Day Drive brings cars to Ukraine from the USA and Europe, and its site keeps a catalogue of Copart and IAAI lots from US auctions. A lot page there describes one moment, the sale at the auction, and nothing on it follows the car afterwards. If your car reached Ukraine that way, this article goes along the rest of its route — the journey over, the first months on the road, a change of owner, a possible return to auction — and looks at what the page means at each point and what a removal changes.
A page about the sale, not about your car today
A daydrive.ua lot page links the VIN, complete or with its last six characters starred, and the lot number to the auction photos, the damage the auction recorded and the price the car went for. All of that is a snapshot of the sale in the US. The page has no way of knowing what happened to the car next, so it keeps showing that snapshot to anyone who searches the VIN or the lot number, in Ukrainian and, at the /ru/ address, in Russian.
While the car is on its way
By the time the car is on its way, its lot page may already be public. This can be a calm moment to deal with it: nobody is asking about the car yet, and everything the order needs is at hand. That is the VIN, plus the lot number from the auction papers, which helps us go straight to the right lot.
Once the car is on the road
A car in daily use carries its VIN behind the windscreen, readable by anyone who walks past. A neighbour, a mechanic or a stranger in a car park can type it into a search and land on the lot page without knowing you at all. Auction photos sometimes show number plates, documents or things left in the cabin, and those details now belong to a car people see you driving.
When the car changes hands
If you bought the car second-hand, the page shows a sale from before your time, with the auction price tied to the VIN of a car that is now yours. If you are the one selling, the page is something a buyer may find when they search the VIN, and our advice is to deal with it before the advert goes up rather than while a buyer is waiting for an answer. Who reads daydrive.ua, and what that means for a sale in Ukraine, is covered in our article on the site’s two languages.
If the car goes back to an auction
Cars sometimes return to an auction, after an accident for instance, or because an owner chooses to sell that way. A new auction means a new lot, and on daydrive.ua a new lot is a new page. The page we have had removed stays gone, but the new one is a new case with an order of its own. If you know the car is heading back to auction, take that into account when you choose the moment to order.
What no timing changes
Whenever you order, three things stay as they are:
- the car’s official history — the title and any brand on it, NMVTIS, insurance claims, Carfax and AutoCheck reports — which daydrive.ua neither keeps nor controls;
- whatever the law requires you to tell a buyer when you sell;
- copies of the auction record on other websites, which this order does not reach.
Before you decide, find out where else the VIN appears and decide once, with the whole list in front of you; if the budget is limited, start with the pages people actually find. Removal from daydrive.ua costs $60 and is promised within 12–24 hours, or 1–2 days longer during Google updates or technical problems on the servers. Our guide explains the order step by step.