Terms of use

The service

VinGear (vingear.com) decodes vehicle identification numbers using public data from the U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). It is run by:

By using the site you accept these terms.

The data and its limits

• Specs and recalls come from NHTSA and the makers that report to it. We show them as they are, and they can be incomplete, out of date or wrong.
• A VIN decode is not a vehicle history report and not an inspection. It does not show accidents, damage, mileage, title brands or theft records.
• Before you buy, sell or repair a vehicle, check the VIN on the vehicle and its papers, and confirm recalls with a dealer or at nhtsa.gov.

Acceptable use

You may use the site for your own lookups. You may not:

• scrape the site, or send automated requests in bulk (bots, scripts or crawlers other than search engines);
• try to break, overload or get around the site's security or limits;
• copy large parts of the site or its content to publish elsewhere.

We may block access that breaks these rules.

Liability

The site is free and provided "as is", without any guarantee that it is available, complete or error-free. To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for decisions you make based on the data or for losses that come from using the site. Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited by law.

Links

We link to other sites (for example NHTSA). We are not responsible for their content.

Changes

We may update these terms. The date at the top shows the latest version. Questions: see our contact page.