Transport Canada maintains a public database of every vehicle recall issued in Canada since 1975 — 17,913 of them, most recently updated 30 July 2026. You do not need a VIN, an account, or a subscription to search it.
The quickest route
Enter your year, make and model. That returns every recall Transport Canada has issued for that vehicle, with what is wrong and what the dealer is required to do about it. If you have your VIN handy, paste it and we will fill in the make and year — though a VIN does not encode the model, so you will still pick that yourself.
Why the repair is free
A safety recall obliges the manufacturer to remedy the defect at no cost to the owner. There is no time limit and it does not matter how many owners the vehicle has had or whether you bought it used. This is the single most common misunderstanding about recalls, and it is why people ignore the letters.
The limits of a make/model/year check
A recall usually applies to a production range rather than every example of a model year. Searching by make, model and year tells you what was issued for that vehicle; only a dealer checking your VIN can confirm what is outstanding on your car. That check is free and takes a phone call.
What “superseded” means
Transport Canada marks some campaigns as superseded, meaning a later recall replaced them. Those are shown separately here rather than mixed in — turning up at a dealer asking for a withdrawn repair wastes everyone’s time.
The problem with waiting for a letter
Recall notices go to the registered owner on file with the manufacturer. If you bought privately, moved, or the registration was never updated, the letter goes somewhere else. That is the gap this site exists to close: save your vehicle and you get an email the day a new recall is issued for it, regardless of what the manufacturer’s records say.