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Walk It Through: The Lemon

Two repairs for a deadly defect, four for any other, or 30 days out, and restitution at the buyer's choice.

Within months of delivery, a new sedan's brakes fail, are repaired two times, and still fail.

Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.

One sedan and one braking defect. Civil penalties, dispute resolution programs, and used vehicles are not worked through here.

A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.

Words this turns on

Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.