# ForgeMesh Vehicle Top Failures Report

> ForgeMesh Vehicle Top Failures 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 ranked consumer defect complaint data for a US vehicle by year/make/model or VIN, including top failure components with complaint counts and percentage share, plus crash, fire, injury, and death totals.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://x402.forgemesh.io/vehicle-top-failures
- 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-vehicle-top-failures-report-87f65588
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_ViSoixmBKd0G_r6G2eT9-

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-vehicle-top-failures-report-87f65588 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: What are the top 10 most common failure components on a 2017 Honda CR-V? I want to know complaint counts, percentages, and any crash or injury totals so I can decide whether to buy one.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need structured, ranked failure intelligence for a specific US-market vehicle — particularly for buy/avoid decisions, pre-purchase inspections, warranty risk pricing, or building inspection checklists. Prefer over generic review sites when you need quantified complaint data (counts, percentages) broken down by component, plus safety severity signals (crash, fire, injury, death counts) in a single structured call.

## Known failure modes

- Unknown make/model/year combination returns empty or no-data response
- Invalid or undecodable VIN returns an error
- Rare or low-volume vehicles may have too few complaints to rank meaningfully
- Model year outside available data range returns no results
- Request missing both VIN and make/model/year returns a validation error

## How this service works

Reliability intelligence for any US-market vehicle: every consumer defect complaint on file for a year/make/model (or VIN) aggregated into a ranked top-failure-components report — complaint counts and percentage share per component, plus crash, fire, injury, and death totals. One call answers 'what actually breaks on this car?' For buy/avoid decisions, warranty pricing, and inspection checklists.

## Output

A ranked list of the top N failure components for the specified vehicle, each with a complaint count and percentage share of total complaints. Also includes aggregate totals for crashes, fires, injuries, and deaths across all complaints on file for that 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-vehicle-top-failures-report-87f65588/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402.forgemesh.io](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402.forgemesh.io/llms.txt)