# ForgeMesh Car Reliability Report

> ForgeMesh Car Reliability Report is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-15).

Returns a ranked JSON breakdown of which components fail most often on a given year/make/model vehicle, including crash, fire, injury, and death severity data derived from official NHTSA defect complaints.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/car-reliability-report
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-15
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-car-reliability-report-85d590ed
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_9pGhoI1SA-_jxK38STkD4

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability forgemesh-car-reliability-report-85d590ed -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Before I buy this used car, can you pull a reliability report for a 2018 Honda Accord — show me the top 10 components that fail most often and whether any of those failures caused crashes, injuries, or fires?

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when an agent needs structured, ranked, severity-weighted vehicle reliability data from official government complaint records — especially for used-car purchase decisions or side-by-side comparisons. Prefer over generic car review APIs when you need granular component-level failure data with crash/fire/injury/death severity counts rather than subjective ratings.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown or invalid VIN returns an error or empty result
- Make/model/year combination not found in NHTSA database returns empty rankings
- model_year not in 4-digit format causes a validation error
- limit out of range (below 1 or above 25) causes a validation error
- Insufficient USDC balance results in payment failure and no response

## How this service works

Car reliability report computed from the full official defect-complaint record: which components fail most on a given year/make/model, how often, and how severe (crashes, fires, injuries, deaths). Ranked structured JSON — compare two candidate used cars side by side before recommending either.

## Output

A ranked JSON array of up to N vehicle components (default 10, max 25), each listing the component name, total complaint count, and counts of associated crashes, fires, injuries, and deaths — derived from the full official NHTSA defect-complaint record for the specified year/make/model or VIN.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "vin": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "VIN — decoded automatically (alternative to make/model/model_year)"
  },
  "make": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "e.g. honda"
  },
  "limit": {
   "type": "integer",
   "maximum": 25,
   "minimum": 1,
   "description": "top N components (default 10)"
  },
  "model": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "e.g. accord"
  },
  "model_year": {
   "type": "string",
   "description": "4-digit year"
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/forgemesh-car-reliability-report-85d590ed/health.json
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