# NHTSA Vehicle Safety Recalls Lookup

> NHTSA Vehicle Safety Recalls Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from agent402.tools, paid per call via x402, $0.004/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-14).

Returns NHTSA safety recall records for a specific vehicle make, model, and year, including campaign number, affected component, summary, consequence, and remedy.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://agent402.tools/api/vehicle-recalls
- Price: $0.004/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-14
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-recalls-lookup-6a8f02dd
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_MV7oe1CN4LqnE0VU6ILYv

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-lookup-6a8f02dd
```

Example prompt: Can you check if there are any NHTSA safety recalls on a 2019 Honda Accord? I want to see the affected components and what the remedy is.

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need authoritative, government-sourced recall data for a specific vehicle identified by make, model, and year. It requires no API key and costs a flat $0.004 USDC per call, making it ideal for quick, on-demand lookups in automotive research, pre-purchase due diligence, or safety compliance workflows. Prefer this over web scraping or third-party aggregators when data freshness and official NHTSA provenance are important.

## Known failure modes

- Missing required query parameters (make, model, or year) returns a 400 error
- Unrecognized make/model/year combination returns an empty recalls array
- NHTSA upstream API unavailability may cause 502 or timeout errors
- Invalid year format (non-numeric) may return a validation error
- Payment of 0.004 USDC per call is required; insufficient balance returns 402

## How this service works

NHTSA safety recalls for a vehicle by make/model/year: campaign number, affected component, summary, consequence, and remedy. Live gov data, no key. ?make=honda&model=accord&year=2019

## Output

A list of NHTSA safety recall records for the specified vehicle, each including the campaign number, the affected component (e.g. airbags, brakes), a plain-language summary of the defect, the potential consequence, and the recommended remedy. Data is sourced live from NHTSA government databases with no API key required.

## 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",
     "required": [
      "make",
      "model",
      "year"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "make": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Vehicle make, e.g. honda"
      },
      "year": {
       "type": "number",
       "description": "Model year, e.g. 2019"
      },
      "model": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Vehicle model, e.g. accord"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [
      "make",
      "model",
      "year",
      "count",
      "recalls",
      "source"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "make": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "year": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "count": {
       "type": "integer"
      },
      "model": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "source": {
       "type": "string"
      },
      "recalls": {
       "type": "array",
       "items": {
        "type": "object"
       }
      }
     }
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "make": "honda",
  "year": 2019,
  "count": 1,
  "model": "accord",
  "source": "api.nhtsa.gov (public domain)",
  "recalls": [
   {
    "remedy": "…",
    "summary": "…",
    "campaign": "20V314000",
    "component": "FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE:DELIVERY:FUEL PUMP",
    "consequence": "…",
    "parkOutside": false,
    "reportReceived": "28/05/2020"
   }
  ]
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/nhtsa-vehicle-safety-recalls-lookup-6a8f02dd/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from agent402.tools](https://www.zero.xyz/host/agent402.tools/llms.txt)