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Qualifications To Make A Lemon Law Claim


In the lemon law definition, there are certain provisions regarding the number of repair attempts and the condition that the vehicle was purchased under. Most people choose to get a lawyer before entering lemon law arbitration, because the intricate nature of the law can get quite confusing. In a lemon law claim, consumers and their attorneys have to get all of their facts straight, because the manufacturers will always have a good team representing the defense.



The lemon law definition of the term "attempt" stipulates that the consumer must make a certain number of attempts to have the car repaired, even if that simply means taking the car to the dealer or manufacturer and having them refuse. It is the attempts to have the repairs made, and not the actual repairs performed, that qualify the vehicle for lemon law arbitration.



Judges and defense attorneys will also demand that the consumer prove they did not know about the defects before they purchased the car and made the lemon law claim. If a consumer purchases their vehicle "as is," meaning they knew about the inherent defects, they cannot enter lemon law arbitration. There is a law known as the "caveat emptor," which literally means "buyers beware." It states that any defective product that the buyer was warned about before the purchase, cannot qualify for the lemon law.



There are clearly many complicate elements of this law, which is why most people seek the advice of a lawyer before they make a lemon law claim.

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