Data sources

Every section of a Vingeo report names its source. This page is the complete list, what each source provides, and what it cannot.

Archived auction listings (Copart & IAAI)

When a VIN is looked up, Vingeo captures the vehicle's public auction listing data and archives it permanently on our own infrastructure. This provides:

Limits: only vehicles that passed through these auctions appear; private sales, dealer trades, and vehicles auctioned elsewhere do not. Listing data is shown as declared by the seller and auction house.

NHTSA vPIC decoder

The official US government VIN decoder provides the factory build data in the “Vehicle specifications” section: year, make, model, series, engine, transmission, drive line, restraint systems, and assembly plant. Queried live at report time.

pti.ge — Georgian technical inspection registry

The public register behind Georgia's periodic technical inspection (PTI) programme. Our inspection check queries it by plate number and returns the inspection date, the certificate expiry date, and whether the certificate is currently valid.

Limits: it answers by plate, not by VIN, and it returns no owner details, so we neither receive nor store any. It covers inspections carried out in Georgia only, and says nothing about a vehicle's history, damage, or mileage. When the register has no record for a plate it responds exactly as it does when it is offline, so we verify against a known plate before reporting “no record” — and report an error rather than guess.

Manufacturer factory documents

Four manufacturers publish the original factory document for a VIN, and our window sticker & build sheet tool retrieves it direct from the manufacturer — no aggregator sits in between:

Documents are archived when first retrieved, so they stay available to you even if the manufacturer later withdraws access — which does happen.

Limits: the year ranges above were measured by testing real vehicles year by year, and coverage can still be patchy inside a supported range. Ford and Lincoln publish stickers only for vehicles sitting in current dealer inventory, so used cars return nothing. Toyota, Honda, Nissan, Hyundai and others publish no lookup we can reach. Several of these manufacturers answer a VIN they hold no document for with a perfectly valid PDF that simply says so, so we read every document we receive rather than trusting the response code — a placeholder is reported as “no document”, never as a result.

NHTSA recall database

Open safety campaigns matched by make, model, and model year, queried live at report time. Limit: whether a given recall was already repaired on a specific vehicle is known only to franchised dealers.

What Vingeo does not include

If a section can't be filled from a source above, it is omitted. A Vingeo report never pads itself with unverifiable data.