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Touareg and Lemon Law
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Touareg and Lemon Law
Hi all,
Half a year ago my neighbor bought a Touareg V6. Since than he had tons of problems:
* Water in the front headlamp
* Every bump in the road the liftgate would open up
* Radio doesn’t always work
* Air pressure monitoring system failed twice (bipping annoyingly in the car)
* The transmission bangs really hard when the car starts moving in Reverse (VW told him its fine, its like that in all Touaregs :sly: )
* The electric system died while he was driving 65mph down the I-95 through a storm. Everything, the lights, and the wipers everything died!!
So now they have his car for the 8th time or so, and now its in the shop for already two weeks! in the meanwhile he is driving a 4 cylinder Ford Escape ( :thumbdown: for the service)
What would you do in his place? Is it considered a Lemon?
Half a year ago my neighbor bought a Touareg V6. Since than he had tons of problems:
* Water in the front headlamp
* Every bump in the road the liftgate would open up
* Radio doesn’t always work
* Air pressure monitoring system failed twice (bipping annoyingly in the car)
* The transmission bangs really hard when the car starts moving in Reverse (VW told him its fine, its like that in all Touaregs :sly: )
* The electric system died while he was driving 65mph down the I-95 through a storm. Everything, the lights, and the wipers everything died!!
So now they have his car for the 8th time or so, and now its in the shop for already two weeks! in the meanwhile he is driving a 4 cylinder Ford Escape ( :thumbdown: for the service)
What would you do in his place? Is it considered a Lemon?
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Re: Touareg and Lemon Law
Originally posted by IsraelRX
Hi all,
Half a year ago my neighbor bought a Touareg V6. Since than he had tons of problems:
* Water in the front headlamp
* Every bump in the road the liftgate would open up
* Radio doesn’t always work
* Air pressure monitoring system failed twice (bipping annoyingly in the car)
* The transmission bangs really hard when the car starts moving in Reverse (VW told him its fine, its like that in all Touaregs :sly: )
* The electric system died while he was driving 65mph down the I-95 through a storm. Everything, the lights, and the wipers everything died!!
So now they have his car for the 8th time or so, and now its in the shop for already two weeks! in the meanwhile he is driving a 4 cylinder Ford Escape ( :thumbdown: for the service)
What would you do in his place? Is it considered a Lemon?
Hi all,
Half a year ago my neighbor bought a Touareg V6. Since than he had tons of problems:
* Water in the front headlamp
* Every bump in the road the liftgate would open up
* Radio doesn’t always work
* Air pressure monitoring system failed twice (bipping annoyingly in the car)
* The transmission bangs really hard when the car starts moving in Reverse (VW told him its fine, its like that in all Touaregs :sly: )
* The electric system died while he was driving 65mph down the I-95 through a storm. Everything, the lights, and the wipers everything died!!
So now they have his car for the 8th time or so, and now its in the shop for already two weeks! in the meanwhile he is driving a 4 cylinder Ford Escape ( :thumbdown: for the service)
What would you do in his place? Is it considered a Lemon?
As far as the lemon laws go, in many states, if a safety-related issue is repaired three times and continues to break, the car is a hazard and must be taken back by the manufacturer. Check in your state for specifics, but it would seem to me that if the rear hatch keeps flying open every time the damn car hits a bump, that CERTAINLY is a safety problem...especially if a small child is back there in the 3rd seat.
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the tailgate opening and the electrical shut down is what would really boil my blood man, hope it works out for him.
And yes I would consider that car a lemon, hell maybe even a lemon-lime or somethin'
And yes I would consider that car a lemon, hell maybe even a lemon-lime or somethin'
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He's lying.
The Touraeg is MotorTrends Truck of the Year.
Along with the Bug, Lincoln LS, and Thunderbird it's superiorly engineered and solidly constructed.
VW's first attempt at building an SUV is SUPERIOR to all the "others". Also the Porsche Cayenne drives like a 996TT or Hummer H1, just depends on which button you push.
lol
I wonder how much it costs to pick up the coveted MT COTY or TOTY awards.
The Touraeg is MotorTrends Truck of the Year.
Along with the Bug, Lincoln LS, and Thunderbird it's superiorly engineered and solidly constructed.
VW's first attempt at building an SUV is SUPERIOR to all the "others". Also the Porsche Cayenne drives like a 996TT or Hummer H1, just depends on which button you push.
lol
I wonder how much it costs to pick up the coveted MT COTY or TOTY awards.
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Originally posted by LexusLuver
He's lying.
The Touraeg is MotorTrends Truck of the Year.
Along with the Bug, Lincoln LS, and Thunderbird it's superiorly engineered and solidly constructed.
VW's first attempt at building an SUV is SUPERIOR to all the "others". Also the Porsche Cayenne drives like a 996TT or Hummer H1, just depends on which button you push.
lol
I wonder how much it costs to pick up the coveted MT COTY or TOTY awards.
He's lying.
The Touraeg is MotorTrends Truck of the Year.
Along with the Bug, Lincoln LS, and Thunderbird it's superiorly engineered and solidly constructed.
VW's first attempt at building an SUV is SUPERIOR to all the "others". Also the Porsche Cayenne drives like a 996TT or Hummer H1, just depends on which button you push.
lol
I wonder how much it costs to pick up the coveted MT COTY or TOTY awards.
So, not only with the Touraeg, but looking back through history, we see a lot of vehicles that have gotten magazine awards based on their performance and image as new cars but turned out to be unreliable in the long run....like the Volare/Aspen, Omni/Horizon, GM X-body cars, Renault Alliance, AMC Eagle, and, more recently, the Mini Cooper, which has not been reliable either.
So the Touraeg is just one more Motor Trend award that performed well but ended up spending more time in the shop than out....and no doubt there will be more.
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You'll need to check the lemon laws in your own state as I don't think there's a federal law to protect you.
As I understand it, the threshold in CA is that you must have the same material problem re-occur a certain number of times within a certain time frame without resolution by the manufacturer.
Good luck to your neighbor. That sounds like a real nightmare.
As I understand it, the threshold in CA is that you must have the same material problem re-occur a certain number of times within a certain time frame without resolution by the manufacturer.
Good luck to your neighbor. That sounds like a real nightmare.
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