Oil & Miles VIN Decoder
Free VIN decoder with recalls and owner complaints
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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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PH · launched Oct 27, 2026 · 3 upvotes (top 10%)
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Productivity
- Cars
- Transportation
- GitHub
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Yes A VIN decoder that queries public NHTSA and EPA APIs for recalls, complaints, and ratings, displayed in a simple UI, is an API-wrapping project.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #5 of 73 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 51 days after the earliest competitor.
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