Been here since 2019 with over 72,000 posts to date @g63amgsheldon
Love using the app to keep track of cars I spot. Joined the app back in summer of 2019 as a 15 year old car enthusiast, now 7 years later I have loved being able to keep track of the thousands of cars I have spotted along with keeping track of the 30+ vehicles I have owned since.
A few areas of criticism and things that could be improved.
As someone who has posted thousands of individual vehicles I would love to have a personal search function to see only the vehicles I have posted personally. This would certainly save users time and drastically cut down on plate to vin look ups.
Which brings me to my second point: as someone who posts hundreds of cars a week I would like to have unlimited plate look ups so that I can contribute as much as possible to cars history and the VINwiki platform and community at large.
Thanks Ed and team for an amazing app and considering adding features to improve the user experience!
A few areas of criticism and things that could be improved.
As someone who has posted thousands of individual vehicles I would love to have a personal search function to see only the vehicles I have posted personally. This would certainly save users time and drastically cut down on plate to vin look ups.
Which brings me to my second point: as someone who posts hundreds of cars a week I would like to have unlimited plate look ups so that I can contribute as much as possible to cars history and the VINwiki platform and community at large.
Thanks Ed and team for an amazing app and considering adding features to improve the user experience!
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Receive error message when trying to register
Network Error - response status code was unacceptable 404
May have been good long ago
Lots of the features don’t work. The map view doesn’t work. This app should be something and it’s just not.
To late
Needed a profile share button years ago. Self driving cars are here. The driver is Ai now. RIP Gallardo dream car.
Update when?!
Can we get a profile share button?! This app is cool but needs an update!!
Urgently needs an update
I don't know if I've seen anything actually change about this app in terms of features and bug fixes in the many years I've used it. In fact I stopped using it probably a year ago because even though it was fun, interesting, and cool at times, the bugs and awful user interface make it unbearable to use. The concept of this app is already kind of a novelty in my opinion, so if you want people to use it, you'd better make it usable.
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Needs work
I’ve been a VINwiki app user since it came out. Unfortunately, the UI hasn’t been updated since its inception. While it was fine years and years ago; it really is lackluster now. Posts from more than a few years ago are not viewable anymore, defeating the purpose of the app. Sad to see, and hope it will get the refresh and attention this cool app deserves.
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Pictures don’t seem to load anymore
Just posted a bunch of cars but previous pictures that others posted don’t seem to load
Best app ever
Literally the best app ever, best community too. Vinwiki changed my life
Zero Stars
VINwiki hypes itself as a better Carfax, promising a personal history for your car. In reality, it’s just a glorified MySpace profile where you manually enter your car’s details. 99% of vehicles have no history—just a blank page waiting for you to fill in.
Instead of pulling real records, it relies on user-submitted data with zero verification, making it useless for buyers. Worse, it’s obviously designed to harvest vehicle data rather than provide anything useful. If you need an actual history report, stick with Carfax or AutoCheck.
⭐ 1/5 – Just a data trap. ⭐
Instead of pulling real records, it relies on user-submitted data with zero verification, making it useless for buyers. Worse, it’s obviously designed to harvest vehicle data rather than provide anything useful. If you need an actual history report, stick with Carfax or AutoCheck.
⭐ 1/5 – Just a data trap. ⭐
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Wow what a waste of time
App was presented to have a “CarFax” like wealth of information about cars. I searched 4 vins and only one could be found. Of the one that was found, the only info it had was a sales ad from 2017. If you like seeing pictures of cars posted by boomers that all say “Spotted on my way home,” this app is perfect for you. If you want to gain useful information about a car, this is not the spot for that.
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Garbage
This app is garbage. I've tried to register with two emails. But never received a confirmation email and can't log in. The same problem with both accounts. Just a waste of time.
Slow and cumbersome
UI is not good. Slow to respond and frustrating to use. Not much information available beyond what’s found in other VIN databases.
Invalid email
Pretty useless app telling me my email was invalid while registering. So deleted app.
No email validation came! Unusable app.
I tried to sign up with 3 different email however not one received a account activation email. I’ve heard amazing things about this platform but I can’t seem to even set up an account. I also went though all the spam folders to check if it possibly went there with no success. Maybe there’s a bug or something.
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Needs complete overhaul
The app does it’s job but is lacking in UI improvements.
For example when I log in I don’t want to see hundreds of random people’s post of regular traffic/auction cars on my Home feed from across the country.
There needs to be a way to switch between your following list feed and public one. Or, maybe even make a proximity feed showing users updates around certain areas (10-50-100 miles away from you).
There needs to be a certain “favorite” button for a particular car/model that people can follow so when users tag it you can see it in your feed.
Maybe make car albums or a different picture layout because scrolling endlessly is tiresome and you can accidentally revert to the top.
Search interface you can add popular cars on the app or popular cars in the area or something because right now it’s very bland.
The whole search thing needs to have bigger icons.
As for profile section - the layout needs to be something of an instagram. Like I said i can’t even scroll down to the bottom of my own feed because the app bugs out and kick me out or starts showing same cars.
I’m sure there are so many other things that can be done to improve the app.
For example when I log in I don’t want to see hundreds of random people’s post of regular traffic/auction cars on my Home feed from across the country.
There needs to be a way to switch between your following list feed and public one. Or, maybe even make a proximity feed showing users updates around certain areas (10-50-100 miles away from you).
There needs to be a certain “favorite” button for a particular car/model that people can follow so when users tag it you can see it in your feed.
Maybe make car albums or a different picture layout because scrolling endlessly is tiresome and you can accidentally revert to the top.
Search interface you can add popular cars on the app or popular cars in the area or something because right now it’s very bland.
The whole search thing needs to have bigger icons.
As for profile section - the layout needs to be something of an instagram. Like I said i can’t even scroll down to the bottom of my own feed because the app bugs out and kick me out or starts showing same cars.
I’m sure there are so many other things that can be done to improve the app.
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App not working. Won’t let me log in.
I tried creating account and it would not work. I took screen shots of pop up issue prompt.
Can’t even register
Lol somehow all of my emails are in use or an error message pops up, wish I could create an account tho.
Unable to register
Tried creating an account just now but it throws an error every time.
Bad start
When registering for the 1st time I automatically received an error message. No explanation with the message. There is no info about password requirements so I have no idea if my password caused the error. I tried again and I get a message saying my email is registered. Stupid app!
