# NHTSA Vehicle Safety Recalls

> NHTSA Vehicle Safety Recalls is a paid API for AI agents from x402-filings.datalayer.workers.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-09).

Returns open NHTSA safety recalls for a specific vehicle make, model, and year, including campaign details, hazard description, remedy, and critical action flags like park-immediately and OTA-fix eligibility.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://x402-filings.datalayer.workers.dev/v1/safety/vehicle-recalls?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-09
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-recalls-45399983
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_1kIlKZQqVkEkuhnWrpZ8A

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 nhtsa-vehicle-safety-recalls-45399983
```

Example prompt: Can you look up any open NHTSA safety recalls for a 2020 Honda Accord and tell me if any of them require parking it immediately or can be fixed over the air?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, up-to-date US federal safety recall data for a specific vehicle identified by make, model, and year. It is the go-to source for determining whether a vehicle is subject to a park-immediately order or is eligible for an OTA fix — details not typically available from third-party recall aggregators. Prefer this over general VIN decoders when the goal is safety compliance rather than vehicle specification lookup.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameters (make, model, or year) returns a validation error
- Unknown or misspelled make/model/year combination returns an empty recalls list
- NHTSA upstream API unavailability causes a service error
- Year not in a valid four-digit format causes a bad request error

## How this service works

Open NHTSA safety recalls for a specific make, model and year. Returns the campaign number, affected component, the hazard, the remedy, and the two flags that change what you do today: whether NHTSA says park it immediately, and whether the fix can be applied over the air. Free US regulator data.

## Output

Returns a list of open NHTSA recall campaigns for the specified vehicle, each including the campaign number, the affected component, a description of the hazard, the recommended remedy, a flag indicating whether NHTSA requires the vehicle to be parked immediately, and a flag indicating whether the recall fix can be applied over the air.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
 "required": [
  "input"
 ],
 "properties": {
  "input": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type",
    "method"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string",
     "const": "http"
    },
    "method": {
     "enum": [
      "GET"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "properties": {
      "make": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "honda"
       ],
       "description": "Vehicle make. Required."
      },
      "year": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "2020"
       ],
       "description": "Four-digit model year. Required."
      },
      "model": {
       "type": "string",
       "examples": [
        "accord"
       ],
       "description": "Vehicle model. Required."
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-recalls-45399983/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from x402-filings.datalayer.workers.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/x402-filings.datalayer.workers.dev/llms.txt)