Primary source: NHTSA recall campaigns
MyRecallCheck processes the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration recall API by make, model, and model year. Source fields include campaign number, affected component, defect summary, safety consequence, manufacturer remedy, report date, and urgent Park It or Park Outside flags.
Open the NHTSA recalls APIHow counts are calculated
- Campaign counts are deduplicated by NHTSA campaign number at model, make, and national level.
- A campaign may cover multiple models and model years, so totals across pages should not be added together.
- Component and ranking pages count campaign records; they do not estimate failures, vehicles sold, or defect rates.
- Every indexable model-year page contains at least one campaign in the generated dataset.
Owner complaints are excluded
Complaint totals, crashes, fires, injuries, and deaths are not displayed while that separate source pipeline remains disabled and under validation. These metrics are not inferred from recall campaigns.
Coverage and freshness
Vehicle coverage starts at model year 2000 and runs through 2026. The current build was processed on Aug 8, 2026; the newest included campaign report is dated Jul 30, 2026. We do not claim daily or real-time refreshes.
The published snapshot contains 6,522 model-year pages whose raw response passed the full identity and campaign contract. 2 model-year pages are explicitly marked partial because the NHTSA vehicle endpoint returned an incomplete or unusable response; those pages show only campaign records verified individually. No malformed vehicle response is treated as complete.
What this site cannot determine
- Whether a campaign applies to one exact VIN.
- Whether that vehicle's recall remedy has already been completed.
- Whether a vehicle is safe, reliable, or a good purchase based on count alone.
- Unreported defects or incidents that are absent from the source.
For exact applicability and open-repair status, use NHTSA's official VIN lookup or contact an authorized dealer.