In the US language, a lemon is a (often new) vehicle that apparently has some manufacturing defects that affect its security, value or utility. Any vehicle with such severe problems can be referred to as a lemon and, by extension, so perhaps any product with a defect is too large or heavy to meet its objectives.
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The Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act is a United States federal law enacted in 1975 to protect consumers from deceptive bailing practices. The bill was sponsored by Senator Warren G. Magnuson of Washington with the sponsors of Senator Frank Moss of Utah, and US Representative John E. Moss of California. The purpose of the Act is to make product guarantees easier to understand and enforce, and to provide the Federal Trade Commission with the means to better protect consumers. The law does not force manufacturers to enter a warranty with their products but if anything should be written and adhere to the rules of the Magnuson-Moss Warranty Act.
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Etymology
The use of the word to describe a highly defective item precedes its use in describing the car and can be traced back to the early 20th century as a British and American slang. British usage comes from US usage and is less precise or specific: to "sell lime" is slightly different from "selling puppies".
The first attribution that meant the troubled car was in a Volkswagen ad made by Julian Koenig and Helmut Krone as part of an advertising campaign run by William Bernbach, all the advertising executives with Doyle Dane Bernbach's company in 1960, which was a follow-up to the Think Small advertising campaign they are for VW.
Economist George Akerlof in his paper in 1970 "The Market for Lemon: Quality Uncertainty and Market Mechanism" identifies a severe lemon problem that may befall a market marked by asymmetric information.
New vehicle
New vehicles may contain defects or defects in workmanship, caused by design flaws or by errors during the construction of an automotive plant. These errors can range from faulty parts mounted to tools used to build unmolished cars or batch materials with structural or chemical defects. The idiom "Friday afternoon car" or "Monday morning car", is used to describe new cars that have been shipped with many errors or suffer from excessive amounts of warranty claims early in their lives - based on the premise that assembly line workers are much more likely make mistakes when they are considered least interested in their standard of work.
Consumer protection laws typically mark the vehicle as "lemon" if the same problem reappears despite some improvement efforts (such as three consecutive times over a short period, where previous attempts do not fix the problem) or where defects have caused the vehicle new does not work for a long time (usually 30 days or more) for repairs.
Lemon law primarily serves to force manufacturers to buy back damaged vehicles or exchange them. Depending on the jurisdiction, processes similar to the vehicle's title branding can also be used to alert the next buyer of the history of the problem vehicle. Although the history part of this vehicle is usually not retained by title when exporting it to other jurisdictions, at least one jurisdiction (California) has begun to force manufacturers to include the title of the previously purchased vehicle that they import or export from the jurisdiction.
Used vehicle
While the used car may be disturbed by the same problem affecting a new vehicle, the used vehicle may also have been abused, not properly maintained or not properly repaired, rebuilt unprofessionally after a collision or tampered with in some way to hide the distance high, mechanical damage, corrosion or other damage.
One of the lemon forms is called cut and close or clippings , a form of body collision "repair" based on the purchase of a damaged car and sawing the damaged parts to replace them with matching parts of other cars (similar). If not fixed properly, this vehicle may be inherently dangerous; at high speed, or in accidents, the car can be disengaged due to weakness of the weld or pin connecting the two segments of the vehicle or segment discrepancy. In the UK cutting and closing cars are treated like cars that already have great repair jobs that produce what is essentially a new car. First they should be checked for roadworthiness, given a new registration number and pass a standard MOT test. If this works, they will be given a "Q" registration, which means they are kits, or composite cars, and not the original unit of the manufacturer. In some U.S. states, sales of cut and lid vehicles are illegal. Cars made using two or more large parts of the previous one are sometimes called "zippered cars".
Unimproved crash-damage vehicles also carry the risk of unibody problems. Unlike heavy trucks and lorries, most of the passenger cars manufactured since 1987 use unibody construction instead of body and separate frames. This saves heavily, but the unibody is prone to being bent (designed to do so in a collision, to absorb some energy from shock) or suffered severe collision damage, causing the vehicle to not be handled properly or causing other mechanical parts to be improperly charged if the vehicle is unibody the damaged is moved after an accident.
Currently, there is a vehicle history service that can help a used car buyer by providing "history reports" based on vehicle identification number (VIN). These reports will show items of public records, such as vehicle branding, repurchase and recall of lemon laws. They may indicate minor/moderate collision damage or improper maintenance of the vehicle. Attempts to identify vehicles previously owned by rental car rental agencies, police and emergency services or taxi fleets were also carried out. However, consumers should examine vehicles carefully, as these reporting services report only the information they have access to.
Manufacturers have been known to "hide" the buyback of the lemon law from this reporting service through unscrupulous methods such as holding a buyback vehicle in the dealer's inventory for a short time, then channeling it through a regular inventory (the so-called "dealers only") where the vehicle purchases re-enter the market used as a seemingly legitimate vehicle. Although historical reports can provide useful information and spotlight problem areas, consumers are still advised to have reliable and independent mechanics to conduct pre-purchase checks on used vehicles that they do not know historically in person.
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