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Can you decode that 3-character WMI through NHTSA to confirm who the manufacturer is and what type of vehicle it should be?"},{"title":"Enrich fleet dataset with manufacturer info","prompt":"I have a batch of WMI codes like '1FT', 'JHM', and 'SAL' — can you look up each one through the official NHTSA WMI decoder and tell me the manufacturer name and make for each?"}],"resultDescription":"Returns a JSON object with the queried WMI string, a count of matched manufacturers, and an array of manufacturer records each containing manufacturer_name, make, and vehicle_type fields, along with a success flag.","failureModes":["Invalid or unrecognized WMI returns empty manufacturers array with count of 0","WMI shorter than 3 characters or longer than 6 characters may return an error or no results","NHTSA upstream API unavailability causing timeout or 5xx response","Non-alphanumeric characters in WMI may cause malformed request"],"whenToPreferThis":"Use this endpoint when you need to identify the manufacturer behind a specific WMI prefix extracted from a VIN, or when verifying vehicle origin from first-party NHTSA data. 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