I never liked having to require people to register an account to view anything on the site, espeically window stickers. I figure a lot of people just want an easy way to see the window sticker for their newly built car and don't want to jump thru any real hoops to get it. But when I first put up this site, it was getting hammered by bots that were apparently trying to get all the data. So I had to put most of the data behind a login. Window sticker links were caught up in that.
I thought of a way to make the window sticker links available that should deter all but the most determined bot traffic. So I went ahead and threw that together now. Now, everyone who uses the site can see the window sticker links. Most of the time its an icon that looks like a little price tag next to the VIN. If you have a registered account and are logged in, that link will take you directly to the window sticker for that VIN. If you don't have an account, that link will take you to a page that will do a quick check whether you look like a bot or not, then the window sticker is just a button click away.
So window sticker links are available to everyone. Registered users will have a slightly smoother experience in getting to a window sticker. But all users now have a way to get the window sticker for any VIN on the site.
We'll see how this goes. If I run into bot issues I'll probably have to go back to the old way of doing things.