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Vin Recall MCP Server

io.github.pratikmehkarkar/vin-recall-mcp
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Vin Recall MCP is answering right now. Last checked 9 min ago. It exposes 2 tools. Last commit 27 Jul 2026.

Decodes US VINs and looks up open NHTSA safety recall campaigns for a vehicle.

Uptime history 40 hours of history
40 hours agonow
100.0%
Uptime 24h
91 of 91 checks
2
Tools
read from the server
762 ms
Response time
average over 24h
0
Stars
last commit 27 Jul 2026

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 9 min ago.

run in your terminal
claude mcp add vin-recall-mcp --transport http https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp
~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vin-recall-mcp": {
      "url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
~/.codex/config.toml
[mcp_servers.vin-recall-mcp]
url = "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
.cursor/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vin-recall-mcp": {
      "url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}
.vscode/mcp.json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "vin-recall-mcp": {
      "url": "https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 2

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

decode
decode_vin
Decode a 17-character US vehicle VIN into make, model, year, body class, engine cylinders, fuel type, drive type, and assembly plant country, using the NHTSA vPIC database. Covers US-market vehicles built from 1981 onward (the 17-character VIN standard); pre-1981 and some foreign-market vehicles may return partial or no data. Decoded fields are manufacturer-submitted and individual fields may be missing even for a successfully decoded VIN.
recalls
check_recalls
List open safety recall campaigns for a vehicle by VIN, using the NHTSA Recalls database. Decodes the VIN internally to get make/model/year, then looks up campaigns for that vehicle configuration. Important: results are recall campaigns issued for the make/model/year configuration — this does NOT confirm whether this specific VIN's vehicle was actually repaired at a dealer. Always describe results as 'open recall campaigns for this vehicle,' never as whether the car 'is' or 'isn't' fixed.

Endpoints

URLTransportStateLatencyChecked
https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp streamable-http answering 753 ms 9 min ago

Vin Recall MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Vin Recall MCP do?
It exposes 2 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: check_recalls, decode_vin. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →
Is Vin Recall MCP working right now?
We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 762 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.
How do I connect Vin Recall MCP?
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 Vin Recall MCP need an API key?
No. Vin Recall MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 2 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.
How fast is Vin Recall MCP?
It answers our handshake in 762 ms on average, which is faster than 10% of all working MCP servers we measure. That is on the slow side — worth knowing if the tool sits inside an interactive loop. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.
Is Vin Recall MCP open source?
Yes — it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The source link is on this page, so you can read exactly what it does with your data before you connect it.