Car repossessions in public auto-loan bonds.
About the Data
Public auto-loan bonds file every loan with the SEC each month (Form ABS-EE): credit score, car, rate, term, payment status and repossession. Auto Repos reads them all.
What was pulled
- 46,926
- ABS-EE filings indexed (all asset classes, 41 quarters)
- 19,921
- auto-loan filings read, 62 of them amendments
- 19,922
- loan files parsed
- 3.3 TB
- of XML read
- 69 GB
- kept as Parquet, every field
- 928,242,010
- loan-months read
- 885,076,877
- loan-months counted (one filing per trust-month)
- 30,497,182
- loans · 509 trusts · 21 lenders
- Dec 2016 to Aug 2026
- of reporting months
Source
SEC EDGAR, and nothing else:
https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/full-index/
Not included: bank-held loans, private bonds, leases.
Logos
From Simple Icons 16.35.0 (simpleicons.org, CC0), drawn as 16 × 16 pixels. Makes not in Simple Icons get a pixel monogram instead. Every logo and name is its owner's trademark, used only to identify the make.
Checks
Each trust is checked month by month for gaps, repeats, amendments, unreadable files and bad values. What we found
Updated Oct 30, 2026.