R60 3200 miles in, CEL
#52
08-31-2012, 12:28 AM
This is absolutely horrible advice. All you will accomplish is hurting your credit, needlessly owing much more in interest and penalties, and potentially having your car repossessed and owing more legal fees on top of that. DO NOT DO THIS! The entity that holds your car loan (assuming you financed it at the dealer it's likely BMW Bank of North America) has nothing to do with the entity that warranties your car. Look at your warranty manual...it's "The Mini division of BMW NA". They are the entity responsible for the warranty, and if they refuse to make the required repairs, you need to bring a legal action against them (if it were me I would initially include the dealer as a Defendant too). If you stop making payments, the bank will deny that they have any responsibility for providing repairs, and you will be (legitimately) subject to all the problems I mentioned above.
#53
08-31-2012, 01:03 PM
Grawk, that's not correct. Take a look at the PA Attorney General's website. If your car has now been repaired, you have no cause of action under the PA Lemon Law. Just trying to help because I've been there...
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08-31-2012, 01:24 PM
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This is true, I'll have to wait until it fails a fourth time, at which point, the 3rd will have been unsuccessful. At this point, I'm assuming that once a month, I'm going to get a check engine light because the fuel pressure pump has failed, and that each time, the dealer will give me a new, bizarro explanation as to why it happened.
#56
09-01-2012, 06:00 AM
Exactly. The next time it happens (or maybe they repaired it correctly this time), don't take it to the dealer, call the manufacturer as described on the Attorney General website. No doubt they will arrange to have it "fixed" again by the dealer (and you would hope that with Mini's supervision they would repair it correctly), and you will have to wait until the 4th repair fails before you can file for arbitration. It's a real PITA, but unfortuantely that's how it is. If you do end up going to arbitration I wonder if at that point you could combine your reimbursement claim (for the repairs you paid for) into the action. I don't know, but an experienced Lemon Law attorney should be able to tell you.
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#62
11-30-2013, 12:32 PM
We were skeptical at this point, too, when we were told exactly what you have been. In our case, it took far too long, but the formal approvals from BMW did eventually come through. Hope you do not have to wait as long as we did. Let us know, good luck.
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