Enter your vehicle identification number to see every safety recall on record for your car’s year, make and model — explained in plain English, with the official NHTSA link to confirm what’s still open on your car.
Don’t have the VIN handy? Pick your make and model instead.
A VIN (vehicle identification number) is the 17-character code that identifies one specific vehicle. The first characters say who built it and what it is — make, model, body, engine — the 10th is the model year, and the last six are that car’s serial number. VINs never contain the letters I, O or Q, so a “0” is always a zero.
We decode the VIN to its year, make and model and list the recalls NHTSA has issued for that vehicle. A recall covers a range of VINs, and whether yours was already repaired lives in the manufacturer’s records, so use NHTSA’s VIN lookup (or call any dealer for your brand) to confirm which recalls are still open on your car.
Enter your 17-character VIN above. We decode it with NHTSA’s vPIC service to get the year, make and model, then list every NHTSA safety recall on record for that vehicle. To see whether a recall is still open on your specific car, enter the same VIN at NHTSA.gov/recalls or ask any franchised dealer.
Look through the windshield at the lower driver’s-side corner of the dashboard, or on the sticker inside the driver’s door jamb. It is also printed on your registration, title and insurance card.
Yes. Federal law requires the manufacturer to fix a safety recall at no cost to you, through any franchised dealer for that brand, no matter how old the vehicle is or who owns it now.
A VIN tells us exactly which vehicle you have, but repair records are held by the manufacturer. We show every recall issued for your year, make and model; NHTSA’s VIN lookup shows which of those are still unrepaired on your car.
Call a dealer for your brand, give them your VIN and book the free repair. If the recall says do not drive or park outside, follow that until it is fixed and ask the dealer about a tow or a loaner. Keep receipts if you paid for the same repair before the recall: many recalls include reimbursement.
No. To decode it we send NHTSA only the characters that describe the model (positions 1–8 and 10), never the serial number, and we save nothing. Alerts are stored as year, make and model only.
