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The ledger

A recall is announced and counted. Whether the cars were ever repaired is published once a year, as a PDF, and as far as we can establish nobody turns it into data. So we did. Of 23,341,287 vehicles recalled in the campaigns that filed their eighth-quarter report in 2025, 5,156,457 were never fixed.

5,156,457Vehicles with a known defect, still unrepaired
77.9%Of recalled vehicles were repaired
23,341,287Vehicles recalled across 633 campaigns

Whose cars are still on the road unrepaired

Ranked by the number of vehicles never fixed. The rate is weighted by fleet size, so a large recall counts for more than a small one.

  Manufacturer Never fixed   Repaired Recalled Recalls
1 Ford Motor 1,710,391 71.8% 6,060,138 56
2 Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) 739,068 73.6% 2,799,498 15
3 Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) 457,993 81.7% 2,499,065 37
4 General Motors 432,206 79.1% 2,068,399 27
5 Nissan North America 384,239 76.9% 1,662,434 18
6 Kia America 353,287 73.8% 1,349,954 22
7 Mercedes-Benz USA 315,628 73.4% 1,187,280 29
8 Daimler Trucks North America 165,104 67.8% 512,910 31
9 Subaru of America 122,947 76.5% 522,592 12
10 Hyundai Motor America 89,947 91.3% 1,031,149 17
11 Daimler Vans USA 78,605 64.6% 222,154 7
12 Navistar 64,658 73.6% 244,849 24
13 Tesla 56,331 97% 1,886,459 12
14 Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing 28,768 93.9% 471,787 9
15 Volkswagen Group of America 27,309 88.5% 236,534 23
16 Winnebago Towable 15,841 28.9% 22,277 5
17 Jaguar Land Rover North America 8,686 89% 79,181 14
18 Volvo Trucks North America 8,337 85.9% 59,026 11
19 PACCAR 7,145 79.1% 34,162 11
20 Harley-Davidson Motor 6,899 90% 69,238 2
21 Winnebago Industries 6,893 69.1% 22,329 7
22 Polaris Industries 6,732 69.7% 22,218 1
23 Rivian Automotive 6,627 62.7% 17,746 2
24 Thor Motor Coach 6,567 22.7% 8,494 5
25 Shyft Group 5,762 47.8% 11,037 5
26 Royal Enfield North America 4,798 1.9% 4,891 1
27 Forest River 3,552 60.5% 8,996 26
28 Trail King Industries 3,057 45.8% 5,641 1
29 Triumph Motorcycles America 2,973 77.9% 13,437 4
30 Grand Design RV 2,920 68.4% 9,240 6
31 Keystone RV 2,687 58.5% 6,472 3
32 Corp. Micro Bird 2,433 13.2% 2,804 3
33 PJ Trailers 2,399 51.1% 4,905 1
34 Gillig 2,203 62.3% 5,844 3
35 Porsche Cars North America 2,061 94.3% 36,120 10
36 Ducati North America 2,051 53.9% 4,450 3
37 Wabash National 1,677 54.8% 3,711 1
38 Mazda North American Operations 1,539 95.8% 36,743 6
39 Indian Motorcycle 1,485 74.7% 5,868 2
40 REV Recreation Group 1,416 56% 3,219 4

The single recalls that left the most cars unrepaired

Campaign Make Never fixed Repaired Recalled
23V420 FORD 420,209 39.2% 691,133
23V431 HONDA 267,338 77.9% 1,209,673
23V158 HONDA 234,176 47.8% 448,613
23V093 NISSAN 215,875 69.7% 712,458
22V955 MERCEDES-BENZ 189,412 45.6% 348,183
23V162 FORD 176,740 86.2% 1,280,726
22V644 LINCOLN 158,744 42.7% 277,040
22V903 CADILLAC 153,202 79.3% 740,108
22V859 FORD 117,915 77.4% 521,746
23V339 CHEVROLET 110,919 83.4% 668,187
23V149 KIA 110,702 41.4% 188,912
22V907 SUBARU 108,134 60.2% 271,694
22V875 NISSAN 105,055 16.1% 125,215
23V163 FORD 102,996 53.7% 222,454
22V842 FORD 100,481 79.2% 483,082
23V228 HONDA 88,106 85.7% 616,128
22V867 HONDA 70,584 39.9% 117,445
23V342 LINCOLN 69,104 84.4% 442,973
22V817 FREIGHTLINER 68,888 68.6% 219,390
22V648 LINCOLN 64,904 67.3% 198,482

Told late, fixed less?

The two questions this site can answer that nobody else can, on one row: how long a manufacturer took to write to owners, and how much of the recalled fleet was ever repaired. Draw your own conclusions: both columns are ours to show and yours to check.

Manufacturer Median wait before owners were told Repaired Never fixed
Ford Motor 41 days 71.8% 1,710,391
Honda (American Honda Motor Co.) 46.5 days 73.6% 739,068
Chrysler (FCA US, LLC) 42 days 81.7% 457,993
General Motors 36 days 79.1% 432,206
Nissan North America 48 days 76.9% 384,239
Kia America 54 days 73.8% 353,287
Mercedes-Benz USA 49 days 73.4% 315,628
Daimler Trucks North America 59 days 67.8% 165,104
Subaru of America 32 days 76.5% 122,947
Hyundai Motor America 55 days 91.3% 89,947
Daimler Vans USA 63 days 64.6% 78,605
Navistar 51 days 73.6% 64,658
Tesla 60 days 97% 56,331
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing 55 days 93.9% 28,768
Volkswagen Group of America 42 days 88.5% 27,309
Winnebago Towable 37.5 days 28.9% 15,841
Jaguar Land Rover North America 49 days 89% 8,686
Volvo Trucks North America 44 days 85.9% 8,337
PACCAR 51.5 days 79.1% 7,145
Harley-Davidson Motor 16.5 days 90% 6,899
Winnebago Industries 44.5 days 69.1% 6,893
Polaris Industries 24 days 69.7% 6,732
Rivian Automotive 41.5 days 62.7% 6,627
Thor Motor Coach 40 days 22.7% 6,567
Shyft Group 19 days 47.8% 5,762

Year on year

Each annual list covers the campaigns that reached their eighth quarterly report in that year, so these are different sets of recalls rather than the same ones counted twice. Both were read by the same parser and checked against the bulk file the same way.

List Campaigns Vehicles recalled Never fixed Repaired
2025 633 23,341,287 5,156,457 77.9%
2024 675 25,580,238 7,356,039 71.2%

How this was worked out, and how to check it

NHTSA publishes completion rates once a year as a PDF and in no other form. This site reads that PDF directly. Because a misread would be invisible, every row is then checked against a different NHTSA publication: the bulk recall file, which gives the number of vehicles for each campaign independently.

Step Count
Rows read from the document 647
No completion rate published for them 13
Vehicle count disagreed with the bulk file, excluded 1
Agreed exactly and used here 633

Read on 22 August 2026 from the annual list, SHA-256 8e37a5740ae2d3cfb4312f3549fb8e96…. Download the file, hash it, and you have the same document we read. “Never fixed” is the recalled count multiplied by the share not repaired, rounded to whole vehicles.

How long before they tell youTake the data

Every figure on this page comes from a table you can have. 633 rows, CSV JSON All 14 datasets