Vehicle Defect Tracker, Complaints & Recall Gaps
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Every owner complaint filed with NHTSA for a vehicle, keyless, with crash, fire, injury and death flags and the full narrative. Roll them up by component and see which failures owners keep reporting that no recall covers. Deduped properly, so counts are real.
You can access the Vehicle Defect Tracker, Complaints & Recall Gaps programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.
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