Posted on 01/04/2010 10:25:46 AM PST by wrrock
If you buy a faulty product from a big corporation and want it held accountable, you might think there’s strength in the numbers of a class-action lawsuit. But what happens when the lawyers are the only real winners? Watch video: http://www.cardealerreviews.org/?p=118657
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That’s sort of interesting. But I don’t have time to watch the whole thing.
Is it hard to circumsize a wild bear in a dark cave with a dull pocketknife?
Waiting for John Edwards to claim there are ‘3 Americas’. The third, of course, are the bloodsucking attorneys.
I actually got a new set of four tires for my Explorer, so I guess I ‘won’. Old tires had 60K miles on them, so it was nice.
Class action lawsuits have always benefitted lawyers more than plaintiffs. Its the nature of a suit with a large plaintiff-base.
There was a suit against Blockbuster over late fees a decade or so back. The lawyers walked away with tens-of-millions of dollars ... the plaintiffs (Blockbuster members) got coupons for 3 free rentals.
SnakeDoc
I was in the same boat with my Ranger. I felt guilty taking the free tires. The only reports of problems with the Wrangler AT tires were in warm climates when people were careless about inflation and drove long distances at high speeds. Idiots, in other words.
I loved my Wrangler AT, btw. My 4FWD Ranger with the Wrangler AT was the absolute best “snow car” I ever had, it could drive through several inches of unplowed snow handily. The replacement tires were never quite as good. I’d buy Wrangler AT if they still made them, any day.
I lived in Dallas at the time. Sometimes in the summer the temp could get up to 3 digits. Once you got out of the city, there were long stretches of semi-deserted highway, just begging for you to hit the gas pedal. I didn’t think it was worth the trouble to get the new tires, but my hubby seemed to think it was important. I procrastinated so much that he took my truck in himself.
It was about that time that I was doing a lot of driving down to Newport, RI (about 70 miles) for work. I’d leave early and average about 75 on I-495 without any problems but the last time we saw three digits hereabouts was when Edsel was a boy.
Other than whether or not is was worth the trouble, tires with 60k are at the end of their economic life. Ford did not pro-rate the swap, it was outright new tires for free.
BTW, good on your husband, I do the same thing with recalls on my wife’s car. I guess I value her life more than she does.
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