Chariton v. Saturn Corp.

¶ 1. This appeal by a car manufacturer who did not comply with the Lemon Law's thirty-day time frame in which to replace the con sumer's vehicle or refund the purchase price is controlled by Church v. Chrysler Corp., 221 Wis. 2d 460, 585 N.W.2d 685 (Ct. App. 1998). There, we held that thirty days means thirty days; a dispute between the consumer and the manufacturer about the amount of refund does not toll the thirty-day period in which the manufacturer must act. The same is true of a dispute over the breadth of a release, as was the situation in this case. Here, Saturn violated the Lemon Law…