The Lemon Law Attorney’s most JAW-DROPPING cases

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1. Yes, Steve I was once one of them "talented" people. cut a car in half following the factory seams as much as possible, afterward took it to the alignment shop for a 4-wheel alignment, guy put it on the rack ran the numbers and looked at me and said why did you bring this car in? it's within factory spec.

2. Steve Lehto is an author and journalist that specializes in law and charisma.

3. Whats with all these random photos while he is talking…. we get it he has some awesome toys. Stop flexing.

4. Omg i love letos law!

5. Do you practice in Texas?

6. A steering wheel has to fall off more than once for it to be considered a lemon!?

   That's like having the front fall off your ship lol

7. Please get more people like this, not the douchebags that know nothing about cars

8. Welding two cats together is called a cut and shut

9. I had a 1986 Plymouth Horizon. I was crossing the Ben Franklin Bridge from Philly back to Jersey. I went to shift into second and the shifter literally came off in my hands. I had to walk off the bridge as the police didn’t show up for a while in what may have been one of the hottest and most humid days of the year! What a POS

10. Crazy how gm paid for 7 new engines and replacements for what was probably a bad oil filter housing or somelikely 100$ part

11. I've owned two 6.0 Ford Diesels and both ended up with plugged oil coolers which required a tear down every 60K. Before you say it's maintenance I'll tell you that wasn't it. The coolers were manufactured with passages so small that Ford's own coolant was plugging them up. Manufacturers have no incentive to redesign something that continues to fail once the warranty has expired. To this day you can walk up to a Ford parts counter and they will sell you the same oil cooler that will fail in your truck or charge you thousands of dollars to install it for you. There should be a law against that. (Note; Ford made a big payout to the owners who had failures during the warranty periodm, then threw everyone else under the bus.)

12. My first new car, and a custom order at that, was an 84 Oldsmobile Delta 88 Royale 2 door. The car was back in the shop 30 minutes after I took delivery. The power steering went out. Over the course of the next 18 months the car accumulated about 30,000 miles, but also accumulated 42 work orders. The fuel, charging, and cooling systems were good. This was just before the lemon law was enacted in Ontario, Canada. The dealer did end up buying it back. GM would have done better to ssupply a new car, as the warranty work cost more than I paid for the car. The dealer ended up scrspping it.

13. 7 engines was a bad shop/mechanic or, most likely, a VERY abusive owner/driver.

    A "short block" is the bottom end, minus the head and induction.

    These were turbo and most likely it was turned up to goofy levels of boost.

14. A short block has two possibilities, depending on whether it's an overhead cam or cam in block:
    If it's a cam in block, it will be the engine block, all of its internals except the oil pump. It will include the cam, the timing gears and chain. The cylinder head, oil pump, oil pan and all accessories are excluded.
    If it's an overhead cam, all of the above exclusions apply, PLUS, since the cam is in the head which isn't included, then the cam, timing gear(s)/cog(s) and timing chain(s)/ belt(s) are also excluded.

    The thing with the motorhome rear axle smoking is the grease seal for the wheel bearings was leaking. Sometimes it's just a matter of the seal wearing out, but if it happens fairly early in the truck's life, it can also be that the axle tube was machined incorrectly or it could be a miniscule burr on the axle tube right from the OE factory. The smoke was from the gear oil in the differential bypassing the seal and spraying the brake rotor. Having driven wreckers for many, many years, I've had that one quite a few times. Believe it or not, it isn't NEARLY as dangerous as some might think. A normal person that drives with one foot for the gas and brake will most likely never have any issues with it at all, but all bets are off if you're one of those people that keeps their left foot on the brake pedal and rides the brakes. The giveaway symptom for the seal is all over the inboard sidewall of the tire. It will be shiny and wet, plus the back of the wheel will have your normal brake dust, but it will be mixed with the gear oil that is leaking past the seal to make a pretty thick paste in a relatively short amount of time.

15. People never read the fine print, in general, and that’s half the problem

16. There is a serious lack of experienced diagnostic technicians. The reason is they have to follow specific steps when diagnosing. Start here, if this then, if not proceed to, and so on. I have a 2017 Ford F-150 Platinum. I experienced an issue, fixed. Few months same issue, fixed same solution*. Few months same issue. The service person said the repair was going to be the done the same way. I refused it and told the dealer service person that they need to determine what the actual cause of the chip failure was and not replace it. I researched the issue, they escalated the issue, and MBPI sent a field rep to inspect the problem. Ended up the problem was internal causing the oil pressure to spike resulting in oil degrading the wiring causing the chip failure. The MBPI rep noticed oil where it shouldn't be. Resulting in the entire front end of the engine to be taken apart to get to the internal part to fix the problem. Just shy of 4k and MBPI authorized and paid the claim. I paid $100. deductible. They band-aid the problem instead of finding the cause. Took almost a month. I also provided the answer based upon fourms when researching the problem.

