Vehicle Safety Recalls Week: No Cost Vehicle
Search Service Helps States Identify Recalls and Create
Awareness
CENTREVILLE, Va., March 6,
2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A powerful search tool
built by CARFAX and the Alliance for Automotive Innovation has
checked vehicles in the U.S. nearly eight billion times for unfixed
recalls in just the last seven years, raising consumer awareness
and helping increase road safety.
Since launching the Vehicle Recall Search Service in 2018,
qualified entities, in particular state motor vehicle, public
safety, and inspection departments have led the effort to check
vehicles and have identified millions of cars with unresolved
recalls. The tool has checked nearly half of all cars in the U.S.
for recalls. CARFAX data shows currently one in five cars in the
U.S. have an unfixed recall, which can significantly raise the risk
of unexpected incidents on the road.
Currently, eight state DMVs use the Vehicle Recall Search
Service: California, New York, Ohio, Arizona, Texas, Connecticut, and Maryland; Washington and Puerto Rico joined most recently. These
states check a vehicle's recall status either during the
registration and titling process or through the safety and/or
emissions inspection process. If an open recall is identified, they
make the vehicle owner aware.
"In light of this week's Vehicle Safety Recalls Week, we hope
more states recognize the tool's incredible potential to protect
drivers," said Faisal Hasan, Vice
President of Data at CARFAX. "This tool can ensure more vehicles
are checked regularly, increasing driver safety and helping the
vehicle manufacturers close recalls."
Safety recalls can include critical safety features such as
airbags and seatbelts. Ohio, which
joined in 2021, has identified over 7.2 million recalls for its
drivers.
"Thanks to our partnership with CARFAX," said Ohio BMV Registrar
Charlie Norman, "our individualized notification of open
recalls to Ohioans as part of their vehicle registration renewal
has led to 2 million recalls remedied, making our vehicles and
roads safer."
"When drivers are aware of vehicle recalls, road safety
increases. That's why we built this safety tool with CARFAX nearly
seven years ago," said John
Bozzella, president and CEO of Alliance for Automotive
Innovation. "Eight billion vehicles have now been checked.
Additional participation from vehicle inspection programs, DMVs,
insurers, auto finance companies, fleet managers, automotive parts
recyclers and vehicle auction companies will go a long way to
helping identify and fix even more recalls."
Editor's note: Interviews with a Carfax expert are available
anytime. Local open recall data for your state or metropolitan area
is also available upon request. Please contact Em Nguyen
at emnguyen@carfax.com.
About CARFAX
CARFAX, part of S&P Global Mobility, helps millions of
people every day confidently shop, buy, service and sell used cars
with innovative solutions powered by CARFAX® vehicle
history information. The expert in vehicle history since 1984,
CARFAX provides CARFAX Car Listings, CARFAX Car
Care, CARFAX History-Based Value and the
flagship CARFAX Vehicle History Report to consumers and
the automotive industry. CARFAX owns the world's largest vehicle
history database and is nationally recognized as a top workplace
by The Washington Post. Shop, Buy, Service, Sell – Show
me the CARFAX®.
S&P Global Mobility is a division of S&P Global (NYSE:
SPGI). S&P Global is the world's foremost provider of credit
ratings, benchmarks, analytics and workflow solutions in the global
capital, commodity and automotive markets.
About Alliance for Automotive Innovation
From the manufacturers producing most vehicles sold in the U.S.
to autonomous vehicle innovators to equipment suppliers, battery
producers and semiconductor makers – Alliance for Automotive
Innovation represents the full auto industry, a sector supporting
10 million American jobs and five percent of the economy. Active in
Washington, D.C. and all 50
states, the association is committed to a cleaner, safer and
smarter personal transportation
future. www.autosinnovate.org
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