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Walk It Through: The New Car in the Shop

A new car that keeps stalling, repeated repairs, the first year or fifteen thousand miles, and a refund or a replacement.

A few weeks after it was bought, a new car starts stalling on the highway.

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

A new car with a defect. Used cars, leases and arbitration programs 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.