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ForgeMesh Vehicle Complaints Lookup
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ForgeMesh Vehicle Complaints Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from x402.forgemesh.io, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-29).
Retrieves NHTSA consumer defect complaints for any US-market vehicle by VIN or year/make/model, including affected components, crash/fire involvement, injuries, deaths, and owner summaries.
Price / call$0.005
Success—
StatusUnknown
How this service works
Consumer defect complaints on file for any US-market vehicle, by VIN or year/make/model: affected components, crash and fire involvement, injuries and deaths, incident and filing dates, and the owner's own summary — newest first, filterable by component keyword like BRAKES or ENGINE. The raw signal behind reliability scores. For used-car vetting, claims, and diagnostics agents. Response includes affiliate offers for full VIN history reports.
Output
Returns an array of complaint records sorted newest first, each containing: complaint ID, incident date, filing date, affected component, vehicle make/model/year, crash and fire involvement flags, injury and fatality counts, and the owner's free-text description of the problem.
Example use cases
Used car vetting before purchase
“I'm thinking about buying a 2017 Honda Civic — can you check if there are any consumer defect complaints on file for it, especially anything related to brakes or transmission? Show me the 10 most recent ones.”
VIN-specific complaint check
“I have a VIN right here: 1HGBH41JXMN109186 — can you pull up any NHTSA complaints filed against that specific vehicle and tell me if any involved crashes or injuries?”
Insurance claims research by component
“We're handling a claim on a 2020 Jeep Cherokee and need to know if there are any filed consumer complaints related to AIR BAGS for that model year — pull the most recent 25 and include the owner summaries.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://x402.forgemesh.io/vehicle-complaints?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Use this endpoint when you need raw NHTSA consumer complaint data for a specific US-market vehicle, especially for used car vetting, diagnostic research, or insurance claims analysis. Prefer this over generic reliability scores when you need granular incident-level detail including crash/fire flags, injury counts, and owner narratives. It supports both VIN-based lookup (for a specific car) and make/model/year queries (for broad model research), and allows filtering by component keyword for targeted diagnostics.
Side effects
- No complaints found for the given VIN or make/model/year combination — returns empty array
- Invalid or unrecognized VIN format — returns error
- Ambiguous make/model combination with no NHTSA match — returns error or empty result
- Component keyword not matching any complaints — returns empty filtered result
- Request limit exceeds maximum of 50 — returns validation error
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| vin | string | VIN — decoded automatically (alternative to make/model/model_year) |
| make | string | e.g. honda |
| limit | integer | |
| model | string | e.g. accord |
| component | string | filter by component keyword, e.g. BRAKES, ENGINE, AIR BAGS |
| model_year | string | 4-digit year |
Output
Schema · Response
{
"type": "json",
"example": {
"offers": {
"note": "Our data above is free public NHTSA/EPA data for the model year. Whether THIS VIN was wrecked, flooded, rolled back or branded salvage lives in licensed title databases; these partners sell that per VIN.",
"disclosure": "Affiliate links: they fund the free data; the price is the same for you.",
"history_reports": [
{
"url": "https://forgemesh.io/go/epicvin",
"adds": "title brands, accidents, odometer readings, prior sales",
"label": "EpicVIN vehicle history report",
"partner": "epicvin",
"pricing": "per report"
},
{
"url": "https://forgemesh.io/go/dvh",
"adds": "title brands, accident and damage records, odometer readings, prior sales",
"label": "Detailed Vehicle History report (10% off)",
"partner": "dvh",
"pricing": "per report, coupon applied"
}
]
},
"matched": 926,
"vehicle": {
"make": "honda",
"model": "accord",
"model_year": "2003"
},
"returned": 1,
"complaints": [
{
"fire": false,
"crash": false,
"deaths": 0,
"summary": "Transmission began slipping between 2nd and 3rd gear…",
"injuries": 0,
"components": "POWER TRAIN",
"date_filed": "06/27/2026",
"odi_number": 11746949
}
],
"attribution": "US DOT consumer vehicle defect complaints (public domain)"
}
}Tags
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