{"id":207,"date":"2016-11-03T06:25:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-03T10:25:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stage.inspectaride.com\/blog\/?p=207"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:49:54","modified_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:49:54","slug":"what-is-a-lemon-what-are-lemon-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/what-is-a-lemon-what-are-lemon-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a &#8216;Lemon&#8217;? What are &#8216;Lemon Laws&#8217;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;lemon&#8221; is a car that has been determined to have issues beyond repair. Each state has its own set of requirements for what qualifies as a &#8220;lemon&#8221;. These requirements can include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Number of miles driven\/time of ownership &#8211; The defects have to happen within a certain period of time\/number of miles driven. In most states, this falls between 12-24 months or 12,000 &#8211; 24,000 miles.<\/li>\n<li>Substantial defects &#8211; Defects must be substantial and impact the actual operation of the vehicle.<\/li>\n<li>Reasonable repair attempts &#8211; The manufacturer is given a reasonable number of attempts to repair the defect. Depending on the severity of the defect, they may only have one chance to repair it or up to 3-4 attempts.<\/li>\n<li>Number of days in the shop &#8211; The vehicle has been in the shop for a certain number of days within a year. This is typically 30 days.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Do Lemon Laws apply to used vehicles?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Most states only have lemon laws in place for new vehicle purchases and not for used vehicles. In fact, only 6 states have lemon laws for used vehicles while another 13 have limited protections. A common condition in almost all jurisdictions is that the used vehicle must have included an express written warranty for lemon laws to apply.<\/p>\n<p><strong>More Information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Check out this\u00a0breakdown of Lemon Laws on a state-by-state basis to learn more about Lemon Laws in your state: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autopedia.com\/html\/HotLinks_Lemon2.html\">http:\/\/www.autopedia.com\/html\/HotLinks_Lemon2.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;lemon&#8221; is a car that has been determined to have issues beyond repair. Each state has its own set of requirements for what qualifies as a &#8220;lemon&#8221;. These requirements can include: Number of miles driven\/time of ownership &#8211; The defects have to happen within a certain period of time\/number of miles driven. In most &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/what-is-a-lemon-what-are-lemon-laws\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;What is a &#8216;Lemon&#8217;? What are &#8216;Lemon Laws&#8217;?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=207"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":452,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207\/revisions\/452"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.inspectaride.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}