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Free NHTSA recalls, complaints and investigations per vehicle, recall alerts, dealer listing events.
Remote server: your requests and data go to api.theusedcarindex.com. Claude Code: claude mcp add --transport http the-used-car-index https://api.theusedcarindex.com/mcp · Claude app: Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector.
The tools this server listed when we connected to it, in its own words.
vehicle_risk — Look up the recorded risk facts for one make, model and model year: NHTSA complaint counts by system and subsystem, recalls, investigations,compare_vehicles — Compare recorded facts for several vehicles side by side, with factual orderings by complaints, recalls and available verified complaints-pelisting_changes — List observed dealer listing changes (new, price drop, relisted, delisted) with VIN, price, mileage, dates, source and link, filtered by vehrecall_changes — List new and updated NHTSA recalls, investigations and complaint-count changes that this service recorded from the daily NHTSA bulk-file comNot tested by KitScout yet. When our harness runs it, pros, cons and the tasks we tried appear here, with the date and evidence.