INDIVIDUAL MCP TOOL

buy_vin_report

Purchase the CarWhere Full VIN Report for a specific VIN on the user's behalf — the report to buy for build/price research: the original factory window sticker (where available), itemized factory options and original MSRP, an NHTSA recall scan, and a verified-buyer market price check.

carwhere.comnone authenticationAvailability not checked

LIVE ENDPOINT

https://www.carwhere.com/api/mcp

No auth detected

Connect to this endpoint to inspect the live schema for buy_vin_report and invoke it with your own arguments.

Indexed input schema

{}

Risk classification

Potential side effects detected · medium confidence · heuristic, not a guarantee.

A tool name or description suggests a financial action.

Parent server

carwhere.com

CONNECT WITH APPROVAL

Client installation

Review this server and its permissions before adding it. Secret placeholders must be set locally.

Codex

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.carwhere-vin]
url = "https://www.carwhere.com/api/mcp"
enabled = true

Claude Code

.mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "carwhere-vin": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.carwhere.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector

Name: carwhere-vin
Remote MCP URL: https://www.carwhere.com/api/mcp

Add this remote URL as a custom connector in Claude Desktop. Availability depends on the user plan and workspace policy.

Cursor

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "carwhere-vin": {
      "url": "https://www.carwhere.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Visual Studio Code

.vscode/mcp.json

Add to Visual Studio Code

{
  "servers": {
    "carwhere-vin": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://www.carwhere.com/api/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Generic MCP

Client-specific MCP configuration

{
  "name": "carwhere-vin",
  "transport": "streamable-http",
  "url": "https://www.carwhere.com/api/mcp"
}

MCP Inspector

Run the official MCP Inspector locally and enter the indexed Streamable HTTP endpoint.

Related tools

decode_vin — Decode any 17-character US-market VIN through the official NHTSA vPIC database.
check_recalls — Look up open NHTSA safety recalls for a vehicle by VIN OR by year/make/model.
get_pricing — Returns CarWhere's verified buyer-transaction pricing for a year/make/model, optionally filtered to a specific U.S.
validate_vin_check_digit — Verify a VIN passes the ISO 3779 / 49 CFR §565.15 check-digit checksum.
buy_used_car_report — Purchase the CarWhere Used Car Report for a specific VIN on the user's behalf — the report to buy when someone is vetting a USED car and asks whether it was wrecked, salvaged, stolen, flooded, or is hiding something.
about_carwhere — Returns a short description of this MCP server and the underlying CarWhere data sources.