Check your vehicle for open recalls
Transport Canada
An open recall is a free repair at a dealership - often several hundred to several thousand dollars - with no eligibility test beyond owning the vehicle. Transport Canada publishes the recall database as open data, searchable by make, model and year.
The catch: There is no public VIN lookup, so this tells you what has been recalled for your model, not which recalls are still open on your specific car. Confirm with a dealer using your VIN. The federal data refreshes monthly.
At a glance
- Worth
- Not a cash amount
- Effort
- About 5 minutes
- Time to money
- Not recorded
- How it arrives
- In kind
- How often
- Standing
- Proof needed
- None
- Where
- Canada
- Last checked
- 4 August 2026