# Vindex Known Issues Lookup

> Vindex Known Issues Lookup is a paid API for AI agents from api.vindexapi.dev, paid per call via x402, $0.05/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-16).

Returns aggregated known issues, complaints, and reliability statistics for a specific vehicle identified by VIN, including complaint counts, component tags, and recall counts for the US and Canada.

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://api.vindexapi.dev/v1/known-issues
- Price: $0.05/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-16
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/vindex-known-issues-lookup-3bb64f24
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_PQl1Iih6cjCxT1Z_3oecl

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 vindex-known-issues-lookup-3bb64f24
```

Example prompt: Can you pull up the known issues and complaints for VIN 1FTFW1ET4DFA12345 — I want to know what problems have been reported and how many complaints it has before I buy it.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need complaint-level detail and reliability intelligence for a specific vehicle identified by VIN, particularly when evaluating a used car purchase, auditing a fleet, or investigating a specific component failure pattern. It is preferable to generic recall lookup tools when you need aggregated ODI complaint data, component-level tagging, and cross-border (US + Canada) recall counts in a single call with no account setup required.

## Known failure modes

- Invalid or malformed VIN (not 17 characters, or contains I/O/Q) returns an error
- VIN not found in NHTSA or Canadian recall databases returns empty issues array
- Payment not included or insufficient USDC results in 402 Payment Required
- Network or upstream data provider outage returns a 5xx error
- VIN for a non-US/Canada vehicle may return limited or no complaint data

## How this service works

LLM-clustered named failure modes from NHTSA owner complaints — every issue cites verified ODI complaint numbers (hallucination-gated) — plus a reliability-aggregates block and the full decoded vehicle. Refuses (uncharged) below 15 complaints.

## Output

Returns a JSON object with the vehicle's make, model, and year; a list of known issues each with a title, complaint count, relevant ODI complaint numbers, and component tags (e.g. STEERING, ENGINE); aggregate complaint count; number of complaints analyzed; and recall counts broken out by US and Canada.

## 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": [
      "vin"
     ],
     "properties": {
      "vin": {
       "type": "string",
       "description": "17-character VIN (no I/O/Q)"
      }
     }
    }
   },
   "additionalProperties": false
  },
  "output": {
   "type": "object",
   "required": [
    "type"
   ],
   "properties": {
    "type": {
     "type": "string"
    },
    "example": {
     "type": "object"
    }
   }
  }
 }
}
```

## Response schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "json",
 "example": {
  "issues": [
   {
    "count": 2,
    "title": "Electric power steering assist failure",
    "odiNumbers": [
     11234567,
     11245678
    ],
    "componentTags": [
     "STEERING"
    ]
   }
  ],
  "status": "ok",
  "vehicle": {
   "make": "FORD",
   "year": 2013,
   "model": "F-150"
  },
  "reliability": {
   "recalls": {
    "usCount": 4,
    "canadaCount": 2
   },
   "complaintCount": 842
  },
  "complaintCount": 842,
  "complaintsAnalyzed": 150
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/vindex-known-issues-lookup-3bb64f24/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from api.vindexapi.dev](https://www.zero.xyz/host/api.vindexapi.dev/llms.txt)