Thread: A sad Day. Goodby Deefer.

Look they are different to Lemon Laws. Sorry. There were fitness for purpose clauses implied into the previous Sale of Goods Act in Qld and their other state equivalents. There were also consumer laws built into the TPA. Mate if you go to and read the link i posted up (Qld Government site) you will see what i am saying. Cheers

Save you clicking the link this is from the Qld Government web site.

"Australia does not currently have lemon laws?a law that aims to protect new car buyers by spelling out when a car manufacturer or supplier must repair, replace or refund a consumer's car.

The rights of new car buyers are currently protected by the*Australian Consumer Law(ACL).

Some countries do have lemon laws. Each is different, but the laws generally set limits on the number of:

faults a new car can sufferunsuccessful repair attempts on the same problemdays a new car can be off the road for repairs.

Where these limits are exceeded, the lemon law requires the manufacturer or supplier to give the consumer a replacement or refund.

A review of the ACL will begin this year. One aspect of the review will be to consider if the ACL should include lemon laws for new cars.

To help, we asked Queenslanders to tell us about their experience with a lemon car.*This consultation closed on 25 September 2015. We will be using the feedback to inform a submission to the ACL review.

More information will be added to this page as developments occur."

James,

Get rid of your car, blowing turbo hoses is a simple fix and if LR can't manage that then you should be in a Prado or other of your preference.

Who ever picks up your car second hand will hopefully have the ability to use some after market hose clamps, or we will get some more input to this thread on how bad LRs are.

Remember it is not in the interest of an LR dealer to fix a problem that LR will continue to pay to get fixed. If the dealer goes out on a lmb and try's to fix your problem with after market parts they are on their own. Fixing your problem produces a happy customer but dries up the income source. The beauty of buying new cars!

Originally Posted by 1nando

Although these laws are not specifically called "lemon laws", they are consumer laws which are there to protect consumers from purchasing a potential "lemon". As mentioned before they are not as stringent as US laws but they are lemon laws regardless. The consumer law act previous to 2011 did not entitled you to a refund or replacement vehicle if you purchased a "lemon". These do!!!

When i was dealing with LR Australia i referenced these to get my rear diff sorted. LR had 2 failed atempts at replacing the rear diff before i mentioned these. Lets just say the diff i have now is drama free.....

The sad thing about your diffs is like most people it wasn't all down to the diff itself but the flanges,there's a simple cheap fix that would eliminate all the anguish but no,it's all too hard .If I was James I would change dealers first up and then fit silicon hoses and clamps. Pat

In my case the crown had delaminated. In saying that, you are correct in that a lot of backlash issues are due to flanges.