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ProblemsByVin

Free NHTSA reliability datasets: failure mileage, recalls, more

🚆 TransportHEALTHYchecked 6h ago
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A set of static JSON datasets derived from tens of thousands of NHTSA owner complaints and recalls, covering failure-mileage quartiles, recall gaps, transmission and engine complaint density and more. Files are refreshed weekly and each ships with embedded methodology and licensing. Served as plain keyless JSON under CC BY 4.0.

88HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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Status badge · for your READMEshipapis health badge: 88 · healthy
Uptime history
100%90 days
100%30 days
738P50 · ms
2512P95 · ms
operationalpartialdownno data
Response time · last 48 checks
Fastest 289 ms, slowest 1774 ms, most recent 771 ms.
Live response samplecaptured by our last successful check
GET https://problemsbyvin.com/data/failure-mileage-distribution.json

{
  "dataset": "failure-mileage-distribution",
  "title": "Failure-Mileage Distribution",
  "license": {
    "name": "CC BY 4.0",
    "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
  },
  "columns": [
    "year",
    "make",
    "model",
    "component_category",
    "mileage_median"
  ],
  "rows": [
    {
      "year": 2010,
      "make": "Toyota",
      "model": "Prius",
      "component_category": "brakes",
      "mileage_median": 6000
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://problemsbyvin.com/data/failure-mileage-distribution.json"
const res = await fetch("https://problemsbyvin.com/data/failure-mileage-distribution.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://problemsbyvin.com/data/failure-mileage-distribution.json")
print(res.json())
Endpoints · 5HealthyFULL DOCS ↗
Monitored path responding — GET /data/failure-mileage-distribution.json738 mschecked 6h ago
GET/data/failure-mileage-distribution.jsonPROBED

Free NHTSA reliability datasets: failure mileage, recalls, more

GET/data

Data — documented GET route.

GET/data/1

Data details by ID (example: 1).

GET/data?limit=10

Data — documented GET route.

GET/data/search?q=test

Search by query parameters.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Stable. No schema drift observed since monitoring began — the response shape has not changed under our checks.

ProblemsByVin: common questions

Is ProblemsByVin free to use?

Yes — ProblemsByVin is a free transport API. Free tier: Free (weekly-refreshed static JSON datasets). Commercial use is allowed on the free tier.

Does ProblemsByVin need an API key?

No — ProblemsByVin needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished (static JSON files)).

Can I call ProblemsByVin from the browser?

Yes — ProblemsByVin returns CORS headers over HTTPS, so front-end code can fetch it directly with no backend proxy. Use the fetch snippet on this page, or hit "Run live" to try it now.

Is ProblemsByVin up right now?

As of our last scheduled check, ProblemsByVin is healthy with 100% uptime over 90 days and a 738 ms median response. We re-probe it every sweep — the status badge and uptime chart above always show the latest.