{"id":687087,"date":"2010-03-09T19:10:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T00:10:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-10-04T11:20:01","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T15:20:01","slug":"mercedes-benz-ordered-to-pay-482k-over-lemon-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/687087","title":{"rendered":"Mercedes-Benz Ordered To Pay $482k Over Lemon Car"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/03\/030910-005-lemons-thumb-300x227-37942.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Wisconsin&#8217;s lemon law for cars is pretty strict. If a customer demands a refund on a newly bought car that won&#8217;t run and can&#8217;t be repaired, the manufacturer has to comply within 30 days or pay double the purchase price plus legal fees. Marco Marquez has been fighting Mercedes-Benz for 4 years now <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/mercedes-benz-hit-with-349935.html\">over a $56,000 E 320 he bought in 2005 that immediately stopped working<\/a>. He says the company deliberately stalled on giving him the refund in time, and last week a judge awarded him $482,000.<\/p>\n<p>Because the lawsuit keeps dragging on&#8211;a judge ruled in his favor in 2007, then an appeals court overturned it and a jury sided with Mercedes, the last week another judge overturned the jury verdict&#8211;the cost of the payout keeps ballooning. In 2007, the award was $202,000. Of that $482,000 awarded last week, only $168,000 covers the car (double the purchase price plus interest).<\/p>\n<p>Marquez says whether he ever sees the money or not, he&#8217;ll never buy another Mercedes&#8211;although he says he&#8217;s still driving this one until the company gives him a refund.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/business\/mercedes-benz-hit-with-349935.html\">&#8220;Mercedes-Benz hit with large &#8216;lemon law&#8217; judgment&#8221;<\/a> [Associated Press via Atlanta Journal-Constitution]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wisconsin&#8217;s lemon law for cars is pretty strict. If a customer demands a refund on a newly bought car that won&#8217;t run and can&#8217;t be repaired, the manufacturer has to comply within 30 days or pay double the purchase price plus legal fees. Marco Marquez has been fighting Mercedes-Benz for 4 years now over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2759,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687087","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2SK3","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2759"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687087"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":788304,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687087\/revisions\/788304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}