Know a vehicle
before you trust it.
Enter a VIN, a licence plate or a boat's hull number and we pull together everything on record — make and model, engine and specs, safety recalls, known problems, a fair price and, when you need it, the full title and history paper trail. Everything about the car. Nothing about the person.
You don't have to pay to get real value
Click Watch this VIN on any vehicle and we'll email you the moment a new safety recall is issued — for as long as you own it.
The most-reported issues for that exact model year, and what to check before you buy.
The typical asking-price range for that year, make and model, so you can tell whether a seller's price is reasonable.
Save any vehicle as a clean PDF to take to a mechanic or send to a friend. Compare up to three side by side.
Where our data comes from
We never invent data. Everything is compiled from official registries and licensed history databases.
- 🏛️ NHTSAU.S. Dept. of Transportation — VIN decoding, safety recalls, complaints, investigations, crash-test ratings.
- ⛽ U.S. EPAOfficial fuel-economy, range and emissions figures for every model.
- 🍁 Transport CanadaCanadian recall campaigns and manufacturer vehicle specifications.
- 🇳🇱 RDWThe open Dutch vehicle register, searchable by licence plate.
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine MVSThe national vehicle register's open data, by VIN — registration region, specs and history of operations.
- 🚢 U.S. Coast GuardThe federal vessel registry (PSIX) for boats and yachts.
- 📜 NMVTIS & licensed providersTitle, salvage, theft, odometer and brand history behind our paid reports.
About the car, not the person.
CarLogs never shows a vehicle's owner. Linking a plate or VIN to a named individual is restricted by privacy law — the U.S. Driver's Privacy Protection Act, the EU's GDPR and their equivalents — and we deliberately exclude all owner and keeper personal information from every source we use. That's not a gap in our data; it's the right thing to do.
How we make money
The instant decode, recalls, recall alerts, known-problem reports and fair-price checks cost nothing. We earn from advertising and from optional paid full-history reports — a one-time fee per vehicle, or a monthly plan for dealers and frequent buyers — for the complete title, accident, lien and exact-valuation records. No subscription is ever required just to look something up.
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