Avoid Lemon Cars

California law protects car buyers lemon defects. The law provides for compensation for the buyers who purchased a vehicle with defects, which includes cars, trucks, motorcycles, boats, caravans and other vehicles.

Initially, the word lemon has been used only for new and used cars purchased, then the discovery of defects, but now the term lemon is now associated with all products with defects discovered after purchase.

Note, under California law lemon, a vehicle is considered a lemon if it fails 2 attempts to repair the defects of life-threatening.

The California Lemon Law covers all vehicles of non-conformities. This is a defect or malfunction of the car:

• The manufacture of the new vehicle, the warranty covers

• impair the use, value or safety of the vehicle

The lemon law does not cover defects in the car that are caused by the unauthorized use or unreasonable.

New and Used Lemons

New cars May be considered a lemon, if a defect is discovered after purchasing the car. May, the car failed to design or during assembly.

Parts and wiring May be properly stored and can save the driver's life in danger.

Buy cars lemon once it is proved that the car was not used properly before purchasing. By default, the car in May because of poor maintenance or a product of a car accident, leading to poor performance of the car.

Misconduct used by car dealers is the manipulation of parts of the car to give the impression of low mileage and hide technical defects in the car.

One form of a used car lemon is the "cut and shut 'cars. It is a type of body repair the car that cut the damaged part is then replaced by a section a similar car. This type of repair is dangerous because it does not fall apart and in difficult conditions, like a car collision.

This is particularly dangerous for cars with "monocoque" or cars that have the floor, roof and other panels welded together to produce one unit of the car. "Unibodies" are designed to absorb more force, but is subject to bending. And "cut and closed for repairs, it is more likely to be totaled after a collision.

Avoid Lemons

Before buying a car, new or used, you should try to protect yourself and lemons.

You can follow these tips to avoid buying a lemon.

• Research - Research on the manufacturer and model of car. To find out if there was a recall on the model of car you want to buy, the search for safety and maintenance history of the car and ask how many times they encountered mechanical model in their stores.

• Seek advice - talk to people who have the same model as the car you want and ask them if they have encountered difficulties and / or are they satisfied with the car.

• Get your vehicle history - If you buy a used car, ask for the history of the car. Make sure it was not involved in any major accidents and if there are parts of the car has been modified. Take a trusted mechanic to check if the car defects.

• Beware of cheap cars - Find out why the car has a price. May unscrupulous dealers to sell a defective vehicle that May be life threatening.