Built from NHTSA's own files
What goes wrong with your car, according to everyone who owns one
Every safety complaint, recall campaign and defect investigation the US government holds, joined together and put on one page per vehicle.
Look up your car
Start here
- Check your own car by VIN
The only way to know whether a recall covers your exact car.
- Look up a car you are thinking of buying
What breaks on it, how often, and at how many miles.
- See what was recalled this week
Updated as manufacturers file with NHTSA.
- Find out if your state will make them buy it back
What every state's lemon law asks for, read from the statutes.
21 recalls carry a do-not-drive or park-outside warning
NHTSA issues these where it considers the risk immediate. They stand until the repair is done, and a recall usually covers only part of a production run, so the answer for your own car is a VIN away.
What a vehicle page tells you
What actually breaks
Which part owners complain about most, how many of them, and the mileage the failure typically showed up at.
Whether it is getting worse
Complaints year by year, so you can see whether a problem is fading or still arriving. Some cars are under investigation and not yet recalled.
What owners said
Their own accounts of what the car did, in their words, alongside every recall and the free fix that goes with it.
Covering 4,329 model years across 638,691 complaints and 5,095 recall campaigns.
Most complaints on file
All vehicles →Not a reliability ranking. A model that sold half a million units collects more complaints than one that sold twenty thousand, and NHTSA does not publish sales, so nothing here divides by them.
2010 Ford Fusion
5,130Mostly the steering
9 fires 1 death 11 recalls
2012 Ford Focus
3,769Mostly the power train
15 fires 5 deaths 7 recalls
2011 Hyundai Sonata
3,377Mostly the steering
112 fires 3 deaths 14 recalls
2013 Ford F-150
2,989Mostly the power train
35 fires 4 deaths 3 recalls
2010 Toyota Prius
2,823Mostly the hydraulic brakes
13 fires 2 deaths 10 recalls
2011 Ford Fusion
2,794Mostly the steering
11 fires 1 death 7 recalls
2013 Ford Escape
2,750Mostly the engine
90 fires 18 recalls
2017 Ford Escape
2,698Mostly the engine
15 fires 4 recalls
What owners complain about
Across all 4,329 vehicles on the site.
131,191
ENGINE
114,459
ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
98,947
POWER TRAIN
65,806
STEERING
51,508
AIR BAGS
50,882
SERVICE BRAKES
40,230
FUEL/PROPULSION SYSTEM
32,959
STRUCTURE
Just recalled
All recent recalls →Volvo Car USA, LLC
October 9, 2026
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:HEAD RESTRAINT · up to 9,930 vehicles
Grand Design RV, LLC
October 9, 2026
EQUIPMENT:OTHER:LABELS · up to 53 vehicles
Grand Design RV, LLC
October 9, 2026
EQUIPMENT:RECREATIONAL VEHICLE/TRAILER · up to 148 vehicles
Hyundai Motor America
October 9, 2026
SEATS:FRONT ASSEMBLY:POWER ADJUST · up to 94,622 vehicles
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.)
October 8, 2026
TIRES:TEMPORARY/EMERGENCY SPARE TIRE · up to 4,804 vehicles
Tiffin Motorhomes, Inc.
October 8, 2026
FUEL SYSTEM, DIESEL:DELIVERY:HOSES, LINES/PIPING, AND FITTINGS · up to 177 vehicles
How current this is
- Complaint file published October 17, 2026.
- Most recent recall campaign filed October 9, 2026.
- Investigation file published 2026-10-17.
Compiled and maintained by guarledes
Independent developer and analyst