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Recall-Gap Index
High-complaint failure patterns that have NO corresponding NHTSA recall — defects owners report in volume that regulators never forced a fix for. Every row is cross-checked against the live NHTSA recalls API, so vehicles that WERE recalled for the component (even when our local DB missed it) are excluded.
Columns
| column | meaning |
|---|---|
year |
Model year |
make |
Manufacturer |
model |
Model |
component |
Failure category with no NHTSA recall |
complaints |
Total NHTSA complaints in this cluster |
mileage_median |
Median failure mileage (if available) |
alleged_deaths |
Complaints alleging death (unverified) |
alleged_fires |
Complaints alleging fire (unverified) |
severity |
critical | severe | moderate |
url |
Source page on ProblemsByVin |
Source & methodology
Candidates are (vehicle, component) clusters with no recall for that component in our DB and ≥ the complaint threshold. Each candidate vehicle is then queried against the live NHTSA recalls-by-vehicle API; any cluster whose component is in fact covered by a real NHTSA recall is REMOVED. Survivors are genuine recall gaps as of the verification date. Complaints are unverified consumer reports; absence of a recall is per NHTSA records on the verification date.
Canonical version, full methodology, and the other datasets: https://problemsbyvin.com/data/ .
License
CC BY 4.0 — free to use with attribution to ProblemsByVin (https://problemsbyvin.com).
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