About YearTell
YearTell publishes public U.S. government vehicle records — NHTSA owner complaints, safety recalls and investigations, plus EPA fuel-economy figures — so a used-car buyer can see what owners reported on a specific model year before spending thousands of dollars.
The problem we solve
NHTSA already publishes every owner complaint since 1995 and every recall since 1967. The records are free. They are also split across body-style names, so a buyer who searches the obvious name often sees a fraction of the file. YearTell merges those names deterministically, keeps weight classes apart, and shows the counts with the snapshot date and a link to the federal record.
Independence and funding
We do not sell cars, dealer leads or insurance. We do not take payment from manufacturers to change a count. Display advertising is the intended funding model once the pages are useful enough to carry it. Until ads are switched on, the site carries none. When they appear they will sit below the safety snapshot and the component table, never on top of a recall list, and never dressed up as a recall button.
Who operates this site
Pages are attributed to YearTell editorial, not to invented bylines. The organisation runs the merge map, the publication threshold and the templates. Where a person has to approve an ambiguous merge, that decision is recorded internally and is available on request for any figure on this site. Corrections go to corrections@yeartell.com — the same mailbox as the corrections policy.
Editorial guardrails
These limits are enforced in code: no reliability scores, no stars, no “best year”, no “avoid this year”, no LLM-written filler, no OEM logos. Complaint narratives are short excerpts of public records; if you see personal information, email corrections@yeartell.com and we will remove the excerpt.
Contact
Corrections: corrections@yeartell.com. Everything else: hello@yeartell.com. Privacy questions: privacy@yeartell.com.