MotorHangar: Check any car for recalls, free, in 4 languages

Official recalls, safety ratings and owner complaints for 13,000+ car models and years, free, no sign-up. See which year to avoid, fuel economy in your units and where to check your VIN in your country. In English, Spanish, German and French.

Hi Product Hunt! I'm Lou. In the U.S. the maker has to mail every registered owner when there is a recall. In most of Latin America, and for cars that were imported or resold abroad, often nobody mails the current owner, even though the same models are on the road there.

Pick brand, model and year and you get every campaign on record (NHTSA and Transport Canada) with its number, what can go wrong and the remedy, plus owner complaints grouped by component. 194 of those campaigns are airbags that can throw metal fragments. It works in English, Spanish, German and French, and the source is shown next to every figure.

New this week:

• "Which year to buy" pages for 665 models: the year with the most owner complaints and recalls, how it's counted, and the caveat that few complaints can also mean few cars sold.

• An "In your country" box under the recalls: whether a U.S. recall may apply (many cars in Mexico and Central America were imported from the U.S.) and the official recall lookup in 15 countries, from PROFECO and INDECOPI to DVSA, KBA and RDW.

• Fuel economy in the unit people actually use: MPG in the U.S., km/l in Mexico, km per gallon in Peru or Colombia, L/100 km in Europe.

For dealers there is a free inventory API and integrations (Excel/CSV, feeds, WordPress, WooCommerce, PrestaShop, webhooks; Shopify, Make, Zapier and n8n in beta).

What would make you trust a recall check like this one? I'd love the hard feedback.

Great idea, especially for cars that were imported or resold abroad. I'm from Japan, where there are a lot of cars and many carmakers. Do you plan to cover cars sold in Japan too, using Japan's official recall data (from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism)? Also, how do you keep the recall data up to date?