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Originally Posted by Krislovesbmw
I am sure BMW manufacturing warranty is still intact for lemon title, I was just wondering how the lemon law works on buyback titles ?
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Again, this is going to vary depending on state, but a buyback is generally just going to be treated as a used car. Where I'm at (PA), used cars are simply not covered under state lemon laws. In CA, used cars are covered, and it appears they even go as far as explicitly stating buybacks are covered.
It looks like you're in TX where it doesn't seem to be as well-defined. TX laws state that new cars, purchased by a dealer within the state, are covered and used vehicles may be covered if they're still under the original warranty. That "may" would scare me, so there would have to be an extremely steep discount to consider purchasing a buyback vehicle as complicated as the X7.
It's possible there would be more of a case for the "may" with a buyback vehicle as it looks like TX is explicitly requiring a new 12 month/ 12,000 mile express warranty be issued for the vehicle to be resold, plus if it were the same issue, you would at least have hard documentation that the issue was identified prior to the resale of the vehicle, but it would likely be a long/hard fought case without precedent, and it might be easier to look for protection from the Magnuson–Moss Warranty Act.