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7 in 10 cars we checked had a Salvage, Rebuilt or Junk title. Don't take the risk.

Check a car by VINCheck a car’s history by VIN

  • Title
  • Damage
  • Mileage
  • Owners
Where's my VIN?

Where to find the VIN

  1. 1 Bottom of the windshield, driver's side
  2. 2 Sticker in the driver's door frame
  3. 3 Registration, title or insurance documents
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Sample report

2021 BMW X5

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Critical

History index

  • Junk title since 06/04/2026.
  • Non-repairable title since 06/19/2026.
  • Mileage declared not actual (NAM) since 08/07/2024.

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Check VIN

How it works

  1. 1Enter the VIN

    17 characters from the windshield, the door frame or the car's documents.

    2Pay once

    One price, taxes included. No subscription — and a full refund if no records are found.

  3. 3Read the report

    Usually within minutes. It opens in your browser, and we email you the link.

What’s in the report

Every section is built from real records for that exact VIN — nothing is estimated or invented.

Free decoder or full report?

The free VIN decoder tells you what the car is. The report tells you what happened to it.

Free decoder or full report? Free VIN decoder History report
Make, model, engine and factory specs Included Included
History index from 0 to 100 Not included Included
Title brands: salvage, rebuilt, junk, flood Not included Included
Reported accidents on a damage map Not included Included
Odometer readings and mileage check Not included Included
Owners and how long each kept the car Not included Included
Past auction sales with photos Not included Included
Open safety recalls Not included Included
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Know the car before you pay for it

Enter the VIN from the listing, the windshield or the documents. If we find no records, you get a full refund.

  • History index · Title brands
  • Damage map
  • Mileage
  • Owners
  • Then and now
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Auction archive

Look up any past auction lot by VIN or lot number — free, with photos and the final bid.

What an auction history shows

How to find a vehicle’s auction history

  1. Find the VIN on the vehicle or in its documents, or take the lot number from the listing you are looking at.

  2. Paste that identifier into the search above.

  3. Compare the archived photos, damage, mileage, title and final bids with what the seller is telling you today.

Auction history is free here. A full vehicle history report is a separate, paid document.

What this archive covers

22,912,081
Archived lots
44
Makes covered
559
Models covered
Oct 30, 2026
Archive last updated

Cararam shows the records held in this archive. Not finding a vehicle does not prove it was never sold at auction.

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Cars just sold at US auctions. Open any VIN for its history.

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What is Cararam?

Cararam is a public, read-only archive of vehicles that have already been through US salvage and insurance auctions. It is not a bidding platform and nothing here is for sale: every page is a record of an auction that has already happened.

Searching by VIN or lot number answers a question about one specific car — has this vehicle been through a salvage or used-car auction, and what did the yard record about it? Browsing by make, model and year answers the wider question of what a segment of the market actually sold for.

A record can carry the photos taken at the yard, primary and secondary damage, the odometer reading and whether it was reported as actual, the title or sale document group, the location, the final bid and the sale status — plus every other time the same VIN appeared at auction.

Buyers checking a car before they pay, dealers pricing inventory, importers verifying what they are shipping and researchers studying salvage prices all use the same records. They are collected from auction data and can be incomplete or out of date; an archived record is not an inspection and is not an official vehicle history report.

Frequently asked questions

Enter the full 17-character VIN in the search box. If the archive holds a record for that VIN, you land directly on it; if the same VIN was auctioned more than once, every appearance is listed on the record.

Yes. Lot numbers work the same way as a VIN, and a platform-prefixed lot key also resolves.

Where the archive holds them, yes: the yard photos, the recorded damage, the odometer reading, the sale status and the final bid are all on the record page.

It means this archive holds no record for that identifier. It does not prove the vehicle was never sold at auction.

Auction history is what auctions recorded, and it is free here. A vehicle history report is a separate paid document that also covers registrations, service and title events.

No. Every page is a past auction result. Nothing here is a live listing and no bidding happens on Cararam.