LemonLawVerdict

Does your car actually qualify — in your state, on your dates?

The lemon law verdict, computed from your repair log.

Enter your state and your dated repair visits. This checker applies your state's real presumption — the attempt count, the days-in-shop count, the safety shortcut — then computes your buyback with your state's own formula and your personal filing deadline. Where a state publishes no formula, it says so instead of inventing one.

Run the verdict

Your dated repair log

One row per visit. Use the same words for the same defect on every row — that is how the pattern is counted. Days in shop: count them the way your state does (the verdict panel names the rule). The odometer column is optional, but it pins down the buyback math in trigger-formula states.

Free, and it runs in your browser — your repair log is never sent anywhere. This is presumption math on the facts you enter: information, not legal advice.

The Lemon Verdict Pack — $39

The repair-log tracker, the notice letter for your state, the buyback worksheet on your state's own formula, and your deadline calendar.

See the Lemon Verdict Pack — $39

How the verdict works

1 · Your log is the evidence

Dates, the defect in the same words, days in the shop, odometer readings. Lemon law is counted from repair orders, and the checker counts the same way.

2 · Your state's numbers

California presumes at 4 attempts in 18 months. Florida at 3 in 24 — but its 15-day mark is a notice duty, not the presumption. Ohio allows no mileage deduction at all. Every number here traces to a statute, printed on the page.

3 · Your deadline

Two clocks run on every claim — the presumption window and the filing deadline. The checker computes the second one from your dates, including traps like Texas's 24,000-mile prong.

Start from your situation

Used car or CPO

A used car is not scored under new-car law. California's Rodriguez rule, New York's own used-car statute, and the warranty-transfer states — routed honestly.

RV or motor home

Whole coach in 5 states, chassis only in most, nothing in 6 — and Louisiana has a separate RV act entirely.

Motorcycle

Covered in 28 states, excluded in 18, genuinely undecided in 4. With offset divisors as small as 20,000 miles.

Electric vehicle

EVs are covered like any car — battery and charging defects are nonconformities when they impair use, value, or safety.

Leased vehicle

Lessees stand in the buyer's shoes in most states — and are shut out in a few. Which side of the line yours is on.

Second owner

Transferred during the warranty? Many states keep your rights alive — if the first owner's paperwork survives with the car.

Every state, checked against its law

Each state page prints the presumption table, the buyback formula with its mileage basis, the notice gate, the arbitration route, the filing deadline, and the date the page was checked — plus its verification level. Where our census could not source a number, the page says so.

Included in the $39 Lemon Verdict Pack

The repair-log tracker, the notice letter for your state (including California's penalty-preserving §871.24 letter), the buyback worksheet on your state's formula, and your deadline calendar — every artifact built from the same checked dataset as this checker.

See the Lemon Verdict Pack