having some way to hit them where they car.
