You already check for recalls.
Can you prove it?
Nightly NHTSA recall monitoring for a list of VINs, with a dated record of every check. Built for used-car lots and fleets holding vehicles long enough for a recall to land while they sit.
The problem this solves
A clean car does not stay clean
NHTSA files campaigns every day against model years already sitting on lots. The car you checked at trade-in is not the car you are selling sixty days later.
Your OEM portal only covers your brand
Every trade-in of another make is invisible to it. On an independent lot, that is the entire inventory.
Checking is not the hard part
Anyone can look up a VIN. Showing, next year, that you looked this year is the part nobody can do — and the part the FTC now asks about.
Eleven months from now, the question
is what you knew in March.
On the 1st of every month we email you a statement for the month that just ended: how many vehicles were on the list, every campaign that opened against one of them, every one that closed — and every vehicle that left your list while a campaign was still open, dated to the day it was removed. File it with the deal jacket and the answer to that question is already written down.
Of every month
It arrives on its own. No dashboard visit to remember, no export to run, nothing to switch on.
Every entry kept
Longer than any reasonable question about a car you sold last spring — and exportable as CSV the whole time.
On the free plan too
Ten vehicles gets the statement as well. The paid tiers are more vehicles, not a better product.
Still watched after the sale
Mark a vehicle sold and it stays on the list. When a campaign lands on it in March, your service department hears first — warranty-paid work, and a call the owner is glad to get before the letter.
Several lots, one statement
Tag each VIN with its rooftop. Filter the dashboard by lot; the monthly statement carries per-lot totals. A group sees the whole thing and each store sees its own.
It arrives on a quiet month too, because a month of nothing is also a month you checked. And it is not a certification that any vehicle is clear — nothing at any price is — which it says in its own footer, next to both links that can settle a VIN.
Plans
Cancel any timeTen vehicles, watched every night. Every feature the paid plans have — no card, no trial clock.
- Nightly re-check against every new NHTSA campaign
- Email the morning something changes
- Dated record of every change, exportable
- Proof of check: one row per night, naming the copy of the NHTSA record used
- Monthly statement, emailed on the 1st
- Inventory CSV for the deal jacket
- One-page recall disclosure per vehicle, dated and source-cited
- Webhook delivery to your own system
For an independent lot holding up to fifty cars.
- Nightly re-check against every new NHTSA campaign
- Email the morning something changes
- Dated record of every change, exportable
- Proof of check: one row per night, naming the copy of the NHTSA record used
- Monthly statement, emailed on the 1st
- Inventory CSV for the deal jacket
- One-page recall disclosure per vehicle, dated and source-cited
- Webhook delivery to your own system
For a franchise used-car department or a mid-sized fleet.
- Nightly re-check against every new NHTSA campaign
- Email the morning something changes
- Dated record of every change, exportable
- Proof of check: one row per night, naming the copy of the NHTSA record used
- Monthly statement, emailed on the 1st
- Inventory CSV for the deal jacket
- One-page recall disclosure per vehicle, dated and source-cited
- Webhook delivery to your own system
For a commercial or municipal fleet running thousands of vehicles.
- Nightly re-check against every new NHTSA campaign
- Email the morning something changes
- Dated record of every change, exportable
- Proof of check: one row per night, naming the copy of the NHTSA record used
- Monthly statement, emailed on the 1st
- Inventory CSV for the deal jacket
- One-page recall disclosure per vehicle, dated and source-cited
- Webhook delivery to your own system
Before you buy: what is in the data, where it came from and what it is not — including the limits, stated up front.
What we can and cannot tell you
Read this before you buyWe watch.
You confirm, in one click.
Over-reporting is the safe direction for a triage tool. Telling you a car is clear when it is not would be the one failure that could actually hurt somebody, so we do not make that claim and we do not let a supplier make it for us.
NHTSA's public file is campaign-level: it says which model years and build ranges a recall covers, never which individual vehicles. No dataset sold by anyone changes that — the list of affected VINs exists only at the manufacturer. So we do the part that scales, every night, and hand you the part that settles it.
