State lemon law
Kansas Lemon Law
When a new vehicle keeps failing, Kansas law can require the manufacturer to replace it or buy it back. These are the numbers the statute actually sets.
4
Repair attempts
30
Days out of service
12
Months covered
What counts as a lemon in Kansas
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 warranty term or one year following the purchase, whichever applies, with no mileage cap.
- The same defect substantially impairing the use and value of the vehicle has been subject to repair four or more times and still exists.
- The vehicle has been out of service for repair for a cumulative total of 30 or more calendar days.
- There have been ten or more attempts to repair any defects that substantially impair the use and value of the vehicle.
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 bought in Kansas under a manufacturer's warranty.
What you have to send the manufacturer
The presumption only runs where the manufacturer had actual notice of the defect.
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
A comparable vehicle under warranty, or the return of the vehicle for a refund of the full purchase or lease price including collateral charges, less a reasonable allowance for use.
The deadline
The repairs have to fall inside the warranty term or the first year after purchase. The periods extend where repair services are unavailable because of war, strike, fire, flood or natural disaster.
Worth knowing
- The ten-attempt test is the one worth knowing. It counts attempts at different defects, so a car that is never right in any single respect can still qualify.
How Kansas compares
20 states ask for fewer repair attempts than Kansas's 4, and 29 others ask for the same 4. 7 states count fewer days out of service. Kansas 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 Kan. Stat. Ann. § 50-645 and from Kansas Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division, 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.
- Kan. Stat. Ann. § 50-645
- Your home and car, Kansas Attorney General
- Kansas Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division
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 Kansas Attorney General, Consumer Protection Division, or to a lawyer in Kansas.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2026-08-20.
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