About & methodology

What this site is

Recalls by Model puts every U.S. vehicle safety recall and the official count of owner complaints on one page per make, model and model year — 99 makes, 2,631 models and 22,726 model-year pages, model years 2000 onward. It is an independent site run by Digital Dynamics Kft. (Hungary, EU). It is not affiliated with NHTSA, any government agency or any vehicle manufacturer, and it is not a dealer, repair shop or law firm.

Data sources

• Recalls — NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation recall file (vehicle recalls only): 18,714 campaigns. The defect, risk and remedy text is published exactly as NHTSA and the manufacturer wrote it.
• Complaints — NHTSA consumer complaint file: 1,276,974 complaints. We publish counts only (by component, by year filed, and whether a crash, fire or injury was reported, plus the median mileage). We never publish names, locations, VINs, dealers or the free-text complaint narratives.
• Investigations — NHTSA defect investigations file: 1,499 investigations.
• Photos — Wikimedia Commons, only public domain, CC0, CC BY and CC BY-SA images, credited under each photo with author, license and a link to the original. Photos are matched by the model year in the file name; where the exact year is missing, a neighbouring year is shown and labelled. Images are resized and cropped for display; the originals are unchanged on Wikimedia Commons.
• Icons and design — our own. Vehicle manufacturer names are used only to identify vehicles; we do not use manufacturer logos.

All NHTSA data are U.S. government works in the public domain. Source: NHTSA datasets. Updated weekly; last update 2026-11-12.

How to read the numbers

• A complaint is not a confirmed defect. Complaints are reports filed by consumers; NHTSA does not verify them.
• More cars sold means more complaints. A best-selling model will have more complaints than a rare one. Compare model years of the same model rather than different models.
• Recent model years have had less time on the road, so they have fewer complaints so far.
• A recall listed for a model year does not mean every car of that year is affected. Only a VIN lookup at nhtsa.gov/recalls tells you whether your vehicle has an open recall.
• Model names are grouped when NHTSA spells them differently (for example F150 and F-150).

Contact

Digital Dynamics Kft., 2724 Újlengyel, Nyári Pál utca 15., Hungary · info@digitaldynamics.hu