Myths around Lemon laws and why you should hire an Orange County Lemon Attorney

If you have bought a new or used car or vehicle under a factory warranty that still continues to show serious issues even after multiple repair sessions, you may consider filing a lemon law claim. But sometimes lemon laws can be confusing for general citizens and the auto manufacturers will most certainly try to avoid the settlement and aggressively fight your claim. Here are some common misunderstandings that laymen have about lemon laws, which can affect the claim, and why you need an Orange County lemon attorney:

You need a certain number of repairs and days in the shop to qualify for a lemon law claim:

This is a myth. Even many reputable sources make mistakes regarding lemon laws, where most of the errors are due to the attempts to simplify and make things clear to people who are not lemon attorneys. Actually, while there are numbers mentioned in lemon laws about the number of repair attempts and days in the shop to establish a car as a lemon, there is no hard rule that states whether a car is or is not a lemon. Your car can qualify as a lemon if a “reasonable person” will determine that the vehicle has had too many attempts to repair or has been in the shop for too long.

You waited too long or put too many miles on the car to file for a lemon claim:

This is usually not true. For example, in California, the limit for filling a lemon law claim is four years from the day you discovered that the car was a lemon. This is a long time and requires a reasonable standard as far as when you actually learned that the car was defective. A good Orange County lemon attorney can make persuasive arguments about when the statute of limitation clock started.

You can’t file a claim because you don’t have records of repair sessions:

It is true that copies of repair records are vital to lemon law claims. However, if you do not have copies of all the records, all is not lost. The records are payment invoices that you had made and the dealership will have the copies of these records and must provide you if you request them.

Filing a claim is not worth the time and trouble:

Many consumers do not want to file a lemon claim because it will be so much work and waste too much time. But, in reality, beyond collecting documents, your Orange County lemon attorney will basically do all the work. Most of the lemon cases are usually resolved in weeks. You might have to give a deposition if the claim drags out, but most cases settle before going that far. You also need to know that a lemon vehicle is costing the manufacturer money. It is to the benefit of the manufacturer to quickly come to an agreement so that they can at least get the car back and resell it before it loses even more value.