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[Silver Ghost]

I've lemon lawed 5 cars so far:

2 X 2000 Camaro SS
1 X 2001 Mustang Cobra
1 X 2002 Z06 Corvette
1 X 2003 Z06 Corvette

Never once used an attorney. It's not difficult to do, but you've got to keep records of everything. You can ask the dealer to give you a complete service history report on the car as well to help put together all of those work orders you get back and fill in some of the blanks. Make sure you keep a chronological timeline of events. It's much easier to lay out the entire picture for the arbitrator like this.

California is a very pro-consumer state, so the Lemon Laws for CA go above and beyond the Standard Magnusson Moss Warranty Act which sets the baseline Federal standard for Lemon laws if you will.

In CA if during the first 18 mos or 18,000 miles you have:

4 or more repair attempts for the same issue, if the issue is not considered life threatening.
3 or more repair attempts if the issue is or could be construed to be life threatening
or...
30 or more days in the shop for all repairs (out of your possession for repairs only, not routine maintenance)

the vehicle may be a lemon, and you should consider looking further into pursuing this. I wouldn't pay an attorney for something that is open and shut, especially since, if they say you have a case, it's because they are pretty sure they can win and take 33% of what you would get back from GM. If they can win, so can you, but be prepared to go to arbitration and for plenty of headaches along the way. I've gone to arbitration 2 of the 5 times, the other 3 times, I just presented the case to the BBB and we reached a settlement without having to go to arbitration.

I'm a big proponent of getting what I pay for, and one of the things I don't expect is to have a car like this constantly being repaired or in the shop while I'm carrying the note. In the 3 years I owned my Infiniti G35 coupe, it went into the shop for a total of 3 times and 2 of those was to replace a cracked center armrest because I lean on it when getting in the car. That's about it.

Anyways, I'm not an attorney, so I can't offer legal advice, but if you want to chat more about the issues, shoot me a PM and I can give you my $0.02 worth.