I Should NOT Have Bought a Lemon Car! Lemon Law Attorney SCHOOLS ME!

I bought a Cheap Lemon Manufacturer Buyback car and thought I got an amazing deal! That is until Lemon Law Attorney Steve Lehto from Lehto's Law told me otherwise...

[stevelehto]

Sam - Thanks for having me on. Of course, I'm not saying you WILL get burned. Only time will tell. Let's all check back in a few months and see if that car truly is fixed. Or if it has a mysterious ailment which will drive it to an early grave, or junkyard.

[so-cal]

Buying a lemon law car is like dating a divorced woman with kids!!!
Now matter how good it’s sounds it’s a terrible

[bluesriderDF]

Personally I would never consider a lemon car, but I am all in favor of Sam buying them!

[ssoltys]

Yet 9 months later we haven’t heard anything about the Lincoln

[adslfytiquhf]

This video is an excellent case study in the difference between using proper microphones in a sound-appropriate room versus using a whatever mic in your kitchen

[danaleks]

I bought a Lemon Law Mercedes with 3000 miles on it for almost $30k off sticker with a 100k mile warranty. The car has now 120k miles and not any issues. Did I get Lucky? Maybe, but I got an S Mercedes for C Mercedes price!

[mathewfullerton]

You MUST do a follow-up in 6 months and a year.

[forthebudz]

SAM CRAC CAN WE COME BACK TO THIS AND HWAT HAPPENED WITH THE LINCOLN.

[Dragonvale]

damn so maybe lemon cars aren’t the holy grail you promised us lol

[ramsay]

Sam... I'm always looking for a good deal.

[junito]

Sam is the type of Dude who will invest in a Ponzi Scheme knowing is a Ponzi Scheme !!

[ralphblach]

Steve is correct. If it was as easy as replacing the connector, it would have been done.

[LockSportsman]

I bought a 2005 Grand Cherokee as a buyback in 2007 and it's still going strong today. The bet paid off in my case, but you're definitely taking a risk.

[skydiverx]

Sam, these cars cannot typically cannot be fixed. I worked for a automobile company for a period of time in there US repair shop. This shop had the best techs that could be had and there were cars there that could not be fixed. Other cars took a very long time to be fixed, and the fixes were not obvious. Let me tell you about my experience. I had a Caravan that had problem electrical problem with the Air Conditioning. Every so often, when the car got blazing hot in the summer, the blend air door would go to full hot and the car would blow hot air during the summer! The control modules were replaced multiple times. the self test were run multiple times and there was NO solution.
I had to leave the car at my house, get it hot and I went to work with my volt meter. I found the a control wire in the wiring harness was intermittently open. We I went to the dealer, I left it out and it failed. The tech I worked with, was astounded when I told him which wire was open. It turned out, the was a bad tang on a connector. No technician could have found that. I am an Electrical Engineer.

Let me tell you the debug procedure.
1) put a CAN analyzer on each CAN interface into the computer.
2) put a digital storage scope on each analog output and input.
3) put a computer in trace tool in the process so you can trace the what processor is doing (you will need the source code for the computer for this and good luck getting this.)
4) Set all these up capture when the problem occurs.
5)Drive the car and wait for a fail.
When it fails, attempt to debug the problem with the stored output. It might take several times of failing to zero into the problem. Or you might get unlucky and the test equipment changes the system enough and car does not fail.
To be blunt, if a connector could have fixed this problem, it would have been done.
Never purchase lemon law car because modern cars are just to complex to debug sometimes with the tools we give the techs. If you were to take it to the engineering shop, set it up and have a couple of EE's look at it, yea, it could be fixed, but this would cost more than the car is worth.

[jiggymonk]

7:41 Send a letter over to my boys at i don't want to say the manufacturer. Haha just say GM

[LearningFast]

Steve Lehto rocks! He is a brilliant guy with a really interesting YouTube channel.

[carlosrios]

didnt you buy a volkswagon that you could never fully rebuild because of all its problems. i would say it

[ItsJosh]

My Ford was in repair for 19 days for a differential issue. Here now a week later the problem is back. Maybe my car will be on that lot.

[junito]

Samcrac, attorneys are consulted BEFORE the Fact !! 🤦🏻‍♂️😂

[cedrickparish]

Hey Sam I agree with you. The dealership can only fix with factory oem parts. I've bought a few trucks that were junk cars or lemon and the aftermarket parts fixed the issue and I'm driving both today.