State lemon law
Nebraska Lemon Law
When a new vehicle keeps failing, Nebraska law can require the manufacturer to replace it or buy it back. These are the numbers the statute actually sets.
4
Repair attempts
40
Days out of service
24
Months covered
What counts as a lemon in Nebraska
Meeting any one of these raises a presumption that the manufacturer has had a reasonable number of attempts. The repairs have to fall inside vehicles bought new in nebraska and less than two years old.
- The vehicle has been taken to the dealer four or more times for the same problem.
- The owner has been without the use of the vehicle for a cumulative total of 40 or more days.
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
Vehicles bought new in Nebraska.
What you get
A comparable vehicle, or the return of the vehicle for a refund of the full purchase price including sales taxes, license and registration fees and similar government charges, less a reasonable allowance for use.
The deadline
The vehicle has to be less than two years old and bought new in Nebraska.
Where it is decided
Nebraska points consumers to informal arbitration first, and the Department of Motor Vehicles publishes what to do when that fails.
Worth knowing
- Forty days out of service is the longest out-of-service test on this list apart from Louisiana's 45.
How Nebraska compares
20 states ask for fewer repair attempts than Nebraska's 4, and 29 others ask for the same 4. 45 states count fewer days out of service. Nebraska 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 Neb. Rev. Stat. §§ 60-2701 to 60-2709 and from Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles, 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.
- Neb. Rev. Stat. § 60-2703
- Lemon law, Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles
- Auto fraud and lemon law, State of Nebraska
- Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles
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 Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles, or to a lawyer in Nebraska.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2026-08-20.
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