Lemon Laws Cover Factory Installed Parts, Else You Loose
It’s ideal to avoid buying a vehicle that’s been modified by a third celebration. What you can do is ask a dealership to install authentic branded parts or accessories in your car that fill your needs.
Common aftermarket accessories include: alarms, DVD players, remote starters, stereos, navigation systems, back-up cameras, and sunroofs. However, you should insist on a automobile with factory-installed accessories or components.
This means you may have to wait for the dealer to order or locate a automobile with all factory-installed accessories and components. But it is definitely worth the wait. Not only will you’ve tiny recourse if you experience problems with the aftermarket accessories, you might also have little recourse if those accessories cause problems with the factory-installed components. In fact, if the aftermarket components cause damage to the factory components, your warranty might be partially voided.
Substitute third-party auto components are installed at nonapproved shops, not associated with the manufacturer. So your vehicle dealer isn’t going to offer any warranty, and the car manufacturer does not even going to give you a second glance should you’ve any troubles.
The third-party installer may not even offer a warranty on the components. Therefore, if you are having problems with aftermarket components or if they’re affecting the factory-installed components, you may have few options.
Most likely, you will not have the protection and remedies provided by your say?s lemon law. In our practice, we have heard many horror stories from buyers of automobiles with aftermarket accessories or components:
* The battery went completely dead when a remote starter was installed wrong.
* The third-party sunroof, ended up funneling rainwater right inside the automobile.
* A poorly installed aftermarket DVD player, shorted out the automobile and kept it from starting.
* The aftermarket navigation system compromised the cars entire electrical system.
Despite these significant problems, none of these cars qualified for relief under the lemon law. These people had to either live with the problems or have the aftermarket components removed.
If aftermarket components happen to cause damage to the factory components in your vehicle, your warranty may be partially or even fully voided.