NHTSA Safety Recalls — Every Vehicle, Equipment, Tire And Child-Seat Recall Campaign Since 1966 With Component, Units Affected, Defect, Consequence And Remedy

DatasetCSV.GZOpenRecallsAutomotiveVehicle SafetyNhtsaProduct SafetyUSFree

30,281 recall campaigns filed with NHTSA's Office of Defects Investigation from 1966-01-19 to 2026-09-01 by 3,086 manufacturers: NHTSA campaign id, date the Part 573 report was received, manufacturer, subject, affected component, manufacturer's own campaign number, recall type (vehicle, equipment, tire, child seat), potentially affected units, the defect, consequence and corrective-action summaries (each capped at 1,000 characters), park-outside and do-not-drive advisories, the completion rate reported in the latest quarterly report for campaigns from 2015 onward, and the nhtsa.gov recall link, one row per campaign, from the US DOT datahub's Recalls Data feed as of 2026-09-06. Campaign level only: the per make, model and model-year vehicle list is not in this feed.

Use Cases

Automaker and supplier quality benchmarking
Recall-frequency features for equity and credit research on OEMs
Component failure-mode text mining
Product-liability and warranty-cost analysis

Methodology

Socrata SODA count query then 10,000-row JSON pages ordered by NHTSA id at four concurrent requests; dates reduced to ISO days; free text collapsed to one line and truncated to 1,000 characters; Yes/No advisories as booleans, blank where not reported; de-duplicated on NHTSA id; sorted by report date and id.

Update Schedule

Static snapshot. NHTSA posts new campaigns daily and the datahub feed refreshes weekly; refresh weekly.

Attribution

Source: National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, Office of Defects Investigation recall campaigns, published as "Recalls Data" on the US Department of Transportation datahub (datahub.transportation.gov, dataset 6axg-epim); US government work, public domain.

Schema

name	type
nhtsa_id	string
report_received_date	date
manufacturer	string
subject	string
component	string
mfr_campaign_number	string
recall_type	string
potentially_affected	integer
defect_summary	string
consequence_summary	string
corrective_action	string
park_outside_advisory	boolean
do_not_drive_advisory	boolean
completion_rate_pct	string
recall_url	string

Sample Data

subject	nhtsa_id	component	recall_url	recall_type	manufacturer	defect_summary	corrective_action	consequence_summary	mfr_campaign_number	potentially_affected	report_received_date	do_not_drive_advisory	park_outside_advisory
STEERING:COLUMN	66V032001	STEERING	https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=66V032001	Vehicle	General Motors, LLC				NR (Not Reported)	138878	1966-01-19	false	false
STEERING:COLUMN	66V032003	STEERING	https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=66V032003	Vehicle	General Motors, LLC				NR (Not Reported)	70644	1966-01-19	false	false
STEERING:COLUMN	66V032004	STEERING	https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=66V032004	Vehicle	General Motors, LLC				NR (Not Reported)	68184	1966-01-19	false	false
BRAKES:HYDRAULIC:LINES:HOSE:NON-METALLIC	66V178000	SERVICE BRAKES, HYDRAULIC	https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=66V178000	Vehicle	RENAULT, INCORPORATED	POSSIBILITY THAT THE FRONT BRAKE HOSE END FITTINGS MAY BECOME LOOSE AND CAUSE LEAKAGE OF BRAKE FLUID.	(REPLACE FRONT BRAKE HOSES AND SEALS.)	IF SUCH LEAKAGE OCCURS AND IF ENOUGH BRAKE FLUID SHOULD BE LOST, THE BRAKES WOULD NOT FUNCTION.	NR (Not Reported)	125	1966-09-19	false	false
FUEL:CARBURETOR:FOUR:BARREL	66V002001	FUEL SYSTEM, GASOLINE	https://www.nhtsa.gov/recalls?nhtsaId=66V002001	Vehicle	Chrysler (FCA US, LLC)				NR (Not Reported)	6101	1966-09-29	false	false

Get this via API

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#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
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# 1. Add dAgentBase once, in any MCP client. No install, no vendor keys.
#    Claude.ai / Claude Desktop: Settings -> Connectors -> Add custom connector
#    Cursor / Claude Code / others: mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "dagentbase": {
      "url": "https://dagentbase.com/api/mcp",
      "headers": { "Authorization": "Bearer dm_live_YOUR_KEY" }
    }
  }
}

# 2. Then ask your agent, in plain language:
#    "Preview 'NHTSA Safety Recalls — Every Vehicle, Equipment, Tire and Child-Seat Recall Campaign since 1966 with Component, Units Affected, Defect, Consequence and Remedy' and, if it fits, claim it and download the files."
#    Tools it will use: search_listings -> preview_listing -> purchase_listing -> get_download_urls

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Details

Date Range1966-01-19 — 2026-09-01

Rows30,281

Size4.9 MB

Files1

FormatCSV.GZ

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