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While lemon laws are determined at the state level, the common factors to determine a lemon include the number of miles driven, major defects, reasonable repair attempts, and number of days spent in the shop.

In most instances to qualify under a lemon law your vehicle must only have an unreasonable repair history under the warranty, including (but not limited to) 2-4 repair attempts for the same problem, 6 repairs total on the vehicle, or 30 days out of service by reason of repair.

IS MY CAR A LEMON? Assuming the express warranty3 is still in effect, the Lemon Law Rights Period expires two years after the date of the original delivery of the car to a consumer or the first 24,000 miles of operation, whichever occurs first.

Letter to manufacturer. Send a letter by certified mail, return receipt requested to the manufacturer within the Lemon Law Rights Period. Send it to the address given for the manufacturer in the Lemon Law Statement of Rights form which should have been given to you when you purchased your car.

The lemon law covers all new, used, and leased cars still covered by the manufacturer's vehicle warranty. If a vehicle is deemed irreparable after good-faith attempts to fix its flaws, manufacturers must replace the car or provide financial relief to the consumer. However, they may subtract the depreciated value.

Yes, private party sales are covered under the federal Lemon Law as well as most states' lemon laws so long as the vehicle was sold with some type of warranty, which may simply be the duration of the original manufacturer's warranty.