On Autobidcar.com, a car’s photos do not stay on its own page. When we looked at the site in October 2026, the pictures were not confined to the car’s gallery: a square picture of the car went into lists on other pages, each image file we saw was named after the VIN, and the first photo was set as the picture to show whenever the page is shared. It also helps to know that, after a removal, pictures can take a little longer to disappear than the page.
One car, four places
On the site, the same car’s photos turned up in four kinds of places:
- its own page: a numbered gallery, each photo also stored as a small thumbnail (the page we opened had eight);
- lists on other cars’ pages: “Similar Cars”, “Other [make and model] listings” and “Other cars with [damage type] damage”, where each card shows a square picture of the car;
- the home page: newly added cars appear under “Last Added Cars”, again with a picture;
- link previews: the page names its first photo as the image to display when the link is shared, so a messenger or a social network can show it next to the address.
The VIN travels with every picture
The images we saw were stored on the site’s own image server, cdn.autobidcar.com, in a folder named after the car’s VIN, and each file name contained the VIN too. The short description attached to each image — the alt text that search engines read — started with the VIN, followed by the year, make and model.
For an owner that has a plain consequence: a photo does not need its page to be found. A VIN search in Google Images can match the picture itself, and a card in a list on someone else’s car page still carries your car’s VIN in its file name and description.
What the pictures can show
Photos taken for an auction show the car as it was offered: the damage, the interior and, now and then, things that were never meant to be public, such as license plates, papers left on a seat or personal belongings. On Autobidcar.com those pictures sit next to the sale price, the odometer reading and the place of sale, all tied to one VIN. That combination, more than any single photo, is the privacy problem.
What removal does to the pictures
The order takes the car out of Autobidcar.com’s database with its photos and purchase price, together with the pages associated with it. The gallery, the thumbnails and the square card picture go with the listing, and the car stops appearing on the site, lists on other pages included.
Two things can trail behind:
- The image files can stay reachable for as long as 3 days after the removal, even once the page itself has gone.
- Google’s copies follow Google’s schedule. When the page no longer exists, we file de-indexing requests for the eligible links, the picture results among them. Google typically lets go of the web result within a day or two of the page going; a cached thumbnail can hang on a little longer.
A preview that a messenger already stored with an earlier message is that app’s copy, not Autobidcar.com’s, and the order does not reach it.
Checking the pictures afterwards
- Open the old page address: the gallery should be gone along with the page.
- Open a page about another car of the same make and model and look through its card lists.
- After three days, search Google Images for the VIN in quotation marks.
- If a picture of your car is still on Autobidcar.com after that, or an old image result is still in Google, send its address and your VIN to office@cleanvinusa.com, WhatsApp or Telegram.
If you have not ordered yet, the guide explains how the order works, including why the VIN goes in two fields. The removal costs $65.