NHTSA Office of Defects Investigation · US EPA · Snapshot 2026-10-15
Used Car Problems and Recalls by Model Year
Look up a year. See what owners reported and which recalls NHTSA recorded.
Search a used car the way a buyer does: year, make, model. YearTell shows the NHTSA complaint file and the safety-recall list for that year, with body-style names merged so an F-150 search is not split three ways.
▲ Queried separately A buyer who checks one body-style name sees a fraction of the record. The rest stays invisible.
- 1,625,255 Owner complaints
- 30,377 Recall campaigns
- 2,624 Model-year pages published
- 1984–2026 Years covered
NHTSA snapshot covers model years 1984–2026 (1,625,255 owner reports, 30,377 recall campaigns). 2,624 model-year pages have enough on file to be worth reading.
Why official searches under-count popular trucks
A buyer who queries NHTSA for F-150, F150 or F-150 SuperCrew sees three partial files. YearTell combines those body-style names and keeps F-250 separate. Complaint counts are not adjusted for how many vehicles were sold and are not a reliability score.
What these numbers are not
Complaint counts are self-selected reports. They are not normalised for sales volume and they are not a reliability rating. YearTell does not publish scores, stars or advice to avoid a year.
Published manufacturers · 63 with model-year records
All manufacturers
All manufacturers
- Acura 14 models
- Alfa Romeo 3 models
- Aston Martin 1 model
- Audi 33 models
- Bentley 3 models
- BMW 72 models
- Braun 1 model
- Buick 20 models
- Cadillac 23 models
- Chevrolet 47 models
- Chrysler 21 models
- Daewoo 3 models
- Daihatsu 1 model
- Dodge 33 models
- Eagle 4 models
- Ferrari 4 models
- FIAT 5 models
- Fisker 1 model
- Fleetwood 1 model
- Ford 46 models
- Genesis 4 models
- Geo 5 models
- GMC 12 models
- Honda 16 models
- Hummer 2 models
- Hyundai 27 models
- Infiniti 23 models
- Isuzu 9 models
- Jaguar 16 models
- Jeep 11 models
- KIA 22 models
- Land Rover 12 models
- Lexus 31 models
- Lincoln 15 models
- Lotus 2 models
- Maserati 4 models
- Mazda 25 models
- Mercedes Benz 66 models
- Mercury 16 models
- Merkur 2 models
- Mini 3 models
- Mitsubishi 16 models
- Nissan 27 models
- Oldsmobile 15 models
- Plymouth 13 models
- Polestar 1 model
- Pontiac 20 models
- Porsche 14 models
- RAM 4 models
- Renault 1 model
- Rivian 2 models
- Rolls-Royce 1 model
- Saab 4 models
- Saturn 15 models
- Scion 7 models
- Smart 2 models
- Subaru 13 models
- Suzuki 11 models
- Tesla 5 models
- Toyota 34 models
- Triumph 1 model
- Volkswagen 28 models
- Volvo 21 models