- Recalls
- 30,320
- Makes
- 3,414
- Defect types
- 37
- Newest
- 18 September 2026
Where the data comes from
Every recall on this site comes from the flat files NHTSA publishes as open data, not from scraping anyone. Two files cover recalls before and after 2010; a third carries the quarterly repair-progress reports manufacturers file. NHTSA rebuilds them each morning.
The defect description, safety consequence and remedy on each recall page are the manufacturer’s own words as filed, not our summary of them. Where older filings are stored in capitals, we convert them to sentence case for readability and change nothing else.
How often it updates
A full ingest runs daily. Each run compares every row against what we already hold and writes only what changed, so a new recall normally appears here within a day of being filed. Steady state is around three new campaigns a day.
Repair-completion figures update far more slowly, because manufacturers report them quarterly. A percentage on this site can be up to three months behind, and the quarter it refers to is always shown beside it.
What is derived rather than published
Most of what you see is reproduced as filed. Four things are not:
- “Still unrepaired” is calculated as the involved population minus those repaired, minus those the manufacturer could not trace, minus those scrapped or exported. Counting the last two as unrepaired would overstate how many affected vehicles are on the road.
- The one-sentence summary on each recall page is assembled from the component, the affected count and the manufacturer’s own consequence sentence. We do not paraphrase the safety wording.
- Make pages are grouped from the make field on each filing. Where NHTSA has recorded one brand under two spellings, those are merged onto one page.
- Defect groupings use the top level of NHTSA’s own component classification. A recall naming several components appears under each.
What this site does not claim
We cannot tell you what is open on your specific vehicle.NHTSA’s per-VIN recall service is not available to third parties, so a VIN lookup here decodes the vehicle and shows recalls issued for that make, model and year. Whether one applies to your car, and whether its repair has been done, exists only in the manufacturer’s records. Check your VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
We also do not rank recalls by severity, beyond reproducing the Do Not Drive and Park Outside advisories NHTSA and manufacturers issue. A recall covering two million vehicles is not necessarily more dangerous than one covering two hundred, and inventing a severity score would imply an assessment nobody has made.
Independence
This site is not affiliated with NHTSA, the US Department of Transportation, or any vehicle manufacturer. The underlying recall data is US government open data. If you spot something here that contradicts the official record, the official record is right — tell us and we will fix it.