{"meta":{"dataset":"vehicle-complaints","title":"Vehicle safety complaints by state, make and model year (NHTSA complaint file)","version":"1.0.0","doi":"10.5281/zenodo.23744214","doiUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23744214","conceptDoi":"10.5281/zenodo.23744213","license":"CC BY 4.0","licenseUrl":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/","attribution":"Source: Probative, Vehicle safety complaints by state, make and model year (NHTSA complaint file), version 1.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23744214, licensed CC BY 4.0.","citation":"Probative. (2026). Vehicle safety complaints by state, make and model year (NHTSA complaint file) (Version 1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23744214","disclaimer":"Not legal advice. These are counts of unverified complaints that vehicle owners filed with NHTSA, kept for research and marketing planning. A complaint is not a finding that a vehicle is defective, and a count says nothing about whether any owner has a lemon-law or injury claim. Rights and deadlines are for your own counsel.","notice":"Probative is a marketing firm, not a law firm; not legal advice.","lastChecked":"2026-10-28","url":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/v1/vehicle-complaints/changes.json","humanUrl":"https://probativegrowth.com/data/vehicle-complaints/","statusCodes":{"P":"primary source","S":"secondary source","D":"ABA model default","U":"open question"}},"changes":[{"id":"vehicle-complaints-2026-10-28-first","date":"2026-10-28","title":"Vehicle safety complaints by state, make and model year first published","summary":"NHTSA vehicle safety complaints about model years 2018 to 2027 by state, make, model year and component, with crash, fire, injury and death counts and the recall match, from the ODI complaint and recall files.","source":{"label":"NHTSA ODI complaints flat file","url":"https://static.nhtsa.gov/odi/ffdd/cmpl/FLAT_CMPL.zip"},"dataset":"vehicle-complaints"}]}