Lemon Law for California

Slide-outs, or slide rooms, are the rule, rather than the exception, in later-model motorhomes. For those of you who do not know that a “slide-out” is, it’s a portion of the coach which actually moves out when the coach is parked and retracts when it’s time to drive. Thus, the owners of the motorhome get a larger living room, kitchen, etc. because the slide-out makes the room bigger.
Modern RV’s have as many as four or five slide-outs per unit.
The only real problem with slide-outs is, however, they don’t always work very well. Some indeed work fine, but in actuality they are fairly complex units sitting within a coach which itself is large and complex. The science of slide-outs has, indeed, not kept up with their popularity.

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Drastic dropped in sales and revenue take place among RV manufacturers. Buyers complain about high gasoline prices and a poor housing market. RV manufacturer National RV stopped doing business in November 2007. Just in the last two months, Western RV (Alpine), Alfa Leisure, and Travel Supreme closed down. On May 13, 2007, the Wall Street Journal reported that Fleetwood Enterprises, which has posted five years of losses, recently sold its Riverside, California, headquarters and is looking for buyers for other properties. Fleetwood’s motor home shipments were down 27% from a year ago. Coachmen Industries’ sales have declined 40% over the past three years.

Anyone who owns a lemon RV which is manufactured by a defunct manufacturer is typically out of luck in terms of seeking damages.
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Ford Motor is recalling more than 650,000 of its top-selling F-150 pickups as well as a Lincoln-branded truck because of a problem with the brake hose that could cause the vehicles to lose braking power. The automaker has recalled 2005 and 2006 model year Ford F-150 and Lincoln Mark LT trucks, according to the recall notice posted by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on its website Wednesday. Ford trucks covered by the recall are equipped with 5.4-liter engines. The brake hose on those trucks can detach from an intake manifold, causing the driver to lose the “assist” function that provides additional power to the brakes, according to the safety notice. The trucks could still be stopped with remaining braking power but it would require drivers to apply “more force to the pedal,” Ford spokesman Wes Sherwood said. He said Ford had received reports of 11 minor accidents but no injuries because of the brake hose defect. The sweeping recall covers almost 606,000 vehicles in the United States and comes just as Ford is gearing up to launch all-new versions of its F-Series pickup line. U.S. sales of the Ford trucks are down 16% this year in a downturn tied to high gasoline prices and a slumping U.S. housing market. In addition to the trucks covered by the U.S. government recall, there are another 50,000 of the trucks on the road in Canada covered by a similar recall procedure, Ford said. Ford said customers in the United States and Canada affected by the recall could have brake hoses replaced at Ford dealerships starting in late June.

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