When someone searches your VIN, two copies of your car’s Stat.vin page are involved. One is the page itself, on stat.vin. The other is the entry Google made of it: a headline, a line of text and sometimes a photo, saved the last time Google visited the address. Our order covers both — the page through a request to Stat.vin, the entry through a request to Google — and the two disappear at different speeds. This article explains how.
Where Stat.vin turns up for a VIN
Stat.vin republishes auction records from Copart and IAAI in the US and Canada on pages that open by VIN. A page that carries all 17 characters is an exact match for a search on them, and for cars that went through those auctions the result Google shows is often a Stat.vin page.
Two details widen the circle of people who see it:
- Five languages. Stat.vin is published in English, Russian, Spanish, Portuguese and Georgian, so the record answers searches made in several countries.
- Pictures that travel alone. The auction photos can rank in Google Images by themselves, in front of people who never open the page.
The checker on this site reports where the Stat.vin page ranks in Google for your VIN. If it sits near the top, it is likely the page people open first when they search your VIN.
The page and the result are not the same thing
The page belongs to Stat.vin. The result belongs to Google, and everything in it is Google’s copy:
- the headline, usually taken from the page title;
- the snippet, a line or two of the page’s text;
- the thumbnail, when Google picked one of the photos.
When the page goes, the result does not update itself. Google keeps showing what it saved until it visits the address again and finds the car gone. So once the page is down, we also ask Google to drop the old result for eligible links.
Why we start with Stat.vin, not with Google
Asking Google to hide a result while the page is still online would leave the job half done: the page would stay open to anyone who has its address, and the result would still describe something that exists. That is why a Stat.vin order runs page first. We file the removal request with Stat.vin and follow it up until the page is gone; then comes the request to Google. Both steps are covered by one price, $75. The order itself, from the VIN you send to our confirmation, is described in our step-by-step guide.
Three things that leave at different speeds
- The page. The promised time for Stat.vin is 12–24 hours, including the request to Google. During Google updates or technical problems on the servers it can take 1–2 days longer.
- The photos. Image copies are cached apart from the page, so a picture can stay visible on Stat.vin for up to 3 days after the page is gone. Our article on Stat.vin photos follows each copy.
- The search result. Google usually drops it 1–2 days after the page disappears. Cached previews and thumbnails can stay a little longer. Nobody controls Google’s exact timing, so we describe the usual pattern rather than promise a date.
A quick look a few days later
After our confirmation, open the old Stat.vin address: your car should no longer be there. A few days later, search the VIN in quotes — "1HGCM82633A004352", with your own VIN in its place — in the web results and in Google Images. A Stat.vin result that is still listed but leads to a page without your car only means Google has not been back yet. If it is still there well after those 1–2 days, write to us with the order number, the VIN and the link.
Results from other websites that copied the same auction record can still come up; they are separate pages, outside a Stat.vin order. Official records are a different matter altogether: the title and any brand on it, NMVTIS, insurance claims and reports such as Carfax or AutoCheck stay exactly as they are.