RE: Jury awards car buyer $185,000 for lemon 2003 Viper
Ok.... Dodge sold someone a viper. The rear end broke under normal torque loads 6 times. Well thats not ok.... let me give you a example of what should have happen. Oh and taking it to a drag strip does not void anything.
A Ford driver was testing the GT under extreme G loading. While conducting a N.D.I. ( a type of inspection which x rays are employed). They found cracks in a sub frame on the I.R.S. but they were on the inside. So Ford figured out how to fix it and did a recall. Non of the owners reported a problem, Ford fixed it before it got to that level.
Dodge did nothing, they should have redesigned and made a recall. If not they could have taken the Mercedes sl65 amg rear end. That car makes about 700 pound feet of torque. In engineering we have to do the right thing in all cases. Oh and this has happened to more than just this guy. They cannot survive by making 85k dollar lemons. Thats crazy to think about, so if Dodge will not fix the problem then the courts have too. If they took a 100k hit from every lemon viper; they would stop making vipers or stop making lemons. I'm an engineer and I think this is beyond understanding, Dodge must recall!
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Tyler L. Benson
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