Legal Question in Consumer Law in California

I bought a refrigerator May 09. Since then it has been serviced 7 times. We have purchased the extended warranty when the original one was expiring. According to the warranty to qualify for lemon law it needs to fail 4 tiimes in a year. Since April the thing has failed twice. My thought is that if your failures happen to fall on the cusps of waarranty years you may NEVER qualify for lemon using the 4 tims in a year status. I think I should get either a refund or new fridge. What say you guys?


Asked on 10/06/11, 8:40 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Stephen Barnes Barnes Law Firm

You may be right. Generally if you purchase a consumer good with a written waranty and you give the manufacturer (warrantor) a resonable number of attempts to repair the product during the warranty period and it is not fixed then you may ben entitled to a refund or replacement.

It also depends on when the problems occurred and the language of the extended warranty. If you think you have satisfied the reasonable number of repair attempts requirement then you may want to bring a suit in small claims court.

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Answered on 10/12/11, 12:50 pm


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