17. once upon a time ago – PEOPLE assembled cars with no problems …. now EVERYTHING is robot built, with MASSIVE failures (ironic)

18. This guy is doing God's work. ❤

19. I DATED A JAW DROPPING LEMON OF A GIRL ONCE
    SHE DIDNT MAKE SANDWICHES AT ALL

20. I have a friend who bought a side by side that started to display transmission problems after a year. He bought the extended warranty when he bought it new and brought it in. They claimed they couldn't duplicate the problem. He took it out a few more times and it got worse and worse. It eventually got to the point where it almost wouldn't drive. He took it back. They had it in the shop for a week, and then told him they didn't know what the problem was and shrugged their shoulders.

    This was the Honda Tallon with the DCT tranny, so it was new tech and they actually didn't know how to fix it, but to attempt to brush him off like that really set him off. He bought another Tallon on the used market, went back to the dealer and informed them that he had another one to drive around and this one would sit on their lot until it was fixed. Whether that took five weeks, or five years, it was going to sit there, taking up space, under their responsibility, until they fixed it. The service manager was visibly irritated, my friend told me, and tried to argue that they didn't know what was wrong with it. My friend told him in no uncertain terms that they were responsible for fixing it, and they had better get to it if they didn't wan that headache to sit there cluttering up their shop. Any sun damage, or extra scratches on it while it sat there would be their responsibility as well.

    Well, they did fix it in about six week's time. They had to call in a Honda engineer from Japan to properly diagnose the problem and authorize a fix. Turned out it was a never before seen manufacturer's defect where the tranny mounted up to some kind of adapter plate. The plate wasn't made correctly and it had to be replaced, which was almost an engine out job.

    My buddy sold his used Tallon for the same price he bought it for, and is still driving the Tallon that got fixed. He hasn't been back to the dealer since, and they probably don't want to see him again.

21. Do you practice law in florida? my car has less than 3k miles on it since I took it its been vibrating significantly when on idle and or park (intermittently) but mostly always. First they changed the motors mounts at like 300 or less miles then they kept it for over a week. Now they're saying its "within normal range". I have videos of a half empty water bottle resting on the console of my car while at a light. Car is shaking so much that the water in the bottle looks like its at a boil. Not sure what to do next?

22. Lehto is explaining the difference between a symptom and a root cause 😅

23. I wish we had lemon laws here in Australia

24. At the 6:41 mark, THAT is a picture of the inside of a Sportscoach II or III. Very unique design of the 70s and 80s. My parents had one new from '73. Coachmen bought them out in '77 I think…. so that's who would have handled this axle issue.

25. Show a photo of a LONG BLOCK and references a short block…

26. Idk why but this is favorite channel. Have watched every single video on here

27. U gots bring Steve back with more lemon law stories

28. Left wrist Daytona

29. Even if the failure rate for automotive manufacturing for all functioning parts was 10% (the average is probably closer to 20) would be 137,500 vehicles that the lemon law would apply to every year. (Based on 2022 sales stats)

30. I have a 2017 ra4 only with 32k miles on it. I was planning to sell it and found out that is has a recall for battery issue that may cause fire, so most ppl reject to buy it or offer pretty low price because of that recall that has no remedy. Call the dealer for help they said to call manufacturer, they say there is no remedy and wait until june , they might have a remedy. So i am stuck with the car and keeps losing value as time passes. The manufacturer rejected to buy it back from me or fix the issue .

31. i wonder what kind of car he drives

32. In 1990 I bought a brand new Mitsubishi 3000 GT/VR4, then in 1991 changed for another new one, same in 1992, 1993, 1994, and 1995, ok, the 1995, had manual tranny, as all the other ones, this 1995 at 2,000 miles 2nd gear went out, the dealer, under warranty put a new tranny, again, 2,000 after, 2nd gear went out again, the dealer, put a new one again, 2,000 miles after, 2nd gear went out, now are three trannies going bad. I am very mechanical incline, plus by having 5 other VR-4 I knew the car very well, I told the dealer, must be an issue with the ALL WHEEL DRIVE system, making the trannies going out every 2,000 miles, there answer was "we will no replace the all-wheel drive system", this was in North Carolina, I went to see a lemon law lawyer, and the dealer bought the car back in 5 days. In NC was, maybe still is, the car at the dealer for repairs 21 days in one year.

33. Been watching Steve for the past year and he has some great cases, not just lemon law ones! Truly a great channel to understand why things happen the way they do.

34. What was blurred out @ 2:12

35. The flate rate techs love this 😂

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