State lemon law
Alaska Lemon Law
When a new vehicle keeps failing, Alaska law can require the manufacturer to replace it or buy it back. These are the numbers the statute actually sets.
3
Repair attempts
12
Months covered
What counts as a lemon in Alaska
Meeting any one of these raises a presumption that the manufacturer has had a reasonable number of attempts. The repairs have to fall inside the term of the express warranty or one year after delivery to the original owner, whichever applies.
- The same defect has been subject to repair three or more times by the manufacturer, distributor, dealer or repairing agent, and still exists.
Failing all of these does not end a claim. The presumption is a shortcut through the evidence, not the whole of the law, and a vehicle that misses it can still be a lemon on ordinary warranty grounds. It does mean the owner has to prove what the presumption would have assumed.
Which vehicles the law reaches
New motor vehicles sold in Alaska under an express warranty.
What you have to send the manufacturer
After the owner gives notice the manufacturer has 30 days to make one final attempt at the repair.
Keep every repair order. The dates a vehicle went in and came out are what the whole test is counted from, and they are the one part of the record the owner controls.
What you get
At the owner's option, a replacement or a refund. The manufacturer must also refund reasonable shipping charges the owner paid to get the vehicle to the nearest authorized repair facility and back, which matters more in Alaska than anywhere else.
The deadline
The repair attempts have to fall inside the express warranty term or the first year after delivery.
Where it is decided
Where the manufacturer runs a dispute settlement procedure approved by the Attorney General, the owner has to arbitrate before going to court. Where the program is not approved, arbitration is the owner's choice.
Worth knowing
- The shipping refund is the Alaska-specific provision: the nearest authorized facility can be a long way from the owner, and the statute makes the manufacturer pay for that distance.
How Alaska compares
No state on this site asks for fewer than Alaska's 3 repair attempts, and 19 others ask for the same 3. Alaska sets no mileage limit at all, which is unusual: most states end the window at a mileage as well as a date.
Before you file: what is already on record
A lemon law claim is about your car. What other owners have reported about the same year, make and model is separate, and it is public: it can tell you whether the failure is a known pattern, whether NHTSA is investigating it, and whether a recall already covers the repair you have been paying for.
Under investigation 2010 Ford Fusion 2012 Ford Focus 2011 Hyundai Sonata 2013 Ford F-150 2010 Toyota Prius 2011 Ford Fusion
Where this comes from
Read from Motor Vehicle Warranties, Alaska Stat. §§ 45.45.300 to 45.45.360 and from Alaska Department of Law, Consumer Protection Unit, checked on 2026-08-20. Nothing on this page is copied from another summary, and there are a great many of them that disagree with the statutes they describe.
- Alaska's Lemon Law, Department of Law
- Vehicles, Alaska Department of Law consumer protection
- Alaska Department of Law, Consumer Protection Unit
This is not legal advice. It is a reading of a public statute, written by somebody who is not a lawyer and does not know your car, your paperwork or your state's case law. A lemon law claim turns on facts this page cannot see. Take the statute and your repair orders to Alaska Department of Law, Consumer Protection Unit, or to a lawyer in Alaska.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2026-08-20.
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