It’s disheartening to buy a new car with the reasonable expectation that you’ll enjoy trouble-free driving for years ahead, only to find a problem that persists despite repeated repair attempts. Among the most common serious mechanical problems in California Lemon Law claims are faulty transmissions. Although it’s frustrating to face a legal process holding a…
When you’ve purchased a new car and find that it’s spending more time in the repair shop than on the road, it’s frustrating, especially when you’ve sought repairs multiple times but the problem persists. If the dealership has failed to repair your vehicle under warranty, you might be entitled to a refund or a replacement…
When your shiny new car turns out to be a lemon, it’s a distressing experience. Unfortunately, the distress of learning that a new car has one or more recurring defects despite repair attempts only intensifies at the prospect of facing a challenging legal process against a powerful manufacturer. Often, the manufacturer responds to the owner…
If your vehicle spends more time in the repair shop than on the road, has undergone repeated failed repair attempts, and still has one or more substantial defects, it reduces the car’s use, value, and safety. This makes it a lemon under the law. In these cases, California’s Lemon Law allows consumers to seek financial…
As a greater number of California residents started to understand their rights under the state’s lemon law protections for purchasers of defective vehicles, manufacturers worked hard to lobby the legislature to limit consumers’ rights in California. In response to the manufacturers’ lobbying efforts, Governor Gavin Newsom signed California AB 1755 into law with full implementation…
