# UK Data: US Vehicle Safety (NHTSA) Muse connector

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## UK Data: US Vehicle Safety (NHTSA)

Check US car recalls, owner complaints and crash test ratings before you buy or drive

- Record: https://musedirectory.ai/connector/uk-data-us-vehicle-safety-nhtsa
- Category: Research & Data
- Developer: Reliness (https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk)
- Muse status: Extra setup. Not in Muse's Connectors list yet. Muse can still use it: its page gives you a request to paste into Muse.
- Health: Working, 5ms, checked 2026-11-06T23:31:30Z
- Endpoint: https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/vehicles-safety
- Auth: No account needed; Pricing: unknown
- Screening: Screened, no issues found (2026-11-06T23:31:30Z)
- Source: Found in the official MCP Registry (uk.co.reliness/vehicles-safety) https://registry.modelcontextprotocol.io/v0/servers?search=uk.co.reliness%2Fvehicles-safety

Connects to NHTSA public records so Muse can look up safety recalls, owner complaints, 5-star crash ratings and driver-assist features for a US make, model and year, decode a VIN prefix to its maker, and pull recall campaign details. Read-only lookups, no sign-in.

Example request: "Are there any recalls on a 2019 Honda Accord, and how did it score in crash tests?"

How to connect: Not in Muse's Connectors list yet, but Muse can still use it. Paste this into Muse: "Use UK Data: US Vehicle Safety (NHTSA) to help me. It is a free service with an MCP server at https://ukdata.reliness.co.uk/mcp/vehicles-safety. It does not need an API key. Ask me before you share anything with it." Muse asks before it shares anything with the app's site. Meta does not review apps used this way, so only use ones you trust. We tested this in the Muse app on September 24, 2026: Muse used an app's link directly this way and returned a live answer.

Tools:
- vehicle_recalls: Are there recalls on this car? Lists every US safety recall NHTSA holds for a make, model and model year, newest first, with the faulty component, the risk, the remedy and do-not-drive or park-outside warnings. For owners, used-car buyers and fleet managers. Source: NHTSA Recalls
- recall_campaign_details: Look up one recall by its NHTSA campaign number (for example 20V314000, as printed on a US recall letter) and get the defect, risk, remedy, the number of vehicles potentially affected and every make, model and year it covers. For owners, journalists, lawyers and fleet managers. S
- vehicle_complaints: What goes wrong with this car? Summarises owner-filed safety complaints to NHTSA for a make, model and model year: total complaints, crashes, fires, injuries and deaths reported, the most-complained-about components, and the latest complaints with their text. For used-car buyers,
- complaint_by_odi_number: Read one NHTSA owner safety complaint by its ODI number: vehicle, components, crash, fire, injuries and deaths reported, incident and filing dates, partial VIN and the owner's own description. For lawyers, investigators, journalists and owners following up a complaint found with 
- vehicle_crash_ratings: How safe is this car in a crash? Returns the US NCAP 5-Star Safety Ratings for a make, model and model year, one entry per body style or drivetrain: overall, frontal (driver and passenger), side barrier and side pole, and rollover stars with the rollover risk percentage. For fami
- vehicle_driver_assist_features: Does this car have lane departure warning or forward collision warning as standard? Returns whether electronic stability control, forward collision warning and lane departure warning are standard, optional or not available, per body style, for a make, model and model year. For bu
- vehicle_problem_counts: How many complaints, recalls and federal defect investigations does this model have? Returns the three counts NHTSA links to a make, model and model year, as a quick screen when comparing cars. Source: NHTSA NCAP records. Counts are not adjusted for sales volume, so a popular mod
- vehicle_models_for_make_year: Which models did this make produce in a given model year? Lists the model names NHTSA holds for a make and year, A to Z, so an agent can check the exact model name before a recall, complaint or crash-rating lookup. For dealers, form-filling and data cleaning. Source: NHTSA vPIC. 
- wmi_manufacturer_lookup: Who made the vehicle with this VIN prefix? Decodes a World Manufacturer Identifier (the first 3 characters of a VIN, or 6 for small makers whose third character is 9) to the manufacturer, make, vehicle type and broad region, and accepts a full 17-character VIN to read its prefix.
- vehicle_manufacturer_details: Who is this vehicle manufacturer and where are they registered? Returns NHTSA registration details for manufacturers matching a name or manufacturer ID: legal and common name, trading names, address and country, manufacturer type (for example completed vehicle manufacturer, vehic

Screening checks:
- MCP handshake: pass (Answered in 5ms)
- Domain against threat feeds (Cloudflare security DNS): pass (ukdata.reliness.co.uk not flagged)
- Published packages against the OSV malicious-package database: n/a (No npm or PyPI package published)
- Hidden instructions or invisible characters in tool text: pass (10 tools read, nothing found)
- Inputs asking for passwords, card numbers or seed phrases: pass (None found)
- Domain and redirects: pass (Domain registered 11 days ago)
- AI review of purpose and tool behavior: pass (No concerns)