Your lemon is their liability.
If your vehicle keeps breaking and the dealer can’t fix it, the manufacturer may owe you a full buyback — or a cash settlement to keep it. We make them pay.
Recent Recoveries
We make them buy it back.
Buybacks, cash-and-keep settlements, and willful-violation penalties — plus the manufacturer covering the legal fees.
Do You Qualify?
Three ways a vehicle becomes a lemon.
Most owners who qualify never realize it. If any of these sound familiar, you may be owed a buyback or a cash settlement — at no cost to you.
Repeat repair attempts
Two or more attempts for a serious safety defect — or four for the same problem — within the warranty period can make your vehicle a lemon. We count every documented visit.
Days out of service
If your vehicle has been in the shop 30 or more cumulative days for warranty repairs, that alone can trigger the lemon law presumption. Most owners never realize they qualify.
The manufacturer pays
Under consumer-protection law, a winning lemon claim requires the manufacturer to repurchase or replace the vehicle — and to pay your attorney fees and costs. You pay us nothing.
Founding Attorney
Adrian Cole, JD
Consumer Protection · CA Bar #298114
Founding Attorney
Adrian Cole
JD · Consumer Protection & Lemon Law · CA Bar #298114
For years, Adrian defended automakers — reviewing warranty claims and learning exactly how manufacturers decide which buyers to pay and which to stall. In 2014, he switched sides for good.
Since then he has recovered buybacks and settlements for more than 1,400 vehicle owners, built a practice that runs on documentation and speed, and never charges a client out of pocket — because the law makes the manufacturer pay the fees.
“I spent years helping manufacturers decide who to pay. Now I make sure they pay the people they tried to wear down.”
Ask Vera — 24/7
Find out in 2 minutes if you have a case.
Vera, our AI claim concierge, qualifies your vehicle on the spot — repair attempts, days out of service, warranty status — tells you what it could be worth, and books your attorney call. She never gives legal advice and routes strong claims straight to Adrian’s team.
Private intake workflow - never legal advice, always logged, and always able to route important matters to a human attorney.
What Vera collects for your case
No legal advice is given online. In a successful lemon law case the manufacturer pays your attorney fees and costs.
The Math
It costs you nothing to find out what you’re owed.
Lemon law is fee-shifting. When we win, the manufacturer pays your attorney fees and costs on top of your recovery — so the only question that matters is whether you qualify.
Full Buyback
The manufacturer repurchases the vehicle and refunds your payments, taxes, and fees — less a small mileage offset.
Cash-and-Keep
Keep the car and take a cash settlement for its diminished value. Often the better deal when the defect is livable.
Civil Penalty
When a manufacturer willfully refuses a valid claim, the law allows up to two times your damages as a penalty.
Client Results
What clients say.
Three dealership visits and they still couldn't fix my transmission. Sterling got me a full buyback in nine weeks — and the manufacturer paid the legal fees. I didn't pay a cent.
Rachel O.
2023 SUV buyback
I thought I was stuck with a $50,000 truck that kept dying on the freeway. Adrian's team proved it was a lemon and got me cash to keep it and fix it on my terms.
Marcus D.
Cash-and-keep settlement
The manufacturer flat-out refused to help. Sterling pushed a willful-violation penalty and we recovered double. They knew the law cold.
Tony N.
2× civil penalty recovery
I uploaded my repair orders and had an honest case assessment the same day. No pressure, no games — just a clear plan. Two months later, buyback check in hand.
Hector R.
2022 crossover buyback
Stuck with a lemon?
Make them pay.
Free case review. No obligation. You pay nothing — the manufacturer covers the fees when we win.
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