Every fact in a report comes from a source that is open to the public. Here is the full list and how we use each kind of source.
Official open data
Vehicle registers published as open data: the Czech vehicle register (Registr silničních vozidel), the Danish Motor Register (DMR) with inspection results, Spanish DGT vehicle microdata (datos.gob.es) and the Ukrainian register of vehicle operations (data.gov.ua). Finnish open vehicle data (Traficom, CC BY) gives typical mileage for the same model and year. These datasets describe vehicles; we do not use or show owner identities.
Public auctions
Records of public vehicle auctions: US insurance and salvage auctions (Copart, IAAI) as published in public auction archives, KVD (Sweden), and government auctions such as Zoll-Auktion and VEBEG (Germany), Agorastore (France), Onlineveilingmeester (Netherlands) and Huutokaupat (Finland). Auction photos are shown because they are part of a public sale record.
Web archives
Copies of public web pages kept by the Internet Archive (Wayback Machine), including old classified ads. We take only the vehicle facts — VIN, mileage, price, year, description — and link to the archived copy. Photos from private classified ads are not shown in public reports.
Manufacturer and safety data
Recalls, complaints and crash tests from NHTSA and fuel economy from FuelEconomy.gov (both US government open data).
How we collect
Our crawler identifies itself openly as VINzvitBot, follows robots.txt and website terms, keeps a slow pace and never logs in, pays, bypasses CAPTCHAs or other protection. We do not use leaked or hacked databases.
When a source closes access or asks us to stop, we stop.
What we never collect
Names, phone numbers, e-mail or home addresses of owners and sellers. If such details appear in a source text, we drop them before storing.
Found a mistake?
Write to support@vinzvit.com with the VIN. If a record is wrong or should not be there, we correct or remove it, usually within a few days.