What we do nightly
Check every VIN in your list against the current federal recall record, and email you the morning a model year you hold picks up a new campaign — with severity, park-outside and do-not-drive flags, and a dated record of every check we ran.
The two doors we hand you
Every alert links NHTSA's VIN checker and the manufacturer's own lookup for that make. Under 49 CFR 573.15 the manufacturer is required to run one and to refresh it at least every seven days, which makes it the authoritative answer for a single vehicle — and it is two clicks from the alert rather than a search.
Questions
Source: EPA, NHTSA and manufacturer press kitsHow is this different from your free VIN check?
The free tool answers “what is on my lot today”, once, in your browser. This watches the same list every night and tells you the morning a new campaign lands on a vehicle you are still holding — and keeps a dated record of every change, which is the part you cannot reproduce after the fact.
Does this tell me if a specific VIN is affected?
No, and neither does anything else at this price. NHTSA's public data is campaign-level: a campaign names a make, model and model year plus a build window. Only NHTSA's own VIN lookup and the manufacturer know whether one specific vehicle is inside that window and whether its repair has been done. So we do the watching and hand you the vehicles worth checking, each linked straight to NHTSA's checker. Any product claiming per-VIN certainty from public data is decoding the VIN to year, make and model and looking up campaigns — which is what we do, described as more.
Why does the record matter?
On 28 January 2016 the FTC announced complaints and consent orders against General Motors, Jim Koons Management and Lithia Motors. All three had advertised rigorous multi-point inspections — GM's “172-Point Vehicle Inspection”, Lithia's “160-checkpoint Quality Assurance Inspection” — while selling cars with unrepaired safety recalls. Under those orders they may not call a used vehicle safe or rigorously inspected unless it is free of unrepaired recalls, or the recalls are clearly disclosed close to the claim, on pain of civil penalties. Selling a car with an open recall is still legal; claiming you inspected it when you did not check is not. Two of the exports answer that directly: the change log shows what was open and when, and the proof-of-check export shows the nights we looked and which published copy of the NHTSA record we looked at.
What happens when nothing changes?
Nothing, day to day. We do not send a daily all-clear, because an email nobody reads is how the one that matters gets ignored. The check still happens and is still recorded — every vehicle carries the date it was last looked at — and it all lands in the monthly statement.
What is the monthly statement?
On the 1st of each month we email you a summary of the month that just ended: how many vehicles were on the list, every new campaign that opened against one of them, every campaign that closed, and — the part worth filing — every vehicle that left your list while still carrying an open campaign, dated to the day it was removed. It arrives whether or not anything happened, because a month of nothing is also a month you checked. It is not a certification that any vehicle is clear, and it says so on its own footer. Free plans get it too.
What is the recall disclosure document?
One page per watched vehicle, printed from the dashboard or saved as a PDF: the VIN and your stock number, what NHTSA's file carried against that model year on the night it was last checked, each campaign with its component, severity and remedy, the two lookups that settle the specific vehicle, signature lines, and a footer that says exactly what the page is and is not. It never says a car is clear, because public data cannot say that — it says what was filed, and when you checked. Every plan, including Free.
Can I put my whole inventory in?
Paste it, one VIN per line, or paste two columns as VIN and stock number and we will keep your numbering — or three, with the lot, if you run more than one rooftop. Up to 2,000 rows at a time.
What happens when I sell a car?
Two choices, both yours. Remove it, and the record of what was open on it that day is kept in your log. Or mark it sold, and it stays on the list and keeps being checked every night — so when a campaign lands on it months later, your service department hears before the owner's letter arrives. That repair is warranty-paid work, and the call is one an owner is glad to get. Sold vehicles count toward the plan's vehicle limit, because we are doing the same work for them; the dashboard says so where you would look.
I run several stores. Can I see them together?
Yes, with one login. Tag each VIN with its lot when you paste it, filter the dashboard by lot, and the monthly statement carries a per-lot table. There is no per-store login and no per-store price: a group is a bigger list, not a different product.
What if I stop paying?
Your list stays. Vehicles above the free limit stop being checked rather than being deleted, oldest kept first, and the exports of everything recorded so far stay available.