Lemon Law for California

There a number of questions to answer to find out if your vehicle is lemon, including the questions about the reimbursement of expenses.

The first and the most important question to answer regarding the CA Lemon Law is if the vehicle you have purchased is qualified as a “lemon.” There are a number of things to take into consideration when you want to determine if the car is a lemon, including the warranty period, the type of defects and the number of repair attempts. You should also consider the number of attempts the manufacturer requires to make before the vehicle can be called a “lemon.”

One of the most confusing parts of the vehicle purchase is the warranty period, as the dealers and manufacturers try to misinform the car buyers. According to the new amendment of the law on time and mileage of the vehicle the warranty should be 18000 miles or eighteen months.

One more question to consider for California lemon law is the term “attempt”. This is when you take the vehicle to the dealer or manufacturer for repairs. It does not depend if the dealer does perform any changes or repairs on the vehicle or the product or not this is an attempt.

Another question is whether you have bought the vehicle “as-is.” If this is the case then the buyer is assumed to know about the defects of the vehicle and has still purchased it. These cases are called “caveat emptor” law, or “buyer beware.” According to this law if the product has a defect and the dealer or the manufacturer has warned the consumer before the purchase then the product is not qualified for the lemon law.

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