Vehicle Safety Recalls by Make, Model and Year (NHTSA)

nhtsa/vehicle-recalls

The safety recall campaigns NHTSA (the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration) lists for one vehicle make, model and model year. Each campaign gives its NHTSA campaign number, the manufacturer, the affected component, a summary of the defect, the consequence, the remedy and the report date (day/month/year). Matching is by make, model and year, not by VIN, so a campaign may cover only some trims or builds of that model: it says which in its summary. A vehicle with no recalls, an unknown make or model, or a year with no data comes back as a validation error, not an empty list. Source: NHTSA, a US federal agency whose data is in the public domain. Not an official NHTSA product.

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Price

$0.0026 per call

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Data source

National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)

Data from the U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (api.nhtsa.gov). A work of the US Government, with no copyright under 17 USC 105; the API Use Policy at api.nhtsa.gov restricts only bulk VIN lookups, and no restriction on commercial use was found. Served by Eden Engine; not an official NHTSA product.

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// 1. search: find the tool
omnial_search({ query: "what you need" })

// 2. inspect: price and input schema
omnial_inspect({ tool: "nhtsa/vehicle-recalls" })

// 3. learn: read the usage guide at runtime
omnial_learn({ tool: "nhtsa/vehicle-recalls" })

// 4. run: price the exact call first, then run it
omnial_execute({ tool: "nhtsa/vehicle-recalls", input: { /* see input_schema */ }, dry_run: true })
omnial_execute({ tool: "nhtsa/vehicle-recalls", input: { /* ... */ } })

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Charge	Price
Per call	$0.0026

Updated: Oct 20, 2026

Input and output schemas

Input schema

input_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "make",
    "model",
    "model_year"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "make": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 50,
      "minLength": 2,
      "description": "Vehicle make, for example Honda or Mercedes-Benz. Case-insensitive."
    },
    "model": {
      "type": "string",
      "maxLength": 80,
      "minLength": 1,
      "description": "Vehicle model in NHTSA's own spelling, for example Accord, F-150 or Silverado 1500. Case-insensitive; F150 does not match F-150."
    },
    "model_year": {
      "type": "integer",
      "maximum": 2035,
      "minimum": 1950,
      "description": "Four-digit model year, for example 2015."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}

Output schema

output_schema.json

{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "Count",
    "results"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "Count": {
      "type": "integer",
      "description": "How many campaigns results holds."
    },
    "Message": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "NHTSA's status text."
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "Make": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Make, upper case."
          },
          "Model": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Model, upper case."
          },
          "Notes": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "NHTSA's contact boilerplate. May be empty."
          },
          "Remedy": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "What the manufacturer will do about it."
          },
          "parkIt": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "True when owners are told not to drive the vehicle."
          },
          "Summary": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The defect, in NHTSA's text. Often names other models covered by the same recall."
          },
          "Component": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Affected component as a colon-delimited hierarchy, broad to narrow. A level may itself contain a comma."
          },
          "ModelYear": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Model year as a string."
          },
          "Consequence": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "What the defect can cause."
          },
          "parkOutSide": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "True when owners are told to park the vehicle outside."
          },
          "Manufacturer": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The recalling manufacturer."
          },
          "overTheAirUpdate": {
            "type": "boolean",
            "description": "True when the remedy is delivered as an over-the-air software update."
          },
          "NHTSAActionNumber": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "The NHTSA investigation that led to the recall. Present on few rows."
          },
          "ReportReceivedDate": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "Date the manufacturer's report reached NHTSA, DD/MM/YYYY (day first): 29/01/2019 is 29 January 2019."
          },
          "NHTSACampaignNumber": {
            "type": "string",
            "description": "NHTSA's campaign id, for example 19V060000."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": true
      },
      "description": "One entry per recall campaign, in NHTSA's order."
    }
  },
  "description": "NHTSA's response: Count and Message, and the recall campaigns in results (never empty here: no recalls is an error).",
  "additionalProperties": true
}