Law Lemon Wisconsin New Article

Law Lemon Wisconsin New Article


The WI Lemon Law offers security for consumers who buy and lease new

vehicles (including cars, trucks, motor homes and motorcycles).

The WI Lemon provides another options/relief to the consumer.
The WI Law requires a producer or its authorized dealers to repair

nonconformity with vehicles (including cars, trucks, motor homes and
motorcycles).

Under the WI Lemon Law, a non conformance is a condition or defect which

substantially impairs the use, value or safety of a motor vehicle
(including cars, trucks, motor homes and motorcycles) and is covered by an
express warranty applicable to the vehicle or a component of the vehicle;
nonconformity does not include a condition or defect which is the result
of abuse, neglect or unauthorized modification or alteration by the
consumer.

The WI Lemon Law provides there a condition or defect that substantially

impairs the use, value or safety of a vehicle (including cars, trucks,
motorhomes and motorcycles) must be more than a minor annoyance or

inconvenience. However, nether the WI Law, the consumer's vehicle need

not have been undriveable for the nonconformity to substantially impair

its use, value or safety. A nonconformance may considerably impair use,

value or safety under the Wisconsin Lemon Law even if the vehicle was
able to provide simple transportation to the consumer.

The WI Lemon Law imposes a responsibility to replace or refund if certain
conditions are met. Specifically, the WI Law requires a producer to

provide the consumer with a comparable new motor vehicle (including cars,
trucks, motorhomes and motorcycles) or a refund if, within the term of
the warranty or within one year after delivery, whichever is sooner,
either:

(1) The same nonconformity was made available for repair to the
manufacturer or any of its authorized dealers by the consumer at least
four times and the nonconformity continued after the fourth time the
vehicle (including cars, trucks, motorhomes and motorcycles) was made
available for repairs; or
(2) The vehicle (including cars, trucks, motorhomes and motorcycles) was
"out of service" for an aggregate of at least 30 calendar days because of
any nonconformities (under the Wisconsin Lemon Law "out of service" is
not limited to only those periods in which the vehicle is unavailable to
the consumer; it includes those periods when the vehicle is not capable
of rendering service as warranted due to a nonconformity, even though the
vehicle may be in the possession of the consumer and may still be driven
in spite of the nonconformity).

Under the WI Law, the "same nonconformity" way the identical or
substantially similar condition(s) or defect(s). A non conformance is made
"available for repairs" by the consumer nether the Wisconsin Lemon Law

regardless of whether any repairs were actually attempted by the

manufacturer or its authorized dealers. Also a non conformance is made

available for repairs by the consumer under the Wisconsin Lemon
regardless of whether any nonconformity was verified at the time by the
manufacturer or authorized dealer.

If the repairs are not made and the consumer thenceforth continues to hold

the manufacturer or its authorized dealers an opportunity to repair the
nonconformity(ies), the Wisconsin Lemon Law provides that the 30-day
clock starts running from the date of that initial failed repair

opportunity. As yearn as thither exists notice and opportunity to repair

with respect to a nonconformity, the 30-day clock runs under the
Wisconsin Lemon Law.

As an choice take under the Wisconsin Law, if a new vehicle (including

cars, trucks, motor homes and motorcycles) does not conform to an
applicable express warranty, and the consumer reports the nonconformity
and makes the vehicle available for repair to the manufacturer or any of
the manufacturers' authorized dealers, before the expiration of the
warranty or within one year after delivery - whichever is sooner, the

nonconformity must be repaired. If the non conformance is not repaired,
the consumer is entitled to retrieve his or her pecuniary loss, pursuant

to the Wisconsin Lemon Law.

If the producer fails to substitute or refund, or repair, as applicable,

within a timely manner, the Wisconsin Lemon Law is violated and the

consumer may file a lawsuit. A consumer who prevails nether the WI Lemon

Law is entitled to recover double damages, as well as attorney fees and
litigation costs.

We hold successfully delineated clients throughout the entire state of
Wisconsin. Do-it-yourself WI location is not a limitation for us.