About Check Car Recalls

What this site publishes

Every NHTSA safety recall on mainstream passenger vehicles from 2000 onward, and on RVs, motorcycles, powersports and trailers from 2010, readable three ways: by year, make and model; by model across all its years; and by recall campaign, listing every vehicle that campaign covers.

Why it exists

The underlying data is public and free, but it is published for analysts rather than for readers: bulk files, codebooks, and lookup tools that expect you to know the identifier already. This site does the matching and the arithmetic, then states the answer in a sentence at the top of the page.

Where the figures come from

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the US federal vehicle safety regulator.

Nothing here is estimated, modelled or generated. Every number traces to a published federal record.

What it is not

A recall covers a range of VINs, not every vehicle of a model. Only your own 17-character VIN, checked against NHTSA, tells you whether a particular vehicle is affected. Owner complaints and NCAP crash-test ratings come from the same agency.

Who publishes this site

Check Car Recalls is published by ArtUp Labs, the trade name of Individual Entrepreneur Karpets A.V. (Artyom Karpets), Republic of Kazakhstan. It is a one-person operation: the same person writes the code that matches the federal records, checks the pages and answers the mail. There are no outside authors and no sponsored content.

The terms of use are on the terms page, and how the site handles data is in the privacy policy.

Corrections

If a page contradicts the official source, the official source is right and we want to know. Write to us from the contact page.