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Oil & Miles VIN Decoder
Free VIN decoder with recalls and owner complaints
Paste a 17-character VIN to see what the car is, the recalls listed for its model year, what owners reported going wrong, crash ratings, mpg and service bulletins. Built on federal NHTSA and EPA data. Free, no sign-up, nothing stored.
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Iqbal, and I write Oil & Miles, a site about what car repairs really cost in the US.
I spend a lot of time around a repair shop, and the same thing keeps happening: someone buys a used car, or brings one in with a weird noise, and nobody has looked up what the federal records already say about it. The data is public, but it's spread over several government sites and written for engineers.
So the decoder puts it in one place. Paste the VIN and it checks the check digit first (a typo gets caught before anything is sent), then shows what the car is, the recalls for that model year, owner complaints by year, crash ratings, fuel economy and service bulletins, in plain English.
A few honest limits: recalls are listed for the model year, so the last step is always confirming your exact VIN with NHTSA or a dealer. And it doesn't replace a title or accident history report.
It's free, there's no account, and nothing you paste is stored. I'd love to hear what you'd want it to show next.
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About Oil & Miles VIN Decoder on Product Hunt
“Free VIN decoder with recalls and owner complaints”
Oil & Miles VIN Decoder was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 3 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #116 on the daily leaderboard. Paste a 17-character VIN to see what the car is, the recalls listed for its model year, what owners reported going wrong, crash ratings, mpg and service bulletins. Built on federal NHTSA and EPA data. Free, no sign-up, nothing stored.
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Iqbal Taher
Hi Product Hunt! I'm Iqbal, and I write Oil & Miles, a site about what car repairs really cost in the US.
I spend a lot of time around a repair shop, and the same thing keeps happening: someone buys a used car, or brings one in with a weird noise, and nobody has looked up what the federal records already say about it. The data is public, but it's spread over several government sites and written for engineers.
So the decoder puts it in one place. Paste the VIN and it checks the check digit first (a typo gets caught before anything is sent), then shows what the car is, the recalls for that model year, owner complaints by year, crash ratings, fuel economy and service bulletins, in plain English.
A few honest limits: recalls are listed for the model year, so the last step is always confirming your exact VIN with NHTSA or a dealer. And it doesn't replace a title or accident history report.
It's free, there's no account, and nothing you paste is stored. I'd love to hear what you'd want it to show next.