Databutler Vehicles is answering right now. Last checked 6 min ago. It exposes 9 tools.
UK MOT failure data and official UK, French, Japanese and EU vehicle recalls.
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private.
Uptime history
13 days of history · worst day 29%
13 days agonow
89.1%
Uptime 24h
82 of 92 checks
9
Tools
read from the server
249 ms
Response time
average over 24h
open, no key
Access
streamable-http
Databutler Vehicles does not always answer
Over the last week it answered 80.2% of our checks. We check every 15 minutes, so you hear about the next outage within the hour — not from your users.
Connect this server
Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 6 min ago.
run in your terminal
claude mcp add databutler-vehicles --transport http https://databutler.dev/api/mcp/vehicles~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"databutler-vehicles": {
"url": "https://databutler.dev/api/mcp/vehicles"
}
}
}~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.databutler-vehicles]
url = "https://databutler.dev/api/mcp/vehicles".cursor/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"databutler-vehicles": {
"url": "https://databutler.dev/api/mcp/vehicles"
}
}
}.vscode/mcp.json
{
"mcpServers": {
"databutler-vehicles": {
"url": "https://databutler.dev/api/mcp/vehicles"
}
}
}Available tools 9
Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on.
If a tool disappears, we record the date.
recalls
fr_recalls_for_model
Official French vehicle recall notices (RappelConso, DGCCRF open data; 1663 automobile fiches 2018-01-19 → 2026-08-07) for a brand and model: fiche number, date, risks, defect description (motif, in French), commercialisation periods and the official fiche link. Omit model to list a brand. Matches by a reviewed alias table plus whole-word text match; each fiche says which.
fr_recalls_search
Keyword search across all RappelConso automobile fiches (brand, model text, label, defect description, risks), newest first, optionally since a date. Text is French and lowercase ("airbag", "incendie", "takata", "batterie haute tension"). Use for cross-brand questions ("recent EV battery fire recalls in France").
jp_recalls_for_model
Official Japanese recall filings (国土交通省 MLIT; 919 filings matched to 75 popular JDM models) for a make and model: notification number, date, defective device, affected vehicles, situation and remedy (Japanese originals) and the official filing PDF. Accepts English (Toyota Prius, Honda N-BOX) or Japanese (トヨタ プリウス) names.
uk_recalls_for_model
Official UK vehicle safety recalls (DVSA, Open Government Licence; 4876 recalls launched 2016-01-01 → 2027-02-03, 272 makes) for a make and model: recall number, launch date, concern, defect and remedy text (DVSA's English originals), build-date range, vehicles affected and a GOV.UK recall-checker link. Omitting model lists the make's recalls and model names. "Vauxhall Corsa", "vauxhall corsa" and "VAUXHALL CORSA" resolve identically; "Mercedes-Benz", "VW" and "Land Rover" are understood. Covers cars, vans, HGVs, buses, motorcycles, trailers and components, not individual VINs.
uk_recalls_search
Keyword search across all served DVSA recalls (make, model names, concern, defect and remedy text), newest first, optionally since a date. Text is English ("airbag", "fire", "steering rack", "takata", "high voltage battery"); every word must appear. Suited to cross-make questions such as recent EV battery fire recalls in the UK.
mot
uk_mot_reliability
Real UK MOT failure data for a used car: per-category failure rates (overall and interpolated at a given mileage) and the riskiest components with typical failure mileages, for one model generation. Live proxy to whatbreaks.uk (same operator; aggregated from DfT anonymised MOT results). Use when a user is buying, comparing or maintaining a car sold in the UK. If several generations match, the result lists candidates — retry with year or the exact model name.
uk_mot_vehicle_search
Search the 530 UK model generations covered by the MOT dataset by free text (e.g. "focus", "golf"). Use to check coverage or disambiguate a generation before uk_mot_reliability. Live proxy to whatbreaks.uk.
complaints
jp_complaints_summary
Owner defect reports filed with MLIT's 不具合情報ホットライン (19659 across 75 models): total reports for a model and the breakdown by defective device (brakes, lights, engine, body…) from the newest sample. Reports are unverified owner submissions — compare shapes, not raw counts. Accepts English or Japanese names.
safety
eu_safety_gate_recalls
STUB — not yet live. EU Safety Gate (RAPEX) vehicle alerts are being added; until then this returns covered:false with the official Safety Gate URL and points to fr_recalls_* (RappelConso republishes the Safety Gate automobile alerts that concern France).
Endpoints
| URL | Transport | State | Latency | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| https://databutler.dev/api/mcp/vehicles | streamable-http | answering | 228 ms | 6 min ago |
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Databutler Vehicles — questions
Answers built from our own checks of this server.
What can Databutler Vehicles do?
It exposes 9 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: eu_safety_gate_recalls, fr_recalls_for_model, fr_recalls_search, jp_complaints_summary, jp_recalls_for_model, uk_mot_reliability and 3 more. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README.
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What is Databutler Vehicles mostly used for?
Its tools cluster around recalls and mot. That is what this server is built to work with — the grouping comes from the actual tool names, not from a category we assigned.
Is Databutler Vehicles working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 82 of 92 checks got a reply (89.1%), average response time 249 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
Is Databutler Vehicles still maintained?
The linked repository no longer exists on GitHub — it was deleted or made private. We show this because it changes what you can expect: an unmaintained server may keep answering for months and then stop without warning.
How do I connect Databutler Vehicles?
Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.
Does Databutler Vehicles need an API key?
No. Databutler Vehicles completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 9 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Databutler Vehicles?
It answers our handshake in 249 ms on average, which is faster than 52% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.