When you buy a dud car, your instinct is to simply return it to the dealership. They’ll then put you through a bureaucratic rigmarole involving lots of costly and time-wasting emails, meetings, and possible legal action.
Teg Sethi experienced all this and eventually he just had enough. His next move? Make a hilarious music video starring his family and friends in which he lambasts the Chrysler corporation for selling him a lemon Jeep.
“I made a mistake, I bought a Jeep,” the 32-year-old businessman raps in the tune, on which he declares, “I’m fighting for the whole lemon community … I’m making lemon tang, I’m making lemonade, I’m making lemon meringue.”
As the Herald Sun reports, Sethi paid $60,000 for the Jeep Grand Cherokee back in 2013, but the car soon proved to be rife with problems, including burning smells in the car and steering which constantly pulled to the left.
Jeep refused to refund Sethi’s payment or offer a replacement. “I’m a fighter, I’ve always been a fighter,” he said. “This is one of those situations where I had to bring my A-game out. I brought out the big guns for this.”
Sethi spent $8,000 on the professionally produced music video, after writing the song on a plane and recording it in his living room with a friend. The song is set to the beat of LMFAO rapper Redfoo’s ‘New Thang’.
“I’m one of those guys who can sing in the shower but actually quite well, and after a few drinks at a party I tend to entertain people,” Sethi, who organised dancers, a smoke machine, and lots of lemon bling for the clip, said.
“From a selfish perspective, I want my money back. From a non-selfish perspective, there’s a bigger picture… We don’t have the appropriate ‘lemon laws’ in this country and consumers have to go to this extent to have their situations resolved.”
Having only been uploaded on Tuesday, the clip has already managed to rack up more than 108,000 views on YouTube at the time of writing, and it will no doubt get the attention of someone at Fiat Chrysler Australia soon.
