PA Lemon Law

The PA lemon law protects Pennsylvania residents from unscrupulous dealers selling defective vehicles such as trucks, cars, and sport utility vehicles. If you are having a problem with a vehicle, you should first contact the person or dealership you purchased it from. It is important to keep written records of to whom you talked, their title, the date, and a summary of the conversation. If this particular path proves to be fruitless for you, you can ask to talk to that person’s supervisor.

Once again, when speaking with that person keep careful records of what was discussed. Those records will be used to help your case when you are using the PA lemon law to try to get some of your money back. In addition, you can go to the zone director and inform that person of the defect. But the most valuable asset in cases such as these would be to hire an attorney specializing in lemon laws in Pennsylvania.

You may be required to deliver the defective vehicle that is to be repaired under the PA lemon law to a designated dealership so that repairs can be performed. This requirement may be waived if this can be proven to be difficult for you, but delivery arrangements can be made. These arrangements will not be charged to you and must be accompanied by a letter written by you detailing why you cannot deliver the vehicle in question. Each time the vehicle is repaired, you must be provided with a written statement of the repairs performed.

In addition, you will receive a written tally of the costs of the parts used as well as the labor involved. The good thing for PA residents is that if a vehicle must be returned to the manufacturer because it is defective, it cannot be resold in Pennsylvania again unless the requirements of the PA lemon law are followed. These requirements include a written statement detailed why the vehicle was deemed defective and unrepairable within a reasonable time frame. The vehicle must be provided with a standard warranty against such defects, and others, just as new vehicles are.