EU Car Recall Monitor: official Safety Gate recalls for cars, vans, trucks & motorcycles

Is this car, van or motorbike under an EU safety recall? Search 6,400+ official EU Safety Gate motor-vehicle alerts (2005 to this week) by make, model, production year, date, country or risk, or schedule it to get only new recalls for the makes you care about. Clean, English, structured output, ready for spreadsheets, CRMs, dealer systems and AI agents.

Other Safety Gate scrapers cover every product category (toys, cosmetics, chargers...). This Actor is built only for vehicles:

• Make normalisation: VW = Volkswagen, Opel/Vauxhall is split into both makes, Mercedes- Benz / MERCEDES = Mercedes-Benz, Citroën = Citroen.
• Model lists: "Astra, Corsa, Combo, Vivaro" becomes ["Astra","Corsa","Combo","Vivaro"].
• Production window: messy production dates are parsed into productionFrom, productionTo and affectedProductionYears, so you can ask "recalls for a 2018 Toyota Yaris".
• Measures parsed: who acted (manufacturer, importer, authority), what (recall from end users, withdrawal...) and when.
• Fast and cheap: the full archive is pre-built into the Actor, and only the newest weekly reports are fetched live. A typical run takes a few seconds on 256 MB.

Who it's for

Used-car dealers and importers (e.g. checking EU imports), fleet managers, garages, insurers, leasing companies, car marketplaces, journalists and car-content sites.

Input

Field	Example	Notes
makes	["Volkswagen","Skoda"]	Empty = all makes
models	["Golf"]	Matched in model, type and description text
productionYear	2018	Keeps alerts whose production window covers this year (alerts without dates are kept)
publishedFrom / publishedTo	2025-01-01	Alert publication date
keyword	airbag, Takata, fire	Free text
vehicleTypes	["Motorcycle"]	Passenger car, Light commercial vehicle, Bus, Truck, Quad...
notifyingCountries	["Germany"]	English names
riskTypes	["Fire"]	Injuries, Fire, Burns, Environment...
seriousRiskOnly	true
onlyNewSinceLastRun	true	Monitor mode for scheduled runs
maxResults	100	Newest first

{ "makes": ["Toyota"], "models": ["Yaris"], "productionYear": 2018 }

Monitor mode

Turn on onlyNewSinceLastRun and add a schedule (e.g. every Friday after the weekly report). Each run returns only alerts you have not received with the same filters, so you can wire it to email, Slack or a webhook. You pay nothing when there is nothing new.

Example output (one row, shortened)

Real data, October 2026 build:

{
  "alertNumber": "SR/01050/26",
  "publicationDate": "2026-04-10",
  "makes": ["Opel", "Vauxhall"],
  "models": ["Astra", "Corsa", "Combo", "Vivaro"],
  "vehicleType": "Passenger car / Passenger van",
  "productionFrom": "2025-10-15",
  "productionTo": "2026-02-28",
  "affectedProductionYears": [2025, 2026],
  "companyRecallCode": "KWF",
  "riskTypes": ["Injuries"],
  "riskLevel": "Serious risk",
  "hazard": "The DV5R engine may experience a loss of power due to slippage of the water pump pulley...",
  "measureTakenBy": "Manufacturer",
  "measure": "Recall of the product from end users",
  "measureDate": "2026-03-11",
  "notifyingCountry": "France",
  "alertUrl": "https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts/screen/webReport/alertDetail/10098428",
  "sourceAttribution": "Alerts from the Rapid Alert System for dangerous non-food products, published free of charge on the Safety Gate website (https://ec.europa.eu/safety-gate-alerts) © European Union, 2005-2026",
  "language": "en"
}

A run summary is saved as SUMMARY in the key-value store.

Use with AI agents (MCP)

Connect this Actor to Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any MCP client with Apify's hosted MCP server:

https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=jyaussie/eu-vehicle-recall-monitor

Example prompts:

• "Are there EU recalls for a 2016 Ford Focus?"
• "List serious-risk airbag recalls in the EU this year."
• "Show new Toyota recalls since my last check."

Weekly recall monitor (scheduling)

Create an Apify Schedule (e.g. every Monday) with your makes/models and "onlyNewSinceLastRun": true. Each run returns only recalls you have not seen before, so you pay only for new alerts.

Pricing

Pay per event: $0.005 per alert returned ($5 per 1,000). No start fee. If nothing matches, you pay nothing. No platform usage fees.

Data source, licence & disclaimer

• Data: the official EU Safety Gate weekly reports (public XML exports). Reuse is authorised by the European Commission provided the meaning is not distorted and the source is acknowledged; every row carries the required acknowledgement in sourceAttribution. Output is in English, the original language of the alerts.
• This Actor is not affiliated with or endorsed by the European Commission. The Commission is not liable for the accuracy of information supplied by national authorities.
• Safety Gate lists alerts notified by EU/EEA authorities. Not every manufacturer recall appears there, so no result does not prove a vehicle is recall-free. Always confirm with the manufacturer or an authorised dealer using the VIN.
• Fields such as productionFrom and makes are derived by parsing the official text; the original text is kept in the ...AsPublished fields.
• No personal data: alerts describe products and companies only.