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The vehicle is a car, truck, motorcycle, or motor home. The vehicle developed a defect or defects (a nonconformity) during its first year and before the warranty expired. The defect seriously harms the vehicle's use, value, or safety.

What types of items can affect lemon law claims? Abuse and neglect by an owner that causes a vehicle defect. Adding after-market parts and modifications that result in a defective vehicle. Failure to make a reasonable number of attempts to have the vehicle repaired.

It aimed to protect consumers by ensuring swift replacement or repurchase of defective vehicles. However, the law has become a lucrative playground for a handful of law firms, who have turned consumer protection into a profitable industry at the expense of consumers and our overburdened court system.

The more attempts made to repair a lemon vehicle, the more likely your chances of winning your lemon law case. Few lemon cases are decided after one or two attempts to repair the vehicle. Once you get to three or more unsuccessful repair attempts, the likelier your case will be considered for lemon law.

Lemon Law Aid's success rate is greater than 99%, meaning that our clients recover a repurchase or other monetary settlement in more than 99% of the cases we file. Each case is unique and different, and past results do not mean your case will have the same result.

Think you have a lemon, click here to fill out a 30 second form. The lemon law prohibits used vehicle dealers in New Mexico from excluding, modifying, or disclaiming the implied warranty of merchantability before the earlier of 15 days or 500 miles after the vehicle's delivery.

For example, let's say you purchased a defective vehicle for $20,000 and the first repair attempt occurred at 10,000 miles. If the lemon law claim is successful and the vehicle's value is determined to be $14,000, the mileage offset calculation would be ((10,000/120,000) x $20,000), which is equal to $1,666.67.

Per the plain language of the New Mexico Lemon Law, the purchaser of a motor vehicle must only provide the manufacturer with either four (4) times or thirty (30) cumulative days to repair within the vehicle's first one (1) year after delivery.

The New Mexico Lemon Law requires the seller of every used car to warrant for a period of fifteen (15) days or five hundred (500) miles, whichever occurs first, that the vehicle is fit for its ordinary purpose, i.e., of a certain minimum level of quality.