13.3 Million Vehicles Are Under Recalls With No Fix Available. We Track Every One.

When a manufacturer issues a safety recall, it is admitting a defect in writing. What most owners don't realize is that the recall letter often arrives before any repair exists. Federal rules require notification within 60 days whether or not there's a fix — so millions of drivers hold interim letters for defects that cannot yet be repaired, sometimes for more than a year. NHTSA publishes every recall, but it does not publish which ones still have no available remedy. Our free Recall Watch tracker does, from NHTSA's own data, updated weekly.

The numbers right now

• 54 open recalls have no fix available yet — a floor, not an estimate, because ambiguous campaigns are excluded from the count.
• 13,331,706 vehicles are affected by a recall with no available repair.
• The longest-running unfixed recall has gone 530 days without a remedy.
• Two of the no-fix campaigns tell owners to park outside or stop driving entirely while they wait.

What waiting looks like

Consider the Mercedes-Benz EQB battery recall: owners are told to park away from structures and charge to no more than 80% — and there has been no fix for more than five months. Or the Jeep recall covering over a million vehicles for a fire risk that can ignite even while the vehicle is parked and off, with owners told to park outside and no remedy available. Or the Ford Bronco Sport and Maverick owners told not to drive their vehicles at all. These aren't hypotheticals; they are the current contents of the tracker.

Why a no-fix recall matters under California law

California's Song-Beverly Act asks whether a substantial warranty defect has gone unrepaired after a reasonable number of attempts, or whether the vehicle has been out of service 30 or more cumulative days. A recall with no available remedy speaks to both before the owner ever visits a dealer: the manufacturer has conceded the defect in a federal filing and put in writing that it cannot currently repair it. When the same letter says the car may catch fire and shouldn't be parked in your garage, the vehicle is not delivering the use and safety you paid for — today, not after some future repair.

Check your own vehicle

The full tracker lists every open no-fix, do-not-drive, and park-outside campaign, sorted worst-first, with each row opening a complete breakdown of the campaign and what it means for your rights. The dataset is free to cite under a CC BY license, and it updates weekly from NHTSA's database. If your vehicle is on it and you've been waiting on a repair that doesn't exist, a free case review will tell you whether the wait itself has already made your case.