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| Message: | I would be careful with a formal suit. You will NOT recover your attorney's fees, at least not in most states. America's system relies on each side paying their own legal fees, with certain exceptions. The lemon law in your state might have just such an exception, but likely a general suit would not, and you'd be paying your attorney $10-20K of your recovery (assuming you're successful) or 33-40% if your formal suit attorney is on contingency fee. Either way, you're not buying a BMW when you're done. Chipster's advice about working within the system seems worth looking at. I would be surprised if BMW doesn't have a dispute resolution mechanism. If they don't, a claim under the lemon law may start one. I know in Wisconsin, the lemon law requires a vehicle, within the first year of delivery, must require 4 or more service visits for the same problem, or 30 days (cumulative) out of service (again, for the same problem) to qualify for coverage. Most states are around this, with some more favorable to consumers, some less. Since you have a lemon law attorney already, seems like the best way to go. My $0.02 worth JWK '02 325i '05 Boxster | ||||
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