State lemon law
Nevada Lemon Law
When a new vehicle keeps failing, Nevada law can require the manufacturer to replace it or buy it back. These are the numbers the statute actually sets.
4
Repair attempts
12
Months covered
What counts as a lemon in Nevada
Meeting any one of these raises a presumption that the manufacturer has had a reasonable number of attempts. The repairs have to fall inside one year following the original delivery of the vehicle.
- Four or more attempts have been made to repair the same defect within one year, and it 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 Nevada under an express warranty.
What you have to send the manufacturer
The manufacturer has to be notified of the defect, and where it has set up a procedure for claims the owner has to use that first.
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
Replacement or a refund, once the manufacturer has been unable to bring the vehicle up to its express warranty.
The deadline
The repair attempts have to fall inside the year following delivery.
Where it is decided
A buyer seeking a replacement has to submit the claim to the manufacturer first where the manufacturer has established a procedure for it.
Worth knowing
- This page states one test rather than the usual two. Nevada publishes its statutes on a site this project could not read directly, so only the repair-attempt presumption is set out here, from the state's own summary of it. The chapter runs from NRS 597.600 to 597.688 and contains more than this page shows: read it, or ask the Bureau of Consumer Protection, before concluding that a long spell off the road does not count in Nevada.
How Nevada compares
20 states ask for fewer repair attempts than Nevada's 4, and 29 others ask for the same 4. Nevada 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 Nev. Rev. Stat. §§ 597.600 to 597.688 and from Nevada Attorney General, Bureau of Consumer Protection, 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.
- Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 597 (the lemon law is §§ 597.600 to 597.688)
- Consumer protection, Nevada Attorney General
- Nevada Attorney General, Bureau of Consumer Protection
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 Nevada Attorney General, Bureau of Consumer Protection, or to a lawyer in Nevada.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes . Data last checked 2026-08-20.
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