Lemon Law America
Hvaing just resolved a Lemon Lawsuit with Ford in August 2003 that started in August 2002 I can tell you that it is a long drawn out process. The manufacturer will stretch this out as long as they can hoping you will get tired and give up. Fortunately for my wife and I we were able to afford to just park the car and not deal with it except to drive it once every couple of weeks and change the oil in it every three months while this went on. I purchased mymustangsucks.com, sheehyfordsucks.com sheehysucks.com and a couple of other domain name swhich I have now let go. I made sure when my attorney was emailing Ford's attorneys he cc'd me at my email addresses at those domains (my favorite was
service@sheehyfordsucks.com) and made it clear to all of the Ford reps involved that I would wait them out.
I elected for a jury trial since I figured that it wouldn't be hard to find a jury full of people that had trouble with getting car problems resolved rather than a hearing in front of a judge alone. Ford made several offers to settle before the case was heard in court and I kept countering them higher than I was asking for in my suit. I finally settled with them the day of the trial and incurred no attorney costs.
One last thought- Make sure that the attorney works on the basis that if you win or settle the manufacturer pays the fees on top of your money and if you lose you pay nothing.
Mark