Clovis Lemon Law

Most Fresno County Song-Beverly cases brought by Clovis residents are filed at the Fresno County Superior Court's B.F. Sisk Courthouse, located at 1130 O Street, Fresno, CA 93721. The B.F. Sisk Courthouse hears both unlimited civil cases (over $35,000) and limited civil cases for residents of Clovis, Fresno, Sanger, Selma, Kerman, and the surrounding Fresno County communities.

Quite possibly. Heavy-duty diesel pickups operated on the Central Valley's freight corridors and Sierra grades have well-documented emissions-system failure patterns - DEF injector clogging, NOx sensor faults, EGR cooler cracks, DPF regeneration problems, and turbo wastegate sticking - that produce repeated limp-mode events. Each dealer visit for the same complaint counts as a repair attempt under California's Tanner Act presumption (four attempts or 30 cumulative days out of service within 18 months / 18,000 miles). Civil penalties up to two times actual damages are available for willful failure to fix.

Routine cabin and engine air-filter maintenance is your responsibility as the owner, but if the HVAC system itself, the evaporator, the blend-door actuators, or the engine's MAF/MAP sensors are repeatedly failing because the design can't handle normal Central Valley operating conditions, that can be a warranty defect. The test is whether the failure is a 'nonconformity' to the express warranty - not whether you operate the vehicle in a dusty environment. Document each visit and the dealer's diagnosis carefully.

Song-Beverly covers commercial vehicles purchased or leased by a business with five or fewer vehicles registered in California, as long as the gross vehicle weight is under 10,000 pounds (Cal. Civ. Code 1793.22(e)(2)). That covers most Ford F-150/250, RAM 1500/2500, Chevy Silverado 1500/2500, and similar pickups used by Central Valley farmers, ranchers, contractors, and tradespeople. Larger Class 6+ trucks (above 10,000 pounds GVWR) fall outside Song-Beverly but may still have Magnuson-Moss federal claims.

Venue is proper in the county where you reside, the county where the contract was signed, or the county where the manufacturer does business - all three point to Fresno County for Clovis residents who purchased anywhere in the local dealer network. Your case will be filed at the B.F. Sisk Courthouse in Fresno regardless of which dealer sold the vehicle.

Under Cal. Civ. Code 1793.2(d)(2)(C), the manufacturer can reduce your refund by a mileage offset: (purchase price multiplied by miles driven before the first repair attempt for the defect) divided by 120,000. So a $55,000 truck driven 7,000 miles before the first transmission complaint would face a roughly $3,208 offset. Mileage you put on chasing repairs after that first visit does not increase the offset - which is why prompt documentation matters for high-mileage Central Valley vehicles.

The general Song-Beverly statute of limitations is four years from the date of breach under Cal. Com. Code 2725, typically running from when the manufacturer failed to repair within a reasonable number of attempts rather than from delivery. AB 1755 (effective 2025) added an outer deadline for new claims: actions must be filed within one year after express warranty expiration and no later than six years from original delivery. If your warranty has recently expired or you have a long repair history, consult an attorney quickly.