How many days has this unit been on the floor plan — and when does curtailment hit?

To read how long a specific unit has been on the floor plan and when its next curtailment comes due, look it up by VIN at floorplan.vin: the flooring face returns the floored date, the days on line — today minus that date, counted rather than recalled — and the next curtailment date where the record carries it, each carried with its source and timestamp. Days on line is a subtraction from the floored date, not an estimate, and the curtailment date is the calendar deadline the aging unit is walking toward. A slot the record cannot fill reads a dash — $ — — and says so, so a used-car manager clears an aging unit against real dates instead of a memory of when it landed.

That is the lookup. The rest of this page is why the two numbers together — days on line and next curtailment — are the pair a store acts on, how to read them as a subtraction rather than a feeling, and what the honest dash means when the record cannot fill a slot.

Days on line is a count, not a hunch

Every used-car manager has a rough sense of which units are getting old. The problem with a rough sense is that it lags the calendar, and the calendar is what the flooring lender bills. Days on line removes the guess: it is exactly today minus the floored date, and the floored date sits on the record with a source and a timestamp behind it. Read at the VIN, the count is a fact the store can sort by, not an impression it has to defend at the desk.

The reason the count matters is that it compounds silently. A floored unit accrues interest every day it sits, and the day it went on the line is the day the meter started. A car that looked like clean margin at the lane — bought under the retail band, real spread on paper — gives a little of that spread back every day, and the store reading only its aggregate line balance never sees which specific unit is the one bleeding. Reading days on line by VIN turns "the lot feels old" into a sorted list of exactly which units, and exactly how old.

When curtailment hits — the date, not the dread

Curtailment is the scheduled principal paydown built into a flooring line: on a clock tied to how long the unit has been floored, the store must pay down a portion of the original advance whether the car has sold or not. The exact schedule and the exact thresholds are set by the store's flooring agreement with its lender — this page does not invent them, and it never guesses a percentage. What it reads is the next curtailment date for the unit, where the record carries it, read by VIN with its source named.

The pair is the point. Days on line tells the store how much the unit has already cost to hold; the next curtailment date tells it how soon the line will demand cash regardless of a sale. Put those two beside each other and the decision writes itself: a unit deep in days on line with a curtailment date near is a unit to clear now, before it funds principal into a car it is about to move anyway. A unit fresh on the line with room before its next milestone can wait for retail. The store acts on two dates of record, not on the anxiety that surfaces at audit.

The dash is the honest answer

Not every slot fills. Where the record does not carry a unit's original advance, or the curtailment schedule has not been supplied, or the payoff cannot yet be resolved, the slot reads $ — and says so. This is deliberate. An estimate dressed as a number is worse than an absence, because a store will act on it as if it were a fact. The dash is the platform refusing to do that: a filled slot is a value with a source and a timestamp behind it, a dash is an honest "the record does not carry this," and there is nothing invented in between. Reading a flooring sheet, a manager always knows which figures are facts and which are gaps still to close.

Reading the face costs nothing — floorplan.vin's own fee is $0, every VIN, every visit, no account — and the same sheet a used-car manager reads is the one an agent reading the store's line on a Mandate reads. One record, many faces, the same dates on both sides. And the limit that governs the whole address holds here too: no credit is extended at floorplan.vin. The line is attested, not originated. This page reads the status of a line that exists; it does not floor a unit or set its terms.

Clearing the unit the date points to

Once days on line and the curtailment date have named the unit to clear, the clear is one subtraction: value minus payoff. The payoff posts here where the record carries it; the value side is the five bands — retail, private party, trade, wholesale, and auction — read free at values.vin, with the comparable transactions behind each band rather than a single book opinion. Put the value band beside the payoff slot and the equity is a subtraction done in the open. For the full entrance to every rail a rooftop works — appraise, record, dispose, and dispatch, each keyed to the unit — the one door is dealers.vin. The date points to the unit; those addresses clear it, on stated numbers, before the audit reads them for the store.