The fix may already be written down.
TSB lookup: every service bulletin, by VIN, model or number
26,234 manufacturer communications with a page of their own, across 118 makes: every service campaign, warranty extension, over-the-air update and emissions notice filed with NHTSA since 2016, and every service bulletin a model-year page on this site lists. A bulletin is not a recall — nobody has to repair it free. Type the number into the search box, or browse by make. Every warranty extension and special-coverage program is also in one list, with its term.
Every bulletin filed for your car
Pick the car and its page opens at the bulletin list: every service campaign, warranty extension and over-the-air update its manufacturer filed with NHTSA for that model year, and the repair bulletins that go with them.
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Type the number on it
The campaign or bulletin number exactly as printed — the make is optional. Every document number filed under a page finds it.
Try
Decoded by NHTSA in your browser, then its bulletin list opens.
A bulletin is not a recall. Recalls have their own pages, by NHTSA’s number and the maker’s.
Newest on file
Source: by the manufacturer’s dateLetters owners get
service campaigns, warranty extensions, over-the-air updates
Repair bulletins
how the dealer is told to fix a known condition
Repairs the manufacturer agreed to keep paying for
Extensions and special-coverage programs from every make, in one list with the term each runs to — the part, the years and miles, and whether owners who already paid get the money back.
See every program →By make
118 makesThe busiest manufacturers first, then every make A to Z. A make’s page lists its campaigns, extensions and updates first, then its repair bulletins by date.
What a bulletin is, and is not
Source: 49 CFR 579.5A technical service bulletin
The manufacturer telling its dealers how to diagnose or repair a known condition. It is not a recall, not a finding that the vehicle is defective, and the work is not automatically free.
A service campaign, a warranty extension or an over-the-air update
The same kind of filing with a different promise attached: usually work the manufacturer pays for on the vehicles it names, within the terms the document sets, and usually announced by letter — which is why its number is the one people search.
A safety recall
Different in law: it carries an NHTSA campaign number, the manufacturer must repair it free for vehicles up to fifteen years old, and it has its own pages here, by NHTSA’s number and by the manufacturer’s.
What is on this site
26,234 of the roughly 120,000 distinct bulletin numbers NHTSA holds for 2016-and-later model years — the kinds an owner is written to about, and the bulletins this site’s vehicle pages already show. The rest are dealer repair instructions nobody outside a service department types into a search box; the vehicle page’s count includes them.
Technical service bulletins (TSBs): how to find one and use it at the dealer
A service bulletin is a manufacturer's repair instruction to its dealers, filed with NHTSA and public by law. How to find the one that matches your car's symptom, how to read it, and what it can and cannot do at the service desk.