Here’s what you should keep track of:

• All of the information that you have from when you first bought the car. This includes that big envelope containing your contract and everything you signed which was given to you by the dealership. You should also have on hand anything about the warranty for your car, as well as whatever ads you saw, if possible, that alerted you to the sell of the vehicle.
• All of your registration stuff. You’ll need to be able to show with your online  auto insurance quote in which state the car was registered when it was bought by you, and where it is registered now (California).
• Any documentation you have about repairs. Your online insurance quote about this will get the information from your CLUE report, but in order to get the best deal, you have to make sure that all of the repairs were done by the dealer or manufacturer with OEM parts. You should also make sure that any statements or bills that the repair shop releases should have your version of the damages, because a lot of times the car lots will sidestep lemon laws by playing with words.
• California auto insurance law requires you to tell the dealer that your car is a lemon, so you need to send a letter. Make sure you have a copy of this, as well as the response, and any other correspondence between you and the manufacturer. Also make sure that all letters are traceable, so that you can have proof that they arrived or not.

• A lemon is…

The word lemon, when referring to a product, typically means that it has defects which make it to where it cannot complete its usage. It goes for any type of product, but is most often used as a name for vehicles which consistently have break downs and other mechanical problems over a short period of time. I had a lemon once, and believe me, it is not fun to constantly be broke because you have to pay for a huge car repair once a month or more.

These lemons are such a huge problem, that a subsection had to be created in California auto insurance law to make way for the lemon laws. The lemon laws define what a lemon is, allowing the owners of the lemons to sue the sellers if their vehicle fits the description. It also makes sure that the companies are protected by only allowing lawsuits over cars that do indeed fit the definition in the lemon laws.

According to California auto insurance law, a lemon is when a car continues with the same problem after three attempts at fixing it, or has continued with the same problem after an attempt at fixing it and as a result has been broken down for at least twenty days (which do not need to follow one after the other)

In order for you to be able to file a lawsuit under the lemon provision of the California auto insurance law, though, the lemon has to:

• have racked up at least 18,000 miles when you first informed the manufacturer about it
• either the manufacturer or the dealer has to try to fix the car, not just some guy you know who knows about cars
• has to be big enough to get in the way of the use or value of the vehicle