A CarsBidsHistory lot page is built around two numbers: the car’s VIN and its Copart or IAAI lot number. In October 2026 we went through a lot page on the site from top to bottom. Below is what each part shows, why some of it is personal, and what happens to it when CleanVINUSA has the page removed — and what no removal can change.
The address and the page title
The address of a lot page spells out the year, make, model, lot number and VIN. The page title — the text in the browser tab and, usually, the headline in Google — opens with the VIN itself, followed by the year, make, model and colour. A search for the 17 characters can therefore land straight on the page, whether it is typed into Google or into the site’s own Find by VIN box.
After removal: the address stops showing the car. The VIN stays where it always was — on the car and on its papers.
The photo gallery
The lot page we looked at had 24 photos from the auction yard. Each image’s web address contains the lot number and the VIN, and the text attached to each photo repeats the VIN with the year, make and model, which helps the pictures turn up on their own in a VIN search, Google Images included.
What is personal: the plate, if it was on the car; anything left inside; the damage, photographed up close.
After removal: the gallery goes with the page. Copies Google has already made are dropped on Google’s schedule: we ask Google to drop the old result for eligible links, but we do not promise when the pictures leave Google Search or Google Images.
The vehicle details
A table of nearly twenty rows describes the car as it was offered:
- Doc Type — the title document it was sold with, for example “CERT OF TITLE-PRIOR SALVAGE”;
- Odometer — the reading, with a status in brackets such as ACTUAL, NOT ACTUAL or EXEMPT;
- Primary Damage and Secondary Damage, in the auction’s own wording, such as FRONT END or SIDE;
- Estimate Retail Value and Recovery Cost — two figures that put a value on the car next to its VIN;
- Seller — which can name an insurance company, a sign of a claim behind the sale;
- Car Status and Notes, the auction’s labels for the lot;
- Key, Drive, Transmission, Fuel, Engine, Color and Body Style.
What is personal: the Doc Type and Seller rows speak about the car’s past, and the value figures put a price on it in public.
After removal: every row goes with the page. The records those rows echo stay exactly as they are: the title and any brand on it, NMVTIS, insurance claims, reports such as Carfax or AutoCheck, and Copart’s or IAAI’s own data.
The auction table
Under the details sits a numbered auction table with the columns Date, Auction, Participants, Auction Type, Last Bid, Sold Status and Buyer Location. On the page we opened, the row gave the date and time of the sale, the yard and lane, the last bid, the status “Pure Sale” and the buyer’s location as a country and a state.
Two points from CarsBidsHistory’s own FAQ are worth knowing. Its “final bid” is the last recorded bid at the auction: it may differ from the actual sale price and is not proof that the car was sold. And a VIN search on the site is meant to bring up every past auction record for the car, so a car sold more than once can show more than one sale.
What is personal: a price tied to your VIN, and roughly where the car went after the sale.
After removal: the table goes with the page. Copart’s and IAAI’s own records of the sale are not touched.
Other places the car can appear on the site
A lot page is not the only spot where a car shows up. When we checked:
- lot pages carried a section headed “Another Lots with same model and same damage”, with the photo, odometer and damage of similar cars, each linking to its own page;
- the site had VIN List and Lot List pages and browsing by make and model;
- the pages we opened existed in 25 language versions.
Our order is for removing the car from carsbidshistory.com as a whole, so these places are covered too. If a card, a list entry or a language version still shows your car after 12–24 hours, send us that address. How the order runs from start to finish is in our guide.