What changed

Diagnose, TunerX and DesignX send what the model needs to reason about the car — specs, codes, your description — and nothing from your account: no VIN, no account name, no email.

Our privacy policy now names the providers that handle your data.

Photos on cars set to private were being served from public storage. We moved every vehicle photo to private storage, so a private car's photos now show only to its owner, and deleted the public copies. We checked: no user's photos were reachable.

Your service tab now lists recalls issued for its model, refreshed daily, with stop-drive recalls first. By model rather than by VIN, with a link to check yours.

A report of child sexual abuse or exploitation is routed immediately and separately from ordinary moderation. It never waits for a daily digest.

Hiding, un-hiding and dismissing a report now each write an audit record, as bans and removals already did.

When a vehicle transfer completes, everything you recorded about that car — photos, documents and receipts, diagnoses and Diagnose threads, value points, your service and track-day notes, your planned-mods list, and your old public-page details — is archived to your account under Garage → Previously owned. The buyer starts fresh and never sees any of it. Your SceneX gallery posts of that car stay up, with their likes. Archived photos count toward your storage, not the buyer's; you can delete an archive at any time.

What we cannot restore

Before this change, a completed transfer deleted the seller's media, diagnoses, value points and notes, and any gallery posts of those photos. Transfers completed before this release are not recoverable — there was no copy to keep. We're sorry; this is exactly why the archive now exists.

Sharing your position at a meet is opt-in, rounded rather than exact unless you choose otherwise, and only ever your current position — no trail is kept. Stop sharing and it's deleted at once; if your phone goes quiet, it's hidden within 90 seconds and then deleted.