Vehicles

The safety record of any vehicle, by make, model and year

Recalls, owner complaints, NHTSA defect investigations and manufacturer service bulletins for 215 makes, from the same public files NHTSA publishes. Pick a vehicle below or search from the top of any page.

Recall campaigns on file10,938From 2015 to Oct 1, 2026
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Last 12 months

The 2024 Jeep Wrangler drew the most complaints of the past year

Owner complaints filed since Oct 5, 2025, by model year. Counts are not rates: popular vehicles draw more complaints.

Source: NHTSA ODI complaints file.
Makes

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Makes with at least 100 owner complaints in the last five years. Every other make is in the lookup above.

Numbers are complaints filed in the last five years.
Benchmarks

Tesla vehicles draw the most complaints per make, model and year on file, 251

Mean complaints per make, model and model year, by manufacturer group. NHTSA publishes no sales volumes, so this is not a rate per vehicle sold.

Tesla
251
Ford
120
Subaru
114
Stellantis
112
Hyundai Motor Group
80
Honda
70
General Motors
62
Nissan
47
Mazda
40
Toyota
27
Volkswagen Group
9
BMW Group
6
Geely
6
Mercedes-Benz Group
6
Source: Recall Radar benchmarks over NHTSA ODI complaints; body and fuel from NHTSA's VIN decoder where decoded.
Model-year cohorts

New model years draw more complaints in their first two years than in 2006

Mean complaints filed in each model year's first 24 months, counted from September 1 of the prior year, so every year is compared at the same age. Model years through 2024.

All manufacturersFordStellantisGeneral Motors
020406020062009201220152018202120244.016.59.422.6
Source: Recall Radar cohorts over NHTSA ODI complaints.
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Counts, not rates

NHTSA publishes no sales or registration figures, so a popular vehicle draws more complaints and covers more recalls. Each vehicle page puts its counts beside comparable vehicles instead.

Severity index

Complaints that involved a crash, a fire, an injury or a death, as a share of all complaints, times 100. A complaint counts once however many apply.

Peer index

A vehicle's complaints against the median vehicle of the same model year and body class, where 100 is the median. It corrects for age, not for sales.

First 24 months

Complaints filed from September 1 of the year before the model year, through the following 24 months, so every model year is compared at the same age.