The RV Lemon Law Myth: Why Most New RV Owners Have Shockingly Little Legal Protection
RV Podcast - Stories From The Road
Mike Wendland
4.5 • 704 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 34 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This week on episode 578 of the RV podcast. |
| 0:04.0 | There's lemon laws in most states that say if a car is defective brand new, |
| 0:09.0 | the manufacturer's got to either fix it or buy it back. |
| 0:12.0 | But there are not those kinds of lemon laws for RVs in most states. |
| 0:16.0 | A couple of states have got them, but for the vast majority of states, they don't. |
| 0:20.0 | Hi everybody, that's Steve Leto. He is a lemon law lawyer who specializes in helping people |
| 0:27.8 | who get stuck with lemons get some justice from whoever sold them that lemon. And sometimes |
| 0:33.3 | there are Vs and he's got a lot to say. I'm Mike Wendland. This is my lifelong traveling companion |
| 0:38.6 | and my bride, Jennifer, and we're here to wish you a very Merry, Merry Christmas Eve. We're |
| 0:44.8 | releasing this podcast on it. We hope that in all of your busyness, you're enjoying it. |
| 0:50.2 | Hey, we're also going to talk in this episode about the big controversy involving battle-borne batteries. |
| 0:57.6 | Is there a safety problem there that's causing some of those batteries to develop some interesting issues? |
| 1:05.0 | We'll talk about that. |
| 1:07.1 | And I'll share what I found out when I went and checked my own batteries out in our very cold RV |
| 1:13.1 | just a little while ago. But we welcome you to the podcast. Wendy has the day off, so no |
| 1:19.8 | social media buzz this week, and we're given, fill us some time off as well. But we do have a |
| 1:25.6 | quick announcement. If you're planning to attend one of the big |
| 1:29.0 | RV shows like the upcoming Florida RV show in Tampa, we will be there. And if you're thinking |
| 1:35.2 | about buying an RV at an RV show or even on a dealer lot, we want you to join us. I'll be doing a live |
| 1:42.8 | online RV shopping survival guide workshop. |
| 1:46.9 | I'm going to do it on January 1st, 26, 7 p.m. Eastern time. I'm going to show the inside |
| 1:52.1 | tactics that dealers use, how you can spot red flags, figure out whether they're giving you a line |
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