Connecticut – Automobile Manufacturers’ Warranty Adjustment Programs, Section 42-227

California Civil Code Section 1795.90-1795.93

Secret warranties are a multi-billion consumer abuse. Every auto company makes mistakes in building cars. Whether they are design defects that affect every car or whether they are manufacturing defects which affect only some cars, they must be repaired. The only question is who pays for the manufacturers’ mistakes, the manufacturer or the consumer. Although the auto manufacturer often establishes a secret warranty to pay for the repair, all too often it is the consumer who pays for the manufacturer’s mistake because the consumer never finds out about the secret warranty.

Using Your State’s Lemon-Law

Sec.
703.1 Definitions.
703.2 Duties of warrantor.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS OF THE MECHANISM
703.3 Mechanism organization.
703.4 Qualification of members.
703.5 Operation of the Mechanism.
703.6 Recordkeeping.
703.7 Audits.
703.8 Openness of records and proceedings.
AUTHORITY: 15 USC 2309-10
SOURCE: 40 FR 60215 (Dec. 31, 1975).

Sec.
700.1 Products covered.
700.2 Date of manufacture.
700.3 Written warranty.
700.4 Parties "actually making a written warranty.
700.5 Expressions of general policy.
700.6 Designations of warranties.
700.7 Use of warranty registration cards.
700.8 Warrantor’s decision as final.
700.9 Duty to install under a full warranty.
700.10 Written warranty, service contract, and insurance distinguished
for purposes of compliance under the Act.

MAGNUSON-MOSS WARRANTY ACT — Public Law 93-637

THE MAGNUSON-MOSS WARRANTY ACT– AN OVERVIEW

In 1975 Congress adopted a piece of landmark legislation, the Magnuson-Moss
Warranty Act. The Act was designed to prevent manufacturers from drafting
grossly unfair consumer warranties and to make it economically viable
for consumers to bring warranty suits by providing for the award of attorney’s
fees. States built on the themes of the Magnuson-Moss Act by later passing
their own lemon laws.