i was recently given this question in a law assignment ... was looking for your advice on how to answer it

let me refer you to the Florida Bar's website consumer page on Florida Lemon Law. Maybe it'll give you some ideas:

http://www.floridabar.org/tfb/TFBConsum.nsf/0a92a6dc28e76ae58525700a005d0d53/edc932d547172a5685257408005de3b6?OpenDocument

Not likely but you need to ask a Florida attorney. It is essentially a Lemon Law question dealing with the statute of limitations. You should talk to a Lemon Law lawyer near you. Call your local attorney bar association and ask for a referral to a lemon law lawyer near you. Or you can check this web page for a Free Online List of Local Lemon Law Lawyers (they don't pay to be listed here and most of them are members of the only national association of consumer law lawyers): http://ohiolemonlaw.com/locate-a-local-attorney.shtml. For every legal right you have, you only have a limited amount of time to actually file a lawsuit in court or you automatically lose (it's called the statute of limitations), so don't waste your time getting to an attorney and finding out what the answer is. If this answer was helpful, check the box below.