California Lemon Law

Our California Lemon Law was designed to protect consumers' rights over the purchase or lease of a new motor vehicle that does not conform to the manufacturer’s warranty after a “reasonable” number of repair attempts, or after an unreasonable number of days in the dealers shop for repairs.

Thousands of frustrated consumers trade-in their vehicles each year to car dealerships due to repeated repair attempts, breakdowns, and fear of “the next time” the vehicle fails or malfunctions. Car dealerships often prey on these consumers by offering-up sales lines like “we will get you out of your car”, which is nothing more than the dealership selling another vehicle, and taking the consumers in trade to make yet another sale. The unknowing consumer often loses thousands of dollars in the dealership's “goodwill” trade-in “offer”. In worse-case scenarios, the consumer loses all equity in his/her trade in, or worse yet owes more than his/her trade-in vehicle is appraised-for, with the dealership carrying over the “negative equity” into the next sales contract!

It is vitally important for consumers to realize that the car dealership is not responsible for buying back or replacing a consumer’s vehicle that turns out to be a “lemon”. The dealership’s responsibility in their franchise agreement is simply to repair vehicles’ to conform to the manufacturer’s warranty. The manufacturer is the party that is ultimately responsible for repurchasing or replacing a “lemon” vehicle. All too often consumers waste valuable time and effort asking the dealer to buy-back or replace their vehicle, much to their growing frustration.

So what do you do if you think your vehicle is a lemon? California’s Lemon Law is consumer-friendly, which means you can go directly to a Lemon Law Attorney for legal representation and “get out” of your “lemon”. California’s Lemon Law even has a “attorneys fees” provision! A Lemon Law claim settled or “won” by an attorney for a consumer can accomplish 2 goals: One, the vehicle is repurchased by the manufacturer and monies invested refunded, less a “mileage offset” (or in some cases a new replacement vehicle). Two, the vehicle’s title is “branded” to identify it as a Lemon Law repurchase by the vehicle’s manufacturer.

Our California Lemon Law has been around a long time, and countless thousands of consumers have taken advantage of it. With the California