# Vehicle Safety & Recall Check (NHTSA + NCAP)

> Vehicle Safety & Recall Check (NHTSA + NCAP) is a paid API for AI agents from payai.agentstools.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.03/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-12).

Returns open NHTSA recalls, complaint summary (crashes, fires, injuries, deaths), and NCAP 5-star safety rating fused into a single JSON with a deterministic risk score for a given vehicle by make/model/year or VIN.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://payai.agentstools.dev/safety/vehicle?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.03/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-12
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vehicle-safety-recall-check-nhtsa-ncap-7a13ff29
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_jF27jV9uxN_1L4XOMk38S

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 vehicle-safety-recall-check-nhtsa-ncap-7a13ff29
```

Example prompt: Can you check if a 2018 Honda Accord has any open recalls or safety complaints, and give me its NCAP rating and overall risk score?

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need a comprehensive, pre-aggregated vehicle safety snapshot combining recalls, complaints, and crash test ratings in one call. Prefer it over querying NHTSA directly when you want a deterministic risk score and complaint breakdown (crashes, fires, injuries, deaths) without building your own aggregation logic. Ideal for pre-purchase used car checks, fleet safety audits, or any consumer-facing safety advisory workflow.

## Known failure modes

- Vehicle make/model/year combination not found in NHTSA database — returns empty or null recall/rating fields
- Invalid or malformed VIN (must be 17 characters) — returns validation error
- Vehicle year out of supported range (1949–2030) — rejected by schema
- NHTSA or NCAP data temporarily unavailable — may return partial results or upstream error
- Missing required query parameters (no VIN and no make/model/year) — returns 400-level error

## How this service works

Vehicle safety and recall check for a car, by make/model/year or by VIN. Fuses NHTSA open recalls, a complaint summary (crash, fire, injuries, deaths) and the 5-star NCAP safety rating into one cited JSON with a deterministic risk score. Risk indicators, not advice.

## Output

A JSON object containing a list of open NHTSA recalls, a complaint summary broken down by crash, fire, injury, and death counts, the NCAP 5-star safety rating, and a deterministic risk score — all with citations to the underlying government data sources.

## 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",
      "HEAD",
      "DELETE"
     ],
     "type": "string"
    },
    "queryParams": {
     "type": "object",
     "required": [],
     "properties": {
      "vin": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "17-char VIN; decoded to make/model/year instead of supplying them"
      },
      "make": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Vehicle make, e.g. Honda"
      },
      "year": {
       "type": "integer",
       "maximum": 2030,
       "minimum": 1949,
       "description": "Vehicle model year, e.g. 2015"
      },
      "model": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "Vehicle model, e.g. Accord"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "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/vehicle-safety-recall-check-nhtsa-ncap-7a13ff29/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from payai.agentstools.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/payai.agentstools.dev/llms.txt)