Vin Recall MCP Server

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Vin Recall MCP is answering right now. Last checked 4 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 91 days of history · worst day 99%

91 days agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

92 of 92 checks

Tools

read from the server

787 ms

Response time

average over 24h

Stars

last commit 27 Jul 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Vin Recall MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 4 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add vin-recall-mcp --transport http https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

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

{
  "servers": {
    "vin-recall-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "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

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org/mcp	streamable-http	answering	805 ms	4 min ago

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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 92 of 92 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 787 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 in the form 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 787 ms on average, which is faster than 11% 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?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at vin-recall-mcp.zenithserver.duckdns.org, which runs on its operator's own terms.