About a specific vehicle
We hold no information about individual vehicles and cannot tell you whether yours has been repaired. That record belongs to the manufacturer.
- nhtsa.gov/recalls checks a VIN against the manufacturer’s own completion record — the only free service that can.
- NHTSA’s Vehicle Safety Hotline: 1-888-327-4236.
- Your dealer books and carries out the repair, which is free under the conditions set out here.
A recall’s details look wrong
Check it against NHTSA’s own record first. This site is a copy of their published files: if the defect description, the vehicles covered or the remedy is wrong there, it is wrong here, and only NHTSA and the manufacturer can correct it.
If the two disagree, that is our error and we want to hear about it. Include the campaign number — the nine-character code such as 20V314000 at the top of every recall page.
Reaching us
Citing this site
The figures published here are derived from US government open data and are free to quote. Please cite NHTSA as the source of the underlying data and link to the specific page rather than the homepage — every recall and every statistic has its own URL.
The methodology states how each figure is derived and what it does not mean, which is usually the part that matters when a number is quoted out of context.