Federal-data VIN briefing
Know the car before you buy it. For $14.
Enter a VIN and get one clean document that pulls four free U.S. federal sources together: what the car is, whether it is under recall, how it scored in NHTSA crash tests, and what it costs to fuel for a year. Bilingual PDF you can keep and share.
- NHTSA specs, recalls and crash ratings
- EPA estimated annual fuel cost
- Plain-English bilingual PDF
- Results in about 60 seconds
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What the briefing reads off the VIN
Every briefing decodes the vehicle, then aggregates four free federal record sets into one plain-language, bilingual document.
Vehicle specs (NHTSA vPIC)
Year, make, model, trim, body, engine, drivetrain, transmission, and the factory safety equipment on file.
Open recall campaigns (NHTSA)
Every recall campaign for this year/make/model, with the do-not-drive and park-outside flags surfaced loudly. Verify your exact VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
Crash-test ratings (NHTSA NCAP)
Frontal, side, and rollover star ratings where NHTSA tested the configuration — shown as stars, never as a misleading zero.
Annual fuel cost (fueleconomy.gov / EPA)
The EPA estimated annual fuel cost, city/highway/combined MPG, and the 5-year fuel cost versus an average new car.
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What this briefing is
An aggregation of free federal data — NHTSA vehicle decode, NHTSA recalls, NHTSA crash-test ratings, and the EPA fuel-economy estimate — translated to plain language in English and Spanish and delivered as a PDF.
What it is not
It is NOT a title, history, salvage, odometer, theft, or ownership report (that is Carfax/NMVTIS-class data we do not sell here). Recall data is make/model/year-level, so verify your exact VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls.
Informational only. Not a title/history report. Recall data is make/model/year-level — verify your specific VIN at nhtsa.gov/recalls. Fuel cost is an EPA estimate at the national average gas price.
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