CarsXE MCP Server

CarsXE’s connector provides live vehicle data through the CarsXE API, so you can look up a car in plain language instead of hitting REST endpoints yourself.

You identify a vehicle by VIN, license plate, year/make/model, or a photo. From there Claude can pull specs, history, recalls, market value, images, lien/theft records, and OBD trouble-code meanings — and chain those lookups in one conversation (decode a plate → specs → recalls → value).

Key features

VIN decode & specs — full vehicle specifications from a 17-character VIN, including an international VIN decoder License plate lookup — plate + state/country → VIN and basic vehicle info Image recognition — extract a VIN or license plate from a photo URL Year/make/model lookup — specs, colors, features, and packages without a VIN Vehicle history — accidents, titles, odometer, salvage/junk, and ownership records Recalls — open safety recalls and remedies by VIN Market value — estimated retail/trade-in, adjustable by state, mileage, and condition Lien and theft — title liens and stolen-vehicle records OBD-II decode — diagnostic trouble codes (e.g. P0115) with diagnosis Vehicle images — photos by make, model, year, color, angle, and more

Publisher claimed. 12 tools reported by the publisher. Pod has not connected to this server, so nothing here is verified.

Categorised under data-analytics, developer-tools, commerce, other, financial-services. Published by carsxe.com.

Status

Pod has not dialled CarsXE yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

Tools

Its publisher lists 12 tools. Pod has not verified these against the live server yet.

• check_lien_and_theft
• decode_international_vin
• decode_license_plate
• decode_obd_code
• extract_vin_from_image
• get_market_value
• get_vehicle_history
• get_vehicle_images
• get_vehicle_recalls
• get_vehicle_specs
• get_year_make_model
• read_license_plate_from_image

Connect

A hosted endpoint at https://mcp.carsxe.com/mcp, over streamable-http. Nothing to install.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "carsxe": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://mcp.carsxe.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Firsthand observations

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