Most owners find out about an open recall by accident, often years after the notice went out. A lookup takes a minute, and the information is public.”

— Arash Khorsandi, Esq., co-founder of The Lemon Pros

LOS ANGELES, CA, UNITED STATES, September 16, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — The Lemon Pros has released two free public tools for vehicle owners and has relocated its offices to 9100 Wilshire Boulevard in Beverly Hills.
The tools help vehicle owners answer two common questions that are difficult to resolve without specialist knowledge. Whether a specific vehicle is subject to an open safety recall and what a repurchase claim under California’s lemon law might be worth in general terms.

Both are available without charge and without an appointment, which places them in a small category of publicly accessible legal utilities in the consumer automotive field.

A Recall Lookup and a Repurchase Estimate

The first is a recall lookup. Vehicle owners can enter a car’s details and check whether any recalls have been issued and remain open. The firm’s car recall checker is an interactive tool that returns current recall information for a specific vehicle.

Recall status is not always known to the driver. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration operates a lookup that reports unrepaired recalls associated with a vehicle identification number, and a vehicle can change hands several times without the open recall being resolved. Second and third owners are frequently unaware that a notice was ever issued.

The second tool addresses valuation. A repurchase, commonly called a buyback, is one of the remedies available under California’s Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act where a manufacturer has been unable to conform a vehicle to its warranty after a reasonable number of attempts. Calculating what a repurchase involves is not intuitive, since it accounts for the purchase price, amounts already paid, and a statutory offset based on the mileage driven before the defect first appeared.

The firm’s lemon law buyback calculator produces an estimate based on figures entered by the user. The firm describes the output as an estimate rather than a determination, and the actual outcome of any claim depends on the facts of the individual matter and on the manufacturer’s response.

Why Open Recalls Persist

The gap between a recall being announced and the vehicle being repaired is a recognized feature of the system rather than an anomaly. NHTSA monitors the effectiveness and management of recalls, including the filing of recall notices, communication with owners, and the tracking of completion rates for each individual recall. The agency publishes annual recall completion rate reports covering vehicle recalls across passenger vehicles, heavy vehicles, and school buses, excluding tires, child seats, and equipment.

NHTSA also cautions against drawing comparisons from those figures. The agency states that completion rates may vary across recalls and manufacturers because of factors including vehicle age, vehicle type, and the subject of the recall, and that rates should not be compared across recalls or manufacturers because supply chain issues, parts delays, and shortages affect the availability of some remedies.

That caveat is relevant to owners as well as to analysts. A recall that remains open on a particular vehicle may reflect a parts shortage rather than an owner ignoring a notice, and in either case the vehicle continues to be driven with the condition unaddressed.

Where a defect covered by a recall is not resolved after repeated repair attempts, separate remedies may become relevant under state warranty law. A vehicle recall attorney, rather than the recall process itself, handles matters like this because the recall system and the warranty statute operate independently.

New Offices in Beverly Hills

The firm has moved its practice to 9100 Wilshire Boulevard, Suite 500W, Beverly Hills, California. The location places the practice in the Wilshire corridor, within the Los Angeles County court districts where a substantial share of California consumer warranty litigation is filed. The relocation coincides with the release of two tools, which the firm has made available on its public website rather than behind a client portal or intake form.

Vehicle owners seeking authoritative recall information can also consult NHTSA directly, which maintains recall records and a vehicle identification number lookup at nhtsa.gov. Recall remedies are provided by manufacturers at no cost to the owner and are separate from any claim under state warranty law.
California’s lemon law framework applies to vehicles purchased or leased in the state and covers new and, in defined circumstances, used vehicles that remain under a manufacturer’s warranty. Remedies under the statute can include repurchase or replacement where the statutory conditions are met.

About The Lemon Pros

The Lemon Pros is a California law firm representing consumers in lemon law and vehicle warranty matters statewide. The firm was founded by Michael Saeedian, Esq., and co-founded by Arash Khorsandi, Esq. It handles claims involving new and used vehicles under the Song-Beverly Consumer Warranty Act and offers free public tools for vehicle recall status and buyback estimates.

Arash Khorsandi, Esq.
The Lemon Pros
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