Automobile Sales & Automobile Repair Fraud
When you purchase a vehicle, if the dealership fails to tell you things about the actual condition of the car, or if they misrepresent the condition of the car that may constitute fraud. These include failure to tell you that the car was previously in an accident, was damaged in some way by a prior owner or that the mileage on the car is not accurate. It may also be fraud if a dealership makes promises regarding the financing of a car, and later demands that you return the vehicle.

Consumers can also be harmed when a dealership does not accurately disclose the odometer reading of a vehicle. Federal law requires that certain disclosure be made as part of any automobile sale.

Like many states, Wisconsin has a “lemon law.” A lemon is a new or nearly new automobile has a serious defect that a dealer has been unable to fix in four tries, or has been unavailable to you for at least day since you bought it. Wisconsin’s lemon law protects consumers who have bought new vehicles and provides consumers with an opportunity for a replacement or refund on the purchase.

If a repair shop charges you for items that you did not approve or refuses to release your automobile after it has performed unauthorized repairs, it may violate state law.