The car you bought may be defective.

A free, public registry that cross-checks your specific car against NHTSA recalls, NHTSA consumer complaints, federal court filings, and known class-action settlements. You type in your year/make/model (or VIN), we run the lookups, you get a match report with citations. That’s the whole product.

Google surfaces forum threads. We aggregate the actual records — NHTSA's recall and complaint database, court filings, and settled class actions — and tell you which of those records match your year, make, model, and reported symptom. You can verify every claim by following the citation we link to.

No. Every data source is publicly verifiable. NHTSA's APIs are free at api.nhtsa.gov. Court records are on PACER. Settlement amounts are in the public record — we link to them. The match report is just structured information about your car. You don’t have to do anything else with it.

Not for the match report. The check is anonymous. There’s an optional form at the end if you want to be put in touch with someone who handles cases like yours — but it’s truly optional, and the report itself doesn’t require any signup.

If — and only if — you opt into the contact form at the end, the firm pays us a flat referral fee for the introduction. That fee comes from them, never from you. We don’t sell ads, don’t resell your data, and don’t add you to any marketing list. If you don’t opt in, we make zero from your visit, and that’s fine.

No. We’re a registry of documented defects and we don’t provide legal advice. The match report is based on public data; if you have specific questions about your situation, talk to a professional.

Plenty of cars without a strong match still have useful information in the public records — open recalls, complaint counts, related investigations. The report shows all of that even when there’s no class-action match. Coming back as ‘Inconclusive’ usually just means we couldn’t make a definitive call from the form alone, not that there’s nothing on file.

Optional, never required. If you provide it, we auto-decode it through NHTSA’s public vPIC service (free, no commercial database) so the year/make/model fields fill themselves and we can match against trim- or engine-specific entries. The VIN is only stored if you submit the optional contact form at the